Both are correct, but if you look at the pages, which I did real quick, they have different things in their calcultions. So depending on how often you eat out or how much you drive and travel etc. the difference in cost may increase or decrease. But yeah, the numbers are slightly off as well for the different ones, just to add that. Also the dates matter. Some sites may not have updated their prices to todays.
Maybe one is published from a British company and the other published by a Norwegian company? Lol.
I’m British living in Norway. It costs waaaay more to live here in the same style I did in the UK, even with the relative difference in pay.
I have lived in both Norway and the UK. I would say that living costs (flat + bills etc) is about equal in both countries (depending on where you live ofc). However the housing quality is a lot better in Norway. Eating out and doing “luxury” things is quite a lot more expensive in Norway, however public transport is cheaper and more accessible. It all depends on what you’re into really, and where you intend on living.
The median income here is 550k NOK, if you get an ok apartment for 10k a month in a city with good public transport you can basicly live like a king. The cost of surviving with roof and internet is very low in Norway. Some students survive on 120k NOK a year with no other income.
That means that on the median wage people in Norway need to work about 1.1 day a week to survive rather comfortably if they find a cheap place to live (like under 6k a month). That is rediceolously low. But of course that means no economical growth.
Most students do work a little bit or have savings from before their studies though. They have to have some income if they want to live a little and drink alcohol. Because alcohol is expensive.
It gets expensive when you own a car, rent more than you need, have a cat and a dog, have huge loans for a unnecessary expensive car, and have massive loans for a house, and buy expensive drinks on pubs instead of drinking beer at a friend’s place. In most large cities in Norway a car isnt necessary.
I think I spend about 10-12k NOK a month total, and I live alone and use a bike to get around town. Living in Norway is as fucking cheap as it gets. Yet people struggle with money, I cant fathom it. Spending money on a trip to Spain and can’t afford rent the next month. You couldn’t afford that trip to Spain then, could you? “WeLl I hAd thE mONeY” omg.
Sorry for my frustration. And yes, before someone calls out the obvious, I totally should spend more money on having fun and looking a bit more fashionable.
Norway is cheap if you work a somewhat well paying job. Very very very cheap. Because the pay is good. If you want luxury stuff it is very very expensive, just like everywhere else. The only thing I would consider expensive is getting into the housing market. Those prices are steep.
Also kids are always expensive, but you also get some 1800 NOK from the state every month that would help if people bought used stuff instead of a 20 000 NOK new child wagon and 7 sets of every size of new baby clothes for 500 NOK a pop that will fit the baby for literally 3 months maximum. New shoes that could probably be outgrown by 20 kids before they started wearing out.
Also I know that there are parts of the country where the wages are lower and you basicly have to own a car to get anywhere at all. That’s the expensive places to live.
I’m visiting my friend in the UK right now and he’s complaining about his heating bill being 100£ a month LOL
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Both are correct, but if you look at the pages, which I did real quick, they have different things in their calcultions. So depending on how often you eat out or how much you drive and travel etc. the difference in cost may increase or decrease. But yeah, the numbers are slightly off as well for the different ones, just to add that. Also the dates matter. Some sites may not have updated their prices to todays.
Maybe one is published from a British company and the other published by a Norwegian company? Lol.
I’m British living in Norway. It costs waaaay more to live here in the same style I did in the UK, even with the relative difference in pay.
I have lived in both Norway and the UK. I would say that living costs (flat + bills etc) is about equal in both countries (depending on where you live ofc). However the housing quality is a lot better in Norway. Eating out and doing “luxury” things is quite a lot more expensive in Norway, however public transport is cheaper and more accessible. It all depends on what you’re into really, and where you intend on living.
The median income here is 550k NOK, if you get an ok apartment for 10k a month in a city with good public transport you can basicly live like a king. The cost of surviving with roof and internet is very low in Norway. Some students survive on 120k NOK a year with no other income.
That means that on the median wage people in Norway need to work about 1.1 day a week to survive rather comfortably if they find a cheap place to live (like under 6k a month). That is rediceolously low. But of course that means no economical growth.
Most students do work a little bit or have savings from before their studies though. They have to have some income if they want to live a little and drink alcohol. Because alcohol is expensive.
It gets expensive when you own a car, rent more than you need, have a cat and a dog, have huge loans for a unnecessary expensive car, and have massive loans for a house, and buy expensive drinks on pubs instead of drinking beer at a friend’s place. In most large cities in Norway a car isnt necessary.
I think I spend about 10-12k NOK a month total, and I live alone and use a bike to get around town. Living in Norway is as fucking cheap as it gets. Yet people struggle with money, I cant fathom it. Spending money on a trip to Spain and can’t afford rent the next month. You couldn’t afford that trip to Spain then, could you? “WeLl I hAd thE mONeY” omg.
Sorry for my frustration. And yes, before someone calls out the obvious, I totally should spend more money on having fun and looking a bit more fashionable.
Norway is cheap if you work a somewhat well paying job. Very very very cheap. Because the pay is good. If you want luxury stuff it is very very expensive, just like everywhere else. The only thing I would consider expensive is getting into the housing market. Those prices are steep.
Also kids are always expensive, but you also get some 1800 NOK from the state every month that would help if people bought used stuff instead of a 20 000 NOK new child wagon and 7 sets of every size of new baby clothes for 500 NOK a pop that will fit the baby for literally 3 months maximum. New shoes that could probably be outgrown by 20 kids before they started wearing out.
Also I know that there are parts of the country where the wages are lower and you basicly have to own a car to get anywhere at all. That’s the expensive places to live.
I’m visiting my friend in the UK right now and he’s complaining about his heating bill being 100£ a month LOL