On one of my daily trips to the super market I passed by the usual string of small buildings occupied by obscure little shops with names roughly 20 characters long, never gave them that much thought, until one day I noticed something a little out of the ordinary: QR codes!
They’ve escaped Japan and have come to Tampere of all places, a city in Finland known to be inhabited by young party going college kids, old blueberry pie baking grandmas and mustamakkara.
That should give you an idea of the real estate prices here.
65 square meter apartment (700 square feet) is 170k EUR (266k USD).
Update: “thigh bone” left a comment telling me these are not QR Codes, but instead something called a data matrix which is a 2 dimensional barcode. My mistake.