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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I'm a little puzzled by the dislike of Helsinki. It's a place I've rather enjoyed. Been there twice, but not recently (1993 and 2000).

It's always seemed to me a place where there's a cool party going on that I didn't know about or couldn't get into if I did.

- It's great for those interested in architecture or urban planning. Odd mishmash of styles in the city center, then whole neighborhoods of art nouveau period buildings. They make dense apartment blocks stylish and functional. OG Saarinen (the father, not the son), OG Aalto stuff that got replicated (poorly) throughout the US.
- Saunas.
- Marimekko, Iittala everywhere. Everything is so stylish and thoughtfully designed.
- A Finnish colleague laughed at me when I mentioned seeing a TV report about the Finnish obsession with tango and said "That's not real." So I come out of random Helsinki subway station around 5 in the evening and see about a dozen couples taking a tango lesson and dancing all over the city square.

So my turn for hate: Vienna. Visited one year between Christmas and New Year's. Cold city with nasty people. Soviet-level rudeness from service staff. Hideous architecture -- solidified my dislike of everything baroque.[/quote]

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