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That’s me
I first came to Finland in 2018.
And I still remember the quiet shift I felt inside. It wasn’t anything spectacular or loud — just a calm, clear feeling: somehow, this place felt like home.
Back then, I couldn’t really explain why. My life was in Germany, everything followed its familiar path. But that feeling stayed. Year after year. Quiet, but constant.
What started as a vague sense slowly turned into a thought.
The thought became a dream.
And the dream eventually became a plan.
It took years until I was truly ready to take that step. Until 2025.
And then, suddenly, everything moved very fast: quitting my job, giving up my apartment, saying goodbye to the life I had known — and stepping into the unknown.
My beginning in Helsinki was far from glamorous.
I first moved into a German retirement home. A temporary place between an old life and a new chapter. Not perfect, not romantic — but exactly right for that moment in time.
Today I know that the feeling I had in 2018 quietly guided me all those years.
Every step, every doubt, every decision eventually led me here.
Here, to Helsinki.
To the place that had already felt like home long before I actually lived here.
And this is only the beginning of my story.
Janina Gutsche 