Norwegians have been quick to decline the offer from Donald Trump to move to the US. Norwegians were firm but polite as they went on social media to point out they preferred to stay in one of the richest countries in the world as calculated by GDP per capita, rather than move to the United States. In 2017, the Nordic country was named the happiest nation on the planet and has a welfare state funded in part by large reserves of oil and natural gas. "On behalf of Norway: Thanks, but no thanks," Torbjoern Saetre, a Conservative Party politician in a municipality near Oslo tweeted on Friday.
I wish they felt that way about Ireland. They seemed to manage pillaging monks and convents, destroying farms and libraries, and frankly remnants of a civilization. Perhaps their interest in staying put may benefit a few. It would have been nice a millennia or so ago. But we did get tall blue eyed Irish! Yikes, that's me! You see we lived just off the Shannon on its north side which the migrants used to sail up and collect their goodies. I better check those genes again!
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