I live on a small islands in between the butt cheeks of Sweden and Finland. We are part of Finland but speak Swedish here. Everything is very expensive here because it's an island and Finnish taxes don't help much either. 24% VAT on all toys and 14% VAT on all food, 10% on medicine.
This place is demilitarised but that just means it will be easy to capture if for instance Russia decides to attack Finland. This island is one of the most important strategic points in all of the Baltic Sea from a military point of view.
We have some autonomy from mainland Finland, we have our own laws and our own flag. The flag is basically the Swedish flag with a red cross in the middle.
There have been many fights over who owns this island and current it's Finland.
View attachment 345934 This place has a population of around 28 000. As far as entertainment goes we don't really have much, drinking is basically the main entertainment here. Hunting is a big part of the culture here, there is a population of about 28 000 deer on the island as well as a couple hundred moose. The only predators are small ones like racoon dogs and foxes. Some years ago we had 3 wolves who wandered over from the mainland but 1 was officially shot and the 2 others "mysteriously disappeared" but everyone knows they were shot and buried. They had very little fear of people and were getting as close as 50 yards from them. They had also killed some sheep and were following people on horses. Once permission was given to shoot the wolf a team of 30 set out to track and shoot it. Below is a picture of the male wolf that was shot. It was given to a taxidermist who will donate it to the local museum.
View attachment 345936 Now to the question if I like it here, both yes and no. It's a very calm place where not much happens but because of that gossip spreads like a plague, everyone knows everything about everyone. It's very expensive to live here and I live on roughly $800 per month.
So if you like a boring life then this place is perfect, as for me I both like and dislike living here.