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By contrast, Baltimore - which has roughly 9%-10% the population of Norway - sees as many murders each year as Norway does every seven or eight years combined. An approximate 70 fold difference, give or take.

Does Norway have open borders? I'd like to live there. No? Oh well.

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You are welcome to try.[1]

[1] https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/person/foreign/you-must-notif...

The borders are open although you will have to go into quarantine on entry.

But broadly speaking you can't live permanently here unless you have a job here or are an EU or EEA citizen.

Norway has better management.

They also have a $1T+ (trillion not billion) sovereign wealth fund (from North Sea oil), the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world amounting to $200k per person.

Yeah, that's the reason we don't kill each other. /s

You don't think funding social safety nets affects the crime rate? Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.

> Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.

You lack both.

people in baltimore don't kill each other for fun. at least, usually not. more often, it's related to their line of work.

> it's related to their line of work.

Documentation?

Surely he means stevedores.

We've restricted ourselves to "only" using at most 3% per year[1], which amounts to about 20% of the budget[2].

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/the-economy/economic-po...

[2]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop.-1-s-gul-bok-2... (page 14, used 2019 budget for corona reasons).

The US also produces (and trades in, and refines, and goes to war for) oil

Pretty much all the cities in the US have high black populations. The white murder rate in the US is similar to Europe

>Does Norway have open borders

Norway is part of the Schengen area, yeah

The Svalbard archipelago is governed by Norway, and does have very open borders.

That's a rather racist statistic

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