What's it like living in Norway 🇳🇴?

[Uncle Joe]

[FuzzyRabbit]

1. What a horrible hellhole! So glad we aren't like Norway.

[Stargleamer]

2. Bernie's been trying to get this country to become more like Scandinavia for decades

Alas, Republicans here fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.

[Uncle Joe]

4. In one respect our military has the same ethos as Bernie

The U.S. military has made a sacred commitment to leave no one behind on the battlefield. This ethos is even embedded in the Airman's Creed (“I will never leave an airman behind”) and the Soldier's Creed (“I will never leave a fallen comrade”).Aug 24, 2020

Leave no one behind: A commitment we must continue to make

https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/24/leave-no-one-behind-a-commitment-we-must-continue-to-make/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20military%20has%20made,leave%20a%20fallen%20comrade%E2%80%9D).

With Bernie it's to leave no one behind in regards to American standard of living.

One thing is for sure too many billionaires and their paid for minions aren't looking to those left behind.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. If only that could be true here... *sigh*

[speak easy]

5. Norways wealth is built on fossil fuels.

A country of 5.5 million people is the third largest exporter of petroleum gas in the world.

[Uncle Joe]

6. "List of countries by financial assets per capita"

for those not wanting to click on the link Norway is number 24 and the we're number 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_financial_assets_per_capita

[Native]

7. Yeah, we're living in a shithole country for sure.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I believe we have our strong suits when we focus on them.

Having said that I also believe we as a nation should never be too prideful to not learn from the mistakes and successes of other nations.

[pidge]

11. Then please tell me why so many want to come here. Biden offered sanctuary to Ukrainians.

[MontanaMama]

9. I've refinanced my house 3 times to pay

medical bills because we’re self insured (we’re self employed) and deductibles and copay’s are ridiculous. I currently pay $2000 a month for health insurance for my family of three…we have a $4000 per person deductible in addition to that. That’s the best we can get in Montana. There’s no health insurance competition here.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Thanks for sharing MontanaMama.

[thatdemguy]

12. I just looked at tax rates and income

The actual unskilled labor min wage is 21.xx in dollars, they pay an actual income tax rate of 35.9 % and sales tax ( vat ) is 25%, food vat is 15%.

A little math 21.50 an hour, you work 40 hours and you make 860 bucks a week. The taxes is 308.74 a week that leaves 551.26 a week ( or 2205 a month ). If you spend a 100 a week on food plus vat, your down to 436.26. spend 75 more living with vat thats 93.75, leaving 342.51 a week for everything else like rent a car if you want one, electric ( 171 a month ). Or 1199 a month before rent.

Average rent is 952 a month, the one that surprised me is the average down payment for an apt is 3-6 months.

So min wage you could live, but you wont have much to spare. The average cost of living is 2176 a month on the low end. At this point the only benefit I see is free health care, as you wont have much money after taxes and rent and such.

[link:https://www.internations.org/norway-expats/guide/living#:~:text=The%20average%20rent%20across%20the,three%20to%20six%20months'%20rent!|