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No its not you don't live here so you don't know. Your american.
I have to say, seeing as I have experience in both countries, the burgers that we both have do taste the same. There are only a few things that you have that we don't (I forgot what those were), but it tastes the same. Except the fries, you don't put salt in yours (tastes better that way)
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Who would buy McDonald's at those prices?!
Norwegians lol
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Same story here. Minimum wage is just under $16 an hour for an adult. When you say "small burger" do you mean the cheese burger, chicken n mayo etc?
Here we have a "loose change menu", where a Mcdouble (basically a double cheeseburger minus 1 slice of cheese), and a chicken n Mayo is $2, small fries $1, and a Double beef and bacon $3.
But then again, every burger at Mcdonalds is small. Look at the Big Mac, the Quarter Pounder, the McChicken, bloody cheeseburger sized buns with the patty hanging over the edge. They want $5 and over for this ****
Recently they introduced something called the "Amore" menu, which is good (but I'm sure it's limited time), You can get a regular meal + 2 sides of your choice (including a cheese burger, chicken nuggets, soft serve cone, small fries, salad) etc for $9.95. In other words, you can have a Big Mac, a cheeseburger, regular fries, regular drink and chicken nuggets for example for $9.95. That's pretty good in my book.
Right now I stack shelves at a department store and earn just a scratch under $20/hour.... so I guess I shouldn't complain. I have my own car, have a lot of expensive astronomy gear, pay my own rego and car service, fuel, go halfies with my folks with the bills and cover their internet and phone bills and still find cash to indulge in beer and good food, all from working just 15 hours a week. I need a new job!
You know what sucks the most? My local Chinese restaurant offers lunch at the same price as a more expensive combo meal at McD's. I'll take the Chinese lol.
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Surely they have a loose change menu in Norway?
I have no idea. My wife hasn't asked her Norwegian friend yet. Maybe cmp can fill us in if he comes back.
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Holy ****, please tell me you're joking God, and I thought paying upwards of $8 for a regular meal was bad
Fast food here is generally obscenely prices IMO (then again, what isn't). At Hungry Jacks (BK franchise), a small meal is now over $8 At KFC a 3 piece meal is something like $11, a 5 piece chicken pack is $12 (and you'll end up with tiny ass wings if you don't say 'no wings') Individual burgers under $5 are now a dying breed. A KFC Zinger (which is the size of your palm) is $5.45, and anything bigger is well over $6.
Some of the smaller cafes are outragous. There's one next to my work that charges prices like $7.50 for a small roll, $4 for a donut and **** like that. Yet, everytime I walk by, their seating area is more than half full
Don't even get me started on the prices of beer and spirits. Want to buy a house? Forget it.
If you earn under $50,000 a year in this country, you're ****ed. You'll be renting a crap apartment 50km from the city center in a crap suburb just to be afford to eat anything.
I'm not lol. My wife has a penpal in Norway that she's meeting in May, and she told her that McDonald's meals cost around A$16. Apprently a lot of food is imported into Norway, so a lot of people outside Oslo hunt, gather, and garden their food because buying from the store is outrageously expensive.
Good God. That's so expensive!
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Have a look at that. Put it this way between Bergen, NO and Melbourne; you need A$7880 to live a similar lifestyle to Melbourne's A$6118. Picked Bergen as it is the 2nd largest city in Norway. Look how expensive a lot of things are makes Australia seem affordable by comparison lol
But, I think Australia has everyone beat on real estate prices. how the hell can people afford to live there??? I hope the real estate market starts to deflate over there, that's so ridiculous. Australia's gotta have the most overheated property market in the whole world.
I'm not lol. My wife has a penpal in Norway that she's meeting in May, and she told her that McDonald's meals cost around A$16. Apprently a lot of food is imported into Norway, so a lot of people outside Oslo hunt, gather, and garden their food because buying from the store is outrageously expensive.
I'm imagining Vikings hunter and gatherers. With government health care and other large welfare benefits.
Before a long train ride when I was in Norway about eight years ago I bought two chocolate bars from a convenience store. The guy at the counter said "tretti kroner", which I knew meant 30 kroner (£3 / $5), but I thought that given that that's two to three times more expensive than even English prices I must have misheard him because there was just no way in hell that chocolate could possibly be that expensive anywhere, and the guy must have said 13 (13 and 30 sound quite similar in Norwegian as well), so I gave him 13 kroner and hoped for the best - didn't work! After that I just didn't bother converting the prices, because I wouldn't have bought anything if I'd known how much stuff cost.
Good God. That's so expensive!
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God, and I thought paying upwards of $8 for a regular meal was bad 
At KFC a 3 piece meal is something like $11, a 5 piece chicken pack is $12 (and you'll end up with tiny ass wings if you don't say 'no wings') 
After that I just didn't bother converting the prices, because I wouldn't have bought anything if I'd known how much stuff cost.