Submitted by NotOK1955 t3_zv2yz6 in OldSchoolCool
vrenak t1_j1phb35 wrote
Reply to comment by Wide-Acanthisitta-96 in December 25, 1815 - Happy birthday to my 3rd Great-grandfather! by NotOK1955
It's just normal for us that everything is expensive.
Wide-Acanthisitta-96 t1_j1phj22 wrote
Got it. Why is it more expensive than say the rest of western Europe?
vrenak t1_j1pi0yi wrote
Some of it is the high taxes of course, but also higher wages. For Norway in particular their agriculture is extremely limited so they have to import a lot of food, in order to protect what production they do have, there are sky high import duties on most things. And being on the edge of the continent it's not realistic to import everything from places like Spain or Italy with lower production costs, but have to get it from Netherlands, Germany and Denmark which have higher costs, but can provide fresh vegetables.
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