Why Finland?

“So, Finland … huh … Since you are from Minnesota, don’t you want to go someplace a little warmer?”

So goes a conversation I have with people about why I would want to go to Finland.  I get it; winters are endless in Minnesota.  It seems odd to be going to a place that is as cold, as dark for as long as where I currently live.  To be honest, that really wasn’t a factor in the thinking.