You are absolutely right in your assumption. In the video it is said that 1/4 of Norway's population lives in the "north". It is wrong 8% live there - or about 450,000.
it actually said that "a fourth of norwegians who live north of trondheim are heavily dependent on maritime transport". not that a forth live above trondheim. easy to misunderstand tough.
Norwegian here. The original video is great, but it has some errors. The fact that Norwegian Airports are so busy, is because our Railway is not optimized and lack funding. Sure it's well connected around the Capital Oslo, but if you are going from say Bergen to Trondheim (2nd. to 3. largest cities) you need to make a massive detour. Bergen is far west, but you need to go by Train all the way east to Oslo, then turn north on a different route, it's very slow and inefficient. Not to mention major parts of the north does not have Railway at all. Thus making planes the best option in many cases, if you want to arrive the same day. And planes are not eco friendly. Also, fun fact: The Follo Line opened early 2023, but had to close after a few days due to a fire in the electric grid, and has not opened again yet. It's gotten a lot of criticism mainly because of the huge cost, and the delays it now creates being closed. Otherwise great reaction and you seem to be very well educated about Scandinavia in general, nice.
Simply told: The "jagged-ness" of Norway was what forced Norway to become boat farers, i.e. the Viking Era started in Norway. The danish and swedish people is trying to tell THEY were vikings. Yeah - right. WHY would there be a need to have viking ships in forest infested flat countries like denmark / sweden? In Norway EVEN TODAY it is impossible to get to places without boats. The Norwegian Viking era started with small boats that were refined over thousands of years to finally becoming viking ships. Vikingry THEN spread to denmark and sweden when the Norwegian (the real) Vikings started to use their ships to rob other countries. The settlements found in denmark was just remains from the Norwegian viking camps as they needed to use denmark as a outhouse after crossing the ocean from Norway.
Knowing how the politics work, then seeing that road ready during our lifetime, might not happen. The train passage supposed to go from my town to the capitol, was literally planned from about 120 years ago. The politicians still say they are going to build it, but still nothing is happening.
Loved Stavanger, whilst working at Sola the local airport. A beautiful town and scenery at the end of a fjord. Went to Andøya too, a couple of years before that and that was interesting shall I say, also scenic but a little bleak even though we had 24 hour daylight, just glad we went in May/June. Still have a certificate that the Norwegian Airforce guys gave us to say we were 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Great people and really worth a visit.
Another example of that we work to NOT waste money; Every lottery from Norsk Tipping, with a high payout, gives the winners free financial advices. This last saturday, there were 4 winners that won just shy of NOK7,8M. Each one of those gets free financial advice on how to spend, save, invest the money so that they don't waste it. Of course it's up to each one if they accept the advices, but they get it. And THAT I think is really nice. That's why lots of millionaires in Norway don't go on a spending spree, but lives normal lives :)
The hydroelectric power network kept the lights on for decades before wind turbines were ever considered, and most people consider the newly installed wind turbines as just being there for political reasons (since we have to keep up with the global masquerade of us being an incorrupt country, no politicians lined their pockets with wind power investments of course), with nuclear power plants already being considered as a better alternative. Billions were invested into a natural gas power plant, which was shut down before coming operational, throwing that money out the window. Most of our natural gas is exported to the British Isles as well as mainland Europe through underwater pipelines. Our carbon footprint is well hidden behind selling clean power abroad when we have excess, and importing foreign power when our water magazines run low - foreign power often coming from coal plants. Cars have typically cost 3 times or more the price you pay for the same car in the US, but EVs were heavily subsidized so they cost about the same as you pay for EVs in the US, and EVs also had the benefit of reduced cost or most often free usage of toll roads, parking, ferry pricing, taxation and other associated costs, and since the most of these cars were often above the budget of families who couldn't afford the price of a new car, affluent people were the ones who benefited the most from all the reduced or removed costs until EVs started entering the used car market. I could go on, but... So yeah, we may have a lot of things to be proud of, but we're kind of the best kid in school that gets overhyped by the teachers and parents, and despite what we might have as a well-earned reputation, there is a dark side to each of the medals we hold, and we're very good at both hiding corruption and pretending to be better than we are (even though lots of the rumours have their basis in facts), our politicians have always been puppets of stronger global powers like NATO, the US, the EU, the WEF and so on, with their influence over both media and politics, and our giant pension fund is also being used as another hammer in the ESG-based investment strategy. In other words, we're absolutely perfect.
What gas power plant was shut down before it was operational? Both Kårstø and Mongstad operated for a while. Kårstø didn't last long as the gas price was to high compared to electricity prices. Mongstad operated until the end of 2022 and is now in standby in case of emergency. Both of them were built and operated by the oil/gas companies operating the terminals they were built at. The only gas plant left now is at Melkøya gas terminal by Hammerfest. I should also point out that non of these have produced power for the national grid. They have only been used to run the gas terminals.
For more than a 100 years now, the principle has been that Norway's natural resources belong to the people of Norway. Resources that are still in the ground are not yours until you get them out of there. Thus, the oil and gas companies get licences to drill and develop the oild fields. And whatever they make from the oil and gas is taxed at 78%. If you don'æt find anuthing or you don't develope a field, it reverts back to the government which can then give it to somebody else. Be aware, that in the video used, not all imagaery is form Norway, and not all of it is from where the narrator's at.
What he said about norway having among the lowest GDP before oil is so wrong and annyoing. Norway was top 10 richest/highest GDP even before oil, higher than Sweden... Norway was never poor in any way, compared to other countries at the time
Norway was underdeveloped and dirt poor in 1905 when it became independent from Sweden. That is what the video is referring to, not 1969 (the year of the discovery of oil).
@@Argflugan @Argflugan If Norway was poor in 1905, then i guess USA was poor aswell as they had the same GDP. Its a HUGE misconception that norway was poor before oil, or in 1905 as you say, even tho i did say before oil. Norways GDP was fairly higher than any scandinavian countries, and it had the same GDP as USA. Do some research before you comment wrongful info like that, things that you just come up with on the top of your head or heard someone say lol. Norway had the highest GDP in 1905 or even before that aswell, as a single country, than any scandinavian countries, which again was higher than most of Europe, if not all even back then. Are you one of those who still cant admit defeat?
The problem when it comes to "green Norway". and yes...I'm Norwegian, is that we actually produce 98% from green energy sources. BUT, then we export a lot of it, and by "dyrty" energy back from coal, oil and gas. It looks great at paper...but...
Hammerfest( worlds northern most town) was the first town in Europe that got electricity in 1891. it lasted a whole hour before it failed and they were out of power for a year 😂
Norway creation myth, Ragnar went to the north pole, stole Merry and then opened the first IKEA kit in 1943 BC, created Sweden, then Norway, and retired in Finland. Design flow has followed the path of Santa searching for his lost wife ever since.
@@oh515 Only because we mapped the coastline with extreme detail, down to the exact millimeter, covering every tiny detail. If other countries mapped their coastline the way Norway did it, it would no longer be 2nd. Having this precise mapping of the coast is not really necessary anyway
@@Mrlonefighter Yes, that's correct and must be taken into consideration. Norway has several reasons for needing to be more accurate in its measurements. We are a maritime nation, and 80 percent of the population lives along the coast. This means that everything from safety, property, and rights, to conservation, falls under its scope. So, maybe we are number seven or eight after all.
The 60th paralell runs 20 km north of Oslo. Follow that paralell arround the globe and you'l see how far north we actually are. Now, 70th paralell also runs through Norway. Now we are talkin..
The Rogfast tunnel is not that far North (Hordaland), it's in the county to the South (Rogaland). Clearly the person making the original video have gotten his info from someone who knows no better either. :D
To think or believe that Norway has no or very little corruption is a narrative thats wrong. Corruption in Norway is very hidden. Not like money is exchanged directly from one person to another and openly as it is in other countries. No, its by making deals, and contracts behind the scenes and giving collaboration partners, friends and family advantages. Its more difficult to disclose this type of corruption.
Ha ha.. That Follobanen was a scandal, closing just hours afte the King opened the line. And the Rogfast road will not happen in the same way as planned.
What is different with Rogfast? I've seen no changes in the construction plans. The problem was the cost increase that had to be approved. They recently started on one of the main contracts with the first blast of the actual tube.
I love that they always boast in these videos about how green we are and how we get 98% from renewable hydro-energy, which is true, however, they always neglect to tell people that the vast majority of that electricity will go on to be sold off to foreign nations. This way, demand and prices remain insanely high. It's a horrible scheme when you zoom out from the microscope view. Of course, power is difficult to store, so in a way, it has to go somewhere, but the people don't see any of the returns for all that power sold, it would be nice if it supported our grid so we could have lower prices.
----- - It really irks me when I hear Norway has such a well built Telcom network. The first thing is the Cellphone coverage, the gluttonous mindset behind that infrastructure is mind-boggling, to say the least. In an ironic sort of way, it's actually comparable to 'Oliver Twist'. Secondly, there's the Internet portion of the Telcom network. Norway certainly has its challenges in this regard, but the disproportions in how they built it is astounding, to put it mildly. And in many ways, just as gluttonous as with the Cellphone coverage, however, the topography is a huge issue. Funnily enough, just the other way around... -----
The fact that you never explain what is gluttonous about how the infrastructure was built, makes it very hard to understand what you mean(Are they gluttonous in wanting to much coverage, did they make to much money for you and who was gluttonous? Was it the government mandating what coverage had to be built by telecom companies or was it the telecom companies being gluttonous?). Also the second to last sentence makes no sense as I think your punctuation might be connecting the wrong things or I just have no idea what you mean, and that is a distinct possibility here.
So, how can we afford to be that eco friendly? The answer is simple; we sell oil to the rest of the world. Im ok with that, because I am old enough to remember that we used to be a potato field. The younger generations are happy to look away from that fact, so they think that if we stop selling oil, we will not go back to farming potatoes for a living. But in fact, all our wealth comes from oil. Not from grandiose ideas of being the best in class. Pre-oil, we were a developing country. In other words, in 1960-ish most people hating on the oil would be dead from malnutrition before the age of 5. Dont be so ungrateful of what your grandparents did. It made you possible.
If Norway is "incredibly well designed" explain how the North of the country pays next to nothing for electricity whilst the South pays amongst the highest rates in the World. Good design would imply they had a solution to the biggest problems they face, they do not.
The geography is horrible for transportation, but they found oil and used it mostly sensibly to just build around all the obstacles in addition to funding a national pension fund 😄 /not at all jealous Swede
Norwegian her,trust me our goverment knows how to waste money on bs,we spent 60 million nok on a small roundabout with fancy blue ice like concrete😂looks hideous and the concrete looks white in hot weather😂
As a Norwegian I can tell you our roads sucks. It was even on the news a while back that even countries like Albania eastern Europe Balkans has better roads than us, and we are one of the richest countries in the world. CRINGE! Rome wasn’t built in a day, yet they where better on road quality and craftsmanship. And you’d think that with today’s knowledge and technology that that would almost be the case, to be built in a short amount of time. I grew up in the 90’s and 2000’s. In my mind they where better at laying asphalt back then than today. Now days, sloppy as hell. And we’d never say that Oslo is in the south, but east. It’s literally called “østlandet» aka the Eastern country. The west coast are all the stereotypical famous fjords, to the south you got sandy white beaches, as you do several places believe it or not, just not in and around Oslo. Norway is diverse when it comes to landscapes, as we also got deep forests, fields, and tundra… and it’s 5,5 million now if I’m not mistaken. «The current population of Norway is 5,536,858 as of Tuesday, March 28, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.» Not saying there isn’t corruption, but compared to others yes less. This has a lot to do with the society we live in, and our culture, as it’s highly based on trust. Why what happens in the US would never happen here, as it wouldn’t fly. Of course politicians lies, and makes promises they never seem to keep, but still we trust them enough, as well as our laws, human rights and equality, seeing Norway has a well functioning democracy, for it to never develop into the mess that’s now America.
Norway has a population of five million, spending tens of billions on transport infrastructure that it doesn't really need.... But Norway has so much money that it needs to spend it somewhere.
We're a social democratic country, not a democrat socialist country like Venezuela. Big differences! We have big and small social problems for our peoples benefit, but we're also big Ass capitalists like "merca!!"
@@martingundersen6164 I Know, I was just poking fun at the silly American attitude of fear and suspicion towards anything that even hints of being "socialist", Social medical care, social housing,social anything.......AHHHHH!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!! IT;S SOCIAL!!!!!!!!!! this might make us communist, LOL!!!!!
Oh my God, how wrong you are. I live in Norway, and we have the badest road ever. And Norway is the most corupt country, without democrasy. So you are just repeating the corupt story the gouvernment is telling. Shame on you for retelling the story from a corupt gouvernment!
You do know that other countries also have whaling outside of Norway, Iceland and Japan. Like the US in Alaska were the Yupik and Iñupiat people kill more whales than Norway does. And dolphins are killed an mass when people are fishing for tuna, something we don't do in Norway. We hunt whales for food as we have done for centuries from a sustainable source. We have never hunted anything for sports, unlike let's say, in the UK and fox hunting. So what's your point? You are the reason why normal people hate vegetarians and vegans.
@@ankra12 Please use your own advise, read up. We got White-beaked dolphin estimated around 100.000 of them, we got Atlantic white-sided dolphin estimated 10.000. And I see Orcas all the time. Also got others but they are more rare. But we don't hunt any of them. And we don't hunt for sports.
As a norwegian i love boosting my ego by watching videos about how good it is to live in Norway.
Same here.. but then I remember I no longer live in Norway x)
Same here, but not really very impressive to be one of the greenest countries when our country is oweflowing with hydro energy tho
Du mener: Som en idiot.....
@@harald489 I mean, Sweden is better tho. Norway is Sweden light.
I mean, Sweden is better tho. Norway is Sweden light.
Slartibartfast designed the fjords. He loved doing all the squiggly bits.
Sad it all got destroyed
I don't understand why this isn't more widely known. Slartibartfast rules.
Show off
I'm sure that will totally confuse Connor?
Crinkly edges
As someone working in logistics in southwestern Norway, I don’t really have the impression that Norway is “insanely well designed”. 😂
There is still a job to be done. It takes time to blast through steep mountains and build bridges over large bodies of water.
You are absolutely right in your assumption. In the video it is said that 1/4 of Norway's population lives in the "north". It is wrong 8% live there - or about 450,000.
it actually said that "a fourth of norwegians who live north of trondheim are heavily dependent on maritime transport". not that a forth live above trondheim. easy to misunderstand tough.
@@orbmaniac7645 You are absolutely right - I probably heard more about the reaction to McJibbin.
Norwegian here. The original video is great, but it has some errors. The fact that Norwegian Airports are so busy, is because our Railway is not optimized and lack funding. Sure it's well connected around the Capital Oslo, but if you are going from say Bergen to Trondheim (2nd. to 3. largest cities) you need to make a massive detour. Bergen is far west, but you need to go by Train all the way east to Oslo, then turn north on a different route, it's very slow and inefficient. Not to mention major parts of the north does not have Railway at all. Thus making planes the best option in many cases, if you want to arrive the same day. And planes are not eco friendly.
Also, fun fact: The Follo Line opened early 2023, but had to close after a few days due to a fire in the electric grid, and has not opened again yet. It's gotten a lot of criticism mainly because of the huge cost, and the delays it now creates being closed.
Otherwise great reaction and you seem to be very well educated about Scandinavia in general, nice.
Simply told: The "jagged-ness" of Norway was what forced Norway to become boat farers, i.e. the Viking Era started in Norway. The danish and swedish people is trying to tell THEY were vikings. Yeah - right. WHY would there be a need to have viking ships in forest infested flat countries like denmark / sweden? In Norway EVEN TODAY it is impossible to get to places without boats. The Norwegian Viking era started with small boats that were refined over thousands of years to finally becoming viking ships. Vikingry THEN spread to denmark and sweden when the Norwegian (the real) Vikings started to use their ships to rob other countries. The settlements found in denmark was just remains from the Norwegian viking camps as they needed to use denmark as a outhouse after crossing the ocean from Norway.
Knowing how the politics work, then seeing that road ready during our lifetime, might not happen. The train passage supposed to go from my town to the capitol, was literally planned from about 120 years ago. The politicians still say they are going to build it, but still nothing is happening.
Loved Stavanger, whilst working at Sola the local airport. A beautiful town and scenery at the end of a fjord. Went to Andøya too, a couple of years before that and that was interesting shall I say, also scenic but a little bleak even though we had 24 hour daylight, just glad we went in May/June. Still have a certificate that the Norwegian Airforce guys gave us to say we were 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Great people and really worth a visit.
Another example of that we work to NOT waste money; Every lottery from Norsk Tipping, with a high payout, gives the winners free financial advices.
This last saturday, there were 4 winners that won just shy of NOK7,8M. Each one of those gets free financial advice on how to spend, save, invest the money so that they don't waste it. Of course it's up to each one if they accept the advices, but they get it. And THAT I think is really nice. That's why lots of millionaires in Norway don't go on a spending spree, but lives normal lives :)
The hydroelectric power network kept the lights on for decades before wind turbines were ever considered, and most people consider the newly installed wind turbines as just being there for political reasons (since we have to keep up with the global masquerade of us being an incorrupt country, no politicians lined their pockets with wind power investments of course), with nuclear power plants already being considered as a better alternative. Billions were invested into a natural gas power plant, which was shut down before coming operational, throwing that money out the window. Most of our natural gas is exported to the British Isles as well as mainland Europe through underwater pipelines. Our carbon footprint is well hidden behind selling clean power abroad when we have excess, and importing foreign power when our water magazines run low - foreign power often coming from coal plants.
Cars have typically cost 3 times or more the price you pay for the same car in the US, but EVs were heavily subsidized so they cost about the same as you pay for EVs in the US, and EVs also had the benefit of reduced cost or most often free usage of toll roads, parking, ferry pricing, taxation and other associated costs, and since the most of these cars were often above the budget of families who couldn't afford the price of a new car, affluent people were the ones who benefited the most from all the reduced or removed costs until EVs started entering the used car market.
I could go on, but... So yeah, we may have a lot of things to be proud of, but we're kind of the best kid in school that gets overhyped by the teachers and parents, and despite what we might have as a well-earned reputation, there is a dark side to each of the medals we hold, and we're very good at both hiding corruption and pretending to be better than we are (even though lots of the rumours have their basis in facts), our politicians have always been puppets of stronger global powers like NATO, the US, the EU, the WEF and so on, with their influence over both media and politics, and our giant pension fund is also being used as another hammer in the ESG-based investment strategy.
In other words, we're absolutely perfect.
What gas power plant was shut down before it was operational? Both Kårstø and Mongstad operated for a while. Kårstø didn't last long as the gas price was to high compared to electricity prices.
Mongstad operated until the end of 2022 and is now in standby in case of emergency.
Both of them were built and operated by the oil/gas companies operating the terminals they were built at.
The only gas plant left now is at Melkøya gas terminal by Hammerfest.
I should also point out that non of these have produced power for the national grid. They have only been used to run the gas terminals.
For more than a 100 years now, the principle has been that Norway's natural resources belong to the people of Norway. Resources that are still in the ground are not yours until you get them out of there. Thus, the oil and gas companies get licences to drill and develop the oild fields. And whatever they make from the oil and gas is taxed at 78%. If you don'æt find anuthing or you don't develope a field, it reverts back to the government which can then give it to somebody else.
Be aware, that in the video used, not all imagaery is form Norway, and not all of it is from where the narrator's at.
What he said about norway having among the lowest GDP before oil is so wrong and annyoing. Norway was top 10 richest/highest GDP even before oil, higher than Sweden... Norway was never poor in any way, compared to other countries at the time
Norway was underdeveloped and dirt poor in 1905 when it became independent from Sweden. That is what the video is referring to, not 1969 (the year of the discovery of oil).
@@Argflugan @Argflugan If Norway was poor in 1905, then i guess USA was poor aswell as they had the same GDP. Its a HUGE misconception that norway was poor before oil, or in 1905 as you say, even tho i did say before oil. Norways GDP was fairly higher than any scandinavian countries, and it had the same GDP as USA. Do some research before you comment wrongful info like that, things that you just come up with on the top of your head or heard someone say lol. Norway had the highest GDP in 1905 or even before that aswell, as a single country, than any scandinavian countries, which again was higher than most of Europe, if not all even back then.
Are you one of those who still cant admit defeat?
Norway was a developed and relatively rich , after euroen standard, long before we around oil.
The problem when it comes to "green Norway". and yes...I'm Norwegian, is that we actually produce 98% from green energy sources. BUT, then we export a lot of it, and by "dyrty" energy back from coal, oil and gas. It looks great at paper...but...
Welcome to the Rabbit Hole. ;-)
Hammerfest( worlds northern most town) was the first town in Europe that got electricity in 1891. it lasted a whole hour before it failed and they were out of power for a year 😂
Norway creation myth, Ragnar went to the north pole, stole Merry and then opened the first IKEA kit in 1943 BC, created Sweden, then Norway, and retired in Finland. Design flow has followed the path of Santa searching for his lost wife ever since.
Fun fact: The oil fund owns about 1.5% of the world stock market alone.
I am a Norwegian, born and raised, 33 years old.
videos like this makes me wanna move to Norway.
It's like i dont know my own country. lol.
2:20 the perfect word is “fractal”. Norway has the 6th longest coastline of all countries.
Norway actually has the second longest coastline, but your point is spot on. It's the fjords, and not least the many islands, that are the reason.
@@oh515 Only because we mapped the coastline with extreme detail, down to the exact millimeter, covering every tiny detail. If other countries mapped their coastline the way Norway did it, it would no longer be 2nd. Having this precise mapping of the coast is not really necessary anyway
@@Mrlonefighter
Yes, that's correct and must be taken into consideration. Norway has several reasons for needing to be more accurate in its measurements. We are a maritime nation, and 80 percent of the population lives along the coast. This means that everything from safety, property, and rights, to conservation, falls under its scope. So, maybe we are number seven or eight after all.
I live in the "giant harbor"
When you compare geography, you must remember that Norway benefits from warm currents from the gulf of Mexico, aka the Gulf stream.. .-)
I like this channel! Subscribing! :)
The 60th paralell runs 20 km north of Oslo. Follow that paralell arround the globe and you'l see how far north we actually are. Now, 70th paralell also runs through Norway. Now we are talkin..
The Rogfast tunnel is not that far North (Hordaland), it's in the county to the South (Rogaland). Clearly the person making the original video have gotten his info from someone who knows no better either. :D
To think or believe that Norway has no or very little corruption is a narrative thats wrong. Corruption in Norway is very hidden. Not like money is exchanged directly from one person to another and openly as it is in other countries. No, its by making deals, and contracts behind the scenes and giving collaboration partners, friends and family advantages. Its more difficult to disclose this type of corruption.
so you mean nepotism, which probably is so common in other countries that its not considered corruption.
Not criticising Norway or anything, but the most interesting thing in that video was what you said about the Nauru bird poo
Rogfast is under construction and will be finished in 2029.
Is it Sennheiser you are using?
My first impression: Nakamura quit chess, makes reaction vids instead.
We're not at the top of the green list any more, after they took our oil production into account.
Ha ha.. That Follobanen was a scandal, closing just hours afte the King opened the line. And the Rogfast road will not happen in the same way as planned.
What is different with Rogfast? I've seen no changes in the construction plans. The problem was the cost increase that had to be approved.
They recently started on one of the main contracts with the first blast of the actual tube.
I love that they always boast in these videos about how green we are and how we get 98% from renewable hydro-energy, which is true, however, they always neglect to tell people that the vast majority of that electricity will go on to be sold off to foreign nations. This way, demand and prices remain insanely high. It's a horrible scheme when you zoom out from the microscope view. Of course, power is difficult to store, so in a way, it has to go somewhere, but the people don't see any of the returns for all that power sold, it would be nice if it supported our grid so we could have lower prices.
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- It really irks me when I hear Norway has such a well built Telcom network.
The first thing is the Cellphone coverage, the gluttonous mindset behind that infrastructure is mind-boggling, to say the least.
In an ironic sort of way, it's actually comparable to 'Oliver Twist'.
Secondly, there's the Internet portion of the Telcom network.
Norway certainly has its challenges in this regard, but the disproportions in how they built it is astounding, to put it mildly.
And in many ways, just as gluttonous as with the Cellphone coverage, however, the topography is a huge issue.
Funnily enough, just the other way around...
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The fact that you never explain what is gluttonous about how the infrastructure was built, makes it very hard to understand what you mean(Are they gluttonous in wanting to much coverage, did they make to much money for you and who was gluttonous? Was it the government mandating what coverage had to be built by telecom companies or was it the telecom companies being gluttonous?). Also the second to last sentence makes no sense as I think your punctuation might be connecting the wrong things or I just have no idea what you mean, and that is a distinct possibility here.
Well, it still cut in two at Tysfjorden, an no political will seems to exist to bridge it.
So, how can we afford to be that eco friendly? The answer is simple; we sell oil to the rest of the world. Im ok with that, because I am old enough to remember that we used to be a potato field. The younger generations are happy to look away from that fact, so they think that if we stop selling oil, we will not go back to farming potatoes for a living. But in fact, all our wealth comes from oil. Not from grandiose ideas of being the best in class. Pre-oil, we were a developing country. In other words, in 1960-ish most people hating on the oil would be dead from malnutrition before the age of 5. Dont be so ungrateful of what your grandparents did. It made you possible.
I mean, Sweden is better tho. Norway is Sweden light.
If Norway is "incredibly well designed" explain how the North of the country pays next to nothing for electricity whilst the South pays amongst the highest rates in the World. Good design would imply they had a solution to the biggest problems they face, they do not.
i live allthe way up in the endof that map and i have the best life
R O T F L M A O
The geography is horrible for transportation, but they found oil and used it mostly sensibly to just build around all the obstacles in addition to funding a national pension fund 😄 /not at all jealous Swede
do swden
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Clearly you have never been in Norway and seen it for yourself.
Norwegian her,trust me our goverment knows how to waste money on bs,we spent 60 million nok on a small roundabout with fancy blue ice like concrete😂looks hideous and the concrete looks white in hot weather😂
Lol simping for norway smh
Well design? not so much
As a Norwegian I can tell you our roads sucks. It was even on the news a while back that even countries like Albania eastern Europe Balkans has better roads than us, and we are one of the richest countries in the world. CRINGE! Rome wasn’t built in a day, yet they where better on road quality and craftsmanship. And you’d think that with today’s knowledge and technology that that would almost be the case, to be built in a short amount of time. I grew up in the 90’s and 2000’s. In my mind they where better at laying asphalt back then than today. Now days, sloppy as hell. And we’d never say that Oslo is in the south, but east. It’s literally called “østlandet» aka the Eastern country. The west coast are all the stereotypical famous fjords, to the south you got sandy white beaches, as you do several places believe it or not, just not in and around Oslo. Norway is diverse when it comes to landscapes, as we also got deep forests, fields, and tundra… and it’s 5,5 million now if I’m not mistaken.
«The current population of Norway is 5,536,858 as of Tuesday, March 28, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.»
Not saying there isn’t corruption, but compared to others yes less. This has a lot to do with the society we live in, and our culture, as it’s highly based on trust. Why what happens in the US would never happen here, as it wouldn’t fly. Of course politicians lies, and makes promises they never seem to keep, but still we trust them enough, as well as our laws, human rights and equality, seeing Norway has a well functioning democracy, for it to never develop into the mess that’s now America.
Norway has a population of five million, spending tens of billions on transport infrastructure that it doesn't really need.... But Norway has so much money that it needs to spend it somewhere.
Well, that was an extremely ignorant and uneducated comment! I guess you're a US citizen.
BUT! BUT! It's a socialist country !!!!!!!!!!!!l.....merica!!
We're a social democratic country, not a democrat socialist country like Venezuela. Big differences! We have big and small social problems for our peoples benefit, but we're also big Ass capitalists like "merca!!"
@@martingundersen6164 I Know, I was just poking fun at the silly American attitude of fear and suspicion towards anything that even hints of being "socialist", Social medical care, social housing,social anything.......AHHHHH!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!! IT;S SOCIAL!!!!!!!!!! this might make us communist, LOL!!!!!
it is not well designes 😆
Oh my God, how wrong you are. I live in Norway, and we have the badest road ever. And Norway is the most corupt country, without democrasy. So you are just repeating the corupt story the gouvernment is telling. Shame on you for retelling the story from a corupt gouvernment!
Moron!
That's an impressive set of delusions you are displaying, man. I hope you feel better soon. 😂
norway is also one of the few countries that slaughters whales and dolphins for sport
That is stupidity. Read up. Dolphin doesen’t even live here.
For sport? We eat it with peppersaus and fries!
You do know that other countries also have whaling outside of Norway, Iceland and Japan. Like the US in Alaska were the Yupik and Iñupiat people kill more whales than Norway does. And dolphins are killed an mass when people are fishing for tuna, something we don't do in Norway. We hunt whales for food as we have done for centuries from a sustainable source. We have never hunted anything for sports, unlike let's say, in the UK and fox hunting. So what's your point?
You are the reason why normal people hate vegetarians and vegans.
@@ankra12 Please use your own advise, read up. We got White-beaked dolphin estimated around 100.000 of them, we got Atlantic white-sided dolphin estimated 10.000. And I see Orcas all the time. Also got others but they are more rare. But we don't hunt any of them. And we don't hunt for sports.
No. Wrong.