American Reacts to the 5 BEST & WORST Things About Norway
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2023
- As an American most of what I have learned about Norway is extremely positive.. so I am very interested today to finally learn little bit about some of the criticisms that people have about Norway. In addition to some potentially controversial opinions on visiting Norway there will also be a couple of things that are great about Norway to even things out. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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The only thing I would say is that the beggars aren’t Norwegian 😅 they come to Norway to get money to take back home. Other than that everything was great.
Yes, most of them . If you see a Norwegian beggar, he or she is probably a drug addict..
True seen beggera inn bodø siting all day with a cup gathering monney later u se him driving exapensive car. Its more or less organized begging laods of em spread out they switch places etc
Beggars in Norway are mainly imported by criminal organizations from Eastern Europe.
not entirely true either, but close. like the dude above said they are romanian beggars who are forced out onto the streets by organized crimerings, according to my retired policeofficer grandfather and still-serving colleagues. youll see them walk around texting people with the latest, most expensive phone of the year while getting picked up in an alley by an inconspicuous Tesla. theyre not homeless, theyre not gathering money for family abroad, theyre begging to pay crimebosses. never give them anything, not even once. the ones who are genuinely homeless will stick out like a sore thumb because, unlike the organized ones, is theyre usually not foreigners.
Yes, they are busloaded in by organised criminal networks.
Kvikk Lunsj translates to Quick Lunch. And we pronounce it in the same way in Norwegian as in English.
Where I live, in northern Norway (Hammerfest), we have sun 24 hours a day from May 16 to July 29, you will see the midnight sun if weather permitting.
In winter, no sun from 22 November to 20 January, during this period we have twilight 2-3 hours per day.
You can see the aurora in the sky here every day, when it's dark outside, unless it's cloudy, the aurora is a solar storm, so the amount of aurora depends on the strength of the solar storm. We are used to the northern lights, so we don't look at them every day, but when the solar storms are strong and the northern lights dance in the sky, even we stop to enjoy the sight.
Hei fra sørøya
Some of the best snowboarders in the world are Norwegians. I guess if something includes snow, you can count us in 😀
I also want to mention that Norway is known for not having extreme weather, or nothing that will kill you if you're not unlucky. I would rather face it that we have some special fenaminons
Yeah, I agree with the weather thing. There's not extreme weather, but genuinely just really bad
Or football, tennis, golf, athletics, beach volley etc. Norway is not just a winter sport nation anymore 😉
@Royal Eagle - Brawl Stars not sure where you live, but here in Drammen, it's usually pretty good. 😉
I think it was yesterday that the difference between the coldest and the "warmest" place here in Norway was 50 degrees C.
Skiing includes snowboarding 🏂😉
I live in Bergen Norway, and going to Oslo by car is roughly 450km(280miles) In the summer ish weather is takes us 8 hours to drive, at winter atleast 10 hours depending on the mountain. The plane ride is 1hour and usually cheaper then driving due to road tolls and cost of fuel
This information I would take with a huge pinch of salt: 1. Prices are high in tourist traps but there are cheaper options, as well. 2. It can absolutely be crazy warm at summer at times (or we would not walk around in t-shirts). 3. The service is ok, but yes, we do not proscribe to "the customers are allways right". We do feel that respect goes both way or not at all. A rich, spoiled person would hate it here. 4. Yes, within EU and EEA people can move freely, which means a lot of beggers visit us as well. 5. Yes, we do not use a lot of exotic spices in our traditional food as we love the taste of high quality meat, fish, bird and vegetables. If you load it with spices, it will taste of those spices only. 6. No! Kvick Lunch is not a KitKat. KitKat is loaded with sugar, and with a thin overly sweet layer of chocolat. 7. Yes, we hunt whales for research purposes only, and then sell the meat so we don't waste it.
The grass roof, or sod/turf roof which is the correct term, is used on log buildings for multiple reasons. First, the weight of the turf compress the log walls, making the building more draught-proof. Second, the turf is a good insulator in cold climates. Third, it's a cheap building material, as turf can be found everywhere.
There is a saying in Iceland, which also fits west-Norway, there is no reason to complain about the weather, because it could be much worse in 5 minutes.
Det er ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær.
And also northern part of Norway.
Norway have multiple world champions in all the different snowboard "styles/competitions" and its pretty big here.
Norway is known for the fjords, especially the western coast of Norway. But most people are not aware of the fact that Norway also has more than 239 000 islands. It was mentioned in the video that it takes a lot of time to travel from one place to another. The main problem is probably that people are trying to see all the best known tourist attractions in a few days. I will rather recommend to try to explore a small part of Norway, for instance the western part of Norway, - find the side tracks and drive to a hidden and unknown fjord or a village which will give you a lot of fantastic experiences. I have lived several years abroad, and when my friends are visiting me in Norway, and I am showing them around in the area where we are living, they first think that I have picked a special beautiful place for them to see, but as I have continued to take them with me around, they find that every place is different, turning around the next curve gives them a totally different view, which is just as beautiful as what I showed them the very first day. One of my friends, who have us a lot of times, loves to shoot videos, and this is one of the videos which he has published from one of his visists in Norways: ua-cam.com/video/MHpeTAt6yko/v-deo.html
I really hope you get to go to Norway soon. keep up the good videos man!
If u go to a bar/pub there are alot of places in most of the towns that server beer cheeper than 15 dollars. My favorite place in Bergen serve a 0.5 liter for 80 nok so thats about 8 dollars! So look around, there are alot of places that are cheap and bareable to most tourists.
I live 20 km outside Oslo. In the summer it can get up +30 celsius in june , july or august. Norway was the hottest country in Europe a couple of years ago. North and South is like 2 different countries when it comes to weather. If you take length of Norway on the map and use the length from the south down to Europe, you will end up in spain. That is why you cant say that Norway is just cold.
Whale and reindeer meat can be bought at pretty much any grocery store in Norway, so yes, it's common. Where I live we get visited by whalers a few times per year, and the line of people that want to buy fresh whale meat is MASSIVE.
Sauda Rogaland close to Stavanger: freezing temperatur rekord -24.8 celcius , heat record 34,6 celcius
Buying food at the grocery stores and cook the meal yourself can save you a lot of money. Same with beverage, it's much cheaper in the store than at the bars/restaurants. Eating out, even fast food, can be expensive. The prices reflect that salaries are quite good and don't feel too expensive to most locals. And yes, eating whale meat is not uncommon in certain parts of the country although I'm not a big fan.
Lets sum this up:
Yes service level is not like in the USA, but I would say better than in certain European countries, although it’s often very individual from city to city and even place to place. First time I was in the US I did notice the service level was better. So in general, yes. It’s not as good as in the US.
The weather is what it is, it can suddently hail and then the sun is out afterwards, it can suddently be very stormy while it was sun and warm when you left your house 10 min ago;) weather varies in different cities, some places have it more even while some places it’s super unstable.
About the food, well taste level is very individual. Here in Norway we eat a lot of international typical food, chinese, mexican, italian, japanese etc. We do have great national food too, in my opinion though. Like pinnekjøtt.
The price, yeah it’s very expensive. Our pay is higher though so things are more affordable for us. But if we travel to other countries we get more for our money.
About the beggars, theres not homeless people sleeping in the street here like in LA. The Norwegian ones (they are not that many and its always the same ones) are begging for money for drugs or alcohol, while there are a lot of beggars travelling from Romania (or at least eastern european countries) to Norway and beg for a while and then take the money back home to their family there. Or its given to some sketchy people that takes most of the money..
yes you might see more people drunk in the street if you are out in the city center in the evening, mostly weekends. Also the random alcoholic, so yeah it’s true. Our drinking culture is not great:p people often drink too much when they are out drinking.
Serice workers dont rely on tips in Norway neither to make a living from working on minimum wages, like they do in the U.S.
@@BergenDev yes thanks for adding that, I forgot.
One huge diffrence in the service in norway and us are their wages.
In us their wages are so low they can't survive on it alone, and therefore depend on tips from the customesrs and because of that they give better service.
In norway our wagens are high enough so that the tip is just a bonus.
@DonGorgen Yeah, right, but Tyler doesn't get the point if you say it 1000 times. Several have said the same to these videos of his but he doesn't get it.
If I remember correctly Norway is as long as the east coast of the US. Or if you put a pin in the southernmost point of norway and flipped it around it would reach all the way down to southern italy, so Norway is very long, just, very thin
yes it goes all the way Rome
Long and thin is better than short and thick, LOL 😂 (had to). Its not the size that matters, hehe.
The beggars are mostly from Romania, the travelers doesn’t need to show their passport at the borders, but must still carry valid identification documents for other occasions.
So it’s easy for people in a country in Europe to visit other countries in Europe.
Where I live in Norway I don’t even lock my car when I’m home, and not when I’m at the grocery store. If I go to the grocery store and it’s cold outside, I keep the car going while shopping 👍😁
A comment about the beggars, nearly all of them are not norwegians, some comes from eastern countries and they comes as families to beg. I had a conversation with an elderly lady that sat on the sidewalk outside a shoppingcenter in Bodø, a few years ago. She told me that she and her daughter-in-law had to "earn" at least 500 NOK each day, to give to her son. She had a sign telling she had 4 children to feed.
There are a few norwegians, and most of them want money for "coffee"... (beer!) If there are more norwegians, I have not seen them.
You mean heroin.
@@Gran_Torino That too!
From the photo;
We've had a long-standing issue with what is often referred as 'Romani/Gypsies'
Many of them do not want to conform to the system and live on their own terms, some take advantage of the welfare, some do not.
Not to say that all have that mindset, there definitely are many outliers that I personally know, but I can't say it is a majority.
For that is why the stereotype is still existing, with little change and this came directly from a Romani friend of mine.
Of course, they are not the only demographic that partake in begging, many are past or present drug addicts, mainly heroin.
Some whom take advantage of the welfare, some don't, don't have the energy or don't know how.
These are mainly observations, all retaining inside Oslo.
It was made a doc about it on TV2 about the beggars and what they actually do.
I am Norwegian, and i love to watch what you think about Norway❤
What you have to understand Tayler when you watch such films on youtube is that not everyone you watch in the films is not Norwegian. like those beggars. It is a problem we have because we are so hospitable. We have that problem in the summer. Then comes a large number of Romanians and mostly women who sit in the streets and beg. 1 in a hundred is perhaps a Norwegian and then most often a man who cannot control his alcohol problem. If we had been more restrictive at the border, we would not have had that problem. It's actually quite useful to learn that it causes tourists to react negatively. I will address this politically and try to put an end to it. We would like Americans to visit us, but they will receive the same treatment as other guests. Otherwise, it is useful to see how different we think and that because of background and experience and school. I want to thank you for that because then it will be easier for us to make life easier for you from the US when you visit us.
Weather here isnt thaaat bad xD we get up to 30 degrees c in summer. People go to the beach and get tanned haha
It can also be over 30 degrees.
To tourists that come from less expencive countries to Oslo or other large cities and they eat out every night and drink vine or beer it would be expencive, but if they came to smaller places I don't think it's that expencive, but eating at restaurants is always very expencive that's why Norwegians go to Mc Donalds or Peppes instead of restaurants with white table cloths and more than one glass. Norwegians usually drink from a cardboard cup when going to a restaurant if they're not rich. Common people don't eat out as often, and nearly no one eat breakfast out, most people would eat a slice of bread or cerial for breakfast, and for lunch, if they buy it it would be some kind of salad and or some type of bread and a banana or a packet of ham, some people eat buns for lunch. For dinner a lot of Norwegians eat pizza, the frozen types from the grocery store or spaghetti and minced meat with tomato sauce, or sausage in some kind of way, usually as a hot dog with bread. I used to work in a grocery store, even though it was ten years ago people hasn't changed that much in what they eat and buy.
This person has only visited typical tourist destinations in Norway, which can be more expensive than elsewhere. A hotdog costs up to $7. It's far from the average price.
The quality of service in Norway is generally good due to our strict anti-slavery laws.
Else, when it comes to taste of Norwegian food (and our version of Kit Kat), he comes up with the opposite of what most Americans says. Maybe the food was too natural and healthy 😂
in his defence... spices are a foreign concept to norwegians :D
A lot of adjectives can describe Norwegian food, except healthy and tasty. Some traditional food like Komle or ribbe are so grasy. Plus, there is a huge culture there of eating pre-prepered and canned food that already come in bags with tons of chemicals. Not tasty at all.
@@sunflowerg5855 what kind of preprepped food did you have in mind?
@@sunflowerg5855
Of course, all of this is worse than in the USA. Norwegian food that you make at home or buy at a restaurant contains far more sugar, fat, and chemical additives than all American food 😅
It's not primarily spices that give flavor to American food; it's chemicals 🤭
@@oh515 Do you have any products you could reference that has more sugar than the US counterpart?
I know that our sodas were highly criticized for having a lot more sugar than other EU countries.
Many great slopes for snowboarding, u could even hike up the mountain and snowboard on untouched snow
Its the hotdogs in this one kiosk in Bergen that is massive, the regular ones are small.
The tap water is usually better than the bottled water from the store, and that’s a proven fact. Snowboarding is pretty much as common as regular downhill skiing. In addition to that we got a lot of cross country skiing, maybe most people are into that. The beggars are usually less fortunate people from Eastern Europe who come here for a short period of time before returning back home with various amounts of money. They are often here on organized trips with questionable organizers in the background. Hope you got a chance to visit Norway soon so you can make up your own opinion about this country. Happy New Year from Bergen, Norway😃
The beggars are usually Romani, and it's usually organised. Yes, they actually beg as a job for a gang. Also the whale meat is great on pizza, it gets dry quickly though so couple it with something that might make pizza soggy.
@Toreld the beggars in Oslo can be Norwegians, yes, but they have a lifestyle that throws them a bit off track. They ALWAYS have the option to get help from the state, get clean off drugs and start a new life. Always. Source: my aunt is an x-drug addict. The moment she went for help they gave her medicine, an appartment and a white wares. But she has to stay clean, go to LARP (doctor offices for drug addicts and a program to get clean). If you brake the rules everyone has to follow like sending a uniployed form about your status online every 14 days or skip a meeting with the government (NAV) because of any reason, You're out. These rules apply for everyone.
The Norwegian beggars do have a choice to get help, but some just don't.
again, I love your videos!
The grass on top of the roof is actually very common on cabins in the mountains that you’ve seen and commented on before. Just so you know 😊 So when you come here and go to the mountainous areas you can expect a lot of that!
It's not that expensive. Stay away from the touristy stuff and it's not that bad. Sure, there's a few places where it's 20 bucks a beer but just don't go there. Go where it's 10.
Kvikk Lunsj: Kit Kat but with more chocolate. Was released in 1937 as a snack you could take skiing etc. Tastes better than Kitkat imo, he also liked it so. 👍
Norway do snowboard for sure, Look up Terje Håkonsen.
He is one of the most influential atletes in the history of snowboard. In the book «The way of the snowboarder», Rob Reed write that «Haakonsen took the young sport of snowboarding and revolutionized nearly every aspect of it».
Håkonsen dominated freestyle competition in the 90ties. He won the (ISF) world championship in halfpipe 3 times: 1993, 1995 og 1997. In the europian championship in halfpipe he won all the championship he participated (1991,1992, 1993, 1994 og 1997). Håkonsen won the US open in halfpipe 3 times (1992, 1993 og 1995), and Mt. Baker Banked Slalom 7 times (1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 og 2012). I 2007 Håkonsen set a new world record for «highest air», when he reached 9.8m from the top of the quaterpipe with a backside 360 at the The Arctic Challenge competiton in Oslo.
I'm from Norway and watching your videos and understand what you're saying as well as I understand Norwegian
im in the tenth grade, sometimes i will put my writings for english class into wordcounter, and it's always funny when it says 'college graduate' on the reading level
Check out terje haakonsen first descent, thats some norwegian snowboarding for You...
We do eat whale meat here in Norway, but it's important to understand that it's not from any of the endangered species. Definitely a must try if you're going to Norway I think, as it's a kind of meat you have never, ever tried before. Extremely tender and moist!
When it comes to the weather.. It's really up and down. And will change a lot depending on where you are in Norway. If you're in the south-east of the country, which is where I live you will have very typical european weather. What makes the difference is that it can be very cold in the winter. But it's usually a lot like what you experience on the east coast of the US. The last summers the weather has been amazing where i live. With very little to no rainfall and a very hot weather. In the north however.. OH MY! That's a bit chilly for most of us I think. Even in the summer. We do need to adjust to the winter however. The days will get a lot shorter. I go to work while it's dark and I get home when it's dark. Thats just how it is.
If you want to catch the northern light, you have to go to the north, while it's dark.
In the very south, you might get lucky, if there just was a heavy sun flare, but you wouldn't appreciate it as you would in the north.
When I have seen northern light far south, there's been news about the possibility, but even then, it's more like it's just noticable when you look for it, but you probably wouldn't notice if you didn't know.
How impressive the experience would be, is very depending on the current sun-activity. And of course you need dark night sky, no clouds, and not too much artificial lights around to brighten the night sky.
About the weather in Norway; the guy in the film probably hasn't been to scotland: blazing sunshine one minute and torrential rain the next...that's something most england/scotland travelers know. :-)
Its the same i norway it can change in 5 min
Hi,
regarding the beggars - they could be 1) sevear drug addicts , or mostly 2) people organised & bussed in from south-eastern European countries, in order to do this begging activity. The Norwegian welfare state cater for most domestic peoples’ incidents or problems.
Just to mention Norway is quite long, North to South. Approx 2500 kilometers.
If you pivot Norway from it’s most southern point the land will almost reach the mediterranian ocean. I.e. close to Africa….
Very good video and thank you for so many nice things said about us Norwegians. Very good that it was taken with what is also negative. What the man said in the video was absolutely correct.😃
I live in Sjøvegan in Troms county when you go to the shops you will peoples cars still car running outside of the shops when it gets cold around 20c minus ,and its still there when you come out .
I LOVE this content
Regarding the prices when it comes to eating out in Oslo, Norway, you have to ask around for a more reasonably priced place! Ask people on the street, they will be happy to talk to you, and most Norwegians speak good English. Also ask the foreigners! There are lots of immigrants in Norway, and they will know the more hidden places where you can get like kebab and falafel lots cheaper than going to McDonalds or a restaurant on the main street. And remember the place Punjab Tandoori in Grønland, which is east in Oslo, there you can get a full meal for $10 even in 2022.
But if you want Norwegian food, I can't help you there as I never eat that kind of food out lol.
Se have a village in the tip of Norway, south. They are mini us. They even have a unic dialect that is almost 50% american. They have an am car parade 24th of June and a big celebration. Its in Lista area.
Talking about weather; Karasjok has had +50C during summers and down to -50C in winter... I don't think there's any place on Earth which has this extreme difference in temperature where people live.
If you gonna drive from south of Norway to the end up north, it is around half the way of driving from New York to Las Vegas. The municipality I am living in is very big; when you drive into it, you need drive nearly 100 miles before you're out of it.
Kvikk lunsj ("Quick lunch") is a chocolate that we always bring with us when we go into the mountains, visit lakes, go skiing etc.
Regarding drunk people; that is something for Oslo. You will barely ever witness that other places. Oslo is such a shit hole, I have lived in one of the posh suburbs of it, Bærum while I worked downtown Oslo as a host/bouncer in Norway's largest restaurant; so I've really seen what Oslo is. Don't make it as your main destination, ever. It is also a very ugly city. Only real cool thing about Oslo are those Viking museums.
Regarding English in the population here in the Scandinavian and Nordic countries (Finland is a Nordic country, not Scandinavian); Scandinavians are fluent in English, while the Finn's English is horrible. Not even the 911 can talk English there. My uncle had a stroke not long ago in Finland, and they had real problems communicating with the Finns. He was fortunately taken by ambulance helicopter that was sent from Norway to pick him up in Finland (we really have great insurances when it comes to being Norwegians and health in most countries if you should get ill).
06:20 I think he speaks from personal experience. As someone who's been in the service industry for a decade+, we're focused on providing *good* service as much as possible, otherwise customers don't come back. Foreigner or local, doesn't matter, so I think that's mostly anecdotal. You're quite right that a tourist will probably get the same service as a local, though. No "special treatment", but I'd say service is pretty good if you go to an establishment that looks like it should have it.
Also Norwegian black sheep here, I don't ski. Or snowboard. Or do much winter sports at all, really.
Another good video from you! You should really visit Norway at some point in your life! 😁 What made you decide to to Norway-reactions?
Wolter is right, Norway is really expensive. I've been to Norway twice. On my 2nd trip I did what all Germans do, travel with the Hurtigrouten (ship) from Bergen to the North Cape, wonderful.
The level of service you will get in Norwegian shops, restaurants and hotels are not as friendly and sparkly as say US, UK or Asia. If I as a native, goes in to a gas station to buy a sausage, the young person serving won't even look at me. Just performing their chores in a bored manner... I travel a lot and this is always such a surprise experience after beeing away for a few months. I think most of Europe is similar.
The reason why some see Norway as very expensive is if you treat yourself as a tourist. Hotel prices are same as in US I think, but the restaurant food and drinks are expensive even to us. As a native I eat out maybe 2-3 times a month as cooking is a way more affordable option. So to make it less expensive: Book an Airbnb with a kitchenette and cook youself. Fresh fish, shrimp, meat and beer are way less expensive this way!
I visit India often and they always ask what spices are Norwegians favourite... Salt and pepper... Thats it! 😅 So yes, our traditional food are blah and boring. However... most homes here make Italian, Asian and Mexican food weekly so we get by! 😅
Thanx again for another fun video! Browsing your channels have quickly become a daily habit of mine 🤩
Also what is that red and blue bottle in the background? 🔎
The beggers are mainly not Norwegian, they are from me eastern Europe. Not many on be iOS drunk people, but in Oslo you may see some. Og course it's expensive in Oslo, but its not like that everywhere. Travel times are longer then the maps show, but you can get from south to north in Oslo- Tromsø in 21hours.
He asked for a quick snack. Kvikk lunsj means Quick Lunch and its common to eat if you are a bit hungry. Chocolate. KitKat. Its very famous . Poor review
Love your videos ❤ are you doing anything special for reaching 10k subs?
The Northern lights are visible in Oslo and Bergen, but very rarely. If you want to be sure, you need to go much further north, like Tromsø. There you find companies that have a NL guarantee.
There are two types of homeless people. You have some drug addicts but most of them have a hospice room or apartment even if they have fallen asleep on the streets.
We also have a number of illegal immigrants who do not have a residence permit in Norway. They are not entitled to help from the Norwegian state.
These are not Norwegians but people who travel around only to beg on the streets in all the big cities in Europe. this is a problem because we cannot throw them out as long as they have a passport from an EU country due to the EEA agreement we have with the EU, but it is also not our duty to take care of them, so no one does anything with them before they break Norwegian law. In Norway, it is not illegal to beg.
You can experience the Aurora borealis/Northern Lights in Americas, in Canada for the most part.
Beggars in Norway aren’t Norwegian citizens and that’s why they are begging. As they do not have permission to work in Norway, and they aren’t actually allowed to stay here at all.
250 gram hamburgers are coming close to 400nkr at restaurants these days, which is around 75-80 USD. Yeah, prices are crazy here.
As so many have already said, the beggars are mostly from Romania. Norway is not a member of EU, but they have a lot of agreements that kind of makes it part of it. And one rule in the EU is that all citizens are free to move between the countries, and can stay 3 months without any visas or permits. So the Romani (gypsy) people, that are treated horribly in Romania, travels between countries, begging.
We are skiing, skating and snow boarding.
As a Norwegian, I can validate that what he say is true, although as several other comments say - very few of the beggars are Norwegian. Most of them are Romanian that come here only to earn money by begging and recycling bottles.
Northern lights are quite rare to see, because it needs to be quite cold and very dry weather to get it. It's also a good thing to get away from city lights to see them.
I'm from the south of Norway and the summers here are in general warm and lovely. Expensive? I don't find the prices shocking, but then again...I know where to go for a meal and a good glas of wine. 🙂 The food? The best seafood you can wish for and a lot of places where you can get international dishes. Another country in Europe where most people speaks English (just like in Scandinavia) Is The Netherlands.
Norway is 3 expensive country in the world, that says a lot so keep your mouth shut!!
Tipping is not "mandatory" in Norway. But optional if you are above average satisfied.
Wherever you pay as you order, tip is never expected.
In a restaurant where you are seated, gets table service, and pay when you're done, it's not uncommon to round to 100s, or toss in some change if you pay cash.
It's not like the need tip added to their paycheck, but it's a nice way to say thank you for service above expectations.
However at nicer restaurants, there might be some expectations about tip, but stil not mandatory.
Norwegians are usually the best tippers when they are abroad. Swedes on the other hand are cheap (gjerrige) 😉
Snowboard is popular here👍
The weather 😂🙌🏼 when he said it was may, i laughed. That is the worst month of the year and the most unstable 😂 it can be like 30 degrees celcius and sun on monday, snow on tuesday and rainstorm on wednesday
Extreme weather in Norway? I have not experienced that and I have lived here all my life, 60 years.
The reason the nordic countries are so shockingly expensive to foreigners, is the resonable living wages. You dont need second or third jobs to pay your bare nessecities, even with the taxes, which is also why tipping is not a thing. Waiting staff or SA's does not depend on it. The indivifual tippibg and WAT-rules in each Ametican state can actually make travelling in America a great deal more expected than you would be prepsred for, because it's a hidden expence.
Another thibg that raises food prices in particular are their quality. If one avoids the pre-packed foods, Scandinsviens in general have better quality; There' vedgetables with every meal and foods are'nt filled with corn starch and high levels if salt to make it taste like... something.
I think I can speak for a lot of longer term travellers and ex-pat's, that weight gain is shockingly easy in the states... I also experienced much greater problems with my autoimmune issues, un-till I gound a market thay carried fresh beggies and non-processed obtions.
When talking about "service" being bad, it is once again the wages. An SA dos'nt have to lick the floor for a costumer, just because they have money.
Because Scandinavia is so much more equal, the service industry, food-indudtry etc. does actually allow their employees to have dignity.
One thing I learned when living in America is how humiliating those jobs are. A lot of people with even just a middle class income expect servers etc.to gravell and treat them like kings and queens (hell, I dont even think our Queen expect that treatment, when she runs around in public with a hotdog and juicebox 🤣).
There's no basic respect because it is much more of an individualistic attitude, than the communal mindset in Scandinavien.
In Denmark we have a fraise; "To resoect the hand's work", meaning that regardless what you do, regardless how you "use your hand in work/whoch job you have" you deserve basic respect as a humsn - and you can turn away costumers who are rude og humiliati g, bevause you do not depend on tips, to survive.
Onviously some jobs are mpre attractive, knoeing gull well the work hours' placement in a day, the exposure to dangers (hygiene, disease,physical strain) but still, work and people in themselves deserve respect.
To clarify what he meant by "worse service", in the US, tipping is a regular thing, in Norway, minimum wage is pretty good and usually you get paid more than that too, therefore, tipping isn't really a thing unless you really want to tip. Therefore, waiters etc. don't go above and beyond to service you well, unlike in the US where they try to provide the best service possible to hopefully get tipped.
Also disagree with him saying that it's not rare to see drunk people in daytime. I don't think I've ever seen anyone drunk in the streets in the daytime in my life.
You should try and find the norwegian show, Alt for norge. Americans with norwegian heritage, competing to meet their norwegian family.
4:47 go to kristiansand in the summer, it’s mostly guaranteed to be hot.
5:45 we have to follow the mountains so if it isn’t in a city, there will be a lot of swings.
7:16 unless you’re Chinese, Chinese have a reputation to skip lines and be annoying to businesses. (not to attack Chinese, it’s just what I’ve heard)
9:26 nobody expects any part of the us to be good in 2023.
10:49 kvikk lunsj is not Kitt kat. We have two main types of sausages in Norway, the grilling kind and the cooking kind.
14:20 opposite to the us where Americans only think it’s awesome in the us
Chilly in May and June? Where is he, obviously way up north. In Oslo its normally around 12-15 degrees in May and June around 18. We have hot summers from time to time with up to 30 degrees celsius. But normally in the 20’s. Winters can be cold, but this winter it hasnt been more than -10 max. Mostly from 0 to - 4. i think people exaggerate way too much regarding the weather. It all depends where in Norway you visit cause it can be very different and of course when you travel.
The Kvikk Lunsj is very similar to a KitKat I guess. Never tried a KitAt, but they look pretty much the same.
Except the carboard flavor;). I don’t know, the chocolate is too sweet and taste more like the chocolate you get in cheap chocolate xmas calendars. Theres other good american chocolate though:) like Godiva
No, it's not the same. Kvikk Lunsj is not a Kit Kat.
Hi😊, I'm from Norway, one thing I hate is that it's very cold, can you react to popular norwegian youtubers in your next video?
Its not true that the food is bad, it depends on where you get the food or what you like, but the chocolates in Norway are way better here than in America. One time I tasted it in America and I felt bad that they don’t have the same candy we have
I went to the Capital Grille Las Vegas and the price was higher or ekvivalent to Norwegian prices for fine dinting But I agree dining out in Norway is more expensive than the cheapest alternative in the USA as long as you dont factor in the 20+ % tip expected by the unrepaid American waiter.
There is a reason that some might think our service is bad, that we don't pack the grocery bags for you at the store. Or go out of our way to do services that you would get in America for example. Cause it costs money!
In many places they can afford someone being at work only to pack your bags. Cause the work force is very cheap and live partly on tips. That is not the case here. Such a worker would be very expensive to keep for something a grown person should be able to do on their own
YES, in Norway you can snowboard, ski or go on telemark ski
Its not a KitKat, its way better. And the «tortilla» the sausage is in, its made from potatoes and not the typical tortilla americans are used to.
This is great, so far you have only seen the cream. It's vital to include the good the bad and tge ugly.
I've been to New York, and the prices there were not lower than the prices I'm used to in Norway. Norway is expensive, but not much more expensive than comparable countries.
You don't have to go to Norway for the northern light.........you can go anywhere high north. Alaska would also be great. But then again, maybe Norway is a bit more accessible with more towns and cities in the north. ...............but very expensive. :D
Now is a very good time to visit Norway. The Norwegian krone is weak, so you get around 10 kroner for 1 dollar!! The other way around for me unfortunately. Things in the US is now getting very expensive when we visit.
Not agree about the service. Waiters here doesn't depend on getting tip. They have a solid salary. So they don't have to sell them self in. But they will always give you good service. Just in another way kinda. They stay in the background and come over to your table when you give them a sign. And it's normal to give some tip anyway. Mostly at restaurants and bars. And the service in shops are also good. The staff comes up to you asking if you want some help. Most people says no thanks. Norwegians like to go in shops and look for their own, so the staff stays in the background, ready to help. So if you want help, just ask. So It's not the service that are bad, it's just a different kind of connection between customer and staff that can seem a bit strange for tourists. That's how we like it. If Norwegians go to USA most of us get a little overwhelmed by all the service. Nothing wrong with that, we're just not use to it. Different cultures 😊
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Yeah well, some people still got quite a accent though. 😛
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Well...
Yeah, it's amazing.
But it's a form of *weather* even if it's *space* weather.
So don't hold your breath about that...
Some *years* we'll have next to no northern lights.
Others there's a lot of them.
But even in years with a lot of northern lights you may get weeks of no northern lights etc.
It's *very* unpredictable.
Although if you do your research and plan according to the solar cycles etc you can increase your chances *significantly*.
Just remember that it's *still* a dice role.
I think you find thats an English KitKat renamed it was made in York in 1935 in York rowntrees. So below gs to the English not Norway
Kvikk Lunsj is the same as a Kit Cat, only it tastes good 🙂
Not the same
its BETTERR! its the same CONCEPT, but with better chocholate (Freia chocholate is the best)
@@fasterstrongfaster It looks the same, and they are built the same, with chocolate and wafers of some kind of crackers inside, so yes, they are the same. ua-cam.com/video/7ADG5qmIUok/v-deo.html
@@YuiAnine Agreed, freia is best
@@Jokim_Animations If someone likes Anything else the best, they have a problem :,(
many norwegians do go snowboarding, and not everyone loves skiing but everyone knows how to ski
We got alot of gold in snowboard too🤣😁
There are som bloggers trying foods in oslo, ypu should react to that
Id say its probably not as expensive as it used to be, since the Krone is pretty weak now, and it has been for a while, so you can get more money for your money.
I consume way more English speaking content than Norwegian.
I listen to English audiobooks, I watch English speaking shows and movies, and preferably without subtitles (because my adhd makes them too distracting and they're not really necessary).
One super-annoying consequence of all this is that quite often know the English words and names for stuff, but would not be able to tell you the Norwegian one.
I try to make a point of expanding my Norwegian vocabulary, but (although it is definitely doable) because of how small Norway is there are fewer options on how to do that.
I have a word-of-the-day widget which teaches me a new English word daily, a bunch of UA-cam channels that can teach me everything I could think of regarding the English language, but almost nothing similar to teach me my own.
1. The service isn’t bad, norwegians hate being bothered when shopping. So giving distance is a service.
2. The beggars are often from eastern europe, sending money home.
3. Norway has been top 3 in Bocuse d’Or (Chef competition) the last 5 times, winning it once. Or not been top three only 6 times since 1987 and won the comp 5 times, USA has only won it once ever. So yeah, a hot dog in a kiosk can be boring, but if you’re living on a budget 🤷♂️
When it comes to pricing the video you are reacting to were made when the USD was muted weaker compared to the NOK so the 7$ dollar hot dog is now about 5$
If you want to go to Norway, this is a _great_ time to do it, because right now, the USDNOK is such that you would get a 40-50% discount on everything in Norway. In fact, the Norwegian Krone is a _great_ investment opportunity as an American, because the dollar is exceptionally high and the Krone is exceptionally low.
Norwegian food is not blah! There are alot of asian restaurants here that have very nice prices. Many other nice low prices places to eat but Oslo is a expensive city. Especially the typical tourist places. We dont normally eat much whalemeat anymore. I think you have alot norwegian UA-cam friends now that loves your videos. Sure they would really like to help you come here.
Its not totally safe, there are some drug addicts that can use drug in the mid of the train and this is a story that happen to my friend, she was just shopping in a mall and she was gonna set her backpack outside of one of the stores (this is normal in some small places in Norway so the employees know that u won’t steal anything in the shops) and when she came out it was gone so she asked the security and they walked to the cameras to see what happened and it was a drug addicted woman that was known from the police already had steal her backpack and run away. This could happen to anyone and quite often happens of drug addicts in large cities in Norway.
Check out Terje Håkonsen. He is a pro snowboarder;)