About Damo

Status:

Expatriate  

Currently Lives:

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Citizen Of:

United Kingdom

Some Forum Posts:

Norway: Cost of Living:

Hi Mark68, The local taxes are included in your overall tax bill that's taken out of your wages every month, so you don't notice it. If you earn the Norwegian average of 350,000 kroner, you'll pay about 36% tax, but there are many bands unlike in the UK. Electricity will probably cost you about 1000 kroner a month, maybe more if you're living in a colder part. Good luck

Norway: moving to Norway:

I have to say that I agree with Tat I'm afraid. I've been here in Bergen for several years and I'm about to relocate to Scotland. In my years here I've made very few Norwegian friends, but lots of 'foreign' friends, and I'm not a Little Englander. I have friends from all over the world but have to say that Norwegians are generally the most difficult to get to know. Having said that, I do have a few good Norwegian friends, but strangely enough they have lived abroad and so perhaps aren't so narrow minded. Everything's so expensive, and the higher wages don't compensate for this. The health service should be world class considering you have to pay 20 pounds every time you visit the doctor, but I've experienced better in our 'terrible' British health service. And no one moans about anything! That's maybe why services are not good here. A nice thing about Norway though is that it's a very safe place, you rarely see any trouble. In all my years here I've maybe only seen 2 or 3 drunken fights at 3am. That's a normal night where I'm from. I hope that wasn't too anti-Norway. I'm glad I moved here, but I'm also glad I'm leaving. Ha det!

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