Is Norway the best country in the world?
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Serisouly?? That house is up for sale at $0.5M ?? You're pulling our plonkers old son.
I can't comment as an employer, but as a student Norway is awesome. No tuition fees and as an international student your visa also allows you to work part time. The dormitories are nice and the rent is somewhat subsidized. Alcohol is shit expensive, but there's tricks to get around the taxes.
Norway is an amazing country if you're living a regular working mans life.
It would not make sense for affilaite marketer to move there for the "free" health care.
But if you work for ex as carpenter and your wife works at wall mart, you will live a comfortable life with 1-2 cars, 6-8 weeks vacation.
Right now there are things like 100% salary when you're on sick leave.
If both of you work so can you easily afford over seas vacation once per year. Not everyone want's to be a billionaire, that would cost to much to be one there.
Also Oslo is about 500k people, so if you don't enjoy nature and snow so are you pretty fucked...
The fly fishing is amazing there.
-Micha
It would not make sense for affilaite marketer to move there for the "free" health care.
But if you work for ex as carpenter and your wife works at wall mart, you will live a comfortable life with 1-2 cars, 6-8 weeks vacation.
Right now there are things like 100% salary when you're on sick leave.
If both of you work so can you easily afford over seas vacation once per year. Not everyone want's to be a billionaire, that would cost to much to be one there.
Also Oslo is about 500k people, so if you don't enjoy nature and snow so are you pretty fucked...
The fly fishing is amazing there.
-Micha
From a personal "on field" experience scandinavian countries are the worst places for entrepreneurs, they simply hate the concept of entrepreneur and love the concept of "employee of Nokia till the death".
I love Norway as traveller but I would like to fix some myths (I have had practical experience):
1. The cost of living is crazy:
World Map of Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2014
Cost of living in Oslo, Norway. Prices in Oslo. Tourism & Travel
They pay fuel 1.85 EUR/liter for example
2. Public educational system is just mediocre (as well as in the US and most of the "Western world"). If you would like to give high quality education to your kids, prices are prohibitive (as well as in the US and most of the "Western world"). Everyone has to PAY a kindergarten to care for kids until they are accepted at school (6 yrs)
3. Medical services are not the highest level, considering the rate of taxes you pay for: 6+ months queues for simple examinations, longer queues for surgery, and payment of a fee for every consultation.
I love Norway as traveller but I would like to fix some myths (I have had practical experience):
1. The cost of living is crazy:
World Map of Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2014
Cost of living in Oslo, Norway. Prices in Oslo. Tourism & Travel
They pay fuel 1.85 EUR/liter for example
2. Public educational system is just mediocre (as well as in the US and most of the "Western world"). If you would like to give high quality education to your kids, prices are prohibitive (as well as in the US and most of the "Western world"). Everyone has to PAY a kindergarten to care for kids until they are accepted at school (6 yrs)
3. Medical services are not the highest level, considering the rate of taxes you pay for: 6+ months queues for simple examinations, longer queues for surgery, and payment of a fee for every consultation.
Half norwegian and half persian I think. Im not into blondes
Ps. she's done porno when she was young and fatter
If you like the blondes
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqGrgaQsIIE]My Boobs Are OK - YouTube[/ame]
I'd have a still and numerous fermentation buckets scattered around the house. Problem solved.
I honestly thought we were past the point on Wickedfire where people refer to money extorted by threath of violence as 'free'. Now if violence was the only price to pay it would be one thing, but when the robber then demands that you love him and you are a selfish bastard who should be robbed because you're a white, productive male, then it gets a little too much.
Only Norway has significant oil wealth. They hardly spend any of it and stash it away in an enormous oil fund, the largest stock owner in Europe and at 1% of all global equity.
You did the right thing. The western part of Norway is by far the best part, with fantastic unique landscapes and yes the world famous fjords.
Correct. All scandinavian countries are overrun by cultural-marxists, socialists and feminists.
They want your money and your soul. They hate private enterprise but tolerate it only to fill the coffers.
However, the western part of Norway is a different beast. Traditional, conservative, friendly. And one of the most beatiful places in the world. There is very little government in reality there. I think many of you would like it there. Book a trip to Bergen and rent a 4x4, go fishing, camping, hiking, eat local pastry, it's all good.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rKxUi7zfnM]FHM Forsidejakten 2011: Finalistene - YouTube[/ame]
Enjoy.
I agree every word, western and northern part is the best of Norway.
Cities like Oslo and Bergen were nice places till 10 years ago, but they are getting worse year after year, immigration is a bad beast there.
The easy access to lake after lake, a huge nice forest with no cars allowed is just 40 min outside Oslo.
The baller that owned the company I worked for was the largest private forest owner in Norway so we got access to some huts there.
Plenty of lakes the size of football fields and just growing in size.
Some of them surrounded by trees like a fairy tale story woods.
We would go for I think its called brown trout looking like this
Winter time so can you drill a whole in there and its popular to fish for this fucker, not sure on the name of it. We call it read trout.
random pics from the area
No you were right first time, it's Norway that has the oil.
They've stashed the proceeds of selling oil into a sovereign wealth fund - and it's now the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, dwarfing the Qatari one.
See
All Norwegians become millionaires as oil fund balloons
So even when the oil runs out, they're set for at least the next 300 years, because their population is so small.
P.S. If you are wondering why they didn't just use the oil money to cut taxes - that's what Britain did in the 80's and the money vanished abroad and into tax havens and we're as in debt as ever (with much much worse services). The original reason the Norwegians set up the sovereign fund was because they were worried that a tsunami of money in their economy would trigger inflation (too much money chasing too few goods) - and they were right on that too. Even with locking so much money away in the fund it's still expensive there.
The easy access to lake after lake, a huge nice forest with no cars allowed is just 40 min outside Oslo.
The baller that owned the company I worked for was the largest private forest owner in Norway so we got access to some huts there.
Plenty of lakes the size of football fields and just growing in size.
Some of them surrounded by trees like a fairy tale story woods.
We would go for I think its called brown trout looking like this
I don't know the first thing about stillwater fly fishing, but that is a sick brown.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kybyy1EkoOE]MR. SCRUFF - FISH (1998) - YouTube[/ame]
