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THE MIDNIGHT SUN COUNTRY
Norway
is the land of the sailors, land of the conquerors and great explorers,
the birthplace of the Vikings, and has for centuries been the
starting place of great human adventurers that have notably lead
the first Europeans to the American coasts five centuries before
Christopher Columbus. Still today, Norway is a country which extracts
the majority of its resources come from the sea: exploitation
of oil from off shore companies since the beginning of the 70s
has lead Norway into a new adventure, that of black gold. Today,
this country of mountains and ice is one of the largest producers
of crude oil and natural gas in the world... at the same level
of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait!
The manna of oil quickly profited the entire country and allowed
for a great development based equally on the fishing industry,
heavy industry and forestry. A high standard of living has followed
with high investments in the education and health sectors, all
taken care of by the government.
Norway represents a true El Dorado, with a very high level of
education and a high demand for a qualified workforce. In addition
to these facts, Norway is a magnificent country of snowy mountains
interrupted by enormous fjords, and wild forest with a quality
of life without equal, where the towns are at the human scale,
far from the stress and population of large cities that have the
same advantages.
Looking for a society where the story around the hearth cohabited
with the highest modernity, where the Aurora Borealis transforms
the sky into a bridge towards paradise and where the sun does
not set for a number of days, you can adopt the soul of the Viking
adventurers and Norway will become your conquest.
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