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It’s my turn to post this tomorrow

South East asians seem to have it bad at least in Turku. They seem desperate on FB roskalava groups and apparently come to the country with literally nothing.

To a lesser degree, the same is happening in Norway.

I must sadly say that I believe the couple of thousand chronically online redditors from Norway contributes to the problem with endless spamming in the english language reddit for Norway about how ‘good’ it is in scandinavia, sans a few very worn out jokes about introvert (which foreigners take at face value).

You can tell many local people giving advice online about moving to scandinavia, have never been even near the work sector, gotten their own place to live or managed on their own for a few years. Its super tough to start from the ground up here.

Would not reccommend freemovers to try the jump at all, especially at the cost of uni tuition money and living costs.

Closest to a realistic solution once they are here is to find some local last year student about to graduate (and make money) and marry him/her. Which I see some people do, too.