American Reacts to 7 Upsides of Moving to Norway
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As an American who has been looking at many of the amazing things in Norway as well as Norwegian culture I am fascinated to react and learn about 7 practical reasons one might move to Norway. I am well aware that there are countless beautiful sites to visit and the Norway economy is quite simply outstanding, so I am hoping to learn about even more detailed reasons to move to Norway, from my American perspective. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
The freedom to roam is actually amazing. You can even camp on private ground as long as you keep a distance of at least 150 meters form the nearest house/cabin so what the video stated is not correct. The law states that its ok as long as you "leave no trace" from your activities.
he has talked about it before. then he mentioned that one can only stay in one place for one day. which is good. the increasing amount of tourists in lofoten are leaving a lot of trash
Actually, both private property around your houses and all farmlands/ cultivated fields, even if its just grass for hay, is of limits for camping. That is one of the biggest problem we have with campingtourists, when they think that the free roaming law means that they can camp absolutely everywhere.
@@daikhan1 For two days (after that you need some sort of agreement with the ground owners). But that doesn’t apply to the mountains and remote areas.
Same in Sweden. And, part from everything else I think there are few neighboring countries that in a humorous and loving way love to (via humor) hate each other.
I do not think Americans would like it.Its colder,darker in winter,no chain stores,the people like a fresh air life,not big cities, its much more socialist without even thinking about it,less snobbish,less income inequality, less racist,much more democratic in even everyday or in school decisions.......I think in USA there would be only 3 cities,Oslo,Bergen and Stavanger,and nothing else........the Government subsidises settlement further North,all of a thousand miles,with hospitals,schools,sports halls,swimming baths,dentists, etc etc,because otherwise private enterprise would have no chance of profits up there
I'm an immigrant moved to Norway since 2004 and I don't have any regret in moving here. I have all the privilege that I'm enjoying since I move to Norway, free school from the day I arrived here, learning the language it self. Got my security number for I can have my free hospitalization. I went to University got to study for free, and of course you can choose to have a student loan or the 'stipend' or a scholar payment that you have nothing to pay.
Now I'm working and paying my taxes got my yearly "fereipenger" or the vacation money which everybody has the privilege to enjoy their vacation with pay.
Regarding the short time of sunlight, he's talking about the winter time, and it depends where your location is. Southern part of Norway has a longer sunlight during winter.
Winter is cold here but ever since I've moved here in Norway , No cancelations of classes or work because of the super cold winter. NEVER. It's your type of clothing that you need to wear during winter.
...feriepenger....
Wish I was an immigrant in Norway and not a native. Immigrants get full retirement pension automaticly. Natives have to work for 42 years to achive that.
@@Spookyashell76 we work hard and paying a higher amount of taxes to earn all we have here. I guess we deserve all this as well. Native norwegians nor immigrants born and raise in Norway received an amount of money before they were world. And receiving monthly pay from the government.
@@Spookyashell76 That's only for immigrants from outside of the EU. Those from within the EU get nothing.
@@regalbabyjepp5837 Except you automaticly get it without working a day. I'm not saying you don't work hard.
But its unfair you get full pension from day one and I have to work full time for 42 years to achive what you get automaticly.
The short days are in the winter.
Summers are the opposite with very short nights.
I'm in Sweden and it's basically the same and if you go way up north there is *no* daylight in midwinter and conversely no dark in the middle of the summer.
We get 24 hours of sun here during summer where i live in norway.
@@Brigtzen In the summer where i live it never gets darker than twilight. It being darkest at around 1:30 in the night.
You have obviously not been to the north during wintertime. "..no daylight" during winter is not correct. Nowhere in northern Scandinavia does have "no daylight". It is between 1,5 - 4 hours as a minimum of daylight ....which depends on how far north you are. Svalbard is the place that really can claim no daylight. My home is at 70 dgr. N latitude.
What our Swiss friend is talking about is the average amount of direct sunshine per day. Which is basically based on the cloud cover. Sort of useless statistics when not considering seasonality as well.
@@glacieractivity Yeah ...I know that glacier activity is a slow thing ....and you obviously live up to your username.... Your comment seems rather random ....and lost... The hours of daylight in this thread has nothing with how much cloud cover there might be (hence hours of sun or not) ....and where do you get your "Swiss" friend from...??? Haha ...have you had a few beers to much ...or what...??? The original commenter is in Sweden.....and that is not Switzerland....right....
We - Norway - counted our islands in 2011, and the exact numbers are 239 057 islands and 81 192 islets (smaller than 10 square meters). So, quite a bit more than 150 000!
I am from Romania and moved to Norway 5 months ago and I love it. The norwegian are so kind, polite, and educated. It's raining a lot 😅 sometimes the wind is crazy but it is beautiful. In Romania too we have less daylight in the winter, especially november-december so it's not so strange to me. I don't know exactly how norwegian people feel about having so many emigrants but personally I say to them Thank You! Thank you for beeing so kind, my son will have a beautiful future here.
Tyler reacted to our king speech once take a look at that and you get the answer on our views on emigrants, basically if your hearts is in Norway that you are as much Norwegian as I am that was born here. I fully agree with his speech. th-cam.com/video/nc7AJvgjM8U/w-d-xo.html
Im a Norwegian born and breed here in Oslo. I love all the emigrants that comes here to make a good life for themself. We need a multicultural population if we are going to be a good place to live in the future and evole
Hello, @ LittleKnits, Nice to meet you in here, Can I ask a question? How to moved to Norway? Using work visa or study at university here and then find a job in Norway? Thanks you. I come from China.
4 hours in winter seems about right. Its due to how far north we are. You should look up winter and summer sun hours. Many that travel and imigrate here find it hard to sleep during summer and get winter depression with the lack of sun and how dark it gets.
This is true also for us Scandinavians when we move within the country. I moved from the south to the north and had severe winter depression. But, you can aid this with the right knowledge. Take cod liver oil "Möllers tran" to get enough omega 3s and a good dose of Vitamin D. Also, take additional vitamin D, because having more is better, not just staying above the minimum requirement but aiming to stay well above it will help many with depression. Also getting out and being social, exercising and eating healthy all helps a little. So combining them all I can have less winter depression in the north than I had in the south, because I have become aware of it and work to counter it actively every year :)
It can also be a good change! I came here when i was 6, so I'm not native but certainly had time to adjust with it as part of childhood.
All of my best memories are of nights out with friends during the summer, where it barely got dark at all and since its so safe, we were allowed to be kids well into the nights from like 8th grade and get into trouble. In the winter, it's pretty much already dark when you get home from school, so unless you want to burn a full day's worth of teenage energy bouncing off the walls, you brave the dark and get up to stuff! ...And then you find out Norway is JUST as stunning in winter, in a different way. Everything changes, and once someones parents start trusting their kids with their cabin for the weekend? We all have those memories and hold them deep in the memorybank with equal love and regret and think about them as little as possible. But the daylight hours affects daily life here in a way that i really really love, and now as an adult i feel bad that there's kids growing up where stuff like that isnt possible, where things doesn't change magically halfway through the year, then suddenly flicks the lights back on and makes it warm enough for you to fall asleep on a soccerfield, in some small cozy gem of a town where it's safe enough where that's normal for kids.
If it was any other place, these hours would SUCK. But it's norway, so somehow it's always been a good thing for me.
It's all about the latitude. I tell my family, I don't have a bad attitude, I have a bad LATITUDE!
The so-called warmest temperature includes nighttime temperature as well. Day temperature is often around up to and sometimes even above 30 degrees Celsius. The sea temperature in the Oslofjord area is often reaching around 20-24 even 25 degrees celsius in the summer! Also remember that the sunshine of 6 hours in Oslo (not 4) is the absolute darkest part of winter, and it is not totally dark before and after this sunshine either... You might have an hour of twilight... And for many years now, we who live around the Oslofjord area, have had almost no snow compared to 20 years ago and more. If you ever visit, I'll be happy to show you some sights. Making you feel just as welcome in Norway, as I and my family feels welcome in the USA when we visit there. My family in Spokane Washington has a very similar climate, only they have a bit longer summers. and it gets really hot in Spokane. But it's winter there as well... Stay safe!
Feee to roam means you can hike, camp for 3 days everywhere, private land included. Excluded is peoples front/back yards, farmland, and some protected areas. In addition to hike and camp for 3 nights, you are free to pick berries and mushrooms. You are of course expected to leave the nature as you found it
As a person that has lived in both North America and Norway I would say that it's not very different when it comes to costs of rent, meat, bread, and other basic necessities. In fact, living in the capital of Norway rent is cheaper for most of the standard apartments compared to many major cities in the US and Canada. Just something to keep in mind.
Other than that, what do you find better of the two, and why?
Freedom to roam actually includes private land and national parks. In the first you have to stay away from cropland in summer. You are allowed to camp in outlying areas without the landowner's consent, as long as you do not disturb the peace of the residents. The tent must be placed at least 150 meters from inhabited houses and cabins and you can stay 48 hours at most, unless you get the landowner's consent to stay there longer. If you set up a tent on the mountain or in an area far from built-up areas, the two-day time limit does not apply. You also are allowed to roam in the national parks, and also put up a tent. Of course you have to clean up the place when you leave (like all other places) and you are not allowed to cut down trees or bring out stones. You are also not allowed to light fires that damage the vegetation.
The mapping authority has defined all islets with an area of more than ten square meters as islands. Islets with an area of between five and ten square meters are either classified as islets or reefs, based on the shape of the islet. An islet that reaches just above sea level is called a reef, a somewhat larger reef is called an islet.
Hello Tyler!
As an Norwegian myself I absolutely love your channel. Almost anyone blow the age of five will be able tp communicate with you. We all learn English at school from 4th grade. You will be served a lot of Kjøttkaker. They are a little bigger than the meatballs from Sweeden and they are served with potatos stewed peas and gravy. They are really good. Thank you for your interest of my contry! Hugs.
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They have English from 1st grade in school. It was from 4th grade when I went to school ages ago.
Absolute! Been livin' here 25 years now and i must say that it is hard to even think about moving - tho there is alot of people that think its crazy boring here, but thats a lack of creativity etc or another vision hiw they want it. Im not complaining 💥 Norway 💯
Hi, I live in the north of Norway, and can answer for how we are doing in the north. Yes, we all speak English, even most of the elders. Norway is long, 2675 km, 1662 miles. from south to northeast. Polar cirkle almost in the middle. 1.6 km, 1 miles at its narrowest.
1: We earn well, and we think a lot of things are expensive, so vi go to Sweeden and shop a lot. And we are happy to tax 1/3 of the salary.
2: freedom to roam: Just remember that when you leave a place, it shouldn't show that there has been anybody there, it has to be cleaned up after you, that's why it also looks untouched. You can't come to "settle in" and make a mess.
3: We pay a lot in taxes, but after about 300 dollars, both the doctor and medicine are free for the rest of the year. Almost no one exploits the system, therefore we can have it.
4: 🙂
5: You see "beautiful and wild" we see "overgrown and impassable".
6: Since the country is so far, there is a big difference in climate from south to north. Where I live, a nice summer is about 15 (59) to 18 (64) degrees. If it is over 20 (68) degrees for many days, we struggle in the heat.. Winter can normally be -10 (14) to -20 (-4). But it can also in periods be about -25 (-13) to -30 (-22) (snot freezes inside the nose at about -25 (-13) :-) But we're out all the time. We can dress in warm clothes/wool. He is talking about Oslo. In northern Norway, we have midnight sun. Then there is sun at night also for about 4 months. And in the middle of winter, there is a little twilight in the day, and the rest is dark. But we are used to it. And sleep well if it's bright.
7: In the countryside, you usually don't even lock the doors. That's how safe we are. In the city, the children lie asleep in the prams outside the shops, unattended, while the parents are inside the cafe.
Love from north Norway
Regarding camping in the USA, you can’t camp on private property without a permit, again limiting your camping accessibility. In Norway, unless it’s your front garden visible from your house window, or a garden within a fench, you can camp anywhere as long as you protect the owners privacy and don’t destroy the property.
The temperatures were averages, not max/min. On the Norwegian mainland we have had temperatures ranging from 35.6 C/96 F in summer, to -51.4 C/-60.5 F in winter. The average temperatures varies between different regions, but as a rule of thumb the north is colder than the south, and the coastal areas are warmer than the inland areas.
Freedom to roam also kicks in if I.e. you have a large farmland, you cannot stop people roaming and camping, so farmers usually put up a sign for you to call if you see any of their animals in trouble :)
Farmland is protected and walking on fields counts as trespassing whenever there's crops. So it's fine in the winter, when snow is covering the field anyway, but after it's sowed it's protected
@@elementalgolem5498 yeah, but I’m talking about large mountain areas where the animals roam, that is not protected and free roam counts, at least here on the west coast
@@FrankShortt oh okay grazing land gotcha. Yeah that's true
@@elementalgolem5498 I wasn’t that clear in my original comment ☺️ and you are also correct 👍
''Utmark'' is freedom to roam, ''Innmark'' is considered ''your backyard'' kind of deal.
Winter 4 hours sunlight in the south, in summer 4h night (but doesn’t really get full dark, more like a 4h sunrise/sunset with sun just under the horizon)
Regarding climate, Norway is pretty warm for how far North it is
Bergen and Oslo is not far south of Anchorage Alaska. (Bergen is at latitude 60, Oslo is 59, and Anchorage is 62)
Is Anchorage really that far south?
In Norway, there is a general bonfire ban from 15 April to 15 September. During this period, it is forbidden to light fires and barbecues (including disposable barbecues) in or near forests and other outlying areas.
Berlin is not only a big City, It's the capital of Germany 😉
It’s quite hot in the southern parts of Norway in the summer, it’s no problem getting a tan (which many seems to think).
In the summertime in the southern parts of Norway, where I live, especially around midsummer, it actually don’t get dark at night. It’s like when the sun has gone down but it doesn’t get dark. It’s quite nice actually 👍😍
And in the wintertime we have about 6 hours daylight, and you get used to it, it’s a cozy time imo😍👍
The winter is a beautiful time 😊
Its even easier to get a tan in winter time if your at the mountains. Only problem is that its to cold to undress, so you will have a nice and tan face and a dead looking body
13:40 That's the average temperature in July, there have been years and days where we have had sweltering hot 36 degrees celsius, or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit, this also caused a lot of people - especially the elderly - to start having heat related health issues, because we just aren't built the same way that people from hotter more tropical environments are built.
15:00 Oh, yeah. At the darkest days of our year, we don't start getting sun until around 11 or 12, and then it goes away again around 3 or 4, it's crazy how fast the sun goes down during those days/weeks :P
18:28 It should be noted, however, that your base salary varies depending on your education, so someone with only high school education will - no matter what - make less than someone with a university degree education even if they both started at the same job and position at the same time. This ha also, in some cases, made it more difficult for people with higher education to find jobs, because many companies out there can't handle salary that they would be required to pay the person should they hire them.
I live up in the north of norway above the artic circle and here january is the coldest month with temperatures reaching down to -30 degrees celsius, but when we go snowmobiling up in the mountains they can reach all the way down to -40 degrees celsius. In the mid-summer months we have temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees celsius as well so it fluxuates. During these summer months it is bright outside all day and all night for like two ore three months straight
We're not all 'used to' the colder climate. We Just have proper clothes :P And the last couple of summers, we've Actually had amazing weather. I live about 1 Hour southeast of Oslo.... Our winters aren't THAT dark, but we do have alot of dark hours for sure. I love it. Feels more cozy when we bring out our Christmas lights
it get hotter than 22, 35/ 95 is not uncommon
That depends a lot on location in Norway…it is VERY uncommon here at the west coast! 😅
The all time heat record of Oslo is 35C, which was set in 1901, so I wouldn’t say that is very common. But around 30 in the summer can happen. But the video was talking about the average for July and specifically in Oslo, so it makes sense for it being at around 22.
I currently live inland ca 45 mins trainride from Oslo. We have plenty of days reaching around 30C in summer. I actually find it too hot, especially when it's no wind.
As a Norwegian it is so interesting to follow your videos. You see your own country from the outside, and it is good when you see how we live. It would have been interesting too could explain some of the fact, so you get the best picture of the facts you get. I been asking before, but i ask again: Have you got to travel to Norway? As i write before, you are very welcome to the 3 largest city of Norway, and we will be happy to show you around and make you experience the culture of Norway.
In Sweden, we have had it as a law for many hundreds of years. A landowner cannot prevent you from traveling on his land and you do not use a motor vehicle as a means of transport. So walking and cycling you can do anywhere you want except on someone's house lot. It is calculated around 50 m or 160 feet from the dwelling house (there is a private zone in Scandinavia as well). You are not allowed to break branches from the trees or pick fruit, but mushrooms are fine to pick. You may only make fire if it does not damage the ground below or there is a fire ban in the area due to drought. The main rule is that it should look as good when you leave the place as when you got there. There is a fine if you throw rubbish away from you in all of Sweden, you can take it with you or throw it in a public dustbin.
The pictures from Norway were taken in good weather. Not as fun there when storm surges from the North Atlantic move in with torrential rain and gale-force winds. If you are going to visit Norway, you should do it in the summer, then it is nice there. Don't do it in late fall unless you love constant rain and wind.
You have to remember that Norway is at the same latitude as Alaska. Don't know if Alaskans would think it was too cold at 72F.
It is not true that there would be the most islands in Norway. Sweden has 250,000 islands and that is the most in the whole world and 2nd in the world is Finland!
That thing you saw outside in the picture is a islet and not an island.
The same in Sweden, there is a lack of trained plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. this means that they can have a relatively high salary and there are waiting times to get help. Now there are people from Eastern Europe who don't quite have the same skills but create problems in turn in their home countries because there are no more skilled people there but they work in Western Europe for higher wages.
It was a reporter from the USA who visited one of Sweden's most criminal districts with almost 100% immigrants. He had expected a lot of problems when he got there because of the district's bad reputation. He was very surprised that it was safer and more peaceful there than many places in the United States.
Hi, yes, Norway is truly beautiful,, almost every part... been living here most of my life... but you get used to it. And sometimes i miss better and longer summers... even though i live in the south..
Norway has okay winter the lower in norway you are. I live in stavanger, rogaland in norway and the sea wind makes our winter milder then up in Norway. We have more weather like, sun, rain and wind, with maybe a month with some snow in winter.
The most significant difference from most other countries to Scandinavia is that Scandinavia is extremely secular!
We might have a state church, but politicians that claim to a religion is seen with suspicion, because we prefer our ruling body to be anchored in reality and not in the “supernatural”, as if such a thing even existed.
wwell, that might be a matter of contemplation. Scandinavia is not secular, they just swapped religion: from Christianity to socialism
@@h.becker2129 So I guess that makes you a US citizen?
Those are the only ones that would make such a comment on something they obviously know nothing about!
What is it with you guys and "Socialism"?
You seem to think it is a bad thing on principle and equate it with Communism to boot.
Every country in Europe have one or another type of "socialism". That gives help to the poor, minimum 5 weeks paid holidays to all and health care to all. That helps everybody and hinders no one and it is even CHEAPER than your system, when you can go bankrupt because of a MEDICAL procedure that was needed to keep you alive! Nowhere else in the civilized world is that even a possibility!
@@tommysellering4224 "Every country in Europe has one or another type of socialism"
Well, I would say that every Western democracy lives a form of socialism - after all, democracy in the form practiced in the West of 'man one vote' is a socialist principle of rule. The USA is thus easily 50% socialist. As far as Europe is concerned, there is a wide range in terms of degree of socialism: at the lower end Switzerland - also known as the USA of Europe - and at the upper end the super-socialist states of Scandinavia. Last but not least: the much-vaunted 'free' health care system of the European countries (exception: Switzerland & Germany with semi-socialist systems) is an asocial socialist snowball system, which will soon collapse in most countries.
@@h.becker2129Since I live in Sweden in what you would call a "super Socialist" society I guess that it is impossible to have your own business?
I have had my own company since 2001 and have worked in Germany, Austria and Sweden! In all of those countries I have also had accidents or for other reasons ended up in the hospital. It has never cost me more than about 20$. I even had a throat infection in the Czech Republic that included MRI-scanning and one whole week in the hospital. It cost nothing! Not a single cent, since I could have died without treatment!
I do pay a lot in taxes, that is true, but I still have at least 5 weeks fully paid vacation every year (as have everybody else) and will never have to worry about a hospital bill!
The funny thing is that if you include what people in the US pay for health insurance, childcare and education, you pay more than we do! Only by us it is payed by anyone that works and can afford it and it pays also for those that cannot afford it!
Living in the north, the sotheasterners (oslo) have sun at all in december-january. The sun is never over the horizon at this time of year :D
where im from in norway, waaay up north, we dont see the sun for months. but then again during the summer months the sun doesnt set at all
Norway has great healthcare it will always be one of the top reasons why Norway is great❤😄
Regarding security and trust; when leaving you "hytta"(cottage/su
mmerhous) in the mountains, you leav the key outside beside the door, so that peopel in need of shelter can go inside. (Or family who have driven 300 km. to pay you a surprisevisit, just to realise, you had left...)
Oslo is not the warmest place in Norway, but the temperature mentioned is the "average" , and you get days of 30c(86f) as well. Some weeks of the summer is much higher than average, and i the Oslofjord the typical water temperatur when taking a bath in the sea, can be about 20c(68f) degrees or even warmer.
Average sunShine pr day is not the same as hours of sunlight Tyler :) (there are a lot of owercast days, rainy and snowy days with little or no direct sunshine.. The shortest daylight time in Oslo is winter solstice,, with 5h53min daylight length, and at summer solstice the daylight length is about 18h )
This. Huge difference between sunSHINE and sunLIGHT. I live in Vestfold, and even during the winter months we have way more than 4 hours of sunlight a day lol
4-5 hours of sunlight is during winter...and this is at the south. If you go to the north there is 2-3 months without seeing the sun during winter. Of course during summer this is pretty much the opposite. In norther Norway you have around a month of 24x7 sunlight (no darkness).
23celcius is not the warmest... He talking averages^^ Up to 30 Celsius happen where I live outside Bergen. And warmer some places. And colder at night.
if it's more than 24 Celsius, you'll feel like you're dying of heat because of the humidity level. A friend of mine from France can handle 40C in france better than 24C here!
It is called the Scandinavian model, check it out
The climate makes it feel much hotter when it passes 22 degrees Celsius compared to countries in the South. 22 was the average temperature in July. In Norway, the temperature and weather can be very unstable. I believe in Oslo it is mostly between 20 and 26 degrees in the daytime in July.
The coldest places are in the inner country and in the north. In the coastline south and west, the temperature rarely gets under 0 degree Celsius, and we need to go higher up in the mountains to find snow for skiing. It is snowing on the lower ground, but it's not very stable. We get some heat from the Gulf stream on the coastline.
Yea I have to imagine that stat was wrong. -5 isn't even cold enough to stop wearing shorts and 22 isn't hot enough to make you sweat. Compared to Canada that's the most tempered climate possible
You must be high, if you meen it rarly go under 0C in the winter dud, hehe i live in Tønsberg, and i bet the avarage temp form des to feb, is like -10 or something, get ike -20 -25 some days in des-jan ;)
@@Norse-Viking Yes, but you live more in the South-East and have the inner country between you and the coast in the west. You have the coast in the east and do not have the same effect from the Gulf Stream.
@@Norse-Viking My father lives 20 mins from Ålesund, they grow Mediterranean herbs and grapevines - typical coastal/protected fjord temperatures. My mother lives in Molde which is rather colder in winter, with a mixed coastal and inland climate. It really makes a difference.
I live in Kirkenes, and this years summer we had 25 C degrees (77 F)
Kirkenes is almost next to Russia very far north
The time of sunlight during the Day he missed a few ours😄and we also havet both much warmer and colder days
Varmest Nesbyen 35. Coldest Karasjok up in the Nortfh -51,3
This one was good . I am from Norway, and can confim much of this. i just would to sey about dayligh that in Oslo there is usually no more than 4-5 ouers in wintertime. but in summertime it is ligth for arond 20 horus
"72 is not the warmest", it can get much hotter than that. He talks about averages. Around 27 - 30 degrees Celsius in summer is not unusual in southern Norway, including Oslo. You better try to stay awake, Tyler. He talks about sunlight in winter.
in oslo 39¤C several times every summe, some day`s 😅
You ahould look into the houses and how they are built in Arendal -on top of the klipps!
Hi Tyler! Seen many of you videos lately🙂 among some errors others have pointet out i have an big urge to say we have over 450 000 lakes and alot more than Finnland 😎
In the northern of norway at winter we can have temprature from 14°F to -40°F. And on average it is around 5°F.
Dont get it twisted now. He said 4.6 hours of sunlight a day during january and wintertime which is when the days are shortest, but its a little longer than that id say from 9-10am to 3-4pm at its shortest. On the flipside we have almost no darkness during summer where it only gets kinda dark for a few hours during nighttime. Some summers are "bad", some summers are scorching hot and some winters theres no snow, whereas the following winter can be lots of thick snow all winter long.
I promise you, it can get alot warmer than 22°C. It can get over 30°C. Last summer it reach 34°C where I live.
The person said in the video that in january there is usually -5 degrees celsius but i think it's a bit wrong depending on where you live, i live very central in norway basically in the middle and in december it's usually about -5 - -15 on average, more south might be a little warmer and a bit more north will be colder
You should looka at north norway, we have something called mørketid which is basiclly a time where u have no sun light for a while because of where we are on the globe, where i live its like 2-3 weeks of no sun i think
When it comes to climate, bear in mind the the southern most part of Norway is about as far north as Hudson Bay in Canada
We have sun all day long in summettimes;( april, May, Jun,juli, august and september )but very little in wintertime ( oktober november desember, januar februar and marsh.
Look to Tromso in the North of Norway. The center of Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis in the Arctic - a town nearby 80 000 habitants + 15 000-20 000 students. Very lively and friendly - from 1832 called the Paris of the North. I know the story, if you want to know more ...
summer about day and night, at summer time it can last 8-9 hours, at winter it can go down to 2-3 hours of sunlight, at summer up far north its light almost 24 hours daily for a month
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The video is wrong about the islands, we have the *second* most islands in Europe after Sweden.
They have even more of them then us.
But we have fjords and curve around the Scandinavian peninsula, so we still end up having the longer coastline.
Insummer time it Can be Florida warm, we have a lot of dayligtht from april to september almost light all the day, ovember desember, january its like 5-6 hours of daylight.
The summers in Oslo is awful.. im dying every summer. Sometimes it gets above 30 degrees celsius. Too much for me 🤣
Agreed! when I visit my family at Nesodden, it’s so freaking hot, all summer.
But it’s actually hot in the mountains, where I live, as well😓
And I’ve been to “Syden” (Italy, Spain, Croatia, France), and it’s of course hot there. But it’s like it’s hotter in Norway when it’s for example 25 degrees than in Spain😅
I'm 53 and I live next door to a prison in Norway. I never lock my frontdoor or my car. There is no need and I feel completly safe
And yeah about the capital price, if u like live outside of Oslo the price drops to 900$ for a sweet spot. If u Wanna move up yeah it can Cost but u have a lot of choises
Yeah, untouched nature is a big thing. I always learned "Leave things like it was, or even better."
And sunlight just doesn´t exist during the winter since the sun is out when people are at work or school (at least from my experience). You go to work in darkness, and go home in darkness, that or just see the vague outline of the sun behind clouds.
Only in Northern Norway, though.
@@catsandcrows8880 yeah kinda, but the video said "In Oslo, you might expect a bit over 4.6 hours of sunshine a day"
Notice it said "sunshine" not sunlight. And the video speaks about the average, meaning some days there is more, and some where it is less.
The light in Oslo goes through the clouds. I start and end my winter days in clouds or weak sun. So we get sunlight, but no sunshine. "Bit over" 4.6 hours on *average* of proper sun sounds right, it is in the middle of the day.
Up north it is indeed a lot worse though. There it is: "What is this sun that you speak of?"
Four hours of sunshine per day is counted in the middle of the winter. In the summer, you may have sunshine hours per day.
the sunlight remark is during mid winter ;)
4,6 hrs day in January in Oslo. Probably 20 in July 🤗🇧🇻
the heat can reach 40 C so around 120 F
Sunshine and sunlight are 2 different things.
Sunshine as he was talking about is how much you can see the sun, when the sky is blue and no skies.
Sunlight as you are saying is how long the sun is up every day.
In the summertime the sun almost doesn't go down under the horizon anywhere in Norway.
Whilst in winter you barely see the sun.
The 22 degrees celsius on average is included at night.
In daytime it will be a bit warmer than that.
72 Fahrenheit must be the daily mean average or something. As an Oslo resident, I can testify that the summer months can have peaks at 90 Fahrenheit, both here and further south.
Most Norwegians like myself can speak english like its the mother tongue, especially children because of youtube and school!
I don't think you have been to a public school recently then 😂 about 30-40% (mostly guys) speak English quite well. About 10-20% (mostly girls) don't speak it, basically at all. And the rest have a pretty bad understanding often being able to understand slow speech but not talk. Every year I was surprised at how low the criteria was in English and every year I was dumbfounded by my classmates lack of English understanding. Queue me going to work at a gas station where we need English for customers that don't speak Norwegian. Quite a lot of them. And well, three of the girls just made me, or someone else that knew English better take over as they barely understood it. They weren't even drop outs. And drop outs are usually even worse at English.
@@elementalgolem5498 First, at least tell what age group you're talking about in the beginning of your post. Elementary school doesn't take English very seriously, that starts for real in the 8th grade. And 3 girls working at a gas station didn't understand English? I don't believe a word of this.
Btw, what the heck does this mean: "QUEUE me going to work...". KØ meg dra på jobb...?
@@johnnymartinjohansen yes, to my understanding "queue" is equivalent to the phrase "forward to" or "skip to" as in "skip forward in the story to me now later doing x thing" so queue me going to work is "skip to me now working"
It's hard to explain. And I'm talking about high school. Videregånde. I'm not kidding when I say atleast 5 people should've failed English and somehow passed. They're unable to hold a conversation, use Google translate for basically anything. And I've had too many experiences of showing someone a video or joke, and them going. Ehm, I don't understand what they're saying. And it's literally basic English, usually from a standup so it's not even spoken fast because it's being told "dramatically" and very clearly for comedic effect. In class we could never watch videos about topics in English without subtitles, and explainaition on like every 5th sentence. They couldn't even read the context to understand the words..
@@elementalgolem5498 such nonsense kids in norway speak fluent english..ur english isnt fluent lol.
@@janolavborresen3893 I can assure you my English is fluent my friend, and well it would be very contradictory for you to say it's not. You see I am a Norwegian "kid" (19) talking about my personal experience as a teenager growing up here and I can tell you right now, although many kids too. There are worryingly many that do not speak it well.
72 degrees average.(22 C) .. In July.. it can be 30 C sometimes. Sunlight in winter.. compare it with Alaska
love from norway❤️🇳🇴
For you as a USAian it should be a quite easy transition to move to Norway or Scandinavia. Everything is somewhat familiar and pretty much everybody speaks English. And now it should be easy to get a job, as there is staff shortage in many sectors and Norway has to import workers since many of the foreign workers that went home during covid got jobs at home.
Although no place is perfect, Norway is about as close you can come. Apart from the half year long autumn that compensates from not having tornadoes and crazy storms, the winter and summer is usually nice. The 4 hours sunlight is in winter, but then you have 20 hours of sun in the summer.
What makes the Nordic countries so amazing is the Nordic model. That way everybody in the country can have it amazing and not just a few fortunate.
The oil industry is just a small part to Norway's high standard. Kazakhstan and Venezuela are two other countries with about the same oil production and not too big difference in amount of citizens, but they choose to distribute the money in a totally different way. Sweden and Finland does not have the oil industry at all, but still have just as good standard of living as Norway as they are all following the Nordic model.
The length of Norway equals the distance between New York and Miami. As you can imagine, that impacts greatly on the amount of daylight and snow, and how cold it gets during winter.
We may pay a bit more in INCOME taxes than you do, but when it comes to taxes and fees and mandatory payments OVERALL, it gets hard to tell any significant difference. And all of the things we get in return for the taxes we pay, you have to pay for in addition to your taxes: We get low cost child care, free higher education (have to buy our own school books, and that's about it), one year + of maternity and paternity leave after child birth and - of course - practically free healthcare. That includes extremely cheap medications for literally every chronical ailment under the sun. Americans will happily ruin themselves paying for all of those things, rather than paying a very modestly increase in taxes.
Eating out isn't that much more expensive either. In the US, you pay tips and - at least in some states - an extra fee or tax (for the food?). Cheap, unhealthy, garbage fastfood is cheaper in the US, there's no denying that, as are some grocery store items. That's because the people who work in fastfood restaurants and grocery stores need to be able to earn a living, just like everybody else. If you flip the coin, though: That means we don't have to pay taxes to cover the cost of government food stamps for people who work full time...
How we are amazing: The Scandinavian countries all share the nordic model, where we have realised that politically, neither pure socialism nor pure capitalism works as a method of organising society. It is a mixed model, where in a socialistic fashion, things everyone needs (such as health care, education, and a bare minimum of economic necessities to survive) are provided as common goods by the public sector (and paid for by everyone through taxes), while at the same time the capitalistic ideas of free enterprise to stimulate invention and economic growth is maintained by a big private sector. This is done by having a large private sector that is limited by sensible regulations, so that it doesn't spin out of control. Maintaining the balance between these interest groups is a running political discussion.
People can shout all they want about this being "socialism", but they are 1. wrong, and 2. it is proven to work. A lot of people will also whine about regulations not being "sensible"; to which i refer to pt. 2 above.
Those weather stats are averages. You may have individual days/periods hotter than 30°C/86°F or colder than -20°C/-4°F.
Sun hours varies both by time of year, latitude, and cloud cover.
22 degrees is not the warmest, its just the highest average, which includes night time. So in the day it can reach up to 25-30 degrees
And also 4 hours is wrong. its more like 6-7 hours (in the winter) in the summer it's around 16-18 hours of sunlight
72 degrees fahrenheit isn't the highest temperature, the highest was 36 degrees celsius or 97 degrees fahrenheit
The negative thing about living in Norway is that we have cold, long winters which mean that the sun is not up for long during the day.In summer, the sun is up all the time . Prices in Norway are expensive to live. Expensive electricity, expensive petrol, expensive food etc. Many people cannot afford to eat in restaurants etc., because it is too expensive and therefore most people cook dinner at home and cannot afford to travel out into the city etc. That is why Norwegians use the surrounding nature for it is free. It is also not easy to buy housing because housing prices are expensive. Many people have to rent and save money before they can buy a house. We have had 37 degrees in Oslo in July many times.
I would say the sun is out for like 6 hours in the winter time and about 10 hours in the summer time
National parks are not illegal to roam. Freedom To Roam Law trumphs everything. You just have either some protected species you cannot pick or a no go zone where birds nest from a date to another date. But that's always some specific areas near the coast.
Winter time. Summertime in the north you can have 24 hours sun.
They said the average temperature. Not that much different than Alaska with an average of 28.1°F.
Greate video. if farmers own the forest we still can camp there and walk there there is a law that you cant camp to close to house or cabin on the land. is for privacy and not get camping guest in your garden .
Just a small correction. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark only.
If you add Finland, Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands you get the Nordics
A correction, today, 6th July. in Oslo, the sun rises at 4.07, and sets at 22.35 That’s 18 hours +, of daylight, not 4.
An island is a piece of land surrounded by water with an area of more than 10 square meters ( 100 ish square feet for americans 😋 ) So 150000 pieces of land surrounded by water larger than 10 square meters 🤗🇧🇻
I live in Bergen in Norway, I have never locked a door when I go to store and so one, I lock it when I sleep, but that is just a thing I do for some reason, think it is a reflex.
I have never gotten anything stolen from me in 39 years and yeah, I feel VERY safe. Thinking about USA and people being afraid going out is so sad, even school shooting's and so one is insane to us to think about. It is very interesting to watch your videos, and I would love for you to make a more detailed video about like the top 10 most different things about Norway and America. Our jail system is worlds best, gun laws, healthcare, school, clean food with no additives and drugs in it and so on.
Keep up the good work getting to know my country Tyler, and at some point you will pack your bags and come for a visit for sure =)
Common mistake about Norway is our taxes are so high btw, we pay on average 36% yes, but from those we also get 4-5 weeks payed vacation (10,2% is lowest from yearly salary) in summer, we get pension founds saved up, healthcare, school is free, if I lose my job I instantly get 66% of my vages every month while looking for a new one, we have systems in place so everyone has a roof over their head and so on and so forth.
If I get injured for life and cant work, I still get payed around 1950$ a month rest of my life and can do things on the side for getting a little more to live with like making stuff and sell.
All in all there are SO many things packed into our average 36% taxes that it is a honor to pay it in my mind, if you then consider the starting sallery for most workes is at lowest 19-20$ you can see it adding up in the end ;)
I’m wondering when you are comming? 😁 I mean, with the kind of interest in Norway you have, you absolutley should.
There's no trespassing laws in Norway. Nobody can put up any signs that says "Private property, trespassers will be prosecuted".
freedom to roam law, i think it was that you should not go near a house within 50-100 meters something while walking since you breach privacy or something, i dont remember how it went but, we dont walk upto ppls houses etc
the nordic countries, and in a lesser sense the scandinavian countries (they usually focus on including all of the nordics with politics) have established a sort of mini EU of their own where they gather to discuss and plan for the future of the nordics in terms of culture, politics, finance, education etc etc.
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The video is actually wrong, because the law hives you a *right* to walk on private property without prior permission as long as certain restrictions are respected.
So of course you can't cause damage.
You actually *can't* build a campfire just anywhere, because you are required to leave the place in the same or better condition then you found it.
So no scorch marks or broken branches for firewood etc.
You *can* collect branches found on the ground.
No disturbing the animals of course, neither domesticated nor wild animals.
No walking near peoples homes, their privacy has to be respected.
No making noises or garbage.
As for food, no fishing without a permit.
No hunting without permission I believe?
No industrial foraging, although you *can* pick berries for your own consumption there and then, so what you can carry in the palm of your hand, but not in a container, unless you ask for permission first.
You can set up a tent without asking permission first (again leave no trace).
No parking a RV though without permission.
The freedom to roam applies to you on foot though and muscle power, not powered locomotion.
If you got a engine you need permission.
And they *can* ask you to leave.
Basically the idea is to not bother others.
If they're not in the area and you're behaving respectfully then presumably you're not bothering anyone.
But if they're there they might be using the land right then.
Of course use common sense.
Hunting season, military exercise areas, breeding grounds of animals etc nerds to be respected.
Don't go setting of avalanches above villages etc.
And just use your brain.
a city is technically also part of nature, when a beaver makes a dam it is part of nature, and it is natural for people to make a home. Humans are part of animal kingdom
The short days are only in winter, in the summer it's the complete opposite, In the norhtern half of the Nordics the sun doesn't set at all in the height of summer
We're basically watching an average american slowly talk himself into moving :D
Its not true that the highest, or most average temperatur is around 22 celsius. We have had much more hotter summerdays than that. Her on the westcoast of Norway, we have over 30 degrees. (Celsius). Is the same in South and east. More places as well😊
He did not mention free educaton including universities. When it comes to roam I can add Norway has a network of 22000 kms of hiking paths that you can use free of charge.
Free university might change for people outside Europe and the EEA if the current gov. get its way.
Someone should make a video explaining DNT-huts and those kinds of concepts to foreigners, that's absolute 2nd nature to Norwegians but would have been an absolute batshit crazy concept most other places :D
Easiest about moving to Norway is you can get by with english. You technically dont need to learn norwegian to live here, as long as your english is good, your able to get by easily
In the middle of the summer the sun rises 4 in the morning in Oslo. Sunset around 11pm. In the winter, in December and January, the sun rises around 9am, and sunset 3.30 pm. So, four hours of sunlight is not correct. 😊
The hours of sun per day is wrong. In Oslo average sun hours per day is 11:40. The earliest sunrise is 04:31 and the latest is 10:08, the earliest sunset is 15:00 and the latest is 22:13. In short, the longest day (when sun is up) last from 04:31 to 22:13 during the summer, and the shortest day last from 10:08 to 15:00 during the winter.
The temperatures are pretty far fetched to be honest. I live far far north and the avg temperatur is lower but like everywhere else in Norway/rest of the world there are insanely hot days too.
Low corruption explains for a large part why Scandinavian contries are doing well on many rankings.