People and Living in Norway
The majority of the Norwegian population lives and works along the coast, a coastline that is about 83 000 kilometers long, the islands included.In addition Norway has the 9,000 km coastline of Svalbard. This makes more than twice the Earth’s equatorial circumference. The "International Living" Magazine has ranked Norway as number 12 in their Quality of Life Index for 2010, with a total score of 77, where the scores go from 0 - 100 with 100 as best in each categorie. What takes us down from a top-ranking, is the cost of living, where Norway gets 39 points out of 100. Freedom, risk and safety scores 100, while infrastructure scores 89. Healt scores 90 of 100, economy is 89, and climate is 60.This puts Norway to a total score of 77, while countries like Germany has 81 and USA 78. Read more about Household expences How we live
People in Norway are living their lives like most other Europeans, maybe with the little difference of knowing the country is economic stabile these times.Never has the income from the oil- and gas industry ment more to us, and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund is now filled with NOK 3.200 billions, or $ 551 billions USD.That puts us in a very special position during these worldwide financial crises.The unemployment is low, with a total for the whole country of 63.300 persons unemploed. That is only 2,4% of all Norwegian labour force. 
Travelling around in Norway, you will see that, outside the city centers, there are most wooden buildings. Norwegians like wooden houses, which is an old tradition, in spite of the climate that includes lots of rain and wet. Norwegian houses are relatively big, and in average has every person 50,5 m2 each. Buying a house or apartment in Norway today, means you will have to pay 3,5% interest to your bank. However, the prices are very high, and it's hard for young people to get into the house-buying market.
Today, working in the oil / offshore industry is the most lucurative, and best paid. The number of people working within the officals services, like healt care, is increasing. Average wagesThis is the official, average annual income for some different professions in Norway in 2010. (I believe many Norwegian workers are questioning the figures for beeing too high)Visit some communities
Visit Indre Kvarøy
Visit Veidholmen
Visit Runde
Visit Bud in Romsdal
Visit Fiksdal
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