You talkin' to me? Go ahead, make my day.
I completely feel your pain. Every month when we pay our incredibly HIGH rent for our sort of crappy house I want to cry. Oh and the car thing - it's just sad.
Yes folks..I AM in the doghouse.
I can totally relate! I just bought 6 .50 liters of smirnoff ice. I never buy these but had a craving. Had no idea the cost until I got to the check out. 40 nok per can! I said: This is wrong, it has to be price per liter. No I was wrong these suckers are expensive! There was a long line and I was to embarassed to put them back. I could have bought 3 bottles of really good wine. I will not tell hubby this for sure. He is constantly telling me I spend to much.
Living here we just have to not look at the dollar anymore..except when going home to shop!
Karla darling,
Your are living in an effin economic aberration. The Economist will not include Norway in real economic comparisons because the gdp is so skewed by natural resource wealth and a low population. Norway wins in the Economist Quality of Life survey (Canada is usually 2) and the Most Expensive City on the planet survey. You would need the oil revenues of the milky way to sustain an economy like this for 300M people! Then everyone would drive German cars. Its like Quatar on the Atlantic! I just hope Norwegians appreciate this! Beaverboosh
It used to do my head in too, coming from the UK. You soon realize its an exercise in futility. Its like comparing apples and oranges. As they say, its all relative. I'm mean its about as useful as comparing prices with Switzerland, or India.
BTW I'm not sure where you getyour price for used cars from. Had trouble finding anything anywhere near 240K on finn.no 
Oh, and back in 2001 I could get a movie ticket for about 50nok.
I had a really hard time keeping track of what things cost when we lived in Germany. This is probably all "ugly American" of me, but I had a tough time thinking of euros as real money. They were so colorful and pretty, and I would just go grab another handful out of the ATM occasionally.
I remember milk was over $5 a gallon in the civilian grocery stores when we lived in Hawaii from 1999 to 2001. (Huge incentive to shop the commissary, where it was "only" $3 and change.) I wonder what it costs now.
Well, sounds like a diabolical solution/punishment has already been thought of.
You have absolutely no need for me at all, do you? I am a completely superfluous reader.
That's cool.
Christina...you are NOT superfluous.
Grant: Car price based on informal poll around the office where a few people have recently bought used cars (2 years old) from dealers. I saw an ad today for a new Kia Sportage for sale for "only" 329k nok. New cars almost ALWAYS cost over 250k, though used ones (older than 5 years) can be had for around 150k and be perfectly decent. As for movie tix, when i came in 2002 they were 70 nok. 50 at the matinees. (Senior Kino. hey, I'm not proud.)
Bonnie: When you were in Germany the dollar wasn't QUITE as crappy as it is now. Euros still look like funny money to me too.
Beaverboosh....dude you are so right. Norway has a nice comfy little pillow going here and I am happy to be a part of it....at least from a glad to be out of the USD perspective!
How do the Norwegians set prices? Stuff is cheap here because we get it from India and Cambodia and Honduras, etc.
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