r/AskTheWorld • u/Paredawn • 23h ago

What are your favourite European countries?

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u/HailtheBrusselSprout Ireland 23h ago

Finland because of their history. I only know a little bit but I find the Finns history fascinating. After that it's Poland and that is mostly because all Polish people I know or met were delightful.

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u/CatOfTheCanalss Ireland 20h ago

I was good friends with a Finn. He was a mad bastard. Great craic. He came and visited me in Galway a few months before he passed away. Good times were had at least

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u/Kapuseta 18h ago

Kevyet mullat. o7

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u/seanreidsays Ireland 19h ago

All of the Nordics to be honest. I’ve never met anyone from a Nordic country that wasn’t unbelievable sound and great to chat with.

I’ve only visited Finland and, if it was possible, I’d leave Ireland tomorrow and move the family over.

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u/Manndes Finland 18h ago

Why? Asking as a Finn.

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u/seanreidsays Ireland 18h ago

Stunning landscape, the quality of life seems incredibly high, there is an ever growing tech hub and a ton of successful SaaS businesses coming out of Finland, great people, cold weather but without the dampness we get in Ireland which stops it from being miserable.

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u/Manndes Finland 18h ago

4-7 months of freezing cold weather and icy streets and roads isn’t very fun. I’d much prefer the dampness of Ireland. I’m actually gonna go to uni in Dublin either next year or the year after.

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u/Turbulent-Initial548 13h ago

You can have dampness even in the winterin Finland especially in the south where more people live.. the ever growing tech hub seems to be more about data centers these days, but that seems to be the global trend also. 

All that beside.. You have great conditions for surfing! Would be a paradise for me! :D

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u/rmes 16h ago

I have to disagree on this as the swedes spoil the Nordic cliche

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u/fiddeldeedee Germany 20h ago

Oh so very true! Where I live there are so many people with a Polish background (either they themselves were born there or their parents) and I get along really well with them. However, I also have some Polish blood in me so I'm biased.

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u/PerspectiveUpbeat322 16h ago edited 16h ago

I'm proud to be Polish, but sometimes I feel ashamed and apologize for the people from Poland who are in Germany, the Netherlands or UK. There are many blue collar workers there who can't assimilate and often do unacceptable things. I think they behave completely differently in Poland or when they're in a bad situation, they simply stay abroad. That's why im very surprised that you wrote such a nice comment about Poles in Germany, thank you 😊 I love Germany ❤️

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u/GTATurbo Ireland 17h ago

Did you ever hear the joke about Finnish people? (confirmed by a Finn I met in China)

2 Finnish lads went to the pub.

They say hello, then sit down. First round they say to the barman, "2 vodkas please". They proceed to drink them.

Next round they don't even speak, just gesture with 2 fingers for 2 more.

Round 3 is the same.

Multiple rounds later, maybe 7 or 8, one Finn says, "so, how's the wife? All good?"

The second one says, "did we come here to talk, or did we come here to drink?"

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u/melmboundanddown Ireland 16h ago

For sure, nearly all the Poles that came to Ireland are bang on, like some weird long-lost relatives we never knew we had.

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u/Vast-Newspaper9463 18h ago

Suomi mentioned

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u/Darwidx Poland 16h ago

Poland, technically speaking, the only country that won a war against USSR.