the differences between norway and other countries! | afs exchange students
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Hey guys! I visited one of my exchange friends, Iben, this weekend and we decided to film a video on some of the things we noticed are different in Norway compared to our home countries! I am from the USA and Iben is from Denmark, so there were a lot of things we came up with. I apologize if any of the information is incorrect, this is just what we have learned from our experiences so far. Thanks for watching and subscribe for more:)
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I’m a norwegian exchange student in the US, and norwegians don’t really pay a lot more than americans. Its just that the us gov has a lot of its tax money put into the military while we put more into social welfare
That is true. I used to work in US and saw that my taxes was not that much lower unless you had very big deductions. Many just compare the tax rates directly, but in US you also have the 7,65% social security tax. In many cities and states you will have a state and city income tax. For Denver this was 4% state and 1% city if I remember correctly.
An example:
For the $32,000 median salary in US you have to pay 6,7%, federal tax, 7,65% social security tax . If you live in a state that has state income tax or in a city with city income tax, that is in addition. In Arizona its $691 + 3,36% over $20K.
So tax in Arizona for the average salary in US is $1094 state tax, $2070 federal tax and $2448 Medicare and social security, a total of $5612 or a tax rate of 17,5%. And this does not cover health insurance, disability, long term sickness, college, maternity leave, unemployment etc.
For Norway the tax rate of 282 000 NOK is 53 426 NOK (Including the 7,8% social security tax), a total tax rate of 18,9%. That covers all those things.
@@mariuspettersen664 So you're comparing the median salary in the US with a low salary in Norway, to skew your information into fitting your biased narrative. Sad!
TheEminemOwns tf bro where did that come from, get a life
@@TheEminemOwns The Median salary in Norway is $37,129, so pretty much the same.
So if you do the calculation for the Norwegian Median income you get effective tax rate in Norway of 21.19% and in US you get 16.92% in the US.
But my state tax calculation for Arizona was apparently a bit off since the marginal tax rate is not 3,36% as stated on website, but 2,59% on this website (smartasset.com/taxes/arizona-tax-calculator). They for $32K get effective tax rate of 16,07% if they do not live in a city with city income tax.
So for the median and average person in the US and Norway, there is just a few percentage points difference. However there is a big difference what you get for the few percentages.
Since the US worker themselves have to pay for short term and long term disability/sickness insurance, medical insurance, college etc the total cost will be higher just for the basics.
@Sasha Kruse Grim
We do pay a lot in VAT, and that's where it is a big difference.
We have a general 25% VAT (with some exceptions), but the highest sales taxes in US is 10,25%.
So income is not taxed that much higher, but you are taxed higher when you use the money.
If it comes to being poor, its a big difference in support how society is not made for the poor:
I have a friend that lost his job a couple of years ago and its way different when I hear what he goes through.
*He only received $450 a week for the first 6 months (about half his previous income) and the government only start helping you with food when you total worth drops below $3000.
If you are unemployed for too long its when the tricky starts:
*To have a bank account without money coming in regularly can cost $11 or more a month in bank fees
*To change to or get an apartment often requires a non-refundable application fee (up to $100), and when you don't have a job you will usually not be selected.
*If you can not afford the apartment you have you must then live in hotels/motel/hostels which is more expensive than apartment, but you can not apply for two many apartments due to the application fee.
*If you no longer have enough savings to go 2 weeks without income (in US you usually get paid every 2 weeks), you can not apply for a steady job until you have been able to save enough money. And the evil circle has started, since you must take up day-laboring that pays bad.
In Norway:
*You get 62,4% of your salary for the first 2 years, after that the government will give you $704/month + assist with cost for housing, insurance, electricity and medical expenses (deductibles, dentists etc)
*Bank accounts are free, but you might have to pay $25/year if you want VISA/MC.
*If you can not afford it the government will help with you rent (and deposit for new place), if you are unable not get an apartment on the open market the government will provide you with one.
So in US you are much more on your own, and therefore have to have a bigger savings to handle bad times.
My teachers always checked my homework in barne- og ungdomsskolen, but now my teachers in vgs tells me school is more about taking initiative and if you fail that’s your fault and problem and not theirs.
It's cool that you're in northern norway for your exchange.
I want the same to happen to me
"They" don't want you to stop drinking at a certain time, but the regulation want you to plan your drinking and prevent impulse purchases. :)
the shoes inside. it´s a matter of hygiene, not respect
What I do is, if my shoes are wet from the rain/snow outside, I take them off inside. If it's summer/dry, I keep my shoes on, until I get tired of them.
@Bard Erland No, lol. The question is very simple, why would you wear shoes inside? Makes no sense.
@Bard Erland exactly.
@Bard Erland That is what i thought.
@ThunderNorse Respect doesn't say anything about the reason, it's like something is left out. The real reason is left out.
I find air-drying laundry helps keep clothes in a newer condition for longer as well. *laundry-hanger over here* :) Very cool you get to be exchange students in Norway. I wish I had an opportunity like that!
1. You have to pay for "barnehage" but this costs very little money compared to a daycare, and barnehage is more like a daycare than it is kindergarten, seeing as most kids in Norway start in barnehage at 2 years old.
2. There r a few small stores open on sundays but most r closed bcuz of the old tradition of going to church on sundays and sundays being the only day people wouldn't work cuz they would go to church
The reason that it's called Vg 1, Vg 2 and vg 3 is because after 10 years of "grunnskole" you are done with the obligatet school. And then high school in Norway is voluntarily, therefore a whole different system, therefore you start at the bottom. Since you choose to be there it's your resposibillity that you learn and that's why the theacher are so chill
I went to the US for my exchange, loved the video! Just remember that in Norway we start school the year you turn 6, so I was 5 and half years old when I started. Your kindergarten is our 1. grade, so VG1 is our 11th year, which will be you're 10th year, sophomore. I did VG2 in the US as a senior, like many other Norwegian exchange students, to get the right level on the classes. Because VG3 is much harder than the senior year in the US, even though I did Honors and AP classes in the US. Another thing is that to a bachelor degree in Norway at Uni is 3 years, and a masters is 5, which is one year less than in the US. So we can think that your first year on college/Uni is our VG3, even tough it technically is our 13th. year and your 14th year. :)
About the traffic light. When only the yellow light is on, it signals you to stop. When it goes from red to green, the yellow light always shines with the red. Signaling you to get ready to go.
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I think your views on this variates a lot from the north to south, so this may not necessarily apply to all of Norway.
I use a dryer in wintertime. In summer I prefer to hang it outside. Smells wonderful.
I thought I knew quite a bit of stuff about Norway and it’s culture but I did learn some new things here so it was interesting! You learn a lot in the comments too. Love your videos as always🥰
This reminisces me of my time as an afs exchange student in Norway pretty much. It was definitely the best year of my life. Enjoy your journey year there, guys!
I use my dryer all the time. And a modern dryer uses less energy than hanging the clothes for drying inside the house. If you can dry hang your laundry outside, that is a great option. especially in the winter.
Notes and coins are different sizes for blind people to know the difference between them.
Trains will not work in Northern Norway. Finnmark is larger then Denmark and has only approx 75 000 people living there...
When the midnight sun comes the need for sleep gets really reduced.
When it comes to technology, compare doing taxes in Norway and the US. And I guess you use Vips?
Great video!
How can «a modern dryer use less energy» than hang drying? Which uses 0 energy. Anyone with a foreign bank account can’t use vipps.
Zazzysylvester Hang drying inside used a lot of energy. You need heat to get the moisture out of the fabric, then you need heat to get the moisture out of the room. If you can dry outside during summer, of course that uses less billable energy.
Thank you sweet ladies, as a norwegian i just smile now :) You girls have Norway explained spot on, in a beautiful relaxed way 🙂 Made my day 🙂
The shoes are more about formality, and havings the floor clean. For me who lives alone I don't take off my shoes during dry periods in summer because I don't dirty things up so much, but in fall and winter I take them off because I don't want mud and dirty water getting in on the floor.
Grocery shops are open on Sundays, you need to find the ones in your neighborhood that has a sunday open shop. Shops like Joker, Kiwi etc.
the bright house colors is from earlier years when norway wasnt that rich, so you bought the cheapest paint which was red, white and yellow. even tho white was a little more expensive
But you would be able to boast that you lived in the white house.
You guys are adorable. Thanks for your insights.
The sun is actually one of the best way to kill bacteria, you radiate your cloths with UV light hanging them outside, but I don't thinkt thats why people do it :-) especially up in the north where during winter there is no sun :-P for like up to a month or two.
Hey, good to see you enjoying. The barnehage is free if the family economy is under a certain amount, if not you pay a subsidised amount, and it is not much. Unless you do private.
You are 18 When you are celebrating the Russ time. As 18 you can buy alcohol with up to 22% alcohol. You can buy 4,7% alcohol beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks everywhere in normal food stores. Wine and stronger liqueur are sold at Vinmonopolet. For vodka, you need to be 20 :) Parents will not send underage kids on alcohol party.
Here in Denmark saturday or sunday doesn't matter. And right, no restrictions to drink no matter age. Rules when you want to BUY there are rules. From 16 you can buy lighter alcohol, from 18 anything goes. :-)
@@f1nn0 we know :)
As Norwegian growing up as a Millenial during the 90’s and 2000’s, we never had a dryer at home, tho most people did have one, and used it. Even back then. It’s more a generation and preference thing tbh. I have a dryer now, but I only use it for certain types of clothes as it can ruin your clothes...but most of the laundry I hang in the shower on hangers, as I live in a small apartment in Oslo. It works great, and it’s actually recommended to hang your tops etc. I also don’t iron my clothes either. Mostly due to laziness.
I''m a Norwegian teacher, and I use It's learning. I never give students any tasks that I don't review. I think it's very important to give students feedback on what they do. I don't always grade it, but I always give feedback, preferably underway-feedback, so the students knows what they're doing right and what they need to improve upon. Hearing that the teachers never check what you actually do, sounds worrying to me. Pleace know that I check homework, not in order to tick off whether you actually do homework or not, if you don't have time to do it, that's usually OK, I check homework in order to help students learning stuff. Fun to listen to your experiences
Kindergarten: parents pays a part, municipality a part and the state a part ...
I got so confused about the dryer thing because my family has a dryer, which we use every time we wash our clothes. The only times we don’t are when we wash clothes like leggings, wool, knitted sweaters etc. because they can shrink in the dryer. But other than that we use it all the time and so does my friends’ families.
WOW very well done ladies. Very very nice and informative info.
1. Dryer; well we just hang our clothes on the wall or so, some places does have dryers but some people use it, some don't.
2. Houses;
*I prefer houses that is not built together with 20 other people's house. If one house starts to catch on fire and burn down, the other houses will too if the EMD dosen't light it off in time.
Shoes indoors; no, u don't use shoes indoors in Sweden either. It's disgusting going with dirty shoes when you have walked in a palyground that cats and dogs may have taken the piss in.
* And open to get more of the daylight insead of the lamps.
3. Money; Sweden uses coins which is 1 SEK, 2 SEK, 5 SEK, 10 SEK, then it's bills is 20 SEK, 50 SEK, 100 SEK , 200 SEK, 500 SEK and that used to exist was 1000 SEK. but got removed in (2018?) for
200 SEK bill to be added and new looks on the bills and coins. 2 SEK also got added.
4. Cars; It's basically the same as Denmark and Norway. Electric cars here and there. To drive a Manual car, you have to do the test for manual gearbox car, you can do only for automatic gearbox car but you are not allowed to drive a manual car then.
* And you need to be 15 to get the licence to drive a scooter or scooter cars, but then if you are on the country where there is no traffic, you can drive if you are 10, 11, 13 or whatever. Even a tractor if are allowed by your parents.
* But to get the licence to drive a normal car, you have to be 18. Winter drive training is requried in Sweden too.
* With the 18th birthday makes it safer because you are more grown and can think better before taking actions with the car.
* Stop lights; Yellow is to announce you to be ready, it's going to be green. Or, announce to it's going to be red.
5. Public transportation;
* It does exist in Sweden, alot of it too. But if you live up north. The busses goes barely, I live kind of in the city do busses from my stations goes to the city like every 10 minues and then it's 4 different lanes of busses. But there is people that live in the Country that does not get a buss on weekends or evenings.
Trains
6/7. Alcohol; under 18 year olds can drink if you are with your parents and they know you are drinking. But most ignore it and some drinks and then goes out in the city and get caught by police because you get kicked because you can't control yourself that drunk and sent home and your parents will know if they don't already know.
* I think it is 20 years old to buy in liquid stores and 18 to buy at a pub or other than a liquid stores.
* Liquid stores it open at weeks and only during day, like 10 AM to like 6 PM.
*Grocery stores is open all the days but on Mon-Fri is usually 7 AM - 22 PM or 20 PM and 10 AM to 8 PM at weekends. But then depends on how big the store is, where it is located.
8. Social media/technology;
yeh, everyone is like "can I get your snap or insta" instead of number lol
but then also, Sweden have the app "Swish" only the phone number of the person you are "Swishing" money to is required. And then the bank is barely open either, they want you to do everything on their site and by your own to not have the 200 people waiting to get help and so on. Bank is open from like 11 AM to like 3 or 4 PM.
9. School/Education;
School in Sweden I guess is like Denmark and Norway. 1-5/6 (depends on when your bitthday is on the year) you go in preschool. And then you start in kind of first class but not really. You learn how to count to 10 lol, and to spell every letter in the alphabet. One year later when you are 6/7 you are in the first class and start to learn Math, Swedish and so on. 2nd class you start to learn English. 3rd is Textile Craft/Woodcraft. The class is usually split into 2 different groups so one group have woodcraft and the other group textile craft. Do what the teacher have planed for the students to do and if you're quick enough to do if the teacher haven't planed you to do something else when you're done. You can do what you want that have to do with the lesson.
* Home work is your own choice, do it and return to show what you can to get a better grade, or mabye even fail if the teacher haven't seen you done that thing and to let the teacher know you take school seriously, if someone even does that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In 6th grade you get the first grade, but the goverment thinks about to lower it to the 4th grade.
10. Welfare;
Sweden have the same as Norway, Finland and Denmark. though Sweden have higher taxes than Norway. Then also if you win in some lottery and not payed the taxes for that win, the goverment takes 1/3 of the money. Example the Fortnite tournament, first place price pool was at $3M and because when you come from US to Sweden, it's not payed so you have to pay a 1/3 of that $3M wihch is about 2M left. (I'm not sure on this statement. (but logicly this should be true) Because you had won so much money, the taxes is higher because you have more money which then the goverment see, na a aah, you don't need so much money. We can spend it on something else. So yeah... then they take again more.
Great vid, keep up thr work. I'd love to see more of you vlogging.
I think you have an inflated view of the train system in the south of Norway, as mostly, where I lived, it was one every 30 minutes... and I lived 40 minutes (by train) from Oslo city centre.
The tube/metro, which is just in Oslo, sounds more like what you're talking about.
Yeah...she visited Oslo, so she might have a slightly skewed perception of reality when it comes to transportation in the south.
There's a train every ten minutes to Oslo where I live. ;)
Great video and thanks for sharing
It is important to note that you only pay a fraction of what it really cost to have your child in kindergarden in Norway. Your probably pay only 1/4 of what its actually cost. The government pay the rest. Typically one worker in kindergarden look after four children. They probably earn about 400 kr pr hour in 8 hour day, so the money you pay pr month will probably just lasted one week.
Please don't say vacation in Norway is payed for. It's your own money. Your boss/company have to hold back 10,2% of your salary ten months pr year. You then get it back in the summer. So it's not payed vacation as many think, it's more like forced vacation savings. But you are entitled to three weeks of vacation in the summer, between may 15th and September 30th, i think. You have to ask your boss/company when you can have your weeks of vacation. It's also illegal to save up vaction weeks. You have to be either sick or you have a good reason why your not using your vacation weeks. You then need to use all your vacation the next year.
you guys know more about how things work in,Norway than the common norwegians at your age do...well done.
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Great video!! Do you know when you’re headed back to Arizona?:)
Will you do one specifically on transportation?
The limit for buying all kinds of alocohol is 20, not 21 in Norway :)
To describe what you said in a simpler way: if you're an alcohol fanatic, Norway is not the country for you.
[NO] - мαяιυѕ. ツ Du kan drikke det når du er 18 men du får ikke kjøpt føre du er 20
Thats why the Swedes and Norwegians come to us in Denmark for their booze. Lol
@@elliot4356 du kan drekk alkohol sia du e født, e ikke nå lov på når man får lov å drekk det men å handel det te andre e ulovle
@Hauke Holst You're right to some extent. Even though alcohol isn't that expensive in Denmark in this day and age. But this makes me think about Poland. A few years back when I visited Poland. This Norwegian guy with his big van came rolling in a little town with bottles upon bottles of vodka. Haha. It was golden.
in Denmark you have to pay for kindergarden as well
Part two!!
The trains would also help with the costs. It's is ridiculously expensive to fly up to the north. It's more expensive for us that live in the southern part of Norway, to go back home to the north for a visit, than it is to fly abroad on a vacation.
Sundays: there is an acutal law here in Norway that prohobits people form making too much noise from working if they have neighbours (for example, I'm not allowed to mowe the lawn on sundays when I have neighbours, because it makes too much noise).
Homework in VGS: As another person mentioned already, when you start vgs the actual work depends on you instead of the teachers, as it would apply in a worksituation in "real life". If you don't do the work, you won't really excell in any way. If you do the work however, you learn, and you can use that knowledge to excell in areas you want to. The teachers are more like guidance counsellors (metaphorically), they are just really good on their topic.
As always, love your videos, keep up the good work! :)
Actually I don't think it would be so much less expensive .. I live in Finnmark and for me I would probably have to drive 4 hours to get to nearest trainstation if they ever would build one up here ... just as I have to drive 4 hours to get to the hospital or biggest nearest city for me :-) but we do have an airport and if you are very sick you get sent by ambulanceplane wich take alot less time :-) and I live at one of the places where government pay quite alot of the airplane fare for us ... so it gets "cheaper" its still cost abit but to be honest a trainticket from Kirkenes to Oslo would probably be more expensive (unless government pay for some of it) ... than a planeticket. What is expensive up here is to fly from like Kirkenes to like Lofoten area or Nordland (all of destinations) as it would take most of the day if possible, last I traveled from home to Mo I Rana I had to sleep over at Tromsø as there simply was not possible to get from A to B in one single day :-) and the ticket was more expensive than like from Kirkenes to Oslo ...
Early!
I guess the dryer things comes from you only visiting people who lives in houses big enough to dry their clothes inside? Like, we don't have a dryer, but we have such a huge laundry room and downstairs area that it's enough room to hang our clothes that we don't see the need for one, other than to occasionally dry our clothes quicker (but we still haven't bought one). I know a lot of people who lives in small apartments or houses who keeps their washing machines in the bathroom and don't have enough space to hang them inside. Hanging them outside really isn't an option unless it's summertime.
Karina Hellesøy hei jeg bor i blokk med felles vaskerom. Selv om vi har tørker, som jeg bruker kun på viser typer undertøy, sengetøy, samt håndklær, alt annet henger jeg i dusjen på hengere. Leiligheten er liten, og jeg pleier å ha tørkestativet inne ved bruk. Og settes ut når det ikke brukes. Bukser, sokker/undertøy henges på stativet, alt annet på henger. Da tørker det i løpet av 1-2 dager. Men kommer annpå hva slags vaskeprogram man bruker (mengde vann), og type stoff...
Great vlog as always ms A! I think you have 10 months leave with 100% pay and 12 with 80% pay. The women get often more because the still have to take out the vacation even they have not «worked» so then they get an extra 5 weeks! What is the difference between Norway/USA when it comes to love and relationships? To be BF/GF and so on? Happy new year from Oslo!
You guys should film when the sun get back .
One does not have to practice driving for 2 years in Norway before you can get your license.
But, the 2 first years after you have got your license, you are on a kind of trial time.
And we have a prick system when you do something wrong, and if you get enough pricks, you can lose your license.
And for the 2 first years, you will get 2 pricks for each time, in stead of the normal 1.
About traffic light:
When it goes from green to red, it will first shift to orange and then to red, so when you only see a orange light, you know it will be red.
When it goes from red to green, both red and orange will light at the same time, and then you know it will become green.. ;)
So when you see orange light, you can always know what colour it will turn in to.
I think a "dot" system is the more accurate translation though it's probably not really correct either.
@@MoquiaoMoquiao
Dot would be a correct translation for the word, but not the meaning. I think "strikes" would be better.
And now I wait for someone to split more hairs.
On vgs the school kinda see the students more as adults, witch is why we get to make a lot of our own choises. Cuz if we choose to not do homework, it's really our problem and not theirs. And we also have to pay for doctorvisits from we're 18 (i think) and that's about 200-300nok depending on the place.
Yes you pay a deductible amount like abit over 300 but its the same if you have broken something and need surgery or just common cold consultation.
And if your deductible and medicine cost pass a amount of 2500 nkr. everything after that is free... so it should not cost you more than 2500 nkr a year in medical bills.
Unless its dentists, that for some reason is costing money, after you turn 18 you have to pay, but it is a curve, so after 19 or 20 I think ... you pay full price.
For school, up to high school is free even books, but university you pay only like the Semester fee, at like 500 nkr for half a year ... plus books, but many do lend books from the libraries to cut costs.
Have you guys watched Skam and if so what's your take on that show?
Such a good video
When I lived in America, they always asked for my card (or my dads) when I/he had to pay at restaurants. Which is not normal in Scandinavia, not in the whole of EU in general - I think it's weird, and I don't feel comfortable with it. Nice video btw!
Alcohol in Norway; you must be 18 years old to buy beer and wine, and 20 years old to buy liquor with alcohol content over 22%. It's actually _not_ illegal to drink alcohol if you are younger than 18. Most people don't know that.
Beer and beverages with alcohol less than 4,5% can be bought in most grocery stores. It can not be bought elsewhere. But liquor, wine and beer with stronger alcohol content than 4,5% and upwards to 60% can only be bought in liquor stores owned by the government.
In Norway beer is illegal to sell after 8pm on weekdays and 6pm saturday. The stores will physically cover up all alcohol in the evenings. The liquor stores close even earlier.
In Sweden the alcohol is cheaper. They also have government owned liquor stores, but they stay open also on Sundays some places I believe.
In Denmark alcohol is even cheaper and you can buy it almost everywhere. At least it seems like tgat for us Norwegians.
awesome guys new friends here.
I went to school in Norway more than 50 years ago, we had to use teachers last name, sing a psalm before school, and before and after lunch, and a psalm before school ended in the afternoon. We had to bow for the techers, and they graded our homework. If you spoke in class, before getting permission, you were marked, an did you repeat it, right away to the principals office.
We had grades from from 3.rd garade in all subjects, and we were graded for politeness and tidyness.
I really did not need school, I was going to be a train robber anyway, but that was unprofitable, so I changed carrers to bank robber, but then banks stopped keeping money....
From what was said about public transport in this video I don't think train robbing would be a very profitable occupation in northern Norway.
@@peterc.1618 Well, they have the Narvik-line to Sweden, 35 km of that is in Norway. And the line to Russia in Finnmark, so you might try it out anyway
@@perperald21 line to Russia in Finnmark?
Where ?
@@1MrErling Kirkenes-Bjørnevatn-Langfjorddalen-Nikel, didn't you know?
@@perolden lol u mean the mining company's. Well, the Mine was closed down in 2015 , and operations on the railway ceased
In Greece, you don't wear shoes during winter because the carpets will get dirty, but during summer, you can dance with shoes in the whole house without anyone saying anything. For anyone saying it's dirty, haven't you invented mop yet?
love it! great content.
High taxes in Norway. Yes, true! But, the beauty of it is that it is all plowed back into the infrastructure - which then benefits the whole population, from birth to death. It made me laugh when you regarded 'air-drying' clothes as strange. A lot of people do that in the UK, where I live, and if you live by the coast, the smell of the fresh sea air in your clothing is really nice. Try it, you'd never want to dry them in a machine unless absolutely necessary - like on days when it rains all day.
The different size of the coins and bills are to help blind people.
The 1/10 coins, and the 5/20 coins are the same size, but 1 and 5 have a hole in them. This makes it easy to feel the difference with your fingers.
However, I don't actually know any one who use cash any more. I think Norway is one of the countries that relies the least on physical currency.
its more and more like that around the country, we have not had a minibank for years now, and the bank closed down even longer so there was at the postoffice (that btw was a Post in store kind of type, maybe a another discussion hehe), but the Post and the bank have now seperated and closed the or about to close the service so there will only be postal services left without the banking. But there have aparently another banktype service opened up in the other store (SPAR) where you can take out money and stuff like that.
But yes, you really really do not need cash so much and I think it is a wanted option from the government as that will cut down on the black market as you can't pay "under the board" and every transaction will have a record.
There are also several options digitally like VIPPS and Mobile pay .. and such where you can use your phone or clock to pay with.
First!
Saludos desde Colombia a Noruega
There are somevteachers who check homework but some other teachers do not check homwork
Actually in the US the general tax percentage was 24% in 2019 and in Norway its 22%. So the taxes arent higher. Its that the US spends most of the tax money on the military.
we used to get free from school when the sun came back. (solfri)
When the lights are yellow only it is about to turn red, and when they are yellow and red at the same time they will turn green. This is for Sweden but I guess it's the same in Norway..?
When I was in Thailand I saw many traffic lights had timers counting down so that you would know exactly when it turned green.. Which ofcourse made people go a few seconds before just because they knew it would turn green.. But kinda cool anyway.
Erik yes, it is the same in Norway.
@@ghauan Or used to be. The new traffic lights I have seen recently go straight from red to green.
@@mariuspettersen664 Hvor i Norge har du sett det? Høres ut som en defekt. Det er klare regler for hvordan trafikklys skal oppføre seg.
what’s the dating culture like in norway? like what does it mean to be in a relationship and how does that happen? i can only imagine it’s much different there than here
Dating is not common in Norway like in US, you go out with others sure, you can even invite people (female or male ofcourse) at dinners and so on, but we don't really call it a date.
People (atleast where I live) can meet at many places, commonly is meeting at parties, sometimes you just click .. and finds out you suits together somehow.
Its abit strange because norwegians (and other scandinavians I suppose) really appreciate intimate space ... thats why we sit alone at busses or don't always talk to strangers either.
arcticblue248 I’ve lived all my life in Norway and we for suuuure go on dates and we call it a date too.. You must be living in a small area.. Tinder is huge in Norway and at least in the cities people date. But; unlike the US it’s not common to just walk up to a stranger on the street and ask them for a date..
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Wait what, who doesn't use a dryer?
Numayam Norwegians
@@ingridmikalsen6383 Everyone I know uses a dryer. I mean, some clothes can't go in the dryer so you airdry them, but most clothes can.
Norway in general is such an expensive country, and the bill on for example dryers is so much higher, so most people doesn’t use them. The weather during summer is so dry and not moist at all, and in the winter you use enough money as it is on heat so you dry your clothes at the same time.
@@ingridmikalsen6383 What are you talking about? Norway has some of Europe's lowest electricity and water prices? The bills associated with drying clothes are not expensive at all. I don't know if this is somehow more common outside of Oslo or something, but as far as I know almost everyone here uses a dryer.
And you are from?
Norway used to be the most religious country in Scandinavia (a church on every corner, Sundays were church-going days), but one day people realized that the younger generations had mostly become agnostic, even atheist. Norwegians will, however, unashamedly hang on to traditions (e.g. Jul - not Christmas for over a thousand years). This everything-closed-on-Sundays and the State Monopoly on strong alcohol are simply traditions. There are pros and cons for every tradition, and some of them will probably be abolished in due course while others will prevail for the next millennium.
What a hole lot of BS. It's thanks to the christian party KrF always ending up in the middle when major decitions to be made. That's why we have all these silly rules. Whatever party can give KrF what they want, wins. Easy as that.
@@TullaRask, are you saying that KrF are the Norwegian equivalent to US ultra-conservatives (hard-core Republicans)? Not in the political left/right or religious sense, rather in the things-should-never-change-unless-WE-want-it sense?
We in Iceland are stuck with a similar situation, with a minority party that ALWAYS manages to "meddle in the middle" and have political influence way beyond their political following. They CALL themselves "The Progressive Party" but are in reality more ultra-conservative than our so-called Conservatives (which in turn are simply Neo-Liberals in the we-want-the-freedom-screw-everybody-over sense). We are also stuck with an Alcohol State Monopoly, but have got rid of the everything-closed-on-Sundays attitude. The root cause, in my opinion, is Traditionalism!
@@Halli50 Of course not! They just like to interfere with other peoples life. People who arn't religious can't buy beer on christian holidays they don't know anything about. Bloody annoying.
@@Halli50 Politically they are in the middle. They had a troublesome vote internally recently if they should stick with the conservative wing in the parliament, or the laborparty red wing. The party leader wanted to go with the laborparty, but had to go in the end. They are now in the government.
Now Norway is the least religious country on the planet.. thank GOD! 🤪
Nice ....
How old are you Alisson?
I like norway
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People in norway use dryers
Pretty.
0:23 there IS differenceS 😂
as others no doubt have told you; teachers not checking homework...'you don't care to do the work, not my problem'. gotta learn to get a job, y'know. no learn, no job. :) or that's what they want you to think...
fall in love with th danish chick
Yellow light mean that you have time to live the intersection so that crossing traffic dont need to wbe afraid of getting hit from the side.
leave (forlate) and not live(leve) i guess? :)
Everybody i know have a dryer
And I live in Norway, but I live in Bergen (a bigger city)
I coming from norway
The real big difference nowadays is that you have Angelina Jordan and family. Please take care of them 😋
Well she lives in LA now. so if you are American, please take care of them.
Nice done, just wierd that you didn't have anything about guns, atleast from my perspective
by law you have 35 days of paid vacation :))
5 weeks
Its 25 days workdays, saturday and sunday dont count.
@@matshelland8595 No four, the fifth is optional.
@@OleBrumHonningIts It is correct that its 25 days including saturday, but Sunday does not count.Giving the total required vacation 4 weeks and 1 day, but through "Tariffavtale"/"Union agreement" you can get 5 weeks paid vacation and most workers in Norway therefore have 5 weeks vacation (or 25 workdays if you work monday-friday)
(www.arbeidstilsynet.no/arbeidsforhold/ferie/)
@@mariuspettersen664
Man teller bare fra Mandag til Fredag.
Man har 5 uker, så altså 25 dager.
Norway>USA.
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If you feel safe at school the more surreal the Norway Mass Shooting in 2011.
I live in Norway and we use driers, do more research
VictorNJ Not everybody! I can see what they’re talking about.. in the city you might not have a choice, but people tend to air dry their clothes a lot more here than other countries. That’s a fact
Ew, denmark
I love Denmark so much and Danish people too! I never heard a Norwegian say anything negative about Denmark. Some think they talk strange, I think it's charming. 😘
@@lapis3834 Most norwegians i know doesn't like danish people. + they have a potato in their throat. Are you even from Norway?
I have never met any norwegians that don't like danish people ... so that must be a incorrect translation, you might mean danish language ? same with like swedish people .. I don't know anyone that don't like them, we joke about them alot tough but for the most part I think we like our neighbours :-)
@@arcticblue248 Norwegians dont like denmark, but we like sweden. Its not just the language.
@@paulallen1939 Well I'm norwegian and I don't know anyone that don't like denmark .. or danes.