Addicts injecting each other in the neck while families play five metres away in the same park.
Nowhere near as sketchy as growing up in mid 80s and late 90s Liverpool though.
Oslo best city in the world🥰🥰
I actually really like the architecture :c
Just stay out of the central train station area and your good from addicts and 14 year old that smokes(?) Oslo has a bad mix of architecture , that’s true.
As someone from Berlin, this sounds so cute 😊
The amount of kids/youth smoking tobacco is below 1% after a steep decline the last 10 years (from 11% to <1%), so that statement is not factually correct. As others have pointed out, there are small areas where you will find heavy drug users, mostly due to horrible politics (from pretty much every political party who have been in power). Personally I can go years without seeing these areas as they are not big and are not somewere you “need to go”.
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The architecture is awful, The nice thing about Oslo is the surrounding nature, not the buildings.
Tell me you never been to another capital city wwithout telling me you never been to another capital city
I’ve lived in in Oslo for several years and still work work there so I am there fairly often.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen drugs in the street or blatant drug use. I have of course seen my fair share of people who were high at the time, but that is usually around the areas where they can get user equipment. (Brugata / Storgata area).
Personally I like the Barcode architecture, but that is of course subjective.
Architecture is fine. You may not like it but pretty decent.
Snus is everywhere
I belived that it was r/2nordic4you for a second.
The *new* architecture *for rich people* is awful. The Opera is the exception that is absolutely stunning. Obviously, there are some buildings that are lacking, those are everywhere in every city in the world. I’m usually in Grønland whenever I’m in Oslo, and even the parks there are pretty clean. The alcoholics are way messier than the junkies these days.
Cherrypicking I guess
This meme: How to tell that you live in the middle of nowhere, without telling you live in the middle of nowhere
Speaking as a chronic insomniac who wears headphones whilst walking a dog at ridiculous o’clock, Oslo is safe as fuck.
Tell me you’ve never walked outside of Karl Johan without telling me you’ve never walked outside of Karl Johan.
I visited and saw nothing of the sort, must have been a smokescreen….
Barcode looks great, it’s also very well designed from a urbanistic perspective. Do I prefer older neighborhoods like Frogner? Sure, but compared to the wasteland the Oslo harbor was before it’s an incredible improvement, also building like in the 1900s is definitely not const-efficient or sustainable.
Also I haven’t ever seen a teenager smoking in Oslo. Hell, people barely smoke here at all. Drugs on the street are also something I’m yet to see, even around Storgata the addicts seem to keep in their own corner and the city does a good enough job in cleaning up after them.
Celebrity thing is true.
OP should try any other big city anywhere else lol.
How to tell if you are in the UK. ftfy
I love modern architechture tbh the opera house is a bit special but I legit am so tired of the old houses. But Oslo HAS everything though, beauty of Oslo. I would never want to live there but I dont mind Oslo
OP has never left his farm let alone been to another city, try London or NY?
How to tell if a person is from bondelandet.
Hahahaha I barely see any smokers here, and probably never any 14 year olds. The architecture is great and there are no drugs on the street.
OP has never been in a city, but has heard on the radio how bad it can be! Stay in Flekkefjord
Ironically smoking is far more common in the rural districts than it is in the bigger cities in Norway.
unpopular opinion: i like barcode
We are not in the same city then.
Where exactly in Oslo are you? I never saw drugs and never saw children smoking here on my 3 months of stay.
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I didn’t have that impression when I was there
That depends on where in Oslo you are I suppose.
Though smoking 14 year olds are probably more common in rural areas tbh.
In my experience, kids smoking drinking etc is more common in smaller places than Oslo from what I’ve seen.
As someone who grew up in rural Norway, I feel like the 14 year old kid who smokes belong there, not in Oslo. I remember quite a few class mates who started smoking at 12/13
I have lived in Oslo for twenty years of my life, and near Oslo another two. Drugs and young smokers are nowhere near as common as this post is making them out to be. I encountered 14 year olds who smoked when I, myself, was around 14, but never since then – except in smaller towns.
I have encountered some drug addicts in Oslo, yes, but never seen them in the process of using. In my experience, they are often a bit lacking in terms of personal boundaries, but never dangerous or aggressive. There was a single time in Oslo when I passed by a pair of teens smoking something, and thought to myself “that doesn’t smell like tobacco” – but the exact same thing happened frequently, nearly every time I was in the city centre, when I lived in Trondheim.
I also happen to know that drug use is not an uncommon problem outside of Oslo either. For example, I once was on a train ride with people from my university, while the train was going through a small town – the kind of place small enough that everyone knows literally everyone. One peer, who grew up in this town, eagerly pointed out the houses where each of the town’s drug addicts lived, as we passed by.
Smokers and drug users exist in Oslo. This is true. And because Oslo is a bigger city, the total number of drug users is probably higher than a lot of other places; especially since most of them tend to gather in fairly small areas, so when you pass through those areas, drug use looks and feels a lot more common than it actually is. However, smokers and drug users also exist everywhere else. It’s a worldwide problem, and anyone who’s pretending it doesn’t happen where they live is delusional.
As a side note – the architecture may not be perfect, but it’s not that bad, either. Now that it’s up, it would be incredibly expensive and wasteful to change it, so why not just… accept that it’s there, and move on?
“Poletician” actually
I’m from South America living near Oslo and when I had a friend visiting and showed her the addicted corner at Oslo Sentrum and she called it a joke. It is absolutely nothing compared to what we’ve seen before. Drug paraphernalia you can find here and there anywhere in a lot of places. I’ve seen outside Oslo too. OP would be surprised by how a lot of addicts don’t look like junkies from the movies.
Oslo is clean and safe for a capital. I don’t know how many times I was drunk af and nothing happened. I’ve lost phone, passaport and even my whole purse and always got it all back.
Ive never seen young teenagers smoking, actually not even people on their 20’s, but a lot of them use snus. Cigarettes are just not a thing anymore.
I saw a teenager (maybe 16/17yo) pregnant for the first time this year and I live here almost 10 years. Not even girls in their early 20’s for that matter (but in a lot of places in Norway it seems like if you are over 25 and are not married with at least 2 babies, you’re doomed).
The celebrity/politician thing is very much the truth.
I have never been a super big fan of Oslo, but OP is just wrong here. Probably sitting on a small island hating his life, making up things for cheap likes
How to tell you are from any other place in Norway, but Oslo: People spelling architecture like «arkitecture».
This ain’t right at all… You’re not gonna find any 14 year-olds smoking here unless you actively try looking for them, and you’re not gonna find drugs on the streets. You may find drug addicts in certain parts of Oslo but you’re gonna have to actively look for it if you wanna find drugs on any street…
I like Barcode but it hardly represents “Oslo”.
Random politicians/celebrities is maybe right. Once randomly saw the prime minister on my way to school many many years ago.
Lol @ 14 year old smoking. Nobody smokes in norway. Snus though…
Or El-Scooters on every street…
>HATES OSLO
>lives in a rural fuck place that you LITERALLY have to start paying people to move there
>you children are going to leave you and move into the big city
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Addicts injecting each other in the neck while families play five metres away in the same park.
Nowhere near as sketchy as growing up in mid 80s and late 90s Liverpool though.
Oslo best city in the world🥰🥰
I actually really like the architecture :c
Just stay out of the central train station area and your good from addicts and 14 year old that smokes(?) Oslo has a bad mix of architecture , that’s true.
As someone from Berlin, this sounds so cute 😊
The amount of kids/youth smoking tobacco is below 1% after a steep decline the last 10 years (from 11% to <1%), so that statement is not factually correct. As others have pointed out, there are small areas where you will find heavy drug users, mostly due to horrible politics (from pretty much every political party who have been in power). Personally I can go years without seeing these areas as they are not big and are not somewere you “need to go”.
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The architecture is awful, The nice thing about Oslo is the surrounding nature, not the buildings.
Tell me you never been to another capital city wwithout telling me you never been to another capital city
I’ve lived in in Oslo for several years and still work work there so I am there fairly often.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen drugs in the street or blatant drug use. I have of course seen my fair share of people who were high at the time, but that is usually around the areas where they can get user equipment. (Brugata / Storgata area).
Personally I like the Barcode architecture, but that is of course subjective.
Architecture is fine. You may not like it but pretty decent.
Snus is everywhere
I belived that it was r/2nordic4you for a second.
The *new* architecture *for rich people* is awful. The Opera is the exception that is absolutely stunning. Obviously, there are some buildings that are lacking, those are everywhere in every city in the world. I’m usually in Grønland whenever I’m in Oslo, and even the parks there are pretty clean. The alcoholics are way messier than the junkies these days.
Cherrypicking I guess
This meme: How to tell that you live in the middle of nowhere, without telling you live in the middle of nowhere
Speaking as a chronic insomniac who wears headphones whilst walking a dog at ridiculous o’clock, Oslo is safe as fuck.
Tell me you’ve never walked outside of Karl Johan without telling me you’ve never walked outside of Karl Johan.
I visited and saw nothing of the sort, must have been a smokescreen….
Barcode looks great, it’s also very well designed from a urbanistic perspective. Do I prefer older neighborhoods like Frogner? Sure, but compared to the wasteland the Oslo harbor was before it’s an incredible improvement, also building like in the 1900s is definitely not const-efficient or sustainable.
Also I haven’t ever seen a teenager smoking in Oslo. Hell, people barely smoke here at all. Drugs on the street are also something I’m yet to see, even around Storgata the addicts seem to keep in their own corner and the city does a good enough job in cleaning up after them.
Celebrity thing is true.
OP should try any other big city anywhere else lol.
How to tell if you are in the UK. ftfy
I love modern architechture tbh the opera house is a bit special but I legit am so tired of the old houses. But Oslo HAS everything though, beauty of Oslo. I would never want to live there but I dont mind Oslo
OP has never left his farm let alone been to another city, try London or NY?
How to tell if a person is from bondelandet.
Hahahaha I barely see any smokers here, and probably never any 14 year olds. The architecture is great and there are no drugs on the street.
OP has never been in a city, but has heard on the radio how bad it can be! Stay in Flekkefjord
Ironically smoking is far more common in the rural districts than it is in the bigger cities in Norway.
unpopular opinion: i like barcode
We are not in the same city then.
Where exactly in Oslo are you? I never saw drugs and never saw children smoking here on my 3 months of stay.
Horrible meme atempt
I didn’t have that impression when I was there
That depends on where in Oslo you are I suppose.
Though smoking 14 year olds are probably more common in rural areas tbh.
In my experience, kids smoking drinking etc is more common in smaller places than Oslo from what I’ve seen.
As someone who grew up in rural Norway, I feel like the 14 year old kid who smokes belong there, not in Oslo. I remember quite a few class mates who started smoking at 12/13
I have lived in Oslo for twenty years of my life, and near Oslo another two. Drugs and young smokers are nowhere near as common as this post is making them out to be. I encountered 14 year olds who smoked when I, myself, was around 14, but never since then – except in smaller towns.
I have encountered some drug addicts in Oslo, yes, but never seen them in the process of using. In my experience, they are often a bit lacking in terms of personal boundaries, but never dangerous or aggressive. There was a single time in Oslo when I passed by a pair of teens smoking something, and thought to myself “that doesn’t smell like tobacco” – but the exact same thing happened frequently, nearly every time I was in the city centre, when I lived in Trondheim.
I also happen to know that drug use is not an uncommon problem outside of Oslo either. For example, I once was on a train ride with people from my university, while the train was going through a small town – the kind of place small enough that everyone knows literally everyone. One peer, who grew up in this town, eagerly pointed out the houses where each of the town’s drug addicts lived, as we passed by.
Smokers and drug users exist in Oslo. This is true. And because Oslo is a bigger city, the total number of drug users is probably higher than a lot of other places; especially since most of them tend to gather in fairly small areas, so when you pass through those areas, drug use looks and feels a lot more common than it actually is. However, smokers and drug users also exist everywhere else. It’s a worldwide problem, and anyone who’s pretending it doesn’t happen where they live is delusional.
As a side note – the architecture may not be perfect, but it’s not that bad, either. Now that it’s up, it would be incredibly expensive and wasteful to change it, so why not just… accept that it’s there, and move on?
“Poletician” actually
I’m from South America living near Oslo and when I had a friend visiting and showed her the addicted corner at Oslo Sentrum and she called it a joke. It is absolutely nothing compared to what we’ve seen before. Drug paraphernalia you can find here and there anywhere in a lot of places. I’ve seen outside Oslo too. OP would be surprised by how a lot of addicts don’t look like junkies from the movies.
Oslo is clean and safe for a capital. I don’t know how many times I was drunk af and nothing happened. I’ve lost phone, passaport and even my whole purse and always got it all back.
Ive never seen young teenagers smoking, actually not even people on their 20’s, but a lot of them use snus. Cigarettes are just not a thing anymore.
I saw a teenager (maybe 16/17yo) pregnant for the first time this year and I live here almost 10 years. Not even girls in their early 20’s for that matter (but in a lot of places in Norway it seems like if you are over 25 and are not married with at least 2 babies, you’re doomed).
The celebrity/politician thing is very much the truth.
I have never been a super big fan of Oslo, but OP is just wrong here. Probably sitting on a small island hating his life, making up things for cheap likes
How to tell you are from any other place in Norway, but Oslo: People spelling architecture like «arkitecture».
This ain’t right at all… You’re not gonna find any 14 year-olds smoking here unless you actively try looking for them, and you’re not gonna find drugs on the streets. You may find drug addicts in certain parts of Oslo but you’re gonna have to actively look for it if you wanna find drugs on any street…
I like Barcode but it hardly represents “Oslo”.
Random politicians/celebrities is maybe right. Once randomly saw the prime minister on my way to school many many years ago.
Lol @ 14 year old smoking. Nobody smokes in norway. Snus though…
Or El-Scooters on every street…
>HATES OSLO
>lives in a rural fuck place that you LITERALLY have to start paying people to move there
>you children are going to leave you and move into the big city
Must be suffering to be a rural cuck