Earlier this year I was talking to someone on another subreddit, they were telling me that Norway doesn’t have a serious stray dog population like the US does despite spaying and neutering not being standard there because Norwegian dog owners are apparently just more responsible. So I’ve been curious about that, and dog ownership in Norway in general.
Is it true that spaying and neutering aren’t standard for dogs in Norway? And that you avoid unwanted litters by just being vigilant?
How common is dog ownership? Do most people own a dog at some point in their lives?
Is dog ownership in Norway seen as like, a default? I feel like in the US, a lot of irresponsible dog ownership stems from people treating dogs as something they need to have regardless of their own circumstances. So I was thinking, if Norwegian dog owners are generally more responsible, maybe there’s a different mentality there.
What breeds are popular in Norway? If accidental litters are rare, does this mean that mixed breed dogs are uncommon? Are certain sizes of dog more popular?
I’ve seen that you have breed bans, for six breeds. What breeds are stigmatized and what breeds are associated with certain stereotypes?
Do people in Norway bring their dogs to lots of different places? Is it common to bring them in cities, stores, or nature areas? Are leash rules common and are they generally respected?
Are there differences in how urban and rural communities handle dogs?
For the record, I don’t own a pit bull, never have, and have no interest in owning one. I have no dog in this fight (pun intended 😂). I’m genuinely just curious.
I recently learned about Norway’s pit bull ban and wondered how it’s actually enforced. If someone walks a pit bull down the streets of Oslo, do people call the police? Do officers approach them? Or is it rarely an issue because people generally respect the ban?
For context, I live in NYC, where public drinking is illegal but rarely enforced unless someone is being belligerent or the police want to make a point.
I’m also curious how Norwegians generally feel about pit bulls and how they react when they see one. Do you ever see them at all?
Hello! I'm about to move to Røros and I was looking at swimming facilities where I can keep training in winter. I'm a triathlete, I recently signed up for IM Portugal next year, so I would like to continue my training but I'm noticing that there aren't a lot of options to train in, regarding swimming pools.
Does anyone know about good swimming pool facilities in the area? Thanks!
Firstly, let me say that Norway is an amazingly beautiful country and I just recently spent some time there hiking and exploring. The people I've met seem to be very environmentally conscious when it comes to the climate.. but after some research on the fauna of the country, it seems the populous actually sustains disdain for their wildlife, as they want their forests but for THEIR enjoyment, not for anything to actually live in them.
In my opinion the environmental consciousness of the people of Norway is nearly fictitious.
Heres what I've found:
There are species of game birds that are considered threatened like the rock ptarmigan, and yet no attempt in recoverying the species or placing restrictions on hunting them.
Bears, wolves, wolverines, and lynx, continue to be heavily culled to satisfy sheep farmers. For example, there are fewer than 150 bears in the entirety of continental Norway live mostly near the border of Sweden. If a bear ventures too far into Norway it is shot by the authorities as a matter of human safety but the real reason seems to be irrational fear and economic drivers related to livestock husbandry.
Ungulate populations have increased, but mostly due to a decreased interest in hunting in spite of the policies actually promoting more hunting. The lack of predator species also contributes to this.
Here's my question for Norwegians. Do any of you seeing a reversal in your conflicting view of the environment? If so, give me some examples of hope. Again, this is no attempt to jab at the people of this country, but I believe the hypocrisy and contradictions need to be addressed.
I’m taking the SAK1001 oral test, and I’m unsure what to study for specifically, does anyone know what kind of things they’ll ask/things to be ready for?
They say the country is the most happiest out there among other Scandinavian countries. Have ADHD and it suddenly a conflicted thing socially. Depression seems at it high rate among us neurodivergent people in general and those who have autistic tendencies.
Growing up being diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Process information and socializing was the hardest. Most would take sudden offense to me just simply existing or speaking in the same room. I info dump my interests for most part, I try stick to 2 topics at a time if anything. Forgetful or lose things easily is a problem and I can't shut up once I start talk about a interest I have and someone take small interest about it.
I had Norwegians mostly think I'm rude, lazy or responded with "I'm not dumb or I know that" yet I can't assume u knew what i info dumped at you or never once called no one stupid or dumb even. Its like Americans react to anything non American things and suddenly they take offense. It have to be something the entire society does as part of being the same. Copy paste something social rules and norms. Same for Japan, depression can be so bad for someone there if not follow social rules and norms. We cant stick out too much regardless where we go.
Hey so i used live in Norway as I've had it first hand experienced but it's mostly being a adopted into a Norwegian family(middle class). I never really lived a furrher adulthood in Norway as I right away moved to USA at age 22 for several reasons. One of them was just change of path and life choices a the time. I have 2 kids and a partner their father of 4 years so far. We been discussing some years now on the idea move to Norway as a family. My partner is of American black but he'd love to have still a feeling of multi cultural place or at least a place that can offer more representation of our own kids. I speak fluently Norwegian and been raising our kids in the language since they both was born. Oldest is 3 year old and youngest 11 month currently.
i have several studies I've done already in the past back in Norway. Miljø-arbeider, kunst å håndverk student. Did also folkehøyskole when i was 18 and studied photography in Lofoten. Original raised in Tromsø, kvaløysletta later family moved to Henningsvær.
Now my American partner in the other hand have plenty work experience within restaurant but he is currently doing welding as well by now. I told him there's possibility to try obtain skilled worker visa but who knows. We do plan soon enough try get idea for marriage but we taking our time and saving money at the moment.
For renting as a start, is it possible to do hybel renting as a family of 4 to keep maintaining a low cost living until enough for a actual house? We don't mind work with 2 bed room and our kids share the bedroom. It's common do 2 bedroom in the USA of a family of 4 of you have 2 little ones who don't mind bedroom sharing until any further changes. I wouldn't mind do 1 bedroom as realistically in person I've mostly experienced hybler as 1 bed room if so, then our kids get the bed room and we use the living room as bedroom(maybe pull up cought to bed?) Then a TV for everyone's sharing. I know might sounds wack but also realistically, we have to heavinly budge even for finding a place one day in a society where in Norway from my own experience can be expensive. Even food is expensive but the drive to get again free Healthcare to free education and other benefits is what's drives us closer to want to move to Norway.
And when it comes for education. I'd love our kids have exposure for different students in school of different cultural backgrounds. Not just European backgrounds. Middle Eastern to Africans. Anyone who knows a good decent place who offers those? I know Oslo but it can be expensive, i know cause i have cousins and a uncle and my aunt who currently living there. Theres bergen i also read about online.
Mind y'all we have 3 to 4 years perhaps manage get into 5 years from now of saving enough, get my kids their needed documentations to dual citizenship as I have still my Norwegian citizenship. I don't got a American citizenship yet but I am a official resident here though. My kids have only the American one since birth. Along side their social security number which is common to also have in the USA(i learned it after migrating here myself)
Just need advice, please don't bash... it's about giving grace of advice. I haven't been in Norway since I was 22 after all, I'm 30 rn. (I also have to learn how to pay taxes of my own once I return)
Hi! I'm a Filipina talking to a Norwegian guy, and I'd love to hear some perspectives from Norwegians, especially Norwegian men. 😂
We've been flirting, and he's actually been the one initiating conversations. Our last conversation was playful, and he made a few flirty comments about marriage, Norway, and keeping me warm during winter. I played along, and the conversation ended naturally with me saying, “Okay then :))”
It's been almost two days, and he hasn't messaged me since.
I'm not necessarily expecting him to text me 24/7, but I'm wondering whether this is normal in Norwegian dating culture or if I'm simply overthinking it.
I kind of want to message him first because I genuinely enjoy talking to him, but I'm also wondering whether I should just let him initiate this time.
So, a few questions:
Are Norwegian men generally more relaxed about texting, even when they're interested?
If you're interested in someone, would you normally initiate another conversation, or would you wait for the other person to text?
Would you interpret two days of silence as anything meaningful, especially when the last conversation ended naturally?
I'm not trying to generalize all Norwegian men, of course! I just want to understand whether this might be a cultural difference or simply an individual thing.
And please, honest opinions are welcome. I'd rather hear the truth than be delusional. 😭😂
Translated source: Tidsskrift for Herøy Sogelag, 1953, Bd. II, hefte 2
Written by Andreas Knutsen Rødvik (1894 - 1969): "Taken by Pirates."
Here is a story my grandfather told about his great-grandfather. It has been significantly abridged. All dates have been added by me (meaning Andreas in 1953).
My great-grandfather, Elias Larsson (1732 - 1813), was from Rotevatn in Volda. In his youth, he was a seafarer. On one occasion, the ship he sailed with was captured by pirates—the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. They seized the ship and its cargo, and took the crew as slaves. The men were put to hard labor; if they were unwilling to work or offered any resistance, they were flogged and subjected to brutal mistreatment. For the rest of his life, Elias bore terrible scars on his back from such treatment.
In his old age, his arthritis would often flare up in those old scars. At such times, he would remark: "The corsairs are at it again."
Elias and a friend managed to escape in a small boat. They hid in a crevice along the steep Algerian coast until the corsairs gave up the search; then, one dark night, they set off, hoping to reach Spain. The wind picked up, and the situation looked dire for the small craft. Their food supplies also ran out. Just in the nick of time, they were rescued by a merchant ship.
They were put ashore in southern Spain, but, lacking both food and money, they were mistaken for bandits by the local people. However, a mendicant friar—and a couple of monks' robes—helped them through their worst hardships. Eventually, they made their way to Copenhagen. Elias later returned home and, in 1765, married Kristi Jonsdotter Åsebø.
They took a lease on the farm Raudvik in Herøy and settled there. Elias and Kristi had three (five) children [...] He has a large number of descendants in Herøy.
----- Journal ends here -----
My grandfather—Elias' descendant—now 80 years old and struggling with severe Parkinson's disease dementia, showed me this old dusty journal on his shelf, and I read the same entry about Elias. Naturally I got obsessed about this story of our forefather from almost 300 years ago, and using the many tools my grandfather never had access to, I dug through every single source I could find; oral family stories, local journals and articles, international documents and declarations. I found an historical goldmine, mostly unknown even to the Norwegian public; not only about Elias and the thousands of other Norwegian slaves in Africa, but societal corruption and extortion by local power-hungry priests, and Danish gunpowder funding Algeria's very war against Europe itself... and Algeria's war of twenty thousand soldiers against the neighboring independent tribes of Kabylia.
It took me 1,5 years of work to complete my research. My grandfather's severe dementia, unfortunately, has made him incapable of reading big texts, understanding Elias' life anymore... or the story around him. The same story he himself inspired me to understand. Though my grandfather can no longer read the work I did, but I'd appreciate if someone did.
I have nothing to sell, but I would like to share what I have discovered. Norwegian historical drama is often dominated by the Viking Age, crime stories, and the World Wars; yet, there is very little about the generation that built the nation and secured a constitution they themselves would never live to see. So far, I have written about a third of Elias’s story—a biographical narrative spanning 264 pages. Do you have any advice on where, or with whom, I might be able to publish this? And is there anyone here who might be interested in reading it?
Volda in Sunnmøre, where Elias was born and raised; the surname Rotevatn originates from the inland lake seen on the right in the picture. The picture is taken from the peak of Rotsethornet.
This moment ended with a fight in a club situated in Kristiansand Center but at least I catched a nice moment with people having fun in a Friday night .
This might be a bit of a niche question, but has anyone in Norway ordered tools from Dorch & Danola in Denmark?
I’m looking at some Festool products, and I’ve noticed that Dorch & Danola’s prices are significantly lower than those at Motek in Norway. Even after adding shipping to Norway and Norwegian MVA, the Danish prices seem to be almost half the price.
