These 50 Posts About What Life In Norway Is All About May Make You Want To Pack Your Bags And Move

Now I imagine people playing beach volleyball in the sauna, which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my head.

It has nothing to do with oil. Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudia, they all have tons of oil, but suck. Phillipines, Indonesia have fish, Mali has so much gold, Congo has a lot of valuable minerals- and they suck. Norway ONLY got wealthy because of social politics. I met a super rich guy one, who got rich in the 60's/70's (not because of oil). He said he LOVED paying taxes, and wished they were higher- because the money goes to hospitals, schools, poor people, infrastructure. Nowadays, the rich people just move to Switzerland and don't give a s**t about others. So wealth divide is growing and Norway is actually not that happy anymore.

Also a lot to do with population size - the UK has taken about the same amount of wealth from its North Sea oil reserves, but we have 70m to share the bounty amongst. Norway has less than 5m!

Their Sovereign Fund is immense

Sweden is not far behind, and we don't have any oil.

Gulf countries? Wealth is also confiscated in U.S. and uk and redistributed to the already rich

Also it's easier to be happy when your country is rich and everything is shared around instead of the rich creaming off the profits. That, my American friends is S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M. You're welcome.

Why is that?

Being rude to other people is not ok no matter what side of the debate you are on. These posts are meant to be entertaining and uplifting, not hateful and mean.

Agreed....a bit stiff on an au pair's salary. We have what's considered top-of-the line insurance and we still pay $30 (US) a visit. What doesn't happen in Norway is going into bankruptcy to get, for example, life-saving health care. THAT happens in the US with depressing frequency.

That's a per capita number. OP was looking at totals

Came here to write this :)

There are a lot of tea drinkers in the US.

I was gonna say something like "i think people consider Finland as part of Norway, maybe Sweden as well."

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USA always wants to steal the show!

the finns are better

no idea why someone is downvoting you.

Most children are fluent. The movies aren't dubbed, the TV shows aren't dubbed, etc. They listen to English speaking music, etc. The youngest Swede I met completely fluent in English was 7. No BS.

People's native language is always worse than a language they learned later in life, even as small children. People grow up hearing the variations and mistakes people make with their native word and likely integrate them into their own vocabulary. However, learning a language later on helps people learn the language's "proper way" to write it and speak it, especially if they are only around a small group of people who speak/write it. Therefore, they are much better at a learned language, rather than an acquired one. Compare that to being trained by a live person for a task rather than "book-learning" it. (I believe this makes sense! It does in my head...but that's not saying much!)

The pussy in the middle doesn't think so!

Finnmark sends it's regards..