My wife is Norwegian. I've been here 12 years, and love it. In terms of salary: I've never heard of a college graduate making less than 250.000NOK = $43,000 U

My wife is Norwegian. I've been here 12 years, and love it. In terms of salary: I've never heard of a college graduate making less than 250.000NOK = $43,000 USD, even in the most trivial, entry-level job. Note that that's for 32.5 hours/week, with 5 weeks paid vacation and full health care included. I don't have the lasagna ingredient prices available at home (most items don't have price tags, but shelf-tags at the store), but I can tell you that gasoline is over $7/gallon, if that's something to go by.