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What you say and add to my comment is pretty much the case. I used to live in a flat in Drammen, much bigger though, about 72 sq. m. We had a storage area in

What you say and add to my comment is pretty much the case. I used to live in a flat in Drammen, much bigger though, about 72 sq. m. We had a storage area in the loft of the building and as you say there were communal washing machines. But in fact we would have had plenty of space to have our own washer and dryer. I would make one point though: > the two countries are sufficiently similar That's true for most of this discussion but Norwegians until quite recently almost overwhelmingly wanted to own their own their home (over 80% do) and prefer a detached house, most still do. In 2010 according to SSB half of the just over two million dwellings in Norway were detached houses (enebolig). My impression of Sweden when visiting places like Gothenburg, Västerås, Linköping, Ludvika, etc., on business and holiday is that Swedes are noticeably more likely to live in flats. My house is pretty much in the middle of the size distribution for detached houses (see https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/faktaside/bolig https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/faktaside/bolig)

dalke 4y ago
> Norwegians until quite recently almost overwhelmingly wanted to own their own their home (over 80% do) https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/manniskorna-i-sverige/boende-i-sverige/ https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisk... says that in 2021, of the over 4.8 million Swedish households (which may be multiple people): Småhus, äganderätt / detached house, owner - 1 909 024 = 41.2% Småhus, bostadsrätt / detacted house, co-op owner - 93 678 = 2.02% Småhus, hyresrätt / detached house, rent - 73 654 = 1.59% Flerbostadshus, bostadsrätt / multi-family building, co-op - 1 006 560 = 21.7% Flerbostadshus, hyresrätt / multi-family building, rent - 1 379 720 = 29.8 % Specialbostad / special (student, old-age, etc) - 165 510 = 3.6% If I read https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/statistikk/boforhold-registerbasert https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/... correct (via Google Translate): 48.1% / 1,198,659 households live in single family houses ("Enebolig"). The Swedish "småhus" total is 44.9%. 47% / 1,170,000 or so live in multi-family housing ("Tomannsbolig" / "Rekkehus, kjedehus, andre småhus" / "Boligblokk"), compared to 51.6% in Sweden. 4.9% / 121,486 live in "other", which I'll map to the 3.6% "specialbostad" in Sweden. This matches your observation that more Swedes tend to live in multi-family homes compared to Norwegians, though I don't think it's a substantial difference. (I hope I did my numbers correct!) FWIW, my impression of visiting Oslo is that they mostly live in flats too. grin

dalke 4y ago

> Norwegians until quite recently almost overwhelmingly wanted to own their own their home (over 80% do) https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/manniskorna-i-sverige/boende-i-sverige/ https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisk... says that in 2021, of the over 4.8 million Swedish households (which may be multiple people): Småhus, äganderätt / detached house, owner - 1 909 024 = 41.2% Småhus, bostadsrätt / detacted house, co-op owner - 93 678 = 2.02% Småhus, hyresrätt / detached house, rent - 73 654 = 1.59% Flerbostadshus, bostadsrätt / multi-family building, co-op - 1 006 560 = 21.7% Flerbostadshus, hyresrätt / multi-family building, rent - 1 379 720 = 29.8 % Specialbostad / special (student, old-age, etc) - 165 510 = 3.6% If I read https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/statistikk/boforhold-registerbasert https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/... correct (via Google Translate): 48.1% / 1,198,659 households live in single family houses ("Enebolig"). The Swedish "småhus" total is 44.9%. 47% / 1,170,000 or so live in multi-family housing ("Tomannsbolig" / "Rekkehus, kjedehus, andre småhus" / "Boligblokk"), compared to 51.6% in Sweden. 4.9% / 121,486 live in "other", which I'll map to the 3.6% "specialbostad" in Sweden. This matches your observation that more Swedes tend to live in multi-family homes compared to Norwegians, though I don't think it's a substantial difference. (I hope I did my numbers correct!) FWIW, my impression of visiting Oslo is that they mostly live in flats too. grin