[Gay State Conservative]

Having just returned from a week or so in Ireland and England the first question that comes to my mind is...exactly what will that $1 million *buy* in Norway?

Prices there are *outrageous*! Gasoline is $7.50/gallon. A simple parking ticket (not feeding the meter) is $150.A scragly,anemic piece of steak in a restaurant is almost $30.A ten minute,five mile cab ride is almost $50.A sad,dirty looking condo is almost $600,000.

I'd be willing to bet that a million dollars in Norway doesn't buy you nearly as much as it does here.

[cinives]

ping to my post #14.

A million doesn’t mean a whole lot there. Then when you tke into account our falling dollar, it turns out it means even less.

[tomjohn77]

Well prices on food is pretty high, but high tech stuff and electronics are not heavily priced. Also we spend much less on our health care per capita too than the US. Its another way of running a country. It seems expensive to you because you don't see what the VATs gives people in return. The free health care and free schooling, free dentist to you are 18 etc. Not free, but prepaid OK.
When you put all this together Norway comes out just around 20% more expensive then the US. Its more complicated then looking at what a food costs at a restaurant because of the differences in the economic systems.
Also I think your comparison when it comes to houses are a little bite off. Houses in the US is expensive too and it has to do with location. Some places you get a palace for 3 million Kroner and some places like in Oslo you get a mid size apartment.