Roughly three weeks on the island. Summary so far is two job interviews, about twenty apartment viewings, approximately 100 phone calls and countless emails. For all this i must thank Mercury retrograde.
I realized soon enough that communications not working properly is not London's fault. Tons of stuff not UK related is acting up. Transfers not received, hackers slacking, movies lagging, stalkers creeping. The usual, but much more exaggerated. If i wasn't continuously perverted about tarot readings on YouTube, i'd have maybe missed out all this energetic garbage and blamed wrong turns in life.
All the above sounds somewhat exhausting, but quite the contrary, all this running around made me extremely comfortable wandering around, dining alone, chatting up strangers. Guess what, now i can, i can fucking talk without adding 'sorry, i don't speak your moron language' in the beginning of every conversation. I can also pass time on tube reading a damn newspaper, even that was a luxury for past four years. Feels good to speak and read, let's be honest.
And people are nice, not fake nice as i became accustomed to previous years, they are actually not bitter, jealous and lurking for a chance to gain something from you. How strange, that I feel far more safe here, where i read about stabbings daily, than there where crime rate was nonexistent. I feel the general public is more achieving orientated than slacking'n'benefiting.
Some fun facts:
All the dogs in the parks are free and surprisingly not a single conflict ever. Why should there be, if your freedom is not oppressed. Since yesterday, i gathered my confidence and Milo became one of them. Needless to say even dog likes the vibe here far more.
Did you know, if you're super lazy as I often am, you can order any type of alcohol you can think of with Uber to your door? And did you know its far more cheaper than ordering food in Helsinki from pub next door? And that's not all, the same service can bring you anything from macaroni to washing powder, lets not forget, even cigarettes. That's how much they don't care here about suppressing liberty.
Which brings me to the obvious, I don't understand, where that hog shit comes from, that Helsinki is 25% cheaper than London on living costs. Probably another sad attempt to convince the world, that Finland is good, Finland is great. Only thing really cheaper is transportation, but how could that be even in comparison if one is village and other is well, one of the biggest cities in the world.
Oh and Netflix is not geolocked.
yea, that's about it at the moment. I'm not exactly rushing in and storming out, I'm balancing and exploring.
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