I woke up in the morning one day with the phone ringing, I put my phone to talk and it was a strange number, but I immediately recognized the voice, I was really glad when I heard it because it was the voice of my best Norwegian. friend Mr. Lief, he is older than me but he is such a nice and funny guy that I liked him a lot, we worked together for 2 years before in Germany in such a famous restaurant in Berlin, I worked as a food and beverage manager, he worked there as chef, he came home and found a job in a big hotel in Oslo that’s because I was at the end of the contract term in Germany, he intended not to renew it again because he was not completely satisfied with the salary

So on the last call with Mr. Lief, I asked him to find me a job in Norway, he promised he would.

After some time and that day he called me again to tell me that he had found me a job and asked me to come to Norway as soon as possible for an interview. of course it was great news to get such a job especially i have never been to norway before, i also like to move to new countries and get work for new adventurers, i thanked him very much for his favor.

I talked to my family about this new job, they agreed to move with me there and it was really cool too, so we started collecting our luggage, looking for plane tickets and since I am European, I can move with my family fast. and easily to all the countries of Europe.

Did you know? I started my trip to norway and i went there also i got my job but at first i lived with a question in my mind that confused me, before i heard about norway the income of normal person is so high and it is such an expensive country and it was very interesting for me to see and know how those norwegians live in such a high standard of living, i wondered if norwegians live in this high level because they live in their country and it is rich country but what about foreigners there how do they live?

It was interesting to find the answer to this question, so at work I mixed with foreigners and asked them how they live in Norway. It was a big surprise!! when I realized from them that life is so easy and not expensive at all.

The reality I found in Norway, all people can live without a big budget, not like I imagined before, living there is not expensive at all!

WHAT DOES LIVING MEAN IS NOT EXPENSIVE AT ALL?

#Not expensive for food and meals.

About 1 million foreigners and different nationalities live in Norway, the salary of those people is different, so the budget for each one is also different, so when you enter the Super Market to buy food, you find that there are different expensive products and cheap ones. they have two companies one of them is called FIRST PRICE they sell all the products so cheap from bread to meat they sell it at cheap prices for example you can find the price of bread it is around 40.00 KOR it is around $4.00 you can find bread for those companies with 7.00 KOR less than $1 and do the same with all products.

By the way, KORON is the name of the local currency in Norway and around 10.00 KOR equals $1.00.

Also, if you want to buy hamburgers from Macdonalds as fast food, it’s less than $1.00.

#It is not expensive to buy clothes and shoes.

In Norway in the public places of each city or town you must find a mall or shopping center and it is full of different clothing and shoe stores and there you can find everything in such high quality with brands and at low prices, also from time to time you can go to walk there and find great discounts everywhere so you can buy three pieces of any type of clothing like pants or t-shirts, buy three pay only two pieces and get the third free. such discounts throughout the year in winter, in summer and in all Norwegian cities.

#It is not expensive to get public transportation.

In Norway, the normal price of a bus, metro and tram ticket is KOR 50.00, about USD 5.00 per ticket.

and there, if you bought a bus ticket, you can also use it when you take the subway or tram, but you have a limited time of about 30 minutes, you can use it after 30 minutes, it will expire.

From time to time, you can get many discounts of such tickets and cheap offers, for example, in summer, you can buy the bus card for the whole summer at such a cheap price and the summer period is about 3 months. Also the bus drivers can give you cheap deals when you buy a ticket, they can offer a weekly ticket so cheap that you can buy it and use it for the whole week, of course you will save your money.

By the way, here I am telling you about the price of the internal bus in each city, you can only pay 50.00 KOR to get a ticket and from time to time they have offers for passengers as I mentioned before. But if you wanted to move to another city, perhaps you would travel there by train or by bus, it has other fixed prices that are not cheap and without discounts, for example if you wanted to travel from Oslo to Sandfjord by train or by bus, the ticket costs about 300 KOR.

My advice, do not think about calling a TAXI there because it is really very expensive.

Check only with public transport is cheaper than Taxi and always have offers and discounts save a lot for you.

If you wanted to own a car there, um, buying a car in Norway is cheap too, if you wanted to buy a used car up to the 2005 model, it’s cheap after that, it will be more expensive depending on the condition of the cars.

Of course, if there is no need to buy a car in Norway, it is a big mistake, why?

1- They have a lot of taxes, but car insurance must be paid every year and this system is throughout Europe, not only in Norway.

2-They have the roads there not free, when you drive in each city you find several places that have doors with cameras to take a photo for your car number, every time you drive to go to the city you must pay with bills I come to the address from your house after a while but it’s free when you go out in your car but it’s so bad I didn’t like it, also I never saw this system in Germany, Romania, Poland or even Sweden, so if the car is not necessary for you i.e. if you don’t use it for your work there or you live alone without family it’s better to get a public transport this is my opinion just buy and use a car for your family or work because in such case you can cover all the expenses you need.

3-Maybe you ask me about benzene there, yes it’s very expensive, but I also think the price of benzene is high all over the world, so it doesn’t matter if you get a car in Norway or not.

By the way, in Norway you can get the cheapest price of benzene only on Sundays you can go to any benzene station to buy at a lower price.

4-Keep in mind that car repair there also costs a lot for spare parts, so be careful and think about that before you buy a car.

#NoCaro When You Hire a Flat or House.

In Norway, if you wanted to rent an apartment, the price of a normal apartment is not that high, and there is not much difference in prices from one city to another, prices in Oslo as in another city, so the price is about $750 per month + Electricity and water. So you need to deposit a month or maybe more according to your agreement with the owner of the apartment, all apartments have a luxury lifestyle. Large apartments, occupied with everything you need, just get the key to the apartment, go buy your products, put it in the fridge or in the kitchen, turn on the TV or go to sleep.

But maybe when you look at the price $750 you say oh! It’s so much, there people from Eastern Europe go to work, they go in groups of 3 to 4 people to rent an apartment and live together, then they divide the monthly rental price among themselves and then they also live in a luxury apartment with such a cheap price.

Some people may read this article and say that I only wrote about living in Norway, but for them they will only go there as tourists, does this article tell them anything useful?

YES because we have several coincident points, we already talked about that, such as food, clothing, transportation, taxi and, of course, this information can also help the tourist.

Only the tourist will not go to live in an apartment or house because the rental system in Norway does not allow renting an apartment for one or two weeks and if you find it it will cost you so much money for this period, the rental system there is yearly and A Sometimes contracts can be made for 5 years, so I think that the tourist will never go to live in an apartment and surely they will have previously booked the hotel before traveling.

The hotel prices in Norway are a bit expensive, but I believe that if the tourist decides to go to Norway for a sightseeing tour, he can find a suitable booking hotel and he can know the prices from the internet and choose the best one for his budget.

The writer of this article lived and worked in Norway for more than 3 years, learned the Norwegian language, speaks and writes it fluently, moved for work to many cities in hotel branches all over Norway, in Oslo, Tonsberg and Sandfjord. Due to family conditions, he had to temporarily finish his job and return home.

By the way, he really liked Norway and will soon return to work and live.