American Reacts to 5 Things to LOVE About Norway

Life in Norway is very rarely talked about enough in America, which is why today I am very excited to learn about 5 amazing things to love about the country of Norway and the Norwegian people. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[layziek]

It was hilarious to hear him saying it's snow everywhere and all year round, and that is the only clip where there is snow at all 😂🤣 Snow is always dependent on the time of year and the place you visit. I live an hour south of Oslo and there have been years where we basically had little to no snow at all.

[mkitten]

Norway's answer to pennies are called "øre" (same word we have for "ear"), but we have gradually phased out the coins with øre values. I'm 39 and when I was little we still had both 10 and 50 øre coins, but neither of those are used anymore. Prices can still be given with decimals, but if you pay cash the total is rounded up or down to the nearest krone, and it's only with card payments that we pay exactly anymore.

[scalliboy]

Even in Northern Norway, you don't have snow all year round. It is pretty much snowless from june to august. You can find snow deposits still on the mountains though!

[jarls]

It is perhaps easy to think of Norway as a small country - but it is in fact very long stretched. From mainland, south to north, it is approx the same distance as from San Diego to Vancouver CA!
Or - for somebody living on Norway's southern end, it is about the same distance to Rome, Italy as to Norway's norhtern tip.

So the climate in Norway varies wildly over that distance. North to south - but also varies with elevation. So weather is complex and you could, technically see snow any time of year - depending on your location within Norway.

But - for the most populated areas in the south, near the coast - I would be very surprised to see snow falling from the sky between April through October - and during this time of year we generally have warm weather with no snow or ice on the ground.

I am of this moment in southern Norway and we currently have just over 70F outside temp.

[denisspratt]

No you can´t expect snow anytime of the year I Norway.
Up in the mountains or far north it can come snow in the summer, but that is very rare.
Most of Norway it doesn't happen.
In Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and the areas round it doesn't happen.
Bergen and Stavanger rarely have snow in the winter even.
There are off course glaziers in the mountains where there is snow all year long.

[TullaRask]

Snow all year? We do have glaziers, but snow in summer would be extreme.

[bobmalibaliyahmarley]

Kr or ''Kroner'' (Crowns) is the name of the currency, not the name of a specific type of coin within the currency. Back in the days there used to exist lesser currencies in Norway that was called ''Øre'', during the 90s and early 2000s we still had the ''50 Øre'' coin, which was the lowest coin currency in Norway still in use, as the lower ones like 1 Øre coins went out of use a decade or two earlier. Two 50 Øre coins was equal to 1 Kroner, i.e. 100 Øre is 1Kr. However, ''Øre'' is no longer in use as a currency, while it still technically exist in digital form in some instances (mostly business related), you can't get Øre in actual physical credit anymore. The lowest coin you can get and use is 1 Kroner coins. So Kroner (Crowns) is more or less the name of the currency itself, and not really related to a specific coin, our paper cash like 50 Kr or 1000 Kr bills are also just called ''Kroner''.

[John_]

08:45 I don't know where he went to buy stuff, or what stuff he bought, but getting discounts in general isn't that uncommon, though don't expect it. Like, an example for when it isn't uncommon to get offered a discount without asking is when you go to an electronics store to buy two - or more - of the following: dishwasher, freezer, fridge, fridge/freezer combo, washer, drier, washer/drier combo, stove, PC, monitor, speakers, mouse, keyboard. Basically what I'm going for is the more you are spending at the store, the higher the chance that the worker will offer you a discount, and if they do not offer you a discount, then you are still likely to get a discount if you ask for one. A lot of the times you can ask for a Package Discount, this would be applicable if you are buying a PC and Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse, or if you are buying a Drier and a Washer, or a Freezer and a Fridge, if you buy these combinations you are often able to get a so called Package Discount Deal.
Having said all that, do keep in mind that you aren't guaranteed a discount, not even if you were to buy one of everything I mentioned, it is really just a matter of the luck of the draw, so to speak, and you should NOT push it too hard if you ask for a discount and they reply with a no. What you can do if you don't get a discount, however, is ask for free shipping at least, if they are in a good mood, then they will agree to give you free shipping, and that alone could easily save you more than 700 Kroner. But, again, don't push it if they say no. Norwegian stores is usually a "What you see is what you pay" as they are regulated by a organization or whatnot to make sure that prices aren't too high or too low, and if they want to sell products for a lower price than the lowest price allowed, I believe - but don't actually know - that they would have to send in an application to the organization to ask for permission and wait to get that permission before selling the products for cheaper.

[Xirque]

About currency:
Norway has 2 as well, the Krone, and the Øre (there's 100 øre in a Krone). When I was a kid, the coins were 10 øre, 25 øre, 50 øre, 1 Krone and 5 Krone, while the notes were 10 Kr, 50 Kr, 100 Kr, 500 Kr and 1000 Kr.
Before my time therecwere both 1 øre, 2 øre and 5 øre as well.
Prices are still in Kroner and Øre, and when buying something, the cashier pur that price into the till. However, because we have stopped using øre when it comes to cash, the price given Vocally by the cashier and that is written on the till, might be 2 different things, as the cashier willl round up or down to the closest Krone in case of cash payment. If you pay with card however, exact price in Kroner and øre will be paid.

Today the cash is:
Coins: 1Kr, 5Kr, 10Kr, 20Kr
Bills: 50Kr, 100Kr, 200Kr, 500Kr, 1000Kr.

The different coins have different shapes to make it easier for those that have blindness and also, the oaper bills follow the color coding of the European standards on money.

[lpdude]

Nobody uses cash in Norway (only 5%), so use a card. Grocery stores are our banks - there you can deposit any money you may have in your pocket or purse directly into your bank account. The service is also free and is called Bank in store

[LethalOwl]

Snow is very dependent on where and when you are in Norway. Norway is crazy "tall", so the experience of the seasons in the far north is not the same as in the far south. Where I'm at in Norway we've full spring and won't see snow again until maybe November or December, if we're lucky.

[haraldnoddy]

The holes in coins are a safety feature if swallowed by a kid. That little hole gives enaugh air to survive, and is easier to remove

[EmeroDotNet]

We also have Øre, and you get 100 of them per Krone.
These are only used in digital currency, though. We don't use them in solid currency.
The holes are to make the different coins easier to use for blind people.

We do have some all-year ski centers on glaciers.

[Kraakesolv]

The holes are for blind people so they can distinguish the different coins easier.

[CaptainBreny]

I wish we got Mammoth Mountain amounts of snow in Norway. And many ski resorts here do have snow cannons. Winter came late in 2022 so cannons were used in Oppdal

[karebear]

Snow all year - no not everywhere, but for a few days it might come snow for a few days that isn’t during the obv winter weather, but again not everywhere in norway and not always alot of it. The tops of our many mountain not included

[MrSolenoid]

You can use euros in Norway as well as NOK.
With that said, i don't know anyone that uses cash these days. Maybe apart from older people.
In Bergen we get around 1-2 weeks of snow each year. Some times a little more and sometimes less.

[palmarolavlklingholm]

We have Kroner and Øre. We do not have Øre coins anymore, but it is still used digitaly.

[John_]

02:15 The Norwegian Currency is called the Norwegian Krone, and the American Currency is called the American Dollar or US Dollar. The difference, however, is that while the USA still has Cents, Dimes, Quarters - and I forget if there is a fourth one, - Norway has stopped using what was called Øre, Øre was the Norwegian equivalent to the American Cents as 100 Øre made up 1 Krone and 100 Cents make up 1 Dollar. The last Øre we had was the 50 Øre, that saw its end after May 1st 2012, before that, Norway used to have 1 (1972), 2 (1972), 5 (1982), 10 (1991), and 25 (1982) Øre, all of which are no longer in use. (The years in parenthesis are the years that the corresponding Øre saw its end of use). Now the kind of coins we have left are the Kroner (100 Øre in 1 Kroner): 1, 5, 10, and 20.

[frosty]

I live in the south .. we had 4 days of snow this winter.
That was it....
Even very few days of freeze. Basicly some rain and winter was over.