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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by Jommi on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:55PM (#25004737)
Ure being diseingenius. Helsinki is 650k, but actually it's a tri-city with Espoo and Vantaa, going over 1M population. That's more than SF in a similar area.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by selfinvariant on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:26PM (#25004889)
SF Bay Area is about 7.7 million, which is higher than the whole Finnish population.

I've been to Helsinki, it's a lovely place, but calling it a big city is misleading at best.

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by filleduchaos on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:35AM (#25005208)
Interestingly, the few times I've been there SF felt cozy (I live in a metro area of over twenty million).

It's all relative, I suppose.

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by dragonwriter on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:01PM (#25004765)
> Ure being diseingenius. Helsinki is 650k, but actually it's a tri-city with Espoo and Vantaa, going over 1M population. That's more than SF in a similar area.

Helsinki alone is almost twice the area of SF, Vantaa is more than twice SF’s area, and Espoo is closer to three times SF’s area, so, yes, that tri-city is more people than SF, but, no, it's not “in a similar area”.

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