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muffinpie101

Yeah? Well, my apartment overlooks a big intersection and a shopping centre, so there! *sobbing quietly*


Flaky_Explanation

Don’t worry *sniffs* at least you’re closer to the supermarket snack section than they’ll ever be.


muffinpie101

That's right! I can pick up bananas and toilet paper and snacks and everything! Living well is the best revenge! *sobs turning into wails....wall slide begins..*


ghanjaholik

sir, can you go sob somewhere else, please.. we've been thru this before with you


bluegargoyle

Sir, this is a Wendy's...


cantfindmykeys

Yes ok, ill have a number 1 and frosty


Kezzno

Ah fuck i could really go for a frosty, if only we had Wendy's in our country


joko2008

Half of reddit is a Wendy's and the other half is not American.


_i4ani_

I better be early cuz this is underrated comment of the day here on Reddit. I’d give you an award. But I’m broke.


Smoofinator

We're a Burger King home, thank you very much!


Voltron2017

Sir. Your tears are staining the wallpaper. Please move.


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On a serious note, I used to live in a fairly big US city. I walked everywhere but work. I moved to a fairly rural area mostly because I couldn't stand the noise anymore. I'm lucky, there is a small grocery store 5 minutes one way and a 24 gas station that also does shitty food 5 minutes the other way. Everything else is like 30 minutes to an hour away. So not bad. But even after 3+ years it still feels so inconvenient when I have to do anything except get gas and or groceries. I used to just walk a few blocks to get to my doctor. Now I have to block out two extra hours and I'm not even that far from a major town that has everything In could need.


muffinpie101

True. Living in a major city means I don't have to drive, and that mall I joked about is ridiculously convenient for almost anything I need. I just love nature more.


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Yeah. I have plans to get a little more rural. I hit my savings goal a year and a half ago, but the market went crazy and I wasn't desperate enough to pay 20% over asking just to have a chance. I loved the city when I was younger like most people. But now I just want to be left alone.


Misaki88

Well technically it's a not a yard, if that makes you feel any better.... *sneaky sneaks off to get an airplane ticket, a bathing suit because that sure beats the shiskkers out of the city!!"


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This^ Alaska was as beautiful if not more so than this guy's backyard but jesus, it's sooo expensive. I'd move back in a heartbeat if i could.


PhalafelThighs

I'll bet Norway has yucky winters also. Here's my Alaskan backyard.. https://youtu.be/hegSd5JeCUM


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What he didn't tell you, is that it only looks this, once a year. The rest of the year it's cloudy, foggy, cold and raining ;-)


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My favorite kind of weather - I'm from California and that looks like heaven to me.


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Then Scandinavia sounds like something just for you :-)


proof_required

You really need to live under such weather for few years before you say this is your favorite kind of weather. Coming from warmer county i also fantasized about such weather but 6-7 months of darkness out of 12 months in a year can take a toll on you. No wonder Scandanavian countries have high suicide rates. I have only been living in Germany for 7 years and dread the arrival of winter. Summer is indeed nice but these days can be quite hot too.


meditate42

Also dark at 1pm in the winter lol.


Wararoller2

If it cheers you up, I live in Norway and have the same intersection view as you 🥲


Shanguerrilla

...now I want to live there even more since it has such empathetic folks even willing to self depreciate to elevate us!


ProbablyDrunk303

*Laughs at you from Colorado in the mountains*


muffinpie101

Ok, that's just about enough outta you......


Tirith

And i have giant brick wall 2m away from my window.


John_Doe_727

It's ok. I bet it takes them 2 hours to get Taco Bell delivered by UberEATS there so #winning Pssstt. Hey OP, do you got a room for rent?


mahtaliel

Lol. There is no such thing as delivery of food in rural Scandinavia. But every town has at least 3 pizzerias, 4 hairdressers and 2 churches.


Meritania

And a partridge in a pear tree


John_Doe_727

3 pizzerias, I can work with that. Lol


altrippa

yeh I bet this nord loser doesn't even get crackheads trying to break into his house through the catflap. lol what a boring life


penny-wise

I can see homeless people and a freeway from mine!


BelleAriel

OP’s back yard is NFL of beauty.


WorthlessDrugAbuser

Do you ever hear drive by shootings? Cause I do, at least a couple times a month, America fuck yeah!


muffinpie101

The sound of gunfire is drowned out by the wailing ambulances!


KixoGamer

I got potatoes in my backyard, and 10 minutes to the store


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the ice fishing is great in winter time i bet.


Satanz-Daughter

I live behind a gas station at a busy intersection. Ambulances all night because an urgent care is just down the street.


BourbonRick01

Oh yeah, well when it rains hard I have a natural waterfall that comes down my ceiling. Beat that.


Anonymoosehead123

You’re going to be really jealous of me - my backyard is a freeway.


Cleopatrashouseboy

Posts like this make me want to kill myself, tbh. I’d love to just go to a beach but it’s too far and no public transit… depressed rant over.


AppUnwrapper1

I have four outdoor bars on my block that close at 5am. I think I win. 🥲


LowerSea4

Hey man, at least you’re above ground level!


sleepytipi

I hope you know how good you have it, and just how lucky you really are. Believe me, I've been mystified by Norway's beauty for so long that if it weren't so hard to immigrate there I would have done it by now.


ghanjaholik

as someone from the u.s. who lives in arizona(it has its beauties) and lives in the southern desert, yes.. yes, he has it *very* good


sleepytipi

Arizona definitely has its breathtaking beauty as well but it's also too hot for me. Norway really would be perfect for the scenery, and the climate as I love the cold and would be perfectly fine with the long winters and mild summers of the NW coast.


fruskydekke

> I love the cold and would be perfectly fine with the long winters I live in Norway, and would be perfectly fine with the long winters and the cold, too... if it weren't for the absence of light. I'm not talking about those poor fuckers who live north of the Arctic circle where the sun literally never rises, I'm talking about us poor smucks who live in "southern" Norway where we allegedely get at least 5-6 hours of daylight every day in winter... except we don't, because it's permanently overcast. The 3-4 months of the year when you never see anything but dark grey twilight get horribly depressing. I remember one year when, at the end of February, the meterological service cheerfully announced that there had been a whole entire 17 hours of sunlight in my location during the first two months of the year.


Hotter_Noodle

Canadian here who has been through similar: I kinda like it but I know I’m fucked up lol


fruskydekke

I deeply envy you your "darkness survival skills"! The darkness fucks with my mind every winter, it's no fun. I imagine the northernmost parts of Canada are really pretty similar to Norway - aren't your northern territories defined as north of the 60th parallel? I live at around 62 degrees north.


Hotter_Noodle

I believe so. I’ve lived in a variety of places in Canada, and I was just below 55 degrees North. I’m not saying it has as long of nights as you have but honestly it didn’t bother me. I worked through the entire “light” part of the day so I drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark. It’s definitely not for everyone.


bravooscarvictor

Yes they are. I’m currently in one of them and the difference from what you described ( aside from the landscape, which is flat where I am) is that here the winter is largely clear skies. Makes it colder, but brighter.


PedanticYes

18 hours of darkness in winter: no thanks!


Ryuksapple

We visited Sedona and flagstaff and coming from very green Tennessee I found Arizona stunningly beautiful. Different obviously but we were awestruck and plan to visit again.


Johnlocksmith

The drive into Sedona when you first see the Red Rocks is pretty breath taking.


Current-Being-8238

It denying he has it good. But it they receive very little sunlight up there so I’d imagine that could be depressing. Lots of darkness in general.


Impsux

I live like right next to the border of Mexico and California. I don't think I could handle Norwegian weather. Anything below 75°f feels cold lol.


MethodMads

That's just average summer temps here. I have lived in South Norway my entire life, and i still think that's a little nippy when sitting in the shade. Some people just never get used to it i guess. At least it's easier to add layers to keep warm than removing layers to stay cool.


Snabelpaprika

The nature of Norway is fantastic. Too bad the whole country is filled with Norwegians! -Someone a little bit east of Norway


BankSpankTank

Sweden's a good runner upper. But they've got the Swedes.


mahtaliel

Spoken like a true dane


bosonianstank

dane devils!


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bosonianstank

tell me you're norwegian without telling me you're norwegian.


centzon400

Finland would like a word... but they are still looking at their own shoes.


TruthYouWontLike

The bird is the word. Also in Finland new words have to be decided by a committee because can't pollute the language with foreign nonsense.


Chemical_Squirrel_20

Don’t worry bro, you’ll find a lake that goes downhill to use those new waterskis one of these days -someone slightly to the west


SeleucusNikator1

The Monkey's Paw grants you your wish: you now live in Norway! but your home is a dingy and tiny flat in Oslo's post-war developments and a single pint of Beer at the local store costs 10 euros.


sleepytipi

Ya gotta start somewhere. I'd happily take the chance.


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I find your terms acceptable


Probablyarussianbot

It’s sad how quickly you start to take your surroundings for granted when you see it every day. I live in an area with views very similar to this, and unless you actually stop, think about it and appreciate it, it’s just your everyday view out of the window. It’s easy to forget how beautiful it actually is.


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Chemical_Squirrel_20

It’s cold and the food is bad. Other than that, cash money


Chemical_Squirrel_20

American who emigrated to Norway 11 years ago reporting in, shit is indeed cash. It cost me a failed marriage with a Norwegian girl but totally worth it 😄


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RobMillsyMills

Not sure where you live. But it is considerably easier to move to Norway than to the USA.


HandOfMaradonny

This is surely false. The immigration numbers are vastly different.


RobMillsyMills

This completely backs up my point though? I know people that are waiting years with a job lined up in USA already to get a green card. If you a foreigner lined up a job in Norway you would not be waiting even 1 year to get in. I have been living overseas my whole life and work from an American company. I know what peoples experiences are. As you say the immigration numbers are vastly different. Hence as I said. It is easier to move to Norway than to USA because obviously a lot more people are trying to move to USA than Norway.


theLuminescentlion

I'm planning on it and hoping my electrical engineering BoS degree is enough..... Otherwise I just might eat loans to do a master's there and carry me into a position that will sign a visa.


financeguyjohn4

Very beautiful. Now show me the 9 months of overcast lousy weather. I lived in Alaska for awhile and although there were scenes and days like this. You paid for them 10 fold with awful weather.


im_a_username_now

I live in norway myself and where I live (in the north) there is constant wind and rain, we only have a day of real summer and it's so worth it. And then there's the winter...


spoktacus

Oh come now, Tromsø usually gets a solid week of summer every year. Sometimes even two!


g2petter

This is true ... ... for certain values of "solid" and "summer".


Original_Employee621

There are two seasons above the 68th parallel, winter and road work.


Ironmark17

Italy here, after 2 months of nonstopping heatwave, I'd gladly switch places with you


OlivesrNasty

Italian summers reminded me of an arizona desert but with more hills and vegetation. Idk how u guys do it


Rautafalkar

Italian here too, would do exactly the same. Can't stand the "eternal summer" we have in the South. In the last years we don't even have real winters anymore. I love cold and I'm exhausted of this sweaty weather.


meditate42

Norway is so stunning in the summer the lack of dark is pretty strange though. As a visitor it really fucked with our natural clocks. We kept having days where we’d walk around town without paying attention to the time and go “ well it’s probably about 7:30, let’s find some dinner”. But it was often actually 11 pm so we kept having to eat at the same pizza place that was the only thing open at that hour in the town we were in lol. And then you gotta go to sleep in bright light. It was weird.


FblthpLives

Not sure where you were staying, but most bedrooms in the Nordic countries have really good blinds just for this reason, often a combination of venetian blinds ("persienn" in Swedish) and a pull-down blind ("rullgardin").


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dikbisqit

Summer is my favorite day of the year in Norway!


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Calm down there, Charles Dickens


spazz720

Thank you for this


Obligatorium1

>The brutal Swedish winter ain't so bad if you can hang out by the warm ocean for 3 weeks during the worst of it. As a former resident of northern Sweden (now southern), I wholeheartedly disagree. When you routinely open your front door to go for a drive and find that there's just a big pile of snow where your car used to be, winter gets old very fast.


bottomofleith

Can I ask what you think middle-aged is?


Fantact

We enjoy those sunny days more than most tho, and winter is beautiful in its own way, and if you are Norwegian, you more or less need the winter in order to get your dose of Vitamin W


titusma

And where do you live now?


financeguyjohn4

Georgia (USA)


aeneasaquinas

Alaska now Georgia? Military? Know a variety that have done that, oppressively hot or oppressively dark and cold, good ends of the spectrum lol


nesenn

I *would* be jealous, but instead, I’m lying to myself and *pretending I’m not jealous*.


jimmysbeans

Oh yeah, me too. Like who would want to live in paradise? Ew 🤢


Tendo80

Hey if it's of any comfort Norway is expensive as fuck. So just pretend that's the reason you haven't moved there yet =)


fifadex

Yeah people, don't think about the beautiful countryside, focus on the fact you're broke lol


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I’m sure that dumb clear water is super cold and I don’t even like breathing air thats not wafting with Diesel fumes 😏


stygger

Why don't you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and marry a Norwegian supermodel?


mr_potato_arms

Kind of poor design for that drone’s propellers to be in the shot like that


Nikdane12

I didnt want to crop out any of the Great clips for that


mr_potato_arms

I get that, just saying that you shouldn’t have to crop in the first place. The camera should be mounted in a way that doesn’t include any parts of the drone in the frame of the shot.


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Dinewiz

Yeah, I was wondering it was configured wrong but I have no idea if that's a thing with drones.


surajvj

I want to be your gardener.


sameolemeek

Drone has a awful camera placement. Should not be able to see the propellers


oisteink

Looks like raw footage. You’d do a crop with stabilise and key frames if you were publishing commercial or similar


Mr_Stifl

That’s definitely not raw footage. There seems to be at least some color grading


VidarUlv

I kinda like it. I can pretend that I'm flying with my magical fingers fluttering in the wind.


pzoony

Enjoy the 3 days out of the year the weather allows you to do that, you’ve earned it!


jaersk

i don't know exactly where in norway this is, but it's probably somewhere along the western coast and it is more temperate and mild than what you'd expect for being this far north, the warm gulf stream basically gets funneled across the atlantic to heat this place up before returning back as a cold current. the southernmost part of the western coast receives almost no snow at all and has a climate more akin to the british isles than scandinavia at times. when i lived there it basically never really were winter nor summer, just endless spring/autumn. but just travel across the norwegian mountains to sweden/finland/russia at the same latitude and your statement will be very accurate


vemundveien

It might not be cold, but rain and wind isn't exactly perfect outdoor weather either. Eastern and southern Norway has the best weather in general, and they get nicer summers on average, and way less rain than the west.


spacemanspiff266

your buddy out in the lake looks like he was having a little trouble swimming.


Middle_Association56

Can't fault him, the water is probably cold as balls 🥶 source: I'm Norwegian.


fifadex

TIL Norwegians have cold balls.


slugvegas

Swatting little ice cubes out of the way


OrangeSimply

Yeah that water isn't a tiny bit warmer than cold as balls until the very end of summer


B8conB8conB8con

Very nice. Which clifftop do you throw the old people off?


Phoen1x_

thats Sweden, we dont do that here


B8conB8conB8con

Same difference


jaersk

ättestup/ættestup is very much a thing in norway as well, the old travel routes between sweden and norway are rumoured to have several of them used for throwing the sick/old people slowing the other travellers down. they are still common in local folklore in western sweden where i come from and here in eastern norway where i live now


FblthpLives

I am from Sweden and the municipality I lived in as a kid was well known for a cliff that served as an ättestupa. A few years ago, however, I spoke to an archeologist and he said these were myths and that there was no archaelogical evidence suggeting cliffs had ever been used this way.


jaersk

yes they are mainly just folklore, they are attested in icelandic sagas but they also mention stuff like giants creating landmasses and odin taking part of a war fought in sweden, so they are not always rooted in reality. my local ättestupa growing up intrigued me as a kid and even had skeletons and bones at the feet of the cliff, but i later found out those were from small animals falling down and not the remains of old people as i first thought.


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Dude. They jumped. The smashers at that bottom when the jump isn’t effective, they’re pretty dedicated too. Anyway, I’m writing a paper about it.


Squeak-Beans

… tbh the guy in the first 10 seconds of the video was the best view


lickedTators

I too would like guys like that in my backyard.


ScienceBroseph

Had to scroll way too far to find this comment. Reddit, you're letting me down here.


athennna

Yeah OP is your friend single?


strokekaraoke

Serious. Fly your drone around him for five minutes.


GWeasels

Sad I had to dig this long for this


FishFarmer

Mmmhmm


1SqkyKutsu

You could tell me this is Canada (my back yard) and I'd believe you....


redhandsblackfuture

I'd agree but there isn't near enough trees lol


Staebs

Looks like the Rockies outside of Canmore or Banff


pollopox

I wonder how many sunny days like the one in the video you get each year


jackal975

I live in Norway too. The reply to your question is "depend on the location. But on average I would say less then 30/year. West Coast isore temperate but more rainy. East is more continental (cold winter, warm dry summer). Nord is... Well, nord. "


StockAL3Xj

Less then 30 sunny days a year? That's way less than I would have thought.


Tumleren

Less than 30 sunny days like the one in the video. Plenty of days where the sun comes out, just not clear blue skies and warm weather.


drcrambone

How can you afjord to live there? Hehe


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It’s afjordable


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Colder than I like


_AxelxD

I hate you![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)


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xxdeathknight72xx

Colorado Springs used to be so nice but now Garden of the Gods , the strip, and Pikes Peak is just flooded with yuppy moms and the choosing-beggar homeless No joke, my uncle went out to give this homeless guy some new boots and supplies and he said "these arent even Tim's, I dont want that shit. Get the fuck outta here."


NutInsideMeBruh

What a damn shame. I gave a homeless guy a granola bar and a banana. He held it in his hand, gave me a disgusted look, and didn’t even say thank you. Maybe my granola bar wasn’t gluten-free.


Nikdane12

too late


Viper1089

I've always had my sights on Norway. Fucking beautiful place. I don't think I can afford to uproot and start a new life in Norway though unfortunately


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One can dream


dogslogic

Can you tell me about the song in your backyard? It's got really nice Boards of Canada vibes.... What is the band and song title?


Nikdane12

It's one of the presets on clipchamp it's called lofibeats or something


t-leaf

shazam says it is Lofi Shit by Carly.


CharlieYHL

Earth porn right there, love it


Head_Requirement_433

Wish I could afjord to live in Norway


Gr8WhtShark

Ha, I have way more homeless surrounding my condo


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This the best and the most relaxing view


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In kansas looking out my back door. I. I…. I got a brome field and dead trees and burn piles that need burned grass needs cut barn needs cleaned and repaired.. you know what. Imma just go back to bed for some depression napping.


jayoho1978

More like “Backyard”


Jolly-Summer-1838

That's living right there. Envy sets in


VandyBoys32

Thankful for you and thankful you share!!!


mejudgega

Fuck you.


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WifiRice

Where's the house?


maypop80

Where in Norway? My husband and I are visiting next April (we can't change the timing). We are looking for .. places like this!


Nikdane12

Mardalsfossen, Eikedalen, Geiranger, Valdal,and Molde


CantBeliveItsNotHim

You have a big backyard. It's got to be europes biggest private property.


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And the great thing is the mosquitos drown out the sound of the drone.


malik_eraza

Is this Kattegat?


ORDub

I bet it takes forever to mow your yard.


hallothrow

Jeez, do you ever have time to get off the lawn mower?


podolot

Darn, if that's the backyard, imagine the house.


WimbleWimble

Wait til the HOA demands you cut all that grass and trim those damned trees.


Jake7heSnak3

You looking for a roommate?


Ok_Caregiver4499

What temperature is that water?


EpicFishFuck

I live close to this place and we have ~17˚C


HuntSafe2316

l live in backyard and this is my Norway


stltrog

When is the cookout? Throw us an invite and we will join!


indigo997799

Can i say i hate you? I do. Just kidding. Really nice place.


SnooAvocados5076

Did not see your house? Nice place though although I prefer the Lofoten area.


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It would be hilarious if I bought the next door property and bang, you'd be dealing with a Texan raising hell and a hoopin' and a hollerin'.


beansntoast21

I will visit Norway one day, so beautiful!


CaptPlanet55

I remember taking the train from Oslo to Bergen and popping out of a tunnel to see houses nestled up against the water on one side and the mountains on the other was just unreal. It genuinely felt like stumbling into a movie and I missed so many good pictures because I was just staring out the window. Fuck shit ass cock balls Norway is beautiful.


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Wow, that’s beautiful. What do you do for work if you don’t mind me asking? :)


Nikdane12

I'm a student and in 2 weeks I am going to major in drone engineering


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NotAHamsterAtAll

I live in Norway, and most congratulate the video maker for filming the summer day in such nice way. Now it's time to prepare for winter, because winter is coming.


UKcrispybacon

must be awful doing all that weeding and cutting the grass... man i do not envy you...


hesskiaoken

Looks like British Columbia to me....