Norwegians pay 36% taxes +/ - tax aversion from loans and other debt. On top of this, if you reach a certain level of income, you get "toptax" or "toppskatt" which is a 42% minimum and a 50% maximum. Paying almost 60% tax on overtime pay is not uncommon.
Cars, electricity, food and most other general goods are almost twice as expensive in Norway (even hi-fi gear is nearly 40-50% more costly) compared to Sweden.
I have a childhood friend who lived and studied in Kiruna (North Sweden) for 5 years (GIS engineer) and he said he made a better living as a student and could afford more then than he does now, living in Oslo and having a job! (Not the best job, but still, rents and other expenses are beastly over here, especially in the cities.)
When we drove through most of Sweden and Denmark last summer I laughed at the prices of things, from new cars to beer.
The first thing I bought in Denmark was a case of beer bottles, 30 bottles (0.33 litres) and the case for roughly 100 Danish Kroner.
What does a case of beer cost here? 500 Norske Kroner (worth 5% or so less, but still) and that is only 24 bottles with the same volume and the alcohol percentage is 0.4% lower... Yay Norway...
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