One commenter on another video nailed it very well: "In Norway what you want is expensive, but what you need is cheap". Meaning shopping things like cars, clothes, or eating out is expensive, while health care, higher education and child care is free or heavily subsidised
Definitely would feel like that, but the overall costs compared to the median salary gives Norway a significantly higher median purchasing power than the European average, so Norway being cheap is closer to the truth than expensive from a long-term living point of view.
I just want add a couple of things to what others had written. Every video or article about how expensive Norway I've viewed or written is angled from a foreigner/tourist perspective and I understand that what's interesting for tourists. Anyway all this simplified tourist-perspective videos and articles can easily lead to the conclusion that it is expensive to live in Norway, and that is simply not true. 1 - Remember prices are relative to the average income, and the average income in Norway are pretty high so for us Norwegians it's not expensive. We have a real treat when we are on holidays in most countries outside Scandinavia (except Switzerland) because almost everything is cheaper. 2 - Working time is heavily regulated. A normal week is 7,5 hours a day 37,5 a week. Everything except regular working hours is paid overtime which mean you start on 50% and it goes up to 100% after a few hours and 100% - 200% in the weekend or holidays. You get - by law - at least 4 weeks and 1 day of vacation each year, but it's almost standard now that you get at least 5 weeks a year. This is in addition to all the other holidays, like e.g. Christmas, Easter, and so on. 3 - You get - by law - each parent can choose a period between 15 weeks of parental leave with 100% salary or 19 weeks with 80% salary. In addition to that the mother has 3 weeks before birth and 6 weeks after birth for. In addition to that the parents get 16 or 18 weeks with 100% or 80% salary of parental leave together. The salary, is paid by the Norwegian government! Beat that! In most cases this results to mother are home for one year with at least 80% 10 months with 100% salary and the father are home for about 3 months with full salary. 4- if you come from the poorest family in Norway you will get the same chance to the highest education in Norway and study at our best universities totally free. When I hear about parents in USA saving for their kids education I'm so damn lucky we live in a country were education isn't only a right, it's a duty. You have - by law - right to higher education for free. I've studied at the University of Oslo and then each semester we had to pay about NOK 500,- - about 50 bucks - but that money goes in its entirety to the student organisations at the institute you are studying at. 5 - Healthcare. Even how ill you get and are need expensive medication, surgery, whatever, you will never pay more than NOK 2500,- (about 250 bucks) per year. That is worse case scenario. To be precise, the exact figure is NOK 2460,- in 2020. Everything above that is totally free without any exception. 6 - I could go on, but I'll stop now. You get the point! So yes, Norway is expensive, but it's also an awesome country! I love Norway from the bottom of my heart and I'm so proud of my country. And by the way, if you are in Norway as a tourist and you get sick or injured and must be in a hospital for some weeks you may have to pay 20-30 dollars, but most likely nothing. Just forget your health insurance, the doctors here wont understand what you are talking about anyway. ;-)
@9:16 Pant is a system we have for recycling cans and bottles. You go back to the recycler at the stores and get the Pant back. It encourages people to recycle.
Tax or VAT is included in all prices, so when you see beer 20 dollar thats including the taxes and Pant (bottles have pants) you pay a pant that you will recieve back when you go to any store and put these bottles back into the machine, basically when it says 2 nkr pant ... thats what you also gets back. Eating out is always expensive, sure you can be lucky find some nice asian resturant or similar that are cheaper, and ofcourse ... McDonalds or something like that. But resturants in general are more expensive and norwegians don't eat out alot, they go out every now and then to enjoy something different. Apart from that norwegians buy from stores like Rema 1000 and other cheap stores (some like more expensive ones), also some foodprices might change from place to place like where I live up in the north, fish and food from the sea is cheaper than in Oslo, also alot fresher (usually less than a day old) so instead of buying Kamchatka crab for over 900 nkr in Bergen, you might even get it for free here but maybe pay like alittle over 300 nkr at some places (pr. kilo). So to cut some cost that you can, is to buy food and prepare it for yourself, some stores like Spar have like "10 kroner market" where some goods are priced at 10 nkr... and all stores or atleast the bigger ones like Rema 1000 and Coop have cheaper brands of the same goods, so like "First price" is a cheaper brand, and Coop Extra or something like that I think also have cheaper brands of regular food. It does not need to say it is worse than pricey food. Alcohol is always expensive in Norway, same with Tobacco as these are seen as harmful by government and the toughts is that if it is expensive we consume it less... however, people drive to border of sweden and finland to buy cheaper alcohol and sigarettes.. (there is a quota of it tough), also with meat think it is like 10 or 20 kilo you can buy... and some other stuff. Also sugar is more taxed in Norway with the same reason... its seen as harmful to you so we need to tax it. Funny sidenote, last they upped the tax on sugar drinks ... they also placed sugar tax on sugar-free drinks !!!! Also, for security... yes Norway and scandinavia in general is safe and secure.. there have been warnings during summers that especially in northen Sweden that if you park in side-roads and outside camping places ... there is sadly a chance of getting robbed, I know people who did that, but they discovered the car coming with people and he just jumped into the driving seat of his car and drove off ... did not stop before he was at a camping place and happily paid the fee to stay there ... atleast it was safer. Have not heard it happen in Northen Norway yet .. atleast, but with the open borders it is hard to stop these kinds of criminals.
Thanks for the detailed information - a lot of what we experienced makes sense now. Wait, so they taxed sugar-free drinks too?! Haha, maybe that's a "gateway drink"
@@MarkAmanda Also, due to that stores are suppose to throw less food away, they will put down prices at food with short date on them, like best before date is close to go out or is there, you might get 50% discount on that, there is also a app called "Too good to go" where some stores not all, will put some food that they sell very cheap, so they don't have to throw it away. Some kiosk's have it among others...
@@MarkAmanda The "pant" word means "recycling" fee. The pant word does not mean the bottles actually have "pants" on. Pardon my fellow Norwegian's rubbish English. Anyway: you pay say 2 Nkr (20 cents) per bottle extra when you buy beer/soft driks/juice or whatever in the store and when you have drunk it, you go back to the recycling machine in the store with your empty bottles and it gives you your 20 cents back per bottle. (People have collected bottles and saved up for trips to other countries and cruises in the Caribbean this way...) Almost 100% of the bottles sold in Norway are recycled this way, saving the environment and giving you your money back. It seems expensive, but with this system you get your money back (you going back to zero and only paying for the contents) and the environment DOES NOT get those plastic/glass bottles back. Win-win.
When looking at your receipt from the store - all taxes are included in the sticker price. So if the sticker on the shelf said 20kr, you pay 20kr. (But the price is 16 kr + 25% tax.) The receipt have to have all info about VAT for accounting purposes. But all the prices you see listed on the receipt is including tax/VAT.
Ok... A lot of things to address here... Taxes are *always* included in the price here so if you had looked you would have seen that it was expensive. As for the whole health care thing, VAT on beer etc isn't what founds that stuff. It's a sin tax intended to change our habits. People actually travel across the border from Norway to Sweden to buy meat, alcohol, tobacco and candy because the price difference when you buy in bulk easily covers the traveling expenses be that by bus or car. Order tickets in advance or in the case of buses etc for a period of time instead of just a single ticket as there's a *lot* to be saved that way. However I think the best approach to see Norway on a budget is to go to either Finland or Sweden then rent a motorhome, buy as much meat, alcohol, tobacco and candy as you are legally allowed to bring across the border (that you intend to use, if you don't smoke then obviously don't buy tobacco). Then cross the border, buy only regular food from grocery stores, not gas stations or restaurants at all, find places in the middle of nowhere to park (you're supposed to use camping locations where you pay for the stay but you can get away with not doing so every now and then if you are a bit smart about it and also are respectful and don't litter or make too much noise etc and perhaps ask a local about a nice place to park overnight without paying to park somewhere) Stick to Norwegian staple food (fish, bread, milk products etc) and you'll have a good selection of products including cheaper ones. Many "First price" products etc are equivalent to the mid-range products, especially for things like strawberry jam, I'd pay extra for a non-first price option for things like meat or bread though. There is places to empty the toilet in camping places, gas stations are everywhere and got toilets available for paying customers and are usually open 24/7, a lot of camping sites also got showers you can use, electricity and water for your motorhome. The camping experience is good here. Also rent a sleeping bag and tent so you can go off the beaten track. Look up the freedom to roam for details. But basically you can go onto other peoples land without specific permission as long as you follow what's essentially common sense rules thats worth looking up as they *are* codified as well. A bike is also worth renting. So yeah, ask someone for permission to park on their land for free for a few days and bike out and go camping with a tent and sleeping bag and some food and stuff. Just mak sure that you bring a good map including the terrain and stuff and plan for bad weather and being stuck for 3 days in a blizzard even in the middle of summer (if the wind turns and blows down from the arctic all of a sudden) and that you have a phone that operates on bands with coverage out in the middle of nowhere and a GPS. But yeah, maps and a compass (even if you got a phone and/or GPS, low tech can save your life) First aid kit, and just use some common sense, please, people do fall down cliffs or drown in rivers or the sea or freeze to death in blizzards etc) Bring food and water and proper clothing for multiple different weathers that's layered so you can switch in a hurry. But yeah, just be prepared for the unexpected. I can't think of anything else I forgot... There probably is though, landslides or avalanches or something, but I'll just stop there before I scare you all off. :-P
When it comes to Foodoora, it depends on where you live, and what they offer on the app for that said area. I live in Oslo, but in my area of town, they don't offer many options due to my location buhuu. So never used that. Easier to just got to whatever restaurant and get take away. We do find a lot of foods overpriced as well, but we are used to it, and depends on how you look at it, and what you compare it to. Also most of the food is produced locally in Norway, and doesn't contains harmful chemicals that many American foods has, same with sugar percentage etc. As a Norwegian only thing I find annoying is the selection. We have many brands to choose from if Norwegian, but besides that it's not near as diverse even though we do have Greek, Italian, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Viet, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, African foods etc. Also shops that are open 24/7 is more expensive than those that aren't. And some Norwegian grocery stores are way more expensive than others like Coop, and Meny. I prefer Kiwi as it is cheaper, when it comes to fruits and vegetables, but the more expensive ones have a bigger selection of brands.
Driving south from Tromsø you should have stopped at the Polar Zoo Arctic Wildlifepark in Bardufoss about 2 hours drive from Tromsø. Great park where the animals have big areas, not tiny cages. And you can actually come into the wolves inclosure in small packs of 5-10 people + parkstaff for about 1 hour. And the wolves are socialised, but not tame. My wife and I did that some years ago, and it was a fantastic experience. And they have bear (which you don't want to visit 😂), wolwerine, lynx, deer, moose, and a lot of other animals. Visiting the wolf cubs where very funny. All in all northern Norway is well worth a visit with it's wonderful nature. (I'm from the south) Also a great tip is to travel the coast by the Hurtigruta ships. You can still see a lot of bunkers and stuff from Hitlers Atlantic Wall in WW2.
This video nailed it for me. I found about Tromso last Summer, now I'm planning on moving there. Born in Brooklyn, NY now live in far northern California, and heading for Tromso soonest! Thank you for sharing; I bookmarked and subscribed,
@Gus Erland Doesn't society benefit as a whole if everyone can afford to live? A sw-engineer/doctor has to earn a bit less so that a store- or fast food worker can have a livable salary, isn't that good?
Aah you were here in February (according to that receipt). Was afraid you were here around the vid's upload date. Cause that's when the corona got started in Norway. And cool you camped 2 min walk from my home in Tromsø
Why take the cab when you can take the “bybane” aka tram? Taxis/cabs are always expensive, why most Norwegians don’t use them… we take the bus, the subway, tram, train or even just walk or bike.
@@VikingNorway-pb5tm829 : I don't have a huge alcohol consume. At the same time I don't want to impose my life style on people choosing to live their life different :-)
We don't "get you" with taxes. Value added taxes are included in the shelf price, and the actual tax amounts are displayed on your receipt summed up according to VAT categories. And what the top comment says, needs are free, wants are expensive. On the other hand the wage level is very high, and wage equality is high, so our "buying power" is also high. So even if cars are more expensive here, we have more to spend.
Norway is known for being expensive, but it's not really as bad as it used to be. A few years back 100 NOK was closer to 17 USD. I miss those days. Travelling to the US was a lot cheaper back then 👍
I can’t believe how dedicated you guys are to your TH-cam channel. I’ve literally been watching you guys since 7th grade and now I’m about to be a Senior in high school. Wtf. You guys will always have a place in my heart.
You where making a point of lights in the windows, before x-mas we decorate with a star, named betlehemstar. As a non-religious person, i do not know why. I do put it up, because it's dark outside. Since we live so far north, the sun is under the horisont (sorry flat-earthers) Also, electrisity is cheap in Norway. It is not coal or nuclear, but waterpowered from rivers and dams in the mountains and walleys. That is also the reason for all the electric cars in Norway, cheap power, and they are tax-free. A normal family estate wagen has 80% tax on the import price..... High output cars, like a Mustang GT V8 (2018) was priced 1.275.000Nkr ($126759) Tesla is cheaper in Norway, than US. Or so I was told....
Domestic flights in norway are insanly priced, especially going north-south. International flights are alot of the time loads cheaper even going long distance......
I saw article saying living in Norway is extremely expensive and dropped 2000/4000 a month price tag. I live in Norway as expat the hell do they eat lol
Information episode aside, you visually and musically nailed this opening sequence and those end drone shots :) Yep Norway's just as expensive a$ Denmark. But you get what you pay for, quality including hot tub paradise. Stay safe guys, James and Kim
@@MarkAmanda It does work, free education means that there's competition for highly educated jobs keeping those wages from going too high while people don't have too high student loans and companies don't need to worry about paying for that kind of stuff, health care is covered so no company health care and people will seek medical care before it starts impacting their work and making their co-workers sick too in the case of infectious diseases. Unemployment benefits means that unions are willing to down scale your expenses if you have a valid reason for it since their members don't necessarily have to worry about paying their bills the next month if they're furlough or fired or their position is reduced to fewer hours. Entrepreneurs don't need to worry about ending up on the streets without health care if they try starting a company and fail so more people with fewer starting resources does so. And so one and so forth. I'll makes economic sense. And so one and so forth.
Was that 30 ° Celcius minus ? (= 21° Farenheit minus). Because if it was 30° Farenheit minus, that ecuals 1° Celsius minus. Also known as summer in the north ! 😉
minus 30 grader farenheit er faktisk minus 34 grader celcius, siden forholdet mellom farenheit og celcius ikke er 1 til 1. forholdet mellom de to måleenhetene for temperatur er litt rart me sånn er det nå bare :D snl.no/grad_fahrenheit
I lived in Palo Alto from 01.01.2020 to 04.24.2020 and I am Norwegian. I was WAY TOO SURPRISED as to how expensive that part of the US was.... that part i MORE EXPENSIVE than Norway - AND NO free Healthcare and NO free Education!
Nooooo....There is no lights in the window. You just see into the window and to the rooms that have the lights on! ;-) (And like I, from northen Norway, we don't like sitting in the dark, mabye thats a New York thing!? All blacked out windows.... :-p ) BTW, love your videos!! :-D
Yes, the chocolate in Kvikk Lunsj IS better than Kit Kat. That's because Kvikk Lunsj is based on the original Kit Kat recipe, but Norwegians absolutely HATED it. So the recipe was tweaked to better suit the Norwegian palate, and Kvikk Lunsj was the result.
One commenter on another video nailed it very well: "In Norway what you want is expensive, but what you need is cheap". Meaning shopping things like cars, clothes, or eating out is expensive, while health care, higher education and child care is free or heavily subsidised
Definitely would feel like that, but the overall costs compared to the median salary gives Norway a significantly higher median purchasing power than the European average, so Norway being cheap is closer to the truth than expensive from a long-term living point of view.
I just want add a couple of things to what others had written. Every video or article about how expensive Norway I've viewed or written is angled from a foreigner/tourist perspective and I understand that what's interesting for tourists. Anyway all this simplified tourist-perspective videos and articles can easily lead to the conclusion that it is expensive to live in Norway, and that is simply not true.
1 - Remember prices are relative to the average income, and the average income in Norway are pretty high so for us Norwegians it's not expensive. We have a real treat when we are on holidays in most countries outside Scandinavia (except Switzerland) because almost everything is cheaper.
2 - Working time is heavily regulated. A normal week is 7,5 hours a day 37,5 a week. Everything except regular working hours is paid overtime which mean you start on 50% and it goes up to 100% after a few hours and 100% - 200% in the weekend or holidays. You get - by law - at least 4 weeks and 1 day of vacation each year, but it's almost standard now that you get at least 5 weeks a year. This is in addition to all the other holidays, like e.g. Christmas, Easter, and so on.
3 - You get - by law - each parent can choose a period between 15 weeks of parental leave with 100% salary or 19 weeks with 80% salary. In addition to that the mother has 3 weeks before birth and 6 weeks after birth for. In addition to that the parents get 16 or 18 weeks with 100% or 80% salary of parental leave together. The salary, is paid by the Norwegian government! Beat that!
In most cases this results to mother are home for one year with at least 80% 10 months with 100% salary and the father are home for about 3 months with full salary.
4- if you come from the poorest family in Norway you will get the same chance to the highest education in Norway and study at our best universities totally free. When I hear about parents in USA saving for their kids education I'm so damn lucky we live in a country were education isn't only a right, it's a duty. You have - by law - right to higher education for free. I've studied at the University of Oslo and then each semester we had to pay about NOK 500,- - about 50 bucks - but that money goes in its entirety to the student organisations at the institute you are studying at.
5 - Healthcare. Even how ill you get and are need expensive medication, surgery, whatever, you will never pay more than NOK 2500,- (about 250 bucks) per year. That is worse case scenario. To be precise, the exact figure is NOK 2460,- in 2020. Everything above that is totally free without any exception.
6 - I could go on, but I'll stop now. You get the point!
So yes, Norway is expensive, but it's also an awesome country! I love Norway from the bottom of my heart and I'm so proud of my country.
And by the way, if you are in Norway as a tourist and you get sick or injured and must be in a hospital for some weeks you may have to pay 20-30 dollars, but most likely nothing. Just forget your health insurance, the doctors here wont understand what you are talking about anyway. ;-)
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@9:16 Pant is a system we have for recycling cans and bottles. You go back to the recycler at the stores and get the Pant back. It encourages people to recycle.
Ahhh - gotcha! We have they same system in the U.S. - pay up front and get it back at the recycling center, thanks for the info
Tax or VAT is included in all prices, so when you see beer 20 dollar thats including the taxes and Pant (bottles have pants) you pay a pant that you will recieve back when you go to any store and put these bottles back into the machine, basically when it says 2 nkr pant ... thats what you also gets back.
Eating out is always expensive, sure you can be lucky find some nice asian resturant or similar that are cheaper, and ofcourse ... McDonalds or something like that. But resturants in general are more expensive and norwegians don't eat out alot, they go out every now and then to enjoy something different.
Apart from that norwegians buy from stores like Rema 1000 and other cheap stores (some like more expensive ones), also some foodprices might change from place to place like where I live up in the north, fish and food from the sea is cheaper than in Oslo, also alot fresher (usually less than a day old) so instead of buying Kamchatka crab for over 900 nkr in Bergen, you might even get it for free here but maybe pay like alittle over 300 nkr at some places (pr. kilo).
So to cut some cost that you can, is to buy food and prepare it for yourself, some stores like Spar have like "10 kroner market" where some goods are priced at 10 nkr... and all stores or atleast the bigger ones like Rema 1000 and Coop have cheaper brands of the same goods, so like "First price" is a cheaper brand, and Coop Extra or something like that I think also have cheaper brands of regular food. It does not need to say it is worse than pricey food.
Alcohol is always expensive in Norway, same with Tobacco as these are seen as harmful by government and the toughts is that if it is expensive we consume it less... however, people drive to border of sweden and finland to buy cheaper alcohol and sigarettes.. (there is a quota of it tough), also with meat think it is like 10 or 20 kilo you can buy... and some other stuff. Also sugar is more taxed in Norway with the same reason... its seen as harmful to you so we need to tax it.
Funny sidenote, last they upped the tax on sugar drinks ... they also placed sugar tax on sugar-free drinks !!!!
Also, for security... yes Norway and scandinavia in general is safe and secure.. there have been warnings during summers that especially in northen Sweden that if you park in side-roads and outside camping places ... there is sadly a chance of getting robbed, I know people who did that, but they discovered the car coming with people and he just jumped into the driving seat of his car and drove off ... did not stop before he was at a camping place and happily paid the fee to stay there ... atleast it was safer. Have not heard it happen in Northen Norway yet .. atleast, but with the open borders it is hard to stop these kinds of criminals.
Thanks for the detailed information - a lot of what we experienced makes sense now. Wait, so they taxed sugar-free drinks too?! Haha, maybe that's a "gateway drink"
@@MarkAmanda Also, due to that stores are suppose to throw less food away, they will put down prices at food with short date on them, like best before date is close to go out or is there, you might get 50% discount on that, there is also a app called "Too good to go" where some stores not all, will put some food that they sell very cheap, so they don't have to throw it away. Some kiosk's have it among others...
@@MarkAmanda The "pant" word means "recycling" fee. The pant word does not mean the bottles actually have "pants" on. Pardon my fellow Norwegian's rubbish English. Anyway: you pay say 2 Nkr (20 cents) per bottle extra when you buy beer/soft driks/juice or whatever in the store and when you have drunk it, you go back to the recycling machine in the store with your empty bottles and it gives you your 20 cents back per bottle. (People have collected bottles and saved up for trips to other countries and cruises in the Caribbean this way...) Almost 100% of the bottles sold in Norway are recycled this way, saving the environment and giving you your money back. It seems expensive, but with this system you get your money back (you going back to zero and only paying for the contents) and the environment DOES NOT get those plastic/glass bottles back. Win-win.
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When looking at your receipt from the store - all taxes are included in the sticker price. So if the sticker on the shelf said 20kr, you pay 20kr. (But the price is 16 kr + 25% tax.) The receipt have to have all info about VAT for accounting purposes. But all the prices you see listed on the receipt is including tax/VAT.
Ok...
A lot of things to address here...
Taxes are *always* included in the price here so if you had looked you would have seen that it was expensive.
As for the whole health care thing, VAT on beer etc isn't what founds that stuff.
It's a sin tax intended to change our habits.
People actually travel across the border from Norway to Sweden to buy meat, alcohol, tobacco and candy because the price difference when you buy in bulk easily covers the traveling expenses be that by bus or car.
Order tickets in advance or in the case of buses etc for a period of time instead of just a single ticket as there's a *lot* to be saved that way.
However I think the best approach to see Norway on a budget is to go to either Finland or Sweden then rent a motorhome, buy as much meat, alcohol, tobacco and candy as you are legally allowed to bring across the border (that you intend to use, if you don't smoke then obviously don't buy tobacco).
Then cross the border, buy only regular food from grocery stores, not gas stations or restaurants at all, find places in the middle of nowhere to park (you're supposed to use camping locations where you pay for the stay but you can get away with not doing so every now and then if you are a bit smart about it and also are respectful and don't litter or make too much noise etc and perhaps ask a local about a nice place to park overnight without paying to park somewhere)
Stick to Norwegian staple food (fish, bread, milk products etc) and you'll have a good selection of products including cheaper ones.
Many "First price" products etc are equivalent to the mid-range products, especially for things like strawberry jam, I'd pay extra for a non-first price option for things like meat or bread though.
There is places to empty the toilet in camping places, gas stations are everywhere and got toilets available for paying customers and are usually open 24/7, a lot of camping sites also got showers you can use, electricity and water for your motorhome.
The camping experience is good here.
Also rent a sleeping bag and tent so you can go off the beaten track.
Look up the freedom to roam for details.
But basically you can go onto other peoples land without specific permission as long as you follow what's essentially common sense rules thats worth looking up as they *are* codified as well.
A bike is also worth renting.
So yeah, ask someone for permission to park on their land for free for a few days and bike out and go camping with a tent and sleeping bag and some food and stuff.
Just mak sure that you bring a good map including the terrain and stuff and plan for bad weather and being stuck for 3 days in a blizzard even in the middle of summer (if the wind turns and blows down from the arctic all of a sudden) and that you have a phone that operates on bands with coverage out in the middle of nowhere and a GPS.
But yeah, maps and a compass (even if you got a phone and/or GPS, low tech can save your life)
First aid kit, and just use some common sense, please, people do fall down cliffs or drown in rivers or the sea or freeze to death in blizzards etc)
Bring food and water and proper clothing for multiple different weathers that's layered so you can switch in a hurry.
But yeah, just be prepared for the unexpected.
I can't think of anything else I forgot...
There probably is though, landslides or avalanches or something, but I'll just stop there before I scare you all off. :-P
You can get tickets for the Oslo-Bergen train down to around $30 if you book far enough in advance. A sleeper can be down to around $60.
Wow - that's super cheap! Next time we're definitely booking in advance!
Nature is free.
Norwegians: Stay calm, stay calm, you can do this, no, don’t say it, noooo. 😶DET ER F**N MEG IKKE KIT KAT!!!!!
When it comes to Foodoora, it depends on where you live, and what they offer on the app for that said area. I live in Oslo, but in my area of town, they don't offer many options due to my location buhuu. So never used that. Easier to just got to whatever restaurant and get take away. We do find a lot of foods overpriced as well, but we are used to it, and depends on how you look at it, and what you compare it to. Also most of the food is produced locally in Norway, and doesn't contains harmful chemicals that many American foods has, same with sugar percentage etc. As a Norwegian only thing I find annoying is the selection. We have many brands to choose from if Norwegian, but besides that it's not near as diverse even though we do have Greek, Italian, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Viet, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, African foods etc. Also shops that are open 24/7 is more expensive than those that aren't. And some Norwegian grocery stores are way more expensive than others like Coop, and Meny. I prefer Kiwi as it is cheaper, when it comes to fruits and vegetables, but the more expensive ones have a bigger selection of brands.
Driving south from Tromsø you should have stopped at the Polar Zoo Arctic Wildlifepark in Bardufoss about 2 hours drive from Tromsø. Great park where the animals have big areas, not tiny cages. And you can actually come into the wolves inclosure in small packs of 5-10 people + parkstaff for about 1 hour. And the wolves are socialised, but not tame. My wife and I did that some years ago, and it was a fantastic experience. And they have bear (which you don't want to visit 😂), wolwerine, lynx, deer, moose, and a lot of other animals. Visiting the wolf cubs where very funny. All in all northern Norway is well worth a visit with it's wonderful nature. (I'm from the south) Also a great tip is to travel the coast by the Hurtigruta ships. You can still see a lot of bunkers and stuff from Hitlers Atlantic Wall in WW2.
This video nailed it for me. I found about Tromso last Summer, now I'm planning on moving there. Born in Brooklyn, NY now live in far northern California, and heading for Tromso soonest! Thank you for sharing; I bookmarked and subscribed,
Kvikk Lunsj means quick lunch as it was meant to be brought on a hike or something you could eat on the go.
When you don't need to tip the waiter and the staff can actually live on the wage they get, of course the food will be priced that way.
@Gus Erland Doesn't society benefit as a whole if everyone can afford to live? A sw-engineer/doctor has to earn a bit less so that a store- or fast food worker can have a livable salary, isn't that good?
@Gus Erland Yes
@Gus Erland So when are you running for congress?
Center is swedish since the brand is cloetta, we have Freia and Nidar is the 2 main ones :) Our version of center is Smil ^^
Aww, we missed out on those!! Next trip for sure, we want to come back in the Spring/summer to do some hikes... and now, eat more chocolate
@@MarkAmanda Yeah gotta wait out the Covid-19 everything is under lockdown here now have no idea how long its gonna last
@@MarkAmanda Glad to hear that, perhaps do a motorhome trip instead next time?
Cheaper way to experience the country if you got the time.
Pant you will recieve back if you return the empty box/bottle to a store. All prices on the shelfs includes tax.
Gotcha! Thanks!
Just watched your video,informative and gorgeous!
Aah you were here in February (according to that receipt). Was afraid you were here around the vid's upload date. Cause that's when the corona got started in Norway. And cool you camped 2 min walk from my home in Tromsø
Been to Bergen last August. I didn’t find it to be to bad. The alcohol and cab ride from the airport was the expensive part. I live in Baltimore.
Why take the cab when you can take the “bybane” aka tram? Taxis/cabs are always expensive, why most Norwegians don’t use them… we take the bus, the subway, tram, train or even just walk or bike.
Exactly! Alcohol is expensive in Norway ... wine, beer ... anything alcohol.
Expansive country
Easy.. dont drink! ;)
@@VikingNorway-pb5tm829 : I don't have a huge alcohol consume. At the same time I don't want to impose my life style on people choosing to live their life different :-)
@@makingwaves1239 Nice ;)
I live in Wisconsin,I've had to pay 150.00 for a crummy motel room,to me the rb and b is cheap.
I’m from New York too, and the prices are almost identical 🤣, I’m planning to do this trip, what was the total amount spend?
We don't "get you" with taxes. Value added taxes are included in the shelf price, and the actual tax amounts are displayed on your receipt summed up according to VAT categories.
And what the top comment says, needs are free, wants are expensive. On the other hand the wage level is very high, and wage equality is high, so our "buying power" is also high. So even if cars are more expensive here, we have more to spend.
Every beverage you buy inn a grocery store has «pant» that means that you can go back and deliver the empty cans/botles and get the pant back.
Norway is known for being expensive, but it's not really as bad as it used to be. A few years back 100 NOK was closer to 17 USD.
I miss those days. Travelling to the US was a lot cheaper back then 👍
I can’t believe how dedicated you guys are to your TH-cam channel. I’ve literally been watching you guys since 7th grade and now I’m about to be a Senior in high school. Wtf. You guys will always have a place in my heart.
Hey there Tony! My man, graduating school this year huh?? Hopefully COVID-19 doesn't interfere with your timeline! We appreciate the support!!
You where making a point of lights in the windows, before x-mas we decorate with a star, named betlehemstar. As a non-religious person, i do not know why.
I do put it up, because it's dark outside.
Since we live so far north, the sun is under the horisont (sorry flat-earthers)
Also, electrisity is cheap in Norway.
It is not coal or nuclear, but waterpowered from rivers and dams in the mountains and walleys.
That is also the reason for all the electric cars in Norway, cheap power, and they are tax-free.
A normal family estate wagen has 80% tax on the import price.....
High output cars, like a Mustang GT V8 (2018) was priced 1.275.000Nkr ($126759)
Tesla is cheaper in Norway, than US. Or so I was told....
Domestic flights in norway are insanly priced, especially going north-south. International flights are alot of the time loads cheaper even going long distance......
I saw article saying living in Norway is extremely expensive and dropped 2000/4000 a month price tag. I live in Norway as expat the hell do they eat lol
Norwegian chocolate is the best, for one simple reason. It has much less sugar.
Information episode aside, you visually and musically nailed this opening sequence and those end drone shots :)
Yep Norway's just as expensive a$ Denmark. But you get what you pay for, quality including hot tub paradise.
Stay safe guys, James and Kim
Thanks as always - yeah, was happy when I found that song to go with the little intro sequence :)
I think its pretty much tied with switzerland as the most expensive european nation
From what we've heard the system works because everyone says they're pretty happy and have a great quality of life
Yeah, most people like the idea of getting free public services in exchange for taxes
@@MarkAmanda It does work, free education means that there's competition for highly educated jobs keeping those wages from going too high while people don't have too high student loans and companies don't need to worry about paying for that kind of stuff, health care is covered so no company health care and people will seek medical care before it starts impacting their work and making their co-workers sick too in the case of infectious diseases.
Unemployment benefits means that unions are willing to down scale your expenses if you have a valid reason for it since their members don't necessarily have to worry about paying their bills the next month if they're furlough or fired or their position is reduced to fewer hours.
Entrepreneurs don't need to worry about ending up on the streets without health care if they try starting a company and fail so more people with fewer starting resources does so.
And so one and so forth.
I'll makes economic sense.
And so one and so forth.
Pant blir til bakebetalt når du leverer tilbake ølbokser eller flasker til matbutikken
great video
And "Kvikk Lunsj" is exactly what you probably thought it was ... "Quick Lunch" :-)
Was that 30 ° Celcius minus ?
(= 21° Farenheit minus).
Because if it was 30° Farenheit minus, that ecuals 1° Celsius
minus.
Also known as summer in the north ! 😉
minus 30 grader farenheit er faktisk minus 34 grader celcius, siden forholdet mellom farenheit og celcius ikke er 1 til 1. forholdet mellom de to måleenhetene for temperatur er litt rart me sånn er det nå bare :D snl.no/grad_fahrenheit
I lived in Palo Alto from 01.01.2020 to 04.24.2020 and I am Norwegian. I was WAY TOO SURPRISED as to how expensive that part of the US was.... that part i MORE EXPENSIVE than Norway - AND NO free Healthcare and NO free Education!
Easy. Very.
But still the best place to be. Well maybe after Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Is there a pattern here
Indeed: social democracy
Thats way we all travel to Sweden
You were lucky, usually 1 dollar is 7 crowns,
Crown started losing value approx 2 - 3 years ago 👍
Nooooo....There is no lights in the window. You just see into the window and to the rooms that have the lights on! ;-) (And like I, from northen Norway, we don't like sitting in the dark, mabye thats a New York thing!? All blacked out windows.... :-p )
BTW, love your videos!! :-D
Hahah - that makes more sense - and no, I hate sitting in the dark. Thanks Juletrefoten!
Annual income 500.000 NOK. That is how expensive Norway is.
Norway is to expensive if you even ask this kind of question- so stay home
Very expensive!🙂🙃
For sure - but in the end was worth it :)
Yes, the chocolate in Kvikk Lunsj IS better than Kit Kat. That's because Kvikk Lunsj is based on the original Kit Kat recipe, but Norwegians absolutely HATED it. So the recipe was tweaked to better suit the Norwegian palate, and Kvikk Lunsj was the result.
If you see a star in the window, its the tradition to remember the Betlehem star which show the Wise men to find the birthplace of Jesus....
Thanks for the info Jon!
is not expencive here. the rest of the world is just realy cheap!
Bærepose is a plastic bag, and yea i know norway is expensive... i live her 😂
Du lever henne?
*brunost*
BTW: Talking while eating is very RUDE in Norway
isnt it in every country?
It either is rude or it is not rude. Just in itself it cannot be rude Dompen