I know a Scottish guy living in finland (omggavin) and I tell you... nothing special about it. It's just a place. And it's cold. And you can't sleep during summer because the sun goes up at 3am or whatever. Wanting to live in a place because your favourite band is from there is... senseless.
I don't want to live there because my favorite band is from there... In fact, I wanted to live in Finland even before I knew some good Finnish bands..
I don't mind the cold, and sleeping is no problem with all that light..
So this is the foreigners children fault you don't like your country anymore?
We idealize countries we like before actually living there for a good period of time which means finding a job, an appartment, dealing with the administration (is that correct?), and as polite as ppl can be, you'll always be a foreigner for them...
Well the thing in the NL is, the 3rd generation foreigners, so the grandchildren of the Turks and Moroccans who came here in the '60s to work, apparantly don't know where they belong (some scientific result or whatever).. About 80% of them is criminal, dealing drugs and forcing girls into prostitution. They have no respect for women and they refuse to speak Dutch in public. Also a lot of ppl from the Netherlands Antilles are in the same situation.
And the Dutch government does nothing but complain that there has to be done something, but when they have to act, they don't...
Well the reason why we dont have that much immigrants is that I think our policy about it is still quite strict. Dont know about respecting others...or at least respecting those few immigrants. After all, I think finnish people can be sometimes quite racists. It depends a lot where you come from. Like everyone else, we too have stereotypes about the other countries and prejudices.
When I was in Finland, I think I've seen only one negroid man.. That's all... When I landed in Germany and got back to the Netherlands, I saw one caucasian man... (well it's a bit exaggerated, but you get my point)
In my experience, the Finns respect other ppl, a friend of mine studied a year in Helsinki and has the same opinion. But if you think Finns are racist and don't respect other ppl, maybe that says enough about the Dutch then.. (I mean, if I don't see that in Finland..)
And I'm used to the prejudices.. I sometimes dress gothic, so ppl come up to me like ''Satanist'' and ''Do you cut yourself?''.. When I wear my armypants and new rocks, ppl turn around and stare at me..
And when in a foreigncountry and I say I'm from the Netherlands, the first thing I hear is ''Oh do you have weed??''