Comment by tezza

Woah, I only moved to the UK in 2001, but it's pretty clear to me that Norway != UK in many fundamental ways

  1) WW1
  2) WW2
  3) Crippling Pension schemes like final salary ( don't know to much about Norways tho )
  4) Crippling strikes in '70s

The U.K. Only finished paying back the USA for WW2 a few years ago. Many died and a lot of infrastructure needed rebuilding. Norway had much less of that trouble.