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By contrast, Baltimore - which has roughly 9%-10% the population of Norway - sees as many murders each year as Norway does every seven or eight years combined.
by adventured 6y ago
By contrast, Baltimore - which has roughly 9%-10% the population of Norway - sees as many murders each year as Norway does every seven or eight years combined. An approximate 70 fold difference, give or take.
Does Norway have open borders? I'd like to live there. No? Oh well.
- jfax 6y ago>Does Norway have open borders Norway is part of the Schengen area, yeah
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoNorway has better management.
- agency 6y agoThey also have a $1T+ (trillion not billion) sovereign wealth fund (from North Sea oil), the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world amounting to $200k per person.
- thatwasunusual 6y agoYeah, that's the reason we don't kill each other. /s
- agency 6y agoYou don't think funding social safety nets affects the crime rate? Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.
- thatwasunusual 6y ago> Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will. You lack both.
- leetcrew 6y agopeople in baltimore don't kill each other for fun. at least, usually not. more often, it's related to their line of work.
- thatwasunusual 6y ago> it's related to their line of work. Documentation?
- cozuya 6y agoSurely he means stevedores.
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- magicalhippo 6y agoWe've restricted ourselves to "only" using at most 3% per year[1], which amounts to about 20% of the budget[2]. [1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/the-economy/economic-policy/economic-policy/id418083/ https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/the-economy/economic-po... [2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop.-1-s-gul-bok-20182019/id2613810/ https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop.-1-s-gul-bok-2... (page 14, used 2019 budget for corona reasons).
- kalleboo 6y agoThe US also produces (and trades in, and refines, and goes to war for) oil
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- ynew64 6y agoPretty much all the cities in the US have high black populations. The white murder rate in the US is similar to Europe
- YinglingLight 6y agoThat's a rather racist statistic
- thatwasunusual 6y agoYou are welcome to try.[1] [1] https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/foreign/you-must-notify-us-when-you-move/moving-to-norway/ https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/foreign/you-must-notif...
- kwhitefoot 6y agoThe borders are open although you will have to go into quarantine on entry. But broadly speaking you can't live permanently here unless you have a job here or are an EU or EEA citizen.
- chrchang523 6y agoThe Svalbard archipelago is governed by Norway, and does have very open borders.