Well, I haven’t heard much from the lady downstairs. Which is probably good.
In other news, I am currently planning to sell up and leave Finland. Despite the amount of letters and phone calls and personal visits to the courts and immigration and so forth that Anna and I have been making, the wheels of bureaucracy are just not turning, and I have pretty much run out of patience and the desire to wait.
I still have the right to reside and continue my business and so forth, I’m not being *forced* to leave (not like last time in 2006 when they were sending paperwork to Jason in Vantaa), however, I can not, for example, open another bank account or really do anything “official”. Which is quite problematic.
Anyway *this time* I applied early for the new permit. Should have taken 2-4 weeks, right? Not so. I finally heard in August that they’d been sending requests for information to me. Of course, they never reached me, as they were going to some address somewhere around Huopalahti – the closest I’ve ever livedto that was… either Pitäjänmäki (early 2008) or Ruskeasuo (2006-March 2007), but it was neither of those addresses… anyway, it is all detailed at this post.
One of these days I will put up the audio clips of the immigration police trying to do illegal things and so forth. Probably after I leave the country.
So, will I come back? All I can say is: big fat MAYBE. But only if this kind of shit stops happening.
For now, however, I am looking at Dubai, Bombay/Mumbai or the Ukraine as countries to which I could go. Depending on which I end up going to, I *may* just end up taking trains to get there, because I think it would be more fun.
Anyway, that pretty much sums up whats going on at the moment. I think that perhaps it is just not time for me to be settling down. Maybe I need to go to a booming economy (eg NOT Europe or North America), make some moolah and take care of my “itchy feet”. Then we’ll see what happens.
For now, though, I’m off to get my daily dose of Conan O’Brien.
Ciao
Mathew
