These are repercussions from an above average nice summer in Finland. You will need a proper winter right now so everybody can find their balance again.
I can only tell from Helsinki but I bet the same goes for Tampere 😉
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Yes. The winter is coming and hopefully everyone will freeze, although we here in Finland have central heating. So actually there's almost zero change of anyone freezing so that the complaining would end.
I think complaining about stuff is our national hobby. I have no hobbies so I never ever never ever complain. But, I have heard complains my whole life so I have a pretty good picture how things are gonna go. Construction sites and the biggest complain target, the tram, has been an issue for about a year or two before it was decided that it will come to Tampere. The whole summer people complained how it is too hot and sunny and how that thing is the trams fault. (Don't ask me how but it is.)
When the winter comes people will start to complain about the fact that before the snow comes, it is so depressing and dark and how the city should pay more attention to the city light decorations, but then again there's something called light pollution. When the snow comes, all the people driving cars will be taken by surprise that winter always comes at some point and something should have been done to the summer tires. Then there's the fact that it's hard to walk in the snow if there's lots of it and that sometimes it's slippery. City should plow the snow more and spread salt and sand on the snow that there would be perfect summer conditions for people to walk around, although it is WINTER.
And when the snow melts away, there's the issue with the dog poo that reveals itself from under the snow. Let's just say that before fresh grass can smell, there will be another kind of smell to bring home on your shoe soles. But hey, eeeeevrybody want's to own an adorable puppy, but noooooobody want's to deal with the poo they leave because there are people who can do that. The city will of course hire more people. And then there's the dust to breathe that comes with the spring from all the sand that had to be spread all over the streets is the winter so that people could walk with their summer shoes.
National hobby. Complaining. Best done so, that if someone that could do something about it, asks, everything is fine. But right after that the masters of complaining go to their neighbor / friend / relative and complain how everything is so wrong and bad and not working.
Yes. Interesting topic.
I think about it like this: many people are feeling socially awkward and are not used to communicating with a fellow human. At the same time there is a great need of feeling a connection to the community.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to start ranting (who hasn't an opinion about weather, traffic...?), hoping it turns in to a nice conversation.
It's troublesome if the other person just keeps on ranting. Then you have to flee the negativity because it will only be depressing.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is: ranting as icebreaker.
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It is an icebreaker! And I really do think that most people are wise and don't complain about little things. It's just the overall picture that one gets when few people have louder voices and complain about everything.