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Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Norway lets international students go to college for free?!?

WHY AREN'T WE ALL THERE?!?!

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Tasdik wrote:

Norway lets international students go to college for free?!?

WHY AREN'T WE ALL THERE?!?!

A lot of Nordic countries have subsidized higher education. You basically pay for it through your taxes, but that has been working pretty damn well for them.

Bartic · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:01 am

I don't pay to go to college, but it's kind of specific in the ex-Yu countries.

I Am Vegeta · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:51 am

because north americans are dumb as ****, here in quebec we had students going on strikes last year about the increasement of education fees and people where talking shit about them and saying they were lazy motherfucker and should be working their ass to get the money.

point is, thse students will get a betetr income, therefore will be paying more taxes wich will pay for what they got from us earlier.

but people rather eat hotdogs and pay taxes to build a stadium in the hope that we might get a hockey team.

I Farking hate this city

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

When I finish high school, we will have free uni in Estonia too, so it might be a little easier not having to get a student loan just to pay for uni, but it might be more difficult to get in since more people are going to apply and you get in based on a ranking that they make from high school exam results. What is nice is that we only have to get a single point in a high school exam to finish high school, only you'll get nowhere with that one point.

PureStr · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 1244 **Location:** GTA5

I Am Vegeta wrote:

but people rather eat hotdogs and pay taxes to build a stadium in the hope that we might get a hockey team.

Holy crap I lol'ed!

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

The sound of free education sounds real nice as I will be moving into a period of loan payments next year when I am done....

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

It's simple in Finland, we have progressive tax system (more you make, the higher your tax % is) so when a student studies for free, makes very little money (with part time/summer jobs) he pays practically no taxes. But once we graduate, and earn higher, government earns their money back by being able to tax us more, since we got better education -> better job -> better salary. Sneaky.

But then again, I wouldn't mind taking a student loan (a small one, like 2 000€ or so) because living with the money government supports for students (like 400€/month) is kinda hard, since my rent is 250€ already.

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

TheKnight wrote:

It's simple in Finland, we have progressive tax system (more you make, the higher your tax % is) so when a student studies for free, makes very little money (with part time/summer jobs) he pays practically no taxes. But once we graduate, and earn higher, government earns their money back by being able to tax us more, since we got better education -> better job -> better salary. Sneaky.

But then again, I wouldn't mind taking a student loan (a small one, like 2 000€ or so) because living with the money government supports for students (like 400€/month) is kinda hard, since my rent is 250€ already.

Thankfully we have a proportional tax system.

Bartic · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:34 pm

Goverment gives me nothing, and I live with 200€/month. And I live with ease.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Bartic wrote:

Goverment gives me nothing, and I live with 200€/month. And I live with ease.

Sleeping with your clients instead of payiny rent is cheating.

Bartic · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:29 pm

I pay 75€/month, rent + everything else apartment related.

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

Bartic wrote:

I pay 75€/month, rent + everything else apartment related.

Just how is that possible? Like a hundred roommates?

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Can I move to in?

TheDrop · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 7150 **Location:** uefa2012

TheKnight wrote:

It's simple in Finland, we have progressive tax system (more you make, the higher your tax % is) so when a student studies for free, makes very little money (with part time/summer jobs) he pays practically no taxes. But once we graduate, and earn higher, government earns their money back by being able to tax us more, since we got better education -> better job -> better salary. Sneaky.

But then again, I wouldn't mind taking a student loan (a small one, like 2 000€ or so) because living with the money government supports for students (like 400€/month) is kinda hard, since my rent is 250€ already.

lalallaalala cant hear u over my freedom

to work at walmart cause i was busy working off my loan interests at wendys during my college years

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

Tasdik wrote:

Can I move to in?

We'll split the room, right? Pass the savings yo

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Toshiharu wrote:

Tasdik wrote:

Can I move to in?

We'll split the room, right? Pass the savings yo

Room? More like split the ground he stands on to sleep.

Bartic · **Posted:** Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:04 pm

TheKnight wrote:

Bartic wrote:

I pay 75€/month, rent + everything else apartment related.

Just how is that possible? Like a hundred roommates?

No, I only have 3 roommates and the apartment is kinda big-ish for a college students. Approximately 60 square meters, without the balconies (we have two). It's just that my country's standards are low, so yeah.

Tasdik wrote:

Can I move to in?

Only if you keep me satisfied.

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