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Cake day: October 13th, 2026

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  • As someone living in Finland, i can say i am indeed healthy and fed, even though my 2-person household’s total income for this year has on average only been about 1600 euros/month with some benefits. Waiting times for social security services have gotten quite long, which hurts the feeling of security, but overall things here are okay.

    My partner and I experienced the medical care system for the first time this year, I got a 30€ bill for two brief visits at the clinic due to a cat bite (+had to buy some anti-biotics myself), my partner had an ear-infection that had them visit the hospital i think 5 or 6 times. This time the bills totaled about 350€, which we disputed because of our current low-income situation, the bills were put on hold and we were given a waiting time of 6 months for the final verdict.

    Edit: also, we had the tax-day yesterday, everyone’s income and taxes were publicly revealed, which is pretty nice