Norway Does NOT Like Powerful/Fast Cars!

[robinessex]

Build a kit car ?

[Finlandia]

robinessex said:

Build a kit car ?

Probably same as in Sweden, it's pretty much impossible due to laws and regulations.

[NordicCrankShaft]

Wages are very good here as an example the minimum wage for a cleaner in Norway is 160NOK and hour.....£16 but then there isn't that much of a wage gap in the population. Obviously there are people out there earning a lot of money but with the general population there isn't too huge a salary gap. It's also quite a good quality of life out here and the main focus is on spending time with your family. a normal working week it 38.5 hours and in most cases less, my holiday package per annum is 7 weeks!!! Also new fathers can take a year of paternity leave and still get paid 80% of their salary. It's a beautiful country and the people are great people and to be fair the only gripe I have is the whole cost of cars thing!

[Roastie ITR]

NordicCrankShaft said:

From what I understand if you have a car from outside Norway you are allowed to drive it in Norway but after 1 year it has to be registered in Norway, get the registration plates changed and the correct amount of duty paid, otherwise they will jail your ass!

Edited by NordicCrankShaft on Sunday 21st September 11:55

Buy a new car every year

[NordicCrankShaft]

Roastie ITR said:

Buy a new car every year

It's a difficult situation, as I can drive my own car here for upto a year without registering it with customs but I also have to prove that I am not going to be living here longer than a year which to be honest I am, you also risk the car being confiscated if you get caught.

[Motorrad]

MitchT said:

Are wages similarly spectacular then or do people just live in Norway because they have a desire to be impoverished?

Quality of life is high, I think it works out particularly well for people who have kids as they get various tax rebates, good schools etc.

I was offered work in Norway but as a single bloke with no kids it just wasn't an attractive place to live.

Everyone I know who lives there has a large brood or a (fit)Norwegian wife.

[MarshPhantom]

Some friends of my O/H went there on holiday, food and drink was so expensive that they lost weight.

[C. Grimsley]

MarshPhantom said:

Some friends of my O/H went there on holiday, food and drink was so expensive that they lost weight.

Need to book a six month holiday there then, will get my old missus back ha ha.

Carl

[otolith]

XJ Flyer said:

That's what happens in a place where the main wealth creation sectors are flogging fish and oil run by car hating socialists.

Narrow escape for Scotland.

[mdavids]

XJ Flyer said:

That's what happens in a place where the main wealth creation sectors are flogging fish and oil run by car hating socialists.

Yep! A socialist hell which comes top of pretty much every quality of life indicator there is, including income. Damn socialists ruining everything. Granted it doesn't sound like a very car friendly place but they are still classed as one of the happiest nations on the planet, go figure! Maybe there's more to the average Norwegians life than cars?

[r11co]

XJ Flyer said:

That's what happens in a place where the main wealth creation sectors are flogging fish and oil run by car hating socialists.

SCOTLAND!!!

[otolith]

There is a delicious irony in a country imposing punitive carbon taxes on citizens when its wealth is based on flogging oil. If they really gave a damn, they'd cap their wells, devote their wealth fund to climate change mitigation and go back to subsistence fishing.

[otolith]

mdavids said:

Yep! A socialist hell which comes top of pretty much every quality of life indicator there is, including income. Damn socialists ruining everything. Granted it doesn't sound like a very car friendly place but they are still classed as one of the happiest nations on the planet, go figure! Maybe there's more to the average Norwegians life than cars?

Some animals thrive in captivity, and many people enjoy being institutionalised.

[XJ Flyer]

otolith said:

XJ Flyer said:

That's what happens in a place where the main wealth creation sectors are flogging fish and oil run by car hating socialists.

Narrow escape for Scotland.

Not really because the Scottish obviously forgot that Salmond wasn't their only option after getting independence.Now they are tied to the even bigger socialist mess which Gordon Brown and his federalist Libdem allies will get us all into as part of a federal EU.Unless that is Farage and the rebel Cons see sense in getting England out of the UK and the EU.

[XJ Flyer]

otolith said:

There is a delicious irony in a country imposing punitive carbon taxes on citizens when its wealth is based on flogging oil. If they really gave a damn, they'd cap their wells, devote their wealth fund to climate change mitigation and go back to subsistence fishing.

No more than the irony of a Gordon Brown supporting English based Unionist anti federalist Independence Party.

[XJ Flyer]

otolith said:

mdavids said:

Yep! A socialist hell which comes top of pretty much every quality of life indicator there is, including income. Damn socialists ruining everything. Granted it doesn't sound like a very car friendly place but they are still classed as one of the happiest nations on the planet, go figure! Maybe there's more to the average Norwegians life than cars?

Some animals thrive in captivity, and many people enjoy being institutionalised.

Then again just imagine a society in which we can apply Norwegian ideas regarding incomes and quality of life,anti federalist principles,in an oil rich environment with Saudi Arabian attitudes to car use.That could be an independent Scotland and England free of EU regulation.

[otolith]

There are plenty of home grown greens and reds who dislike cars for their environmental impact and for their role as conspicuous indicators of wealth and consumption.

[XJ Flyer]

otolith said:

There are plenty of home grown greens and reds who dislike cars for their environmental impact and for their role as conspicuous indicators of wealth and consumption.

But the 'home grown' 'Greens' don't/shouldn't have any mandate to impose their ideology on anyone who doesn't want to live by their ideas.By that logic what was Farage thinking in allying himself with Gordon Brown on the Scottish independence issue.IE they can only impose their ideology on us if we allow them to.

[otolith]

Plenty of people willing to vote for those policies, I'm afraid.

http://m.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/sc...

Edited by otolith on Sunday 21st September 14:49

[XJ Flyer]

otolith said:

Plenty of people willing to vote for those policies, I'm afraid.

But not a majority.Yet.

While if we are in the position of being dictated to by socialism/greenyism that's obviously the time to realise that democracy has run its course and is no longer fit for purpose.