Spending Three Weeks in Finland Made Me Realize How Wretchedly Corrupt the US, UK, and Canada Are
I kissed my future wife in the summer of the seventh grade, and when, ten years later, I asked her Finnish father for her hand in marriage, I was informed the request needed to be made in the only proper Finnish context: I had to ask her father for permission… butt-naked in his sauna.
He threw water on the rocks to roast me alive, then asked, “So, why do you want to marry my daughter?” It’s been 25 years since Michelle last visited Finland — far too long for a Suomi to be away from her motherland — so I surprised her with a three-week trip in June.
Michelle and I have traveled to more than forty countries with our documentary work over the years. And I can now honestly say that Finland beats every other country we’ve visited in most categories. It really is a different conception of how to live. I’d heard good things about Finland, but having lived in Canada and the UK and worked in the US, visiting Finland was an eye-opening experience. The CAD/US/UK way of living is downright disturbing compared to what I witnessed in Finland.
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