Myllypuro, Helsinki

This is where we ended up. A suburban neighborhood as they call it. It's only 15 minutes by subway to get to downtown, so not that suburban to me. But yes, it's not a downtown any more. Our apartment is in a new building and next to it there is an ongoing construction site finishing couple more houses with shops on first floors. I suppose they should be ready by early  2012. But if walking farther from the subway station you have all those old block of flats, city rental apartments, which means - rather cheap opportunity for living for people, who don't have enough money to own something better. And you can tell the difference. It was here on Sunday when I saw the first police car in Helsinki since I've came here. No kidding! Before I only saw some police guys riding their horses. And here they were taking care of a drunkard! Yes, here you can see them quite often. And there are many immigrants too. People from Somalia I guess - since they are black and muslim and I know there is many Somali people living in Finland. They are at least quiet and I never saw any awkward situation. But there is a very nice play park, which Wanda loves already. You can play either outside and there is plenty to do - like those little bikes and inside, where my girl loves to play cars and trains! Here we have some forests, so there is plenty of trails for walking.
You can see it's a poorer neighborhood than Kruununhaka was, but well, the latter is one of the most expensive and upscale parts of the city, so no wonder. I hope we will like this place. I mean, I like my house and so far I think there are very nice people living here. You can easily notice that simply from looking at the windows and balconies - with cute decorations, lightening, flowers.