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CTRH's avatar

Thanks for the update, was wondering what the perspective on the migrant crossings was domestically.

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J'myle Koretz's avatar

I googled 'Raja-Jooseppi' and got a bunch of photos of hundred-year-old log cabins in some beautiful forest overlooking a mountain lake. Gorgeous view, but one that seems a bit more "summer camp haunted by a ghost" than "Syrian refugee" to me.

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Tatu Ahponen's avatar

Googling it, I got presumably the same houses, and it turns out that it's the original house of the person called "Raja-Jooseppi" ("Joseph-on-the-Border") who the border crossing is named after. A hardy settler, 100 years ago.

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J'myle Koretz's avatar

As a settler, I'd describe him as borderline.

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