This post containts joint analysis of objective and subjective factors of moving to Norway: incuding research, voting results, ratings, and also some subjective ideas about moving to NO. In most cases there are links to sources of info so you could look to the info closer or check my data.
So, why Norway? What are the reasons of moving there?
Objective factors
1st place by freedom of speech
3 place in "The Web Index" rating
Top of the most atheistic countries
— Wikipedia: Dentsu Institute (2006) and Zuckerman (2005)
Top 10 by internet penetration (~97%)
— Wikipedia: List of countries by number of Internet users
Top countries by internet speed
— Akimai
1st place - Happiness Report by World Life Expectancy
2nd place - Happiness Survey by WHR
Second place by wellbeing, 7th by social equality, 12 place in HPI rating, 14 place - life length
2nd place by GDP per capita
Country with highest disposable income in Europe
— Huffington Post, Movehub, Numbeo
Top passenger EV sales
Top-7 medium nation IQ (2002~2006)
11th place of nature safe places
14th place of safest countries to travel
15 place of life length (82 years)
Numbeo Analysis
5th cleaniness score (survey of the pollution level)
— Numbeo
12th place in life quality rating
— Numbeo
12th place by traffic jams (mostly free roads)
— Numbeo
16th place by healthcare
— Numbeo
Criminal
Low rate of people in prison
Low suicide rate
Subjective or personal factors
The Norway society neraly hasn't any stratification. You could meet prime ministery nearby in the bus, paying for the ticket: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-thing-about-Norway
Very friendly, smily and positive nation
Norwegians - one of the most trustfulness nation in the world. Hence honesty, decency, etc. The graph below states the results of voting for the question "you can trust most of the people". Norwegians agree in approx. 70%.
Norway citizens are ensured in national government
http://www.oecd.org/governance/public-governance-a-matter-of-trust.htm
In Norway it's allowed to freely move on the "uncultivated" land,
Including gathering of the berries, installing the tents etc. - google "allemannsrett"
You can freely live in the free huts for tourists
They are mostly located in the mountaints, and these huts already has food, comfort sleeping places and warmth.
City urban style is filled with woods and fascinating landscapes
Even if you live in Oslo (capital), you don't feel yourself in the stone jungle
Norwegians cares of ecology
Hence there are nearly zero "dirty" ways of energy generation
Norwegians cares of food
Approximately 10% of Norway citizens are vegeterians and most of the people choose food wisely.
Norway has a lot of clean nature water sources
And you can drink tap water here just everywhere: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-thing-about-Norway
Climate is more stable
In Oslo it's warmer in winter and colder in summer, then in my city (Rostov-on-Don).
Fjords, nature, landscapes scenery, flora and fauna, lakes..
In the Norway there are nearly half a million lakes - 2.5 times more, then in Finland. The most deep lake in the europe is also located here - it' name is Hornindalsvatnet.
Islands: 240,000 !
Covering more than 64,000 miles. Click on the collage lower to get a larger size (15+ mb).
The longest tunnel
Interestengly, Norway has one of the world's longest tunnels, - it's length is 25 kilometers.
There are northern lights and white nights
If you like this stuff, just find DSLR and make a fascinating photo.
Why atheism is objective factor?
There are many researches of atheism or religiocity on the planet. The most large ones I found was about comparing the wealthiest people with religious people to find correlation; and second one was about military (war) oriented nations and religious ones. In the results of this two researches, we could clearly see the straight correlations: the less religious nation is, the more wealthy and the less militaristic people are. And vice-versa: the more religious nation is, the less wealthy and more militaristic are it's people - for example, most of the country budget is spent into military tasks, not to medicine or science. Being starving of the low life level, low salaries, bad transport, no infractructure, poor quality of internet & communications, unsafe life, imperfect medicine, people being even more religious and this vicious circle restarts again. As for me, the factor of religiocity goes back to the factor of ecological mind, or just an logical mind. I would like our planet to have as less wars or conflicts as possible, as low starving or poor people as possible. This requires people to have less religion! If you're onto your own research on this topic, please follow this link: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-least-religious-societies-are-the-most-successful-ones - and google some others for yourself. In the end, there is no objective reasons to kill a living creatures, indifferent, humans or animals, as there is no objective reason to live poor or on the edge of starvation or illnesses.
If I don't like the Norway, could you give other options?
Yes! If you'd ask me, I would follow with some other options/advices on countries (note: these are MY research and MY favourite countries): Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia. If you'd like to pick country up to your requests, head to this online tool: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org. The fun is, I'd just setted up the sliders to my requests and what do you think? Norway is #1, here, too: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/32233322312
Why I'm leaving Russia?
- No freedom of the speech
- Journalists are being followed and chased
- The internet is in blockade, including carpet bombings, and we are now having more blockings, then in China
- Too much people sitting in jail, most of them are sitting because of being opposition to main politician force
- There are no changing of the politian force ever for 20+ years, nothing is improving at all
- Russia is ignoring it's people's rights and it's own constitution
- Russia is even ignoring the world constitution, laws and agreements
- I am going to publish large article and video about problems of Russia in nearest future.
Feedback
If you like information from my post, welcome to my telegram chat about moving to Norway (the "dirty tractor" chat group):
https://t.me/waytonorway
And please, do submit any comments. I'll be glad! =)
