Finland is 70% forest

Iceland wanted to keep people away, so claimed it was all ice. Greenland wanted to attract people, so insisted it was green. Hellsinky... well, ...

Silliness aside, this intrigued me so I went to Google Street View. From what I could see, Helsinki is definitely NOT one of the greener cities of the Western world... Like any city, it has a lot of parks... Johanneskirk (St. John's Church) is beautiful. But OMG! The downtown streets are positively bleak!!! Endless featureless mid-rise buildings (typically 3-6 stories, but all the same height within a given block) with pavement from one building right to the very walls of the opposite building.

As a finn and someone who lives in Hellsinki, I can assure you that we don't have big forests anymore. Our government is doing all it can to cut down all the most valuable old forests it possible can. We might have a lot of forests, but they're more like tree fields than actual lively forests. Sad, but true

Those are some tall trees

Nothing Like Real Life Helsinki Like Im Finnish And To Make It More Obivous My Name Is Pekka!!!!!!!!!

I imagine their carbon footprint is a lot lower too.

Super!!!

I wish that were true 😭

South Carolina is 60 percent.

I think I prefer the Helsinki version, but I'm a tree-hugger.

I want to move here.

I'm offended that New York City is not one of these skylines. Just saying...

I have have one dream, to live in Finland. That's it. No flying car, no magical powers. Give me the land of snow and sorrow.

I love Helsinki

I love it

Moving tomorrow

Sure, but who wants to vacuum all that forest underbrush? I heard it on FOX news and it must be real.

Thats it, I'm moving.

Miami?

This I like! More Helsinki please

I like Finland.

Finland has it all.

I would love to go, right after I satisfy my need to see Scotland and Ireland

I don't know man, Miami is kind if BLEGGH either way.

Now that's the type of city I can support.

Ah, peacefulness.

Venice please

Friendship goals!

Clever.

That looks amazing!

You should see two of our neighbors. Real stalkers if you ask me 😆

Upvoted for the Boston!

I'm an American, and I'd rather have the island!

England grinds to a halt if the snow is one snowflake deep.

I'm Russian and grew up with a children's story in which to illustrate the characters going to a "cold place" they go to Lapland, which is a region in Finland.

LOL This is cute and very relatable by so many all over.

Here in Norway, summer is the nicest week of the year. 😉

Person 1: Which sauna Person 2: Down the street.

At least the pothole didn’t grow too.

A sauna isn't a sauna without being drenched in other people's sweat. 😄

I miss my Nokia battery so much.

WTF is going on in the top photo?

Good old Nokia! 😄

I for one think it's very wise of them to travel inside the plane...

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