If I don’t do it, who would?? Left alone the natives would just pat each other on the shoulders and agree on everything. (c.captain exempted)
I agree, Norway is not among the most populous places in the world, nor the densest populated. (I know, I have lived in Singapore, which is)
Norway is “somewhat wonderful”, but not for everyone. If you are born here, live here all your life and eventually die here, there is NOT much to complain about. You are taken care of all the way “from cradle to grave” like nowhere else in the world. (Except maybe Brunei and the oil rich Gulf states)
As for the weather, the famous Norwegian saying; “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing” applies. Thus, with clothing from Helly Hansen there are no weather problem. (Except if you have lived in the tropics all/most of your life)
That Sunnmore gets it’s shear of shitty weather is a given, since we are situated where the weather divide between North and South is. If it is good weather in the South it stops just short of here, likewise when Northern Norway have nice weather.
But we are also where the axis of the Gulf Stream hits the costs, so the climate is temperate, with the average temperature in January being well above 0C, with days above 10C not uncommon. Unfortunately the Summer high is no much to brag about.
To me it is the darkness of winter that is the most depressing.
Out there in Fosnavaag the problem is the wind, with driving rain or sleet being horizontal. But when the sun shines it is beautiful:
They do occasionally have snow on the ground for a few days. They still talk about the winters in the 1950s when the snow stayed for weeks in the middle of the Herring season:
Those were the days, before Global Warming and Offshore Oil.