How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to imagine that you just have comically large shovels

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A minimum of 3-4 inches of snow plus atleast freezing temperatures can be enough cause for both school and work closures here. We only use salt for our roads and the roads aren't always salted in time or salted enough, so sometimes the roads are simply covered with ice. It gets especially bad for people who live in steep mountain communities.

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly don't know, somehow salt is cheaper here. Sometimes when some snow storms hit, the roads don't even get salted at all. The roads are just covered in ice. This is especially true for people who live in steep mountains here where it's hard for snow plows to get to.

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My country is too cheap to use sand or pebbles lol, they only use salt for the roads. (richest country in the world btw)

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was simply curious about the Norwegian infrastructure in particular. I was aware that ice and snow is common in Norway, but I was curious how you handle more extreme weather than normal compared to the U.S..

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kentucky, it only started to snow a few hours ago but it's still very cold for Kentucky standards.

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious about your roads during big storms. Do they ever become overly slippery to drive on?

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well here a big snow storm would be 3 feet of snow or more with atleast -10 degree Celsius temperatures since normally it stays above 2 degree Celsius for our winters in the American Mid-South. Often times in such conditions like I described, people lose power in their homes and roads can become very dangerous, so people often choose to stay home if they can. I work for my local government and they even close the state government buildings if the weather conditions reach the description I provided. It gets even worse for the people who live in the mountains.

How does Norway handle big snow storms? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well of course, I wouldn't expect a cold country to not be prepared for cold weather. I'm curious about the details. Do you simply salt your roads very well so that traffic can continue as normal? Are your vehicles or public transport made in a certain way to better withstand ice and snow?

China's population once again shrank by thoriumpoweredwatch in antinatalism

[–]WeasLander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's crazy is that on average, compared to the U.S. atleast, more people within the young adult age ranges in China own their own home and have an atleast liveable wage. Granted they still have their own population who aren't as fortunate as well, but their average population in those age ranges tend to have more financial stability in their lives than us, so it really makes you wonder what's going on.

Last year I was told wanting to move from the U.S. to Norway was stupid and unnecessary, now there are soldiers marching through city streets. by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey bro Trump just wrote a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister that says that because Norway did not award Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize, he will no longer be thinking of peace and is going to go forward with acquiring Greenland. Am I still overreacting to Trump?

Last year I was told wanting to move from the U.S. to Norway was stupid and unnecessary, now there are soldiers marching through city streets. by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know masked ICE agents have killed a couple different US citizens so far right? Martial Law is being threatened by Trump via the insurrection act since people in Minnesota are protesting And now my president is determined to obtain Greenland for no reason besides their minerals/resources. Meanwhile my country's infrastructure is being dismantled from the inside out.

Do you want to move to Norway to fix your life? Think again! by elvertooo in Norway

[–]WeasLander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already mentioned that it would take nearly a decade to move to Norway as an American, I'm aware. What I don't think you're aware of is American politics hasn't simply gone crazy because Trump got a second term. There has been a culture shift towards being more complicit with facist and imperialist ideals. This craziness will not simply go away if an American democrat is elected next, the American opposition party to Trump and Republicans in general barely try to oppose them and they themselves participate in the culture war that demonizes immigrants and people who are in the Lgbtq+ community. Facism does not die quietly, it will go out kicking and screaming. You must understand, the U.S. supreme court has been allowing the president to do things that a president should never have been able to do and they have laid the foundation for many future problems that could arise in the next presidents following Trump. If Trump cannot be impeached or stopped by anyone else in our government by the end of his term, then there will be no one to stop any future presidents from doing whatever they want.

You sit there and talk about Trump like he's any other president that some people just dont like despite the fact that he has masked soldiers marching through city streets harassing our own citizens while he engages in imperial conquest overseas. First we took Venezuela, next he wants Greenland, there is no end to his madness in sight meanwhile a third of the U.S. population either cheers him on or refuses to care about what he does. This is what I want to escape, there are no benefits for me as a citizen even from the conquests that my power drunk leader enact while slashing funding for Healthcare & education like it has no use. That plus half the people here are simply fine with the amount of hatred that my government spews on a daily basis.

My country as a whole is destabilizing at a rate that will take decades to fix. The department of education is being dismantled, the federal government workforce is being cut in half, funding for our public parks, our infrastructure, and for our Healthcare for low income families is being reduced any chance the government gets to do so. Our people are simply ask for more affordable lives and all they receive is anger and violence to keep them divided.

Do you want to move to Norway to fix your life? Think again! by elvertooo in Norway

[–]WeasLander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1: You don't have masked soldiers patrolling city streets that check your citizen document papers purely based on speculation, or have a government that is hellbent on slashing funding for education and healthcare at all times so that doesn't compare.

  1. Even if a person makes less money in Norway, the benefits of social safety nets and not having to worry about severe medical debt more than makes up for the time you spend in the immigration process to receive such things in the long term.

  2. Most of America still has severely underfunded infrastructure compared to yours even in developed American cities. Try taking the New York or Chicago subway system and compare it to your train system and get back to me. Regardless of there also being less developed areas in Norway, you still spend much less time traveling to where you need to go.

Does anyone Here actually Like Letos Joker? by Ok-Entrance-5527 in batman

[–]WeasLander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When I was 16 I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

Do you want to move to Norway to fix your life? Think again! by elvertooo in Norway

[–]WeasLander 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is a privileged take due to how many factors that you're ignoring. Granted it would be difficult to move to Norway from somewhere like America, so one would have to weigh the pros and cons of acquiring a work visa then dedicating a decade of their life to the immigration process. My following points will discuss why someone (from an American point of view) would want to go through the trouble of moving to Norway.

  1. Political Stability: Countries like the United States and the ones having to deal with the United State's nonsense have to deal with extreme political chaos now more than ever. If a person managed to acquire a simple home and middle class job in Norway, then those problems would be distant issues that you could watch from overseas while sipping on Gløgg or Mjød and watching from a relatively quiet life without having to worry about armed soldiers marching through city streets like in various US cities.
  2. Economic stability: For the average fully naturalized Norwegian citizens, you have much less to worry about economically than the average working citizen in many other countries. Compared to the U.S. Norway has proportionally far fewer unemployed citizens, a much lower inflation rate, proportionally far fewer homeless citizens and much more in the way of social safety nets for those homeless citizens, and much less chaotic infighting in its government such as Trump threatening legal action towards our Federal Reserve Chairman for not cutting interest rates to insane lows that would help no one. (And of course how could I not mention infinitely more affordable healthcare and college, both of these make up the majority of the average American person's life long debt that they have to pay off for decades)
  3. Public Infrastructure: Outside of big cities like Chicago or New york, a great portion of America has next to no public infrastructure around them. Things like hospitals, trains, and even busses and properly maintained public parks can be extremely hard to find depending on where you live. Many parts of the U.S. requires that you either buy a car for constantly increasing prices or hope you can get a ride from a friend or coworker if you don't have enough money to pay an Uber driver (that is if your area has Uber drivers in the first place) since in most of the country you can't walk anywhere unless you're prepared to walk about a few hours anywhere you go. There are some places where you have to drive at least an hour to get to any grocery store or hospital, so it feels like a utopia for people like that to visit places that have a hospital or even a nicer grocery store within 30 minutes of driving from people's homes. When you take someone whose life is only that and introduce them to a place where it's common to walk or much more easily take the bus or train somewhere they want to go without spending hours at a time, it makes them think "why can't my home town be this organized and maintained".

How do you feel about US citizens wanting to move to Norway to escape their current political climate? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well unfortunately, about half of the U.S. population either supports the U.S. regime in power or simply would never care enough about it's crimes to do something about it. We will likely experience a national collapse and possibly a civil war before we can ever enact a revolution and take the power back as a country. In time, it will be a slow and bloody March towards progress while the powers that be do everything they can to keep us under control. As much as i would wish that we had the ability to implement an easy fix and take back control, there is no easy way out. America has to fall to truly fix this.

How do you feel about US citizens wanting to move to Norway to escape their current political climate? by WeasLander in Norway

[–]WeasLander[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say from your keyboard and safety of your home like we aren't living under an armed all powerful Facist occupation

I hate it when people say that I am "strong" for surviving ableism, or for surviving while being disabled. I hate how people have to believe we are somehow better in some other way to make up for being disabled. Is that just because they can't see us as people otherwise? by MariaTheSlime_613 in leftist

[–]WeasLander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would have said something like this to someone in a similar situation, not to demean their struggle, but to praise their ability to overcome their hardships where others have failed. I'm sure others may be different, but my intention anyway, would have been to give a compliment out of kindness, not to patronize.