As born and raised up to 24 years old in Taiwan and lived in a partial snowy country, Japan, for 8 years, I still never experienced a long-stay life in a snowy area or country.
While deciding to come to Finland, I understood I’ll experience very differently from my life so far. But I was still so excited for every new experience I had in Finland.
The recently impressive one is to bike in heavy snow.
I’m not sure your image about Finland, but if you check the Google map of Finland, you may feel that there are no mountains and most areas are flat.
As I’m living in Jyvaskyla, southern central Finland, I can say that there is indeed no any mountains, but it’s not flat all the way.
There are many hills. The height of these hills could be around 30 meters. My apartment and my university also locate on hills.
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