[badideaprojects]

Rjukan (the town from the article) is also a great destination for ice climbing. Lots of frozen waterfalls only a stones throw from the road.

Only a couple of hours drive from Oslo.

In case you need an excuse to visit.

[marvin]

Also some of Norway's most reasonable real estate prices, with detached homes starting at less than $100,000.

[okusa]

I used Google Translate's camera feature to translate a few estate agent window ads while I was there and genuinely assumed I must have been looking at the deposit prices given the price of everything else in Norway.

[marvin]

If you were anywhere else, you'd probably see the deposit price and figure it was the full price of the property :P

Actually, things are not as bad as in Seattle/SF/LA/New York, but modest things are still very expensive in our cities.