![]() To understand why life in Finland is so drastically different from the way things are in the United States, Partanen began to look closely at both countries. ![]() ![]() But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered that they shared her deep apprehensions. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. Their relationship flourished, but she found that navigating the basics of everyday life-from health insurance and taxes to education and child care-was much more complicated and stressful than in her homeland. Anu Partanen, however, had recently left Finland and moved to America for the love of her life, a man who would ultimately become her husband. ![]() with life in the Nordic region to encourage Americans to draw on practices from the Nordic way of life to create a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society.Īt a 2012 conference on social mobility, where experts discussed whether people worldwide were attaining a better life than their parents', Ed Miliband, the leader of the British Labour Party, made a surprising quip: "If you want the American dream, go to Finland." For decades, the country best known for opportunity had been the United States. A Finnish journalist and naturalized American citizen compares and contrasts life in the U.S. ![]()
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