another norwegian chipping in with some pros and cons:
Cost: very high, among the highest in the world, but housing isn't the worst exept the biggest cities, nothing like London though.
If you like cars, EXTREMELY high costs for both the car and the fuel. Musclecars get punished worst, smaller cars not so bad. A Corvette would be like > 100k dollars roughly.
Taxes, If you make over 100k, calculate 50% in taxes if you're single.
100 sq.meters ~900 sq.feet apt in one of the cities (Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim) would be roughly 2k a month (all prices in US dollars) Oslo highest, the other ones a bit lower. 50 sq.meters roughly 1.2-1.5 k
Eating out, chinese/pizza/cheap stuff - calculate 20 bucks.
Decent place - 50 bucks ++ for drinks
So with all these costs, what do we get?
- Free healthcare
- Free edu. system, colleges aren't the best though. Top business school is roughly 30th in europe.
- If you have worked and get fired, expect at least 30k per year from gov.
Infrastructure - like every other developed country. Probably a bit ahead exept roads
Girls - Only Sweden has more beautiful girls in the world, and that's pretty much a fact... 95 % + is white if you prefer something else.
In general not much racism, a bit more on the countryside than cities, but not from people of age below 40-50ish though.
Americans I know find norwegians as quite reserved, until you get to know them, but people don't mind getting approaced, but don't expect too many to come and talk to you.
Expect to come to a country that's quite socialist, don't like capitalists and don't like people who brag (read americans.... lol) (mostly media and the cultural elite in the cities, I have very few friends who's like that)
Feel free to ask if you need more info. A beautiful country, but defenitely on the expensive side.
Trading hours is already mentioned:
US market open at 15:30 aka 3:30 PM (get used to 24 hour clock and metric system) and close at 22:00. If you want you can trade from local markets open (like dax/fesx) at 9:00 until US markets close.
Cost: very high, among the highest in the world, but housing isn't the worst exept the biggest cities, nothing like London though.
If you like cars, EXTREMELY high costs for both the car and the fuel. Musclecars get punished worst, smaller cars not so bad. A Corvette would be like > 100k dollars roughly.
Taxes, If you make over 100k, calculate 50% in taxes if you're single.
100 sq.meters ~900 sq.feet apt in one of the cities (Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim) would be roughly 2k a month (all prices in US dollars) Oslo highest, the other ones a bit lower. 50 sq.meters roughly 1.2-1.5 k
Eating out, chinese/pizza/cheap stuff - calculate 20 bucks.
Decent place - 50 bucks ++ for drinks
So with all these costs, what do we get?
- Free healthcare
- Free edu. system, colleges aren't the best though. Top business school is roughly 30th in europe.
- If you have worked and get fired, expect at least 30k per year from gov.
Infrastructure - like every other developed country. Probably a bit ahead exept roads
Girls - Only Sweden has more beautiful girls in the world, and that's pretty much a fact... 95 % + is white if you prefer something else.
In general not much racism, a bit more on the countryside than cities, but not from people of age below 40-50ish though.
Americans I know find norwegians as quite reserved, until you get to know them, but people don't mind getting approaced, but don't expect too many to come and talk to you.
Expect to come to a country that's quite socialist, don't like capitalists and don't like people who brag (read americans.... lol) (mostly media and the cultural elite in the cities, I have very few friends who's like that)
Feel free to ask if you need more info. A beautiful country, but defenitely on the expensive side.
Trading hours is already mentioned:
US market open at 15:30 aka 3:30 PM (get used to 24 hour clock and metric system) and close at 22:00. If you want you can trade from local markets open (like dax/fesx) at 9:00 until US markets close.
