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Thread: Woot! Sweden is the 2nd best country in the world to live in! :D | This thread is pages long: 1 2 3 4 5 6 · «PREV / NEXT» |
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terje_the_ma...
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posted November 02, 2004 01:09 PM |
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Ehem. That's supposed to be a national secret...
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"Sometimes I think everyone's just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending to be brave is how you get brave, I don't know."
- Grenn, A Storm of Swords.
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Orfinn
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posted July 01, 2007 09:02 PM |
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Im a bloody norwegian myself and I love to live here. But indeed there are lame things our gouvernement do. We are expensive and we have a snowload of bucks in reserve thanks to the oil, the excuse not to use them now is to save them for future generations yeah well if we all think that every year, there will be no future!
Speaking of future and the next generations pleasure to live in norway. Im so freaking sick and tired of some whining sheepfarmers participating in making the natural predators extinct! Dammit, I get seriously frustrated and upset when I see either wolves, bears and eagles etc showing up on the front page of the newsletters with blood and bullet holes everywhere, with a hunter proudly with a devious smile indicates and says this is necessary because "It attacked my sheeps!" Dang! the one thing for this is because they are in the predators territory and for me they are begging being interrupted by them, if you absolutely have to live close to these amazing beings, get a proper non lethal defence. Especially better fences, use your creativity for gods sake!! Natural predators have their role in our world, havent it been for them there would be buckloads more pesticides like rats, mouse etc which there are hordes of.
To the point Swedes get my platinium medal for trying to save our natural, scandinavian predators!
And last. Stop whining about not letting immigrants get into norway, if your open your eyes its quite alot of them impossible getting rid of (no discrimination) but helleu does Mullah Krekar say something? i bet he gonna convert to christian belief just to save his ass from getting kicked out of our beloved country. I dont care if he gets savegely slain. Any idea what he have participated in? He have participating in murders of millions of people, down there in the chaotic and fanatic middle east (I know some westerns are not better at all, religion is past IMO..now look to the future)
I dont want terrorists sitting and smiling gently in their comfy chair with satelitte TV and golden necklaces whikle controlling hidden agendas and such, which I highly suspect mr. Mullah for.
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SwampLord
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posted July 01, 2007 10:10 PM |
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Well, USA gets number 8. That's good enough for me.
(But I still know it's the best...)
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Doomforge
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posted July 01, 2007 10:13 PM |
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Even if Poland got the last place, I wouldn't be surprised
Life here certainly isn't the best.
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SwampLord
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posted July 01, 2007 10:51 PM |
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Seriously? Wow, that really sucks. What makes it so bad?
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Doomforge
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posted July 01, 2007 11:14 PM |
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Hmm..
payments, mainly. the prices are varied, in general we pay less for food & accomodation than in US/West Europe, but we actually pay more for cars, games, computers, TVs.. with an average payment of 300 euro.. People aren't starving, homeless or such, but they have to work really hard and long in order to buy a TV which an average American can buy after a month of normal work. Getting a job is hard, too.. nepotism everywhere. ~~
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SwampLord
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posted July 01, 2007 11:19 PM |
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Man, that sucks. Games cost 300 euros? Holy crap!
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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Doomforge
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posted July 01, 2007 11:30 PM |
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nono, I meant that the average salary is 300 euros ;p
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SwampLord
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posted July 01, 2007 11:30 PM |
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300 euros a what? Week?
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Doomforge
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posted July 01, 2007 11:36 PM |
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that would be too good
300 euros a month.
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SwampLord
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posted July 01, 2007 11:45 PM |
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Are you kidding me? That's like 5,000 dollars a year? In the US, that's known as "poverty". Seriously, how do you live on that, even with paying less for food, accomadations and soforth?(I feel really bad for anyone who plays a Games Workshop product in Poland.)
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Doomforge
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posted July 01, 2007 11:59 PM |
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Well, in a typical family, both parents earn 300 euros, and so, they can pay the bills and feed the family without much problem. There is not much left to do afterwards.
Ordinary Pole would never buy a car or a flat without a huge loan.. apportioned to 40 years. THat's why most people have cars and houses here; still, you're stripped of your money until your death, more or less.
Fortunately, a nice bunch of ppl earns more (500-600 euros.), still, around 50% earns 300. Yes, that's almost poverty.Sadly.
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SwampLord
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posted July 02, 2007 12:22 AM |
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A car costs that much? Here in the USA, you may have to take out a loan, but it's usually small. Jesus, man, you gotta get out of there!
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mvassilev
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posted July 02, 2007 12:33 AM |
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Yes, but I bet that the cost of living is a lot lower in Poland than it is in the US.
I'm surprised that the US is #8, I don't think it deserves to be that high.
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SwampLord
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posted July 02, 2007 12:41 AM |
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And please explain why? It seems pretty good here to me. And he said living costs are lower, but you have to take out a 40-year-loan to buy a car. That's not typical, at least not here in the US.
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Doomforge
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posted July 02, 2007 10:17 AM |
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well, an ordinary car (like Fiat Panda) costs ~40.000 zł here, which equals around 10 000 euro. That's an ammount of money you can never earn, so you're kinda forced to take the loan.. A flat located in Warsaw costs from 200.000 to 400.000 zł (50000 euro to 100000 euro), now tell me how to get that much..
Ah yes, the minimal wage in Poland is 880 zł which is around 220 euro/month.
There is a lot of rich ppl in my country, btw.. but happens in every poor country, I guess. A lot of poor ppl and a lot of rich ppl aswell.
I think I will get out of here sooner or later, but first, I have to finish my studies. And then, I'm going to Taiwan. God I love those asian girls!
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Spectrum
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posted July 02, 2007 03:24 PM |
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Yep, Finland (where I was born) and Luxembourg (where I live) are both there Never any doubt in my mind.
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SwampLord
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posted July 02, 2007 05:47 PM |
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Notive Mvassilev couldn't explain why the USA is so bad...
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homam
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posted July 03, 2007 12:06 PM |
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Quote: We are not even on the list.
But last time I checked Macedonia was 60th. Boy, that's bad. You bloody exploitators!
Your "Macedonia" is 60th,your "Macedonia" could be last or could be first.But real macedonia is in the place where Greece is.Your 60th Macedonia is Skopje or F.Y.R.O.M.
Macedonia<Greece<EU
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SwampLord
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posted July 03, 2007 09:09 PM |
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the last country was? My money's on North Korea.
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They can take my swamp, they can take my town, but they will never take my FREEDOM!
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