What DarkOne said really.. I like living in Norway, I'm very greatfull for being born here. It's a nice and beautiful country with a peacefull, open-minded and democratic society. What I like most is equality for all, no matter religion, sex, sexual orientation and so on. Education is free, even college, and health care is free. You make a lot of money living here, I think only Switzerland can compare, but it's also sooooo damn expencive. Being a student, it's not very good. I have to work a lot beside my study to survive (but who doesn't). Tobacco and alcohol is the most expencive I think. Government want to prevent youth from start smoking obviously, and alcohol in general is highly expencive to reduce alcoholism in families. I get that.. SPW you say 1 pack of sigarettes is expencive 6 euros? I laughed, here it cost 12 euros. 1 beer in pub is 10 euros easily, a drink 15 euros. Shop stop selling beer at 8 PM, wine and vodka is sold in seperate stores closing at 5 PM. All clubs close around 2-2.30 AM!
What I dislike about my country.. well I think its how lazy and greedy people are. Norwegian youth is lazy, they don't want to do any hard work, they don't want to work in certain jobs (like in a grocery shop). The work we don't want to do ourselves, we let people from other european countries take care of. I have an example of my own: as a summer job I work in a low-paid job as production worker producing salmon and trout. 95% of the people working there are from Lithuania or Latvia. My friends used to work there as well, but they rather do something not so physical, hard work with long days now. A normal day in this job you make 160 euros, yet this kind of job is not interesting for Norwegians. What I have learned, working eight summers straight there, is that people from eastern europe have balls, unlike Norwegians
I don't think you can complaint about people going abroad to make a better life Kinslayer.. I have seen many people come here, work for a couple of years, buying a new house in their homecountry, and then going back. You gotta do what you gotta do you know...