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More Finns are choosing Norway: Migrants explain why they do not want to return

From Helsingin Sanomat · () Finnish

Translated from Finnish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The article follows three Finland-born adults who have moved to Norway and say they do not long to return to Finland.
  • It presents Norway’s strong wages, oil wealth, successful skiers and nearby mountains as factors behind its appeal.
  • Hanna Salo, 29, first moved to Norway in 2017 and now lives in Oslo with Robin Lind.

Norway has unbeatable skiers, oil wealth, high wages and mountains that begin just beyond Finland’s border. It often prompts envy in Finland, and more people born there are now moving north to their neighboring country.

But is the move worthwhile? Helsingin Sanomat asks three young adults who have made the journey. Hanna Salo, 29, first moved to Norway in 2017 and now lives in Oslo with Robin Lind.

Teemu Esko, 29, and Aino Ukkonen, 33, also describe what everyday life in Norway is really like. None of the three, the article says, dreams of moving back to Finland.

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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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