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I am not sure I agree with Ruhrjung's edit changing description of Kauniainen from a "city" to a "small town". Yes, at ~8k inhabitants probably doesn't fit with what is usually understood as a city, but there is a strong historical background for appropriately terming Kauniainen a city. In Finland we have a distinction between standard municipalities and those that have earned the right to use the title city. My understanding is that this is mostly symbolic with no legal differentiation. Thus Kauniainen was founded in 1906, in 1920 it acquired the title of a "kauppala" (would translate as a "small market town") and then in 1972 the title city. I would prefer to reverse the edit to "small town" as the ~8k inhabitants is sufficient to bring out the small town flavour. - Tuomas Toivonen 11:49 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Kauniainen is awesome! I lived there for several years, it's a great place to reside in the Helsinki area. Go Grani! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.252.4.21 ( talk) 05:41, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Is there any relation between this city and the name Kanninen? Mathiastck 22:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/europe/finland-happiness-social-services.html "It’s Cold, Dark and Lacks Parking. But Is This Finnish Town the World’s Happiest?"
"Finland was named the world’s happiest country by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in April, based on polling results from 156 nations. And a second survey found that Kauniainen’s 9,600 residents were the most satisfied in Finland, leading the local mayor, Christoffer Masar, to joke that theirs was the happiest town on earth."
http://www.unz.com/isteve/worlds-happiest-town-lacks-diversity "How Can World's Happiest Town Lack Diversity?"
"Kauniainen is not an ordinary town, it is a private community for the super wealthy that pretends to be a small town (it still has some legacy ordinary residents like farmer families who have owned land for generations there). It is the richest town in Finland by a large margin. Here’s a list of all municipalities in Finland by per capita income (it’s in Finnish but you can just look at the list, note that they bolded and separated Kauniainen at the top for whatever reason):"
https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2015121920856681 -- tickle me 00:49, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
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I am not sure I agree with Ruhrjung's edit changing description of Kauniainen from a "city" to a "small town". Yes, at ~8k inhabitants probably doesn't fit with what is usually understood as a city, but there is a strong historical background for appropriately terming Kauniainen a city. In Finland we have a distinction between standard municipalities and those that have earned the right to use the title city. My understanding is that this is mostly symbolic with no legal differentiation. Thus Kauniainen was founded in 1906, in 1920 it acquired the title of a "kauppala" (would translate as a "small market town") and then in 1972 the title city. I would prefer to reverse the edit to "small town" as the ~8k inhabitants is sufficient to bring out the small town flavour. - Tuomas Toivonen 11:49 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Kauniainen is awesome! I lived there for several years, it's a great place to reside in the Helsinki area. Go Grani! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.252.4.21 ( talk) 05:41, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Is there any relation between this city and the name Kanninen? Mathiastck 22:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/europe/finland-happiness-social-services.html "It’s Cold, Dark and Lacks Parking. But Is This Finnish Town the World’s Happiest?"
"Finland was named the world’s happiest country by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in April, based on polling results from 156 nations. And a second survey found that Kauniainen’s 9,600 residents were the most satisfied in Finland, leading the local mayor, Christoffer Masar, to joke that theirs was the happiest town on earth."
http://www.unz.com/isteve/worlds-happiest-town-lacks-diversity "How Can World's Happiest Town Lack Diversity?"
"Kauniainen is not an ordinary town, it is a private community for the super wealthy that pretends to be a small town (it still has some legacy ordinary residents like farmer families who have owned land for generations there). It is the richest town in Finland by a large margin. Here’s a list of all municipalities in Finland by per capita income (it’s in Finnish but you can just look at the list, note that they bolded and separated Kauniainen at the top for whatever reason):"
https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2015121920856681 -- tickle me 00:49, 28 December 2018 (UTC)