Why did the Scandinavian countries lag behind?

[Anonymous]

Norway 🇳🇴

Mecca 🇸🇦

The year is 2022, look at how the Scandinavian countries still live. It's like they're living in the 1500s. Even Mecca looks more developed than Norway.

[msmissydc]

This is so beautiful I would rather life there than in a big city. And why would that be underdeveloped? Its just not a big city. Also take a look at bigger cities. If you compare one farm village in texas to reijkjavik than you could call US. Underdeveloped just saying all a matter of perspective.

[Ironic_Method]

I can point to much any country and take a picture of a rural area and call it underdeveloped. Oslo looks just like any other major city except it's cleaner. Not sure why you'd equate these two pictures... it's like comparing some city in Wyoming to LA.

[BeMuse]

Meanwhile in Oslo

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LT4_WsxIyeE

[BeJames]

It is called "conserving nature", not lagging behind.

[RedThread]

lmao every countryside village looks like that the world over. That's such a false equivalence.

[DryGermanGuy]

It's just trolling. The fake-pink anon posted the same "question" before. I assume the motive to be "Look how great Islam is!"

[Andres77]

Having their priorities straight does not mean they're behind

[MysteriousDarkness]

What makes you think that everywhere should be majorly built up?

[Cubus]

Because almost no one lives in such countryside. Almost all Scandinavians live in big cities.

[Anonymous]

Looks nice to me, they don’t have to look like the city, I’m sure they have electricity and indoor plumbing

[Levin]

This has to be a @purplepoppy post...

[purplepoppy]

Sorry not one of mine

[Guy13]

It is Socialist terrain and this is why...

[Guy13]

The Elites there do not like growth and development nor a trickling down of shared Resource from development.

[IesusHominumSalvator]

What do you call developed?

[Therisinghero12]

Not lagging behind, just lower population density

[RobEurope]

Because they like ecology and healthy living.