How about moving to Salla?
How about moving to Salla or getting a holiday home close to the wilderness, near the services, with convenient transportation connections?
It’s good to live in Salla.
Living is affordable when compared to the larger centres. You can buy a house or holiday home, or you can rent an apartment.
Plots are available in beautiful scenery, and it is smooth for builders to deal with the municipality.
You can live in the centre of the municipality, at Sallatunturi fell, or in the other villages of the municipality. Many of the villages have a strong community spirit and active community life.
Available work
In some areas, unemployment in Salla has turned into a labour shortage. For example, there is work available in the care, forestry, and tourism industries. There is a need for cooks and waiters, as well as for wilderness guides and other programme service workers.
In particular for nurses, there is both short- and long-term employment available.
Entrepreneurs involved in various sectors are welcome to the municipality. With the growth of tourism, there is demand for wellness and care businesses, such as hairdressing salons, massage studios, and beauticians, for example.
Vibrant life
Activities are offered by diverse and affordable sports venues, nature, the vibrant Adult Education Centre, and an active community life. For children there are clubs, sports clubs, and the possibility of playing music at the Music Institute of Northeast Lapland.
The municipality of Salla wants to take good care of its inhabitants. There is quick access to visit doctors and the municipal healthcare invests in a high level of geriatric knowhow, i.e. elderly care.
The inhabitants of the municipality can visit the spa for half price. As a tradition, the municipality offers a season pass to the ski slopes for all municipal schoolchildren and students for only 20 euros. There is also a significant discount for the adult season pass.
New parents receive baby money, and the early-childhood education and schools are cutting edge. The schools have small class sizes, and the teaching is individualised.
There are two grocery stores in the centre of the municipality of Salla and many specialty shops, so almost everything needed for day-to-day life is available close by.
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We warmly welcome you to Salla!