there’s 5.5 million people in the whole of norway. what are we talking about?
So how is this a valid argument?
Maybe this is an excuse for some areas with extreme high population density… something Norway certainly doesn’t have. But then those cities (say New York) generally have public transportation to take some of the load off.
It’s not an excuse for, say Portland or Seattle, that looks very similar to the Oslo metropolitan area. And you can just repeat that argument for every medium density 1-5 million population metropolitan area in USA.
you can compare norway to sweden and finland. or the US to canada.
totally different problems/solutions. there is no equivalence, there is almost nothing in common between the two.
norway should be compared to it’s geo and cultural neighbours, sweden and finland.