Why does Santa Claus live in Finland?
Santa should naturally be asked this himself, but Finland is where the whole story of Santa Claus begins. According to the elves (and they say they have heard this from Santa himself) there is a good reason for it as well. Santa Claus used to live in the South at first, when he hadn’t taken the job of being Santa yet. But nobody enjoys hot weather with a thick fur coat and a long beard. Sweat ran from his forehead all the time, and making presents wasn’t too nice either when it was so hot day and night. So Santa decided to find himself a new home. He stopped at Greenland, but found it too cold for him. Then he headed to Norway, but didn’t like it there either because he couldn’t find a suitable place for his workshop. Santa also went to Sweden, where he found some Christmas elves, but there the problem was there weren’t enough reindeer. When Santa Claus’ travels finally took him to Finland, he fell immediately in love with Lapland. When he met the kind and wise elves and reindeer, he s
