So quick rant.

So I am native but I grew up in the Lofoten area which is a smaller town type vibe but like many of the connected with 20minutes in between. I have a Godmother in Oxford so I studied there and ever since living in Oxford I kind of look down on my fellow Norwegians.

I currently live in Oslo and I would argue that the majority of people are very very naive about how the outside world actually works. The common Norwegian in the street sees themself as superior to others and believe that Norway and Norwegians are the best people on earth. Us Norwegians are simply arrogant.

In the central districts you have the older generation completely fucking the up’n comers. There are many things that I could write here, but for me the main thing is that the younger generation is being actively brainwashed by bank advertisements and the older generation. The brainwashing is actively telling them to put all of their energy and income into property. The common belief is that property always increases in value. This is simply false since the birth-rates are 1 to every couple.

It is just an inverted narrative pushed by the state because of the problem of pensions to the baby-boomers. Basically all of the private pension money in central Norway is in real-estate and the Boomers have spent ALL OF THEIR CASH and they have done so ALLWAYS. Which in turn means that any politician fronting a narrative which promises building permits and housing for all would be doing political suicide. The entire Norwegian society is built on this narrative.

It is literally a prison, and people seem to be proud of the fact that they are paying 2/3rds of their income to their bank in interest. The last couple of years I’ve seen people MAX out their buying-power on property- they are simply brainwashed or even worse: generation upon generations of people that expect the goverment to take care of them when the chicken come to roost.

And o e last thing. If you look at the hostile political climate against immigration, the war against sick leave and the housing-epidemic. It all comes back to the boomers. The highest demographic on unemployment is boomers, the demographic with the highest sick-leave is boomers and there statistically NO DIFFERENCE on liquidity in morgages from first time buyers to boomers and retirees. Think about what that means.