>>2681596>Norway isn't easymodeIt absolutely is. Even compared to the US, if Norway were a US state a lot of people would flock there asap.
In Norway you have:
- high salaries even for very basic jobs where you don't have to study. Being a normal ambulance driver allows you to make 60-80k€ before taxes easily, a nurse in a hospital as well, even more from what I'm hearing at first hand. All that while having a 35h week with a low work intensity.
- medium taxes on salaries, first 18k€ are kind of tax-free
- lots of social services and a decent health insurance included, you get nice benefits for each kid etc, the study loan is generous and so on. In the bigger picture you save more than in Switzerland!
- Buying a house starts at 80k€ outside of popular regions, getting a small but non-rotten house for 150k€ is easily doable unless one wants to live in Oslo, Tromsø or newly hyped shitholes such as Bodø. So you can buy a proper house with a normal salary within 7 years on a single normal salary, desu even quicker.
- living costs are not much higher than in the rest of Europe or cheap (electricity)/free (water)
- the first 10 years in school are free of grades and chill, no need to succeed in higher education
>but there is very little room to get rich from being employedLol if you go an oil platform you will make 8000-15000€ plus after taxes (!) per month as a welder or another simple job while paying little offshore. If you start that at 18 you will be a millionaire by 30.
Besides that you can easily start a business, there is little competition for a lot of things. Yes, Norway is not perfect and it has its downsides.
>We're not richMany are. A lot of Norwegians tend to waste their money immediately on crap, sweets (lots of obese trolls walking around) and alcohol but that's a spending problem.
