How can anyone live in Norway?

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:32 am

A lots of people in Norway goes over the border to Sweden to buy cheap food, alchohol, etc.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:36 am

Bonne_den_kule wrote:But the average net income is very high in Norway

That's interesting, how much is the net income for a IT-engineer with about 20 years experience?

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:39 am

I guess 500 000 NOK before taxes, (71000$).
Not sure.

List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... per_capita

World
6,411

1 Luxembourg
69,737

2 Norway
54,600

3 Switzerland
49,300

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:45 am

http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/countries.cfm?c=NOR

USCode · Post by **USCode** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:00 am

There are lies, there are damned lies, then there are statistics...

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:07 am

In Sweden the same prices are;

* A pizza between $3 - $6

That is reason enough for me to move to Sweden :roll:

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:46 am

Bonne_den_kule: Denmark has been chosen to be the worlds most expensive country for cars. And your 60 000$ is cheaper. In denmark that car costs 70 100$

So better think again.. (Price from BilBasen.dk, and for a new car)

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:04 pm

thefool wrote:Bonne_den_kule: Denmark has been chosen to be the worlds most expensive country for cars. And your 60 000$ is cheaper. In denmark that car costs 70 100$ So better think again.. (Price from BilBasen.dk, and for a new car)

Sorry

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:06 pm

Bonne_den_kule wrote: Sorry

np

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:02 pm

Brice Manuel wrote:
In Sweden the same prices are;

* A pizza between $3 - $6
That is reason enough for me to move to Sweden :roll:

I must admit that the $3 pizza is thin. A friend of mine did a test in the town where we lived. He bought pizza from all different places in the town and weight them, to see where you could get "most pizza for your money". The most expensive pizza weight 4 times more then the cheapest one, so there you go...

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:18 pm

The Economis makes some price comparison index called "BigMac Index" just like yours "Pizza Index"

http://bigmac.biz/2005/index.php

A BigMac costs:

6.06 in Norway
3.06 in US
4.58 in Denmark
5.05 Switzerland
3.58 in Euro Area

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:28 pm

[dont forget that was when the course was 1$ = 6.1 dkr, nor 1$=6,6 dkr but the price of bigmacs havent changed

]

Hydrate · Post by **Hydrate** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:55 pm

Its odd, convert those prices into pounds, and its basically how much we pay here in the UK, those prices in Sweeden seem AMAZINGLY cheap, god i wish i could pay about, 3-6 dollers u said? thats like £1.50-£3.00 a pizza!, we pay like £15-£20 here...

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:45 pm

Hydrate wrote:Its odd, convert those prices into pounds, and its basically how much we pay here in the UK, those prices in Sweeden seem AMAZINGLY cheap, god i wish i could pay about, 3-6 dollers u said? thats like £1.50-£3.00 a pizza!, we pay like £15-£20 here...

My pizza prices where from a small town in Sweden and the cheapest pizza costs about $3, but I'll guess "the standard pizza price" is about $6 - $7.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:52 pm

Hydrate: I was in London last week and I actually found everything quite cheap. However sweden is probably even cheaper..