Voting Today

in finland •  7 years ago  (edited)

Presidential election day. I went to the polling station assigned to those who live in the area where I live now but they did not find my name on the list. Of course, I had been assigned a polling station based on where I lived last month, so I had to use Ahtiala school. The wife was happy to do a little shopping while my daughter and I went to the polling station.

Ahtiala school main entrance

Polling station number 12

The school cafeteria

This is where you show your ID and where they check that you haven't voted already.

One of the booths

These are the candidates.

Sauli Niinistö (#8) is the incumbent president. Nils Torvalds (#9) who represents the Swedish Folk Party is the father of Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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Finland looks to be a very nice place to live for kids, with lots of resources going into the schools.

It is one of the best if not the best place to have kids in.

Someday I'll buy a lot of coats and take a trip the entire way up your incredible country.

There's one snake in the paradise and that is indoor air quality problems in older and even in some new school buildings. The problems are often the result of moisture damage in the structures. Older buildings often do not have underground drain pipes installed next to the base walls or the drainage system is no longer working. Leaking roofs have caused problems in some schools. New school buildings are often built in haste which sometimes means that concrete floors are not allowed to dry long enough before installing floor surface materials. It is all too common for harmful organic volatile compounds to result from reactions between the damp concrete and glues under some types of floor surfaces.

Our climate is particularly disadvantageous in terms of the possibility of harmful microbial growths in buildings. That is because of the large annual temperature variations. Dry air in the winter makes buildings hostile to microbes. A building with microbial damage typically has a host of different species competing for living space. When the conditions get difficult, they will engage in chemical warfare against each other. This, by the way, why going to forest and being exposed to a lot of microbes is not harmful whereas a building suffering from microbial damage can be harmful to health.

That particular school is really nice. It was built in 1994 and an extension to it was built in 2002.

Moisture damage is a really big problem. I know it because we lost our house and everything else that we owned. Literally everything. I might make a post about it one day since you reminded me of it. Here is what we did to our house since it was useless and we couldn't live there anymore.
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I'm really sorry to hear that.

I hope you can make up for the losses in cryptos.

My long-term plan is to make enough money to help with my moms 200k loan. This situation put our whole family into financial difficulties but I hope that I can help with that :)

This is really awful, I hate to see something like this and know what you have lost.

We lost everything back in 1989 when Hurricane Hugo took out the Island of St. Croix. We lost everything or so I thought, but it got so much worse as the island turned against each other.

I found out in a hurry that "stuff" has no value as my kids got sick from polluted water and we could not get off them off the Island. When the 1st planes flew again, woman and children only -- I rejoiced!! Everything that was important to me was fine -- I would be just fine indeed!

Wow, I never would have guessed that cold areas suffered from bacterial warfare. I suppose there is no perfect place. I live in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Great place to visit --- when the eye of the hurricane is NOT taking out your house and business!

What fun, to see inside another countries polling station and a local school. Ours is pretty much next door but nowhere near as nice in setting. Just a small room in a community centre that used to be a church.

I don't remember the last time I went to Polling station.
Maybe because of my deep "love" to the government, hmmm.

Thanks for voting since everyone else doesn't do that :)

Update: 30.1% didn't.

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I don't believe in the voting at all. I thought it's bought with money.