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Unfortunately, this is the reality on the ground. Finland is the least densely populated country in Europe, and one of the most arctic countries in the world. A lot of the people simply need a car to commute to work.

Cars in Finland have not only a value-added tax (VAT) of 24% but also a separate car tax slapped on them. At the extreme cases this can result in over 100% additional tax to be paid on top of the retail price of a car.

This looks about right to me. To add for reference, something like 5200 € / month gross puts you to top 10% earners in Finland already. So it is an excellent salary to get locally.

I also know of a few developers making 10k€ / month but I have to say they're very rare to come across in this country.

This is a good exercise to make a rough comparison like ths.

However, actually a junior would make something like ~3k€ before taxes in Helsinki, not after taxes. The taxes are (very) progressive, at that income level it's something like 27% in Finland.

When I book a dentist or an oral hygienist, the first available times are usually at miminum 8 months ahead. The cost is 60 €. This is at the public healthcare.

Granted, this is another Finnish city, not Helsinki.

Nothing is better than seeing the broken pieces of the foundation fixed in Haskell.

Records were my number one gripe in the language that otherwise does so many advanced things so uniquely well.

Do you have more info about this? It does sound promising.

Scala's type system is more expressive than Haskell's? I didn't know that. What makes it more expressive?

Actually, I think Japan also technically taxes worldwide income of non-resident nationals. And even permanent residents, regardless of where they reside.

Moreover, some countries like Finland require you to pay taxes on worldwide income for a number of years after you're no longer a resident of the country and only then granting you tax freedom from income sourced outside of the country. And there's no amount of income you can exclude like the USA's $108k or whatever the figure is currently.

Dart feels slightly less versatile than Typescript but has type soundness.

Both feel highly verbose to me, but maybe that's just cos I'm used to something with quite minimal syntactic overhead.

Ultimately, they're very similar as languages so it wouldn't take long for a Typescript developer to picn up Dart or vice versa.

Pretty amazing how you were able to use the appropriate tooling to a great effect right off the bat!

-XStrict is almost never optimal in Haskell as a lot of the optimizations ultimately rely on lazy evaluation. I think more appropriate would be to try out -XStrictData instead.

Personally, I found precisely the type system the most challenging part. It still is. The whole type level programming is something you just don't have in almost any other language so that's completely novel to me.