regarding fixed fines, thats not true, and not sure where she getting it from, regarding speedlimits. if you drive 115km/h here on a 80 road, you getting fined rougly 1450 usd regardless of your inncome, and using a phone wile driving gonna cost you rougly 970 usd. she is probably refering to the fines you get from driving influenced by alchohol. those fines are not fixed, but 6 weeks worth of inncome. thats just the money part, so if you just have small amount of alchohol in your system, you get away with that fine "only", but if you have alot, like 1.2+ promille you also loose your driver license for 2 years, + get tossed in jail for a period regarding alchohol, she not entirely correct either. you can buy bear in all the normal supermarkeds, but if you want anything stronger from like wine and up, then you need to go to the special stores she mention
The problem with restricting sale of alcohol to limited hours of the day is that we've aquired a spesific culture of partying extra hard during the weekend. And we tend to buy more alcohol than we need.
true, i think norway has more drink alone at home secretly, and its common for people to get too drunk at weekend and start fight and come Monday no one can remember why they fought or how it started, typisk ut på byen
I am Scottish-born and lived in Timmins, Ontario, for 7 years, and alcohol was only sold in government-owned Beer and Liquor shops. Everything over 5.5% Al by vol is only sold in the Liquor shop and is never located next to the Beer store. Many courier firms, such as Last Call, deliver beer and wine directly to your door as you can not buy them in supermarkets or shops. It was not a significant problem. I understand the law has been relaxed across Ontario and is now similar to Quebec. I currently live in Malta, and alcohol is freely available, and bars close when they like in practice. Pubs in Norway are really expensive. Many brew up at home.
In Norway beer is sold in all supermarkets, most govt owned booze shops are within walking distance of a supermarket, they are usually located in a shopping centre.
Regarding speed limits:the roads here, condition or with, aren't inviting for speeding in general. Then we have the tourists...they often watch more the scenery than the roads or they brak before driving through a tunnel...and we have a lot of them...😁
I was born in the UK and moved to Norway when i was 11 years old. after 24 years i can tell you an average Norwegian is 5-10x as wealthy as someone in the UK. the top jobs dont pay higher but its more balanced and jobs people dont want, pay well like 5000+ UK pounds a month as trash collector.. cleaners get paid normal wage 3000+ UK pounds. for 8/10 of population it pays more and you dont get stabbed om way to school , the police will even escort the children to school or pay taxi for your child if you live further away
Trash collectors don’t get paid 70000 NOK per month. You’re having a laugh. Most garbage companies hire workers from Eastern Europe on 3-6 month contracts. Most Norwegian cities had weekly collection, now it’s every two weeks. The problem is the kommune forced down the contact prices in tenders several years ago, the compromise was the collections dropped from weekly to every two weeks and the staff became contractors. I know a person who owns a garbage collection business.
When i served in the army as an conscript in the early 90s, all my fellow soldiers had field expirience prior to entering the service. No one dared to mope! It was all about problem solving
For me one of the cons would be how Norway is terrible importing food from around the world, almost everything found in grocery stores are Norwegian products and at least in a medium sized city like where i live it can be a hassle finding certain products. Biggest reason i do consider leaving for a few years is still the long winters, seem to always get depressed between December to late march due to the lack of sunlight.
well,I think,then isn't Norway a country for you. We have snow or Nothern lights or both to brighten up our winters.I got winter depression in Germany,so I know, what it is🙂, and for foot:we have Sweden to shop groceries 😁
There is Amazon here, though if the item you want is imported, and most are, you have to pay vat and tolling fees so I buy from Norwegian shops. I live near where she does so recognize the area where she lives.
I’m a kiwi, I’ve lived in Norway for nearly 20 years, I also lived in London. The carbon footprint issue is a bit of a lie, you can’t be environmentally friendly when you’re pumping oil like it’s no tomorrow. A few years ago they ran massive high tension power lines across and untouched piece of landscape, environmentalists when crazy, the govt did it anyway. Crime has increased and is increasing year on year, its tracks with the increase of refugees and economic migrants. When I first moved to Norway people still left keys in cars and doors unlocked, this has largely stopped now. Parts of Oslo are not safe anymore. I would disagree with gender discrimination issues, it now gone the other way, it’s better to be a women than a male. In previous company females are promoted ahead of men, regardless of ability. That company then writes big stories about how successful the promoted female is, if a male gets promoted it’s kept very quiet. Incomes aren’t as impressive as they used to be, the Norwegian kronor has lost significant value in recent years, which makes travelling out of Norway very expensive. Today food in Norway is cheaper than food in the UK, Norwegian grown fruit and vege quality is not good, most of it comes pre rotten. I love it when the Norwegian growing season is over and we get higher quality cheaper imported products. Speeding fines are not based on a percentage of your income, the fines are fixed, they are published anyone can see what they are. My last fine was 5400 NOK, the police didn’t ask what my income was. What he did do was pull me over and not the car I was following, when I asked why I was stopped and not the guy in front the answer was you drive an expensive car, the car in front was not, so you’re able to pay when maybe they can’t. Speed limits are increasing. Most new highways and motorways are being built to 90, 110 and 120 km/h standards. I would like Amazon, I would like Norway to join the EU customs union, that’s what stops Amazon and other large online retailers setting up in Norway. Post used to be fast in Norway before the govt shut down most of the regional distribution centres. We had a distribution centre in our town when it closed mail delivery increased by days.
We can buy beer in all grocery stores, but high percentage alcohol is at Vinmonopolet, yes.
Daily walks and hikes. Bonfire and dinner outdoor. Etc
regarding fixed fines, thats not true, and not sure where she getting it from, regarding speedlimits. if you drive 115km/h here on a 80 road, you getting fined rougly 1450 usd regardless of your inncome, and using a phone wile driving gonna cost you rougly 970 usd. she is probably refering to the fines you get from driving influenced by alchohol. those fines are not fixed, but 6 weeks worth of inncome. thats just the money part, so if you just have small amount of alchohol in your system, you get away with that fine "only", but if you have alot, like 1.2+ promille you also loose your driver license for 2 years, + get tossed in jail for a period
regarding alchohol, she not entirely correct either. you can buy bear in all the normal supermarkeds, but if you want anything stronger from like wine and up, then you need to go to the special stores she mention
The problem with restricting sale of alcohol to limited hours of the day is that we've aquired a spesific culture of partying extra hard during the weekend.
And we tend to buy more alcohol than we need.
true, i think norway has more drink alone at home secretly, and its common for people to get too drunk at weekend and start fight and come Monday no one can remember why they fought or how it started, typisk ut på byen
I am Scottish-born and lived in Timmins, Ontario, for 7 years, and alcohol was only sold in government-owned Beer and Liquor shops. Everything over 5.5% Al by vol is only sold in the Liquor shop and is never located next to the Beer store. Many courier firms, such as Last Call, deliver beer and wine directly to your door as you can not buy them in supermarkets or shops. It was not a significant problem. I understand the law has been relaxed across Ontario and is now similar to Quebec. I currently live in Malta, and alcohol is freely available, and bars close when they like in practice. Pubs in Norway are really expensive. Many brew up at home.
In Norway beer is sold in all supermarkets, most govt owned booze shops are within walking distance of a supermarket, they are usually located in a shopping centre.
Regarding speed limits:the roads here, condition or with, aren't inviting for speeding in general. Then we have the tourists...they often watch more the scenery than the roads or they brak before driving through a tunnel...and we have a lot of them...😁
Class A highways have a 110 km/h limit, Class B had a 90 km/h limit. 80 km/h is the upper limit outside highways.
the fun part is that you haven't this separation in Norway:even in Oslo you have hiking ground like Holmenkollen or Nordmarka and other areas .
Even if this country isn't perfect, it's the best country for meand I love living her🤩😃
Some years ago, when I had a house in a Stockholm suburb (Sweden), right next to a rehabilitation home for addicts, I never locked my front door
I was born in the UK and moved to Norway when i was 11 years old. after 24 years i can tell you an average Norwegian is 5-10x as wealthy as someone in the UK. the top jobs dont pay higher but its more balanced and jobs people dont want, pay well like 5000+ UK pounds a month as trash collector.. cleaners get paid normal wage 3000+ UK pounds. for 8/10 of population it pays more and you dont get stabbed om way to school , the police will even escort the children to school or pay taxi for your child if you live further away
Trash collectors don’t get paid 70000 NOK per month. You’re having a laugh. Most garbage companies hire workers from Eastern Europe on 3-6 month contracts. Most Norwegian cities had weekly collection, now it’s every two weeks. The problem is the kommune forced down the contact prices in tenders several years ago, the compromise was the collections dropped from weekly to every two weeks and the staff became contractors. I know a person who owns a garbage collection business.
When i served in the army as an conscript in the early 90s, all my fellow soldiers had field expirience prior to entering the service.
No one dared to mope! It was all about problem solving
For me one of the cons would be how Norway is terrible importing food from around the world, almost everything found in grocery stores are Norwegian products and at least in a medium sized city like where i live it can be a hassle finding certain products. Biggest reason i do consider leaving for a few years is still the long winters, seem to always get depressed between December to late march due to the lack of sunlight.
well,I think,then isn't Norway a country for you. We have snow or Nothern lights or both to brighten up our winters.I got winter depression in Germany,so I know, what it is🙂, and for foot:we have Sweden to shop groceries 😁
Almost like writing, the thing i hate is that that they are too environmentally friendly to import everything.
Investing in a house isn't easy. Capital is needed, and it's not easy to get a loan for a house or an apartment.
There is Amazon here, though if the item you want is imported, and most are, you have to pay vat and tolling fees so I buy from Norwegian shops. I live near where she does so recognize the area where she lives.
There isn’t an Amazon distribution centre in Norway. It will come eventually but outside of Oslo I doubt Prime will be available.
Take a look at Jæren/Rogaland
the alcohol thing is not a problem,we brew moonshine 96 proof that we drink from an early age in norway
Calling it 'liquid baking' I loved it,when I heard it first😄
I’m a kiwi, I’ve lived in Norway for nearly 20 years, I also lived in London.
The carbon footprint issue is a bit of a lie, you can’t be environmentally friendly when you’re pumping oil like it’s no tomorrow. A few years ago they ran massive high tension power lines across and untouched piece of landscape, environmentalists when crazy, the govt did it anyway.
Crime has increased and is increasing year on year, its tracks with the increase of refugees and economic migrants. When I first moved to Norway people still left keys in cars and doors unlocked, this has largely stopped now. Parts of Oslo are not safe anymore.
I would disagree with gender discrimination issues, it now gone the other way, it’s better to be a women than a male. In previous company females are promoted ahead of men, regardless of ability. That company then writes big stories about how successful the promoted female is, if a male gets promoted it’s kept very quiet.
Incomes aren’t as impressive as they used to be, the Norwegian kronor has lost significant value in recent years, which makes travelling out of Norway very expensive.
Today food in Norway is cheaper than food in the UK, Norwegian grown fruit and vege quality is not good, most of it comes pre rotten. I love it when the Norwegian growing season is over and we get higher quality cheaper imported products.
Speeding fines are not based on a percentage of your income, the fines are fixed, they are published anyone can see what they are. My last fine was 5400 NOK, the police didn’t ask what my income was. What he did do was pull me over and not the car I was following, when I asked why I was stopped and not the guy in front the answer was you drive an expensive car, the car in front was not, so you’re able to pay when maybe they can’t.
Speed limits are increasing. Most new highways and motorways are being built to 90, 110 and 120 km/h standards.
I would like Amazon, I would like Norway to join the EU customs union, that’s what stops Amazon and other large online retailers setting up in Norway. Post used to be fast in Norway before the govt shut down most of the regional distribution centres. We had a distribution centre in our town when it closed mail delivery increased by days.