Cheap land and lower taxes in remote, hard to reach areas in the north.
In Finnmark they will pay 10% of student loans yearly if you live there and its proposed to be increased to 20% (only student loans through lånekassen). There are a number of other advantages as well.
In the northern part of Troms and in all of Finnmark, there are several types of financial incentives just to get people to live there. The taxes are lower, your employer pays less employer’s tax, your student loan gets written off by a certain percentage/amount every year, kindergarten is cheaper and so on. Housing is also generally cheaper, but of course a place like Alta is more expensive than some small towns in the south. But many areas in the far north have faced depopulation, at least people leaving small villages to move to cities. It’s a sparsely populated area of particular strategic importance, and the government has made a political decision to incentivize living there.
But what this person is referring to might be certain rare cases where smaller municipalities give away free land or even free housing to people who want to live there. This isn’t any kind of rule or right, but there have been several instances where a municipality struggling to keep up the population has decided to give away free housing – or even pay people – to come live there.
Mostly, this is due to the number of children being so low that their kindergarten and/or school faces closure. That is often the beginning of the end for any small community, so they fight to keep it open, and to do that they need more kids. So these offers are usually only open to families with small children, or at least to young couples who might want to have kids soon.
These places are by no means always in the north of Norway, but they are naturally very sparsely populated. Otherwise they obviously wouldn’t desperately need more people the way they do. I have read about municipalities offering these “deals” several times, but in reality it’s very rare and they usually just need a couple of families. So I certainly wouldn’t rely on it.
There have been cases of small municipalities around the country giving away properties and/or houses, or offering subsidies for building houses, on the condition that you move there and live there.
Possibly in Mordor… I mean Finnmark, a very remote county that will help you downpay your student loan if you move and live there. You also pay less income tax.
Or talking about iceland? Don’t they pay guys to come with their semen to make more babies that ain’t related to the rest?
He’s talking about svalbard
Welcome to sunny Finnmark!
You pay elss taxes if you move to Svalbard
You can earn money in many ways in Norway but due to the prices of goods in stores and restaurants you can’t spend it on very much. Isn’t a pizza like $30?
I remember in the 90s when I was a kid I was told there was an old mining village where the mining operations closed and so people lost jobs and moved away. Big ass houses were sold for 1 krone or something ridiculous, to try to get people to move back. Place was called Sulitjelma I believe.
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That we we would like the population to be spread out through the country while we also have a lot of tiny municipalities and stretches of land with very few people, hence the gov. and local gov. try to incentivize people to move. See [Finnmarksfradraget](https://www.skatteetaten.no/satser/finnmarksfradraget/) and [student loan reduction](https://lanekassen.no/en-US/gjeld-og-betaling/finnmark-or-nord-troms/) for a couple examples of this in practice
Cheap land and lower taxes in remote, hard to reach areas in the north.
In Finnmark they will pay 10% of student loans yearly if you live there and its proposed to be increased to 20% (only student loans through lånekassen). There are a number of other advantages as well.
In the northern part of Troms and in all of Finnmark, there are several types of financial incentives just to get people to live there. The taxes are lower, your employer pays less employer’s tax, your student loan gets written off by a certain percentage/amount every year, kindergarten is cheaper and so on. Housing is also generally cheaper, but of course a place like Alta is more expensive than some small towns in the south. But many areas in the far north have faced depopulation, at least people leaving small villages to move to cities. It’s a sparsely populated area of particular strategic importance, and the government has made a political decision to incentivize living there.
But what this person is referring to might be certain rare cases where smaller municipalities give away free land or even free housing to people who want to live there. This isn’t any kind of rule or right, but there have been several instances where a municipality struggling to keep up the population has decided to give away free housing – or even pay people – to come live there.
Mostly, this is due to the number of children being so low that their kindergarten and/or school faces closure. That is often the beginning of the end for any small community, so they fight to keep it open, and to do that they need more kids. So these offers are usually only open to families with small children, or at least to young couples who might want to have kids soon.
These places are by no means always in the north of Norway, but they are naturally very sparsely populated. Otherwise they obviously wouldn’t desperately need more people the way they do. I have read about municipalities offering these “deals” several times, but in reality it’s very rare and they usually just need a couple of families. So I certainly wouldn’t rely on it.
There have been cases of small municipalities around the country giving away properties and/or houses, or offering subsidies for building houses, on the condition that you move there and live there.
Two examples: [Seljord in 2014](https://www.nrk.no/vestfoldogtelemark/gir-bort-600-000-om-du-vil-bo-her-1.11809318). [Eidfjord in 2019](https://www.pengenytt.no/bygger-du-hus-her-sponser-kommunen-deg-med-opptil-300-000-kroner/).
Finnmark, that’s were he is hinting at I guess
Possibly in Mordor… I mean Finnmark, a very remote county that will help you downpay your student loan if you move and live there. You also pay less income tax.
Or talking about iceland? Don’t they pay guys to come with their semen to make more babies that ain’t related to the rest?
He’s talking about svalbard
Welcome to sunny Finnmark!
You pay elss taxes if you move to Svalbard
You can earn money in many ways in Norway but due to the prices of goods in stores and restaurants you can’t spend it on very much. Isn’t a pizza like $30?
I remember in the 90s when I was a kid I was told there was an old mining village where the mining operations closed and so people lost jobs and moved away. Big ass houses were sold for 1 krone or something ridiculous, to try to get people to move back. Place was called Sulitjelma I believe.