Funny thing is, when learning Norwegian, I sometimes have to think it "in English" to understand, what's meant. On the other hand, it feels swabian, sometimes.

I'm American and my hubs and i are in our 70s, been married 47 years. We share now-adult children and ownership of our home. Otherwise, we're totally separate financially and always have been. We plan our budget and what we each pay for our bills. We also each make a savings commitment. All other money belongs to whoever earned it. As long as we're meeting our agreed upon savings and bill commitments, we can do with our own money as we choose.

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The mother cake is obviously made from the newly baked mothers. 😂

Modern technology for ancient language do make it a challenge to convey meaning without inserting an English word into any foreign language. the German’s call the birth control pill “Anti baby pill”

Don't move because of the election. Trump has just been appointed president of Norway

Ok so if you have eight exotic chickens it will not work

Informative video❤❤thank you for sharing

Wait - Americans have a disproportionate sense of entitlement regarding immigrating to other countries but we should be expected to accept illegal migration but everyone and their brother? Do you really not recognize your hypocrisy? News flash, America has the same right as other countries to determine who comes, shocking, I know…

Interesting, have you met Bjorn?

As a Norwegian citizen living in the outskirts of Oslo, I approve this message.

LMFAO. GTFO losers! We don't want your kind anyway, and I'll bet Norway doesn't either. Good luck in life with the "everyone else sucks" attitude.

Her providing all these “reality” talks as a type of warning is just making me more interested in moving there. People give lots of space, it’s engrained in the culture to be a home body, slower pace of life, picking mushrooms and berries as hobbies. Sincerely all of this sounds like a dream. 💗

I love learning about the schools and education systems of different countries and cultures. I lived in Germany and went to school there for a year. Outdoor school days sound wonderful! Thank you for sharing this video. I am super excited about the 2024 election results in the USA though.

Priceless :D Norwegian has so many words and phrases that make absolutely no sense when you translate to English.

jesus christ, your back must hurt

oh my got, she got the Heavies

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Living in Stavanger and have grown up kids and have now grandchildren going to school and preschool. 2 grade, 7 grade and 9 th grade and ofc one at barnehage. And how you describe up to 5 th grade does not sound familiar at all. They learn math , they learn to read, they actually start second language first year already. Are you sure that you are not talking about a "special" school such as Steiner Skolen or similar. Because it did sound like that. They tend to let their students "learn" when themselves feel "mature" enough.

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I know this was meant to be humorous, (and it is), but truthfully it is very helpful to learn to speak Norwegian by learning to speak English with full Norwegian grammar and sentence structure. More of these with common and simple, every day sentences would really be very helpful. Please consider making some? ☺️🇳🇴

Back in the 80s we had joint accounts. It stopped when regulations stated that you had to be owner of your own. Nothing to do with who gets more or not. Its datatilsynet etc.

Vi er ikke religiøse utenom for religiøse fridager 😎🇧🇻😜

Forektige Spania ferie for ein fra Stavanger e tur te eget hus i i tørravigå ( Torrevieja) sør for Alicante. Bare husk på å ikke ring på dørå mi. For eg lokke ikkje opp 😋. Hverken i Spania eller hjemma 😜

Dud u actually check ?. Because most things have less sugar in Europe than in US.

First time i heard something having more sugar than in US 😑🇧🇻

I'm an introvert & I lived 32 years in Washington State from college on. In my 50s, I spent 3 months in Norway and have never felt more at home. It was a lovely time & I long to return.

I'd probably do well in Norway. I'm not a big take a pie next door to welcome the neighbors. I'd wait until I ran into them outside and introduce myself. I'd rather be treated that way also.

thank you

I'm three generations removed from my Norwegian ancestors and we still maintain a lot of these social norms.

Everyone should be rude to immigrants. They are dangerous. Stay away from them.

This is anecdote. She is talking from her own experience as a married (?)mother with small children, living in a small place. If you live in a city, especially Oslo, it is very common to eat out or order take away. Almost half of Norway's adult population live alone, and many of them prioritize busy careers instead of slow paced family life.

Americans can´t just move to a foreign country! What is it about "illegal immigration" that some people don´t understand. Most countries don´t want american "Ex-pats" and give no avenues for them to become that.

One of my best adult memories is the day I spent picking chanterelle mushrooms in the woods in Northern California with my best friend.

I don't know how long you have been away from the USA, but the CVS pharmacy now has the concept of a "Minute Clinic" where you can see a nurse practitioner for things like the common cold, or to diagnose infections, treat scrapes, etc, and then get prescribed medicine to help you recover that you can pick up before you leave. They are much more prevalent than doctor's offices, which are almost always too busy to see you in a timely manner. I can set up an appt at the minute clinic for this afternoon or tomorrow morning if I wanted to, at any of the 20 CVS MinuteClinics within 50 miles of me in every direction. I think this is as close as you can get to what you were talking about in this video.. but those MinuteClinic visits are not free, and you need to have $$$ to go... so if you are poor in America, you are screwed.

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Sounds like my kind of place...allowing people their space.😊

This is so true. Both Norwegian and Swedish never invite me for dinner. I´ve invited plenty and they never feel bad about not inviting me back though. I´ve gotten questions from people whom I used to invite now that I´m no longer inviting them for a full on feast, why I don´t ask them over for dinner since they loved eating my food. When I tell them the truth and say that it´s because they never invited me back, they look very confused. I´ve actually had one person who seriously said to me that since I´m Asian, I love inviting people over and serving food, but since she´s Norwegian she doesn´t. She thought that was a good answer and never even crossed her mind that it´s racist 🤪

I'm not Norwegian, but Swedish, and I feel like a lot of people misunderstood this Swedengate thing, thinking that Swedes would let guests starve or that this has some kind of old viking roots. Of course you will get dinner, if it's dinner time, and you're hungry and wishes to eat. It really was about kids and different families dinner times. Say a kid brings another kid home from school, they have a snack and play, and when the parents come home later on, and their dinner is ready at say 5:30 or 6 pm. But say the visiting kids family are going to eat dinner at 7 or 8 pm. Giving that kid dinner at 5:30 would ruin their appetite for the kid, and also you don't know what allergies or other food preferences the kid might have. I think most kids prefer to have dinner at home, with their own family, than with someone elses family. Speaking for myself, I really hated to eat dinner (or lunch, or breakfast after a sleepover) with other families, feeling forced to eat things you didn't like, to be polite, and being forced to talk with their mom and dad around the dinner table. I just wanted to go home and eat with mom and dad and my siblings, and wait in the friends room, until the friends family finished eating, playing with all their toys and reading their magazines was a treat, not the awful punishment some portray it to be. They act like we were thrown into some dungeon, starving or something. The punishment would have to eat and talk with strange adults, the friends parents, and eat their food. Do adults get how uncomfortable that is, especially for an introvert kid?

if you're solipsistic enough to flee the nation of your birth, then please go, I'd rather have an immigrant grateful to be here as my neighbor than a misanthropic defeatist

Literally nobody cares what you have to say.........

As an introvert, I love being given space.

Other nations don't allow their schoolchildren to be mass murdered, they don't have streets filled with military assault rifles...they dont waste all their money on the military complex, dont allow the wealthy to go tax-free....you won't like it, unevolved duh-mericans

Hers my tip: keep your brainless pathetic boot licking fascist bullets-not-brains ways in the Idiocracy that you have created for yourselves

Now this is a worthy PSA ♥️

Thanks, sounds like I’d love it there!

Good bye and take many other nut cases with you.

Norway is a fantastic place, they don't differ that much from the Danes or the Dutch. In the USA everyone is overly spontanious, not in the Nordic or Germanic countries. It's not bad manners, but it's just different. Just like our health care, social policies, time off, contracted employment versus at will employment and our way of thinking about gun control, minority rights and our upkeep of civil liberties. I've been to Norway on a Holland America Cruise and noticed that a lot of mainly American and Canadian passengers had to adopt somewhat to the way the Norwegians do things. What to me is pretty difficult to understand, is that with a country as diverse as the USA, you only have 2 choices when it comes to presidential elections. We have like 30 parties, with around 3 or 4 possibly delevering a prime minister at elections.

Sounds like Alaska! The Scandinavia of North America. Slower paced, quiet, contemplative. Going to the McDonald's in the town I lived in wasn't worth it! It was more expenisve than the locally owned cafe 2 minutes up the street and tasted like garbage. How's the weather though? I've been through -60 mornings and 3 hours of sunlight a day and it's not fun! Or for everyone, but it makes you a stronger person and helps you realize how lucky you are when you're not that cold. Example: my beard would freeze after about 3 minutes of being outside, brushing the snow and scraping the ice off my car.

She's right about some things I've seen myself. I lived in Alaska for ten years and some people there like to think they're Norse or Nordic or whatever and follow pagan traditions. I'm not sure what these traditions and rituals are really supposed to be, but I've witnessed them myself and thought, "Y'all are from Seattle... go to Norway and tell them you're Norse." It's like the millions of Americans that like to claim Irish heritage. Maybe you are, but if you went to Ireland and said you were Irish, they'd probably roll their eyes, but be nice and say, "Sure you are, friend, sure you are."