{"id":57,"date":"2007-12-04T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-12-04T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:58:50","slug":"life-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/57-life-in-norway.html","title":{"rendered":"Life in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, as a lot of you might know. People in Norway like to complain a bit, even though we frequently appear among the top 10 when it comes to the best countries in the world. Well I thought you might want to confirm your suspicions that Norway is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=aRJ5RSaKokK0&amp;refer=japan\" target=\"_blank\">expensive<\/a> country. ECA international has compiled it&#8217;s annual &quot;Top 10 expensive cities&quot; report. Norway have two cities on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/japan\/tokyo-is-no-longer-one-of-top-10-expensive-cities-328857.php\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a>, second and fourth place. Yeah, way to go Norway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, as a lot of you might know. People in Norway like to complain a bit, even though we frequently appear among the top 10 when it comes to the best countries in the world. Well I thought you might want to confirm your suspicions that Norway is an expensive country. ECA international has compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[512,520],"class_list":{"0":"post-57","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"tag-life","8":"tag-norway","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2447,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/2447-visiting-the-atlantic-ocean-road-and-the-nordic-light-festival-2018.html","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Visiting the Atlantic Ocean Road and the Nordic Light Festival 2018","author":"leirdal","date":"2018-06-05","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Most photographers in Norway have heard about the Nordic Light Festival in Kristiansund by now. 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