Its nice to be filthy rich while you wait in luxurious comfort for that illusive "happiness" to arrive.

I read this article twice. Honest!

Pleasant as it was, I found myself wondering: was there a point,

In the end, I found none.

Yes, Finns are necessary for estos, whether as pre-WW II "vennasrahavas", or as post-soviet occupation economic investors and drivers. While at times Canadian estos can get the eerie feeling that they are, in Estonia, uncannily like our US friends here, there as here we need them. As I set my Finlandia disk back on the CD player, for consolation I recall that, some time ago, Finland was settled by people from Estonia moving north.