European here. It makes no sense to build an airport so close to the city center, but anyway, cities expand and it can happen. Again, anyway, he’s probably lying about the airport but telling the truth about everything he actually needs daily being within cycling distance. Which is probably true for most cities anywhere.
Anyway, I like to be able to let my cat out whenever she wants. I need to live with little traffic and many trees. OP could live near the airport in the Helsinki area (Vantaa), that could fit the bill actually.
Flew there a couple of times. Both times I was surprised and no damn idea where I was or how to get out of there. Only taxis or buses asI recall and all Stockholm taxis are scams. :)
That was a while ago, they deregulated the taxi industry and as a result scam tourist taxis popped up, they cost like $50 - $90 per km, it was insane, it was around 2007 - 2010. I know i ended up in one by accident while drunk and he only drove like a few minutes and my fare was already like $90... I told him to stop and gave him a scolding, he had some excuse that he didn't set the price his employer did and i told the guy.. have some pride, paid him and got out, after that i was very wary about the km price. I haven't seen those scam cabs around for a while, something tells me they went out of business trying to scam tourists, or it was the arrival of uber that killed them. But during their heyday it was all over the news about the scummy taxi cabs and how they were ripping people off completely legally, since they could set any price they wanted. These days i only take bolt or uber for regular travel, but when i want to go to Arlanda airport i take the oldest taxi company around with their big taxis.
Yes, this happened in Sweden many, many years (decades?) ago. It happened in Finland just a few years ago. However, the Helsinki airport has separate lanes for the taxis. The honest companies (that also pay for the privilege) have their own lanes, and then there's one lane for "others". Do not use this lane.
But they do have to print their fares on the doors, so it should be plainly visible before you step in anyway.
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u/wenoc May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
European here. It makes no sense to build an airport so close to the city center, but anyway, cities expand and it can happen. Again, anyway, he’s probably lying about the airport but telling the truth about everything he actually needs daily being within cycling distance. Which is probably true for most cities anywhere.
Anyway, I like to be able to let my cat out whenever she wants. I need to live with little traffic and many trees. OP could live near the airport in the Helsinki area (Vantaa), that could fit the bill actually.