Hi everyone,
A while back I posted a thread asking about what cities in Europe would be best to visit, both to just have a good time but also to potentially I guess "scout" to try to possibly move to in the future and escape the Hellworld that is the USA (I know how hard this actually is, but at the very least it would be nice to have a potential goal and then try to work towards that).
My partner and I like to use Scott's Cheap Flights for deals, and figured we would use that site and what they offer to help determine a place to visit (and be my first ever international trip). While not set in stone, we recently got an email with deals for the following cities we'd consider:
Helsinki Oslo Gothenburg (we'd definitely go visit Stockholm also/probably mainly, just fly in and out of Gothenburg for sure).
Now my quick preliminary search seems to suggest Stockholm would be the easy answer, in the sense that it is the biggest city with the most to do and the like (similar to how London/NYC/Paris would be similar answers worldwide), but when also viewing it from a leftist lens I'm wondering if there's not a "better" city out of the 3? My partner and I are open to all 3, though they for some reason seem to view Helsinki/Finland in general closer to a "Lesser" country like Estonia or Iceland (using other Nordic/Scandinavian examples) as opposed to being an equal peer with Norway, Sweden, Denmark etc.
We may even wait for more deals /other cities to look at, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to at least compare these 3 so I'd know what I'd choose between them.
Thanks!
I don't know if this is relevant for you, but Norway and Switserland are the only two European countries where foreigners pay the same tuition fees for university as nationals.
Also: Sweden has a functioning system of night trains, where you can cross the country while sleeping . (They even go to the lofotes in Norway.) If you'd want to go hiking that might be good to know.