There, lakes and rivers shape the landscapes.
In private forests, accessible to all, we pick fruit from neighbor's trees.
We are not in a utopia, but in Finland.
Marja-Liisa, who lives in Kauhajoki, north of Helsinki, laughs as she tells us about her sweet life in the land of “very nice and calm people”.
“It's true that we're good there,” she confirms when we tell her that the Finns are, for the seventh year in a row, the happiest citizens in the world.
One of their secrets would therefore be proximity to “nature”, a philosophy from which the French could draw inspiration.
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