HIV/AIDS is a treatable disease Mowl
I'll take your word for that so, jambo - you'd know better than I do what it's like being shafted by a massive prick.
Yeah, the Irish Nation's, same as the rest of them
The rest of whom exactly?
The EU body?
Hardly - we're so happy up here in Finland we're getting dizzy from scaling the heights of international excellence.
You'll note that since Mowl moved to Finland in 1998, the Finnish nation has been on a consistent upward trend for quality of life and general well-being. The word happiness doesn't really cover it for me, because when I first landed here, these people were painfully shy, introverted, and genuinely amazed that an Irish man would even consider making a move up into the Arctic Circle.
Since then things have really opened up. All the values I brought with me (and still live by) are now the norm for all Finns. Especially the youth. We're open and confident, we know what we have and we want to protect it. We may have a very angry and violent neighbour on the eastern front, but we also know how to play ball with Putin. He too knows there's little point in starting a barney with us now that NATO are our pals.
Give it another two to three years and you too will be assimilated by the treaty.
You haven't too many other choices.
So contrary to your statement:.
It's all very much thanks to me - me and my kind.
Finland learned so much from her inward migrants over the years. They studied us: how we lived, how we worked, what we bought, how we interacted, how quickly we made successes of our opportunities, how we raised our families. Previously, the grumpy Finn stereotype was accurate: these days? Not so much. The future is very bright for Finnish people and our passport is an excellent lubricant for gaining entry to any other nation we might decide to move to.
I've already made my move: I got off that shitty little rock a long time ago. I tried Paris, had my fun, made my money, but didn't enjoy the pace of things. Then Amsterdam, where I had a ball. Work was the last thing on my mind during those two long hot summers, so I got out before I sunk completely under the joy of a reckless and stress-free life. Copenhagen was a short stay by comparison but their winters are even worse than yours for the humidity. Far too damp and shivery for my bones.
Helsinki, but?
Ah, yes: the town I love so well.
And which loves me too.
Gas, innit?
I wonder what Dublin would be like today were it still a Scandinavian outpost?
We'd use it as a storage depot for our national savings.
Tax free, bent, cloak and dagger, shady, corrupt, and very, very profitable for we outsiders.
And I am an outsider Irishman - have been for as long as I can remember, even while living there.
if I could have called it a life, eh.