Hi Sleepless

You know, it seems that the Faroe Islands are cut off from the rest of the world, which in the current economic climate may not be a bad thing.

The only thing that really jumps out at me is that the population may be falling because young people that can move away will in order to find jobs and better themselves.

However, since the Faroe Islands has such a small population I reckon that it must be a very peaceful place to live, i.e. low crime rate, no rioting, etc.


UK Bob

You are quite right in young people going abroad to study and never coming back. There are about 20.000 either full or half Faroese people living in Denmark right now. It gets even worse because older people tend to move back home, which means. Use of free schooling here, then making zero money here to pay taxes, and in the end move back a few years before their pension to houses they have inherited from family. We don't have pr0perty tax here.

There is at the moment a 2000 female deficit to make the population 50/50.

The crime rate is pretty low yes. Last murder was many years ago, not counting two or three accidental shootings (at least deemed accidental) and car or machinery deadly accidents, some with alcohol involved. I don't remember any riot ever. A r@pe or really serious fighting once in a while. Some domestic violence. In my lifetime (32 years) I remember one bankrobbery at night and two armed robberies (stores). A single suicide every 3-5 years. Break ins and other theft and unfortunately some vandalism happen far to often though.

This is what I meant about the Faroe Islands being split into far too many regions Tórshavnar Kommuna verður øgilig — aktuelt.fo

The green part is what Tórshavn region will be. There are already around 18.000 people in it before this. With the additions it will be closer to 20.000 people. Since there are only around 50.000 people in the entire country, a much better alternative would be to have 3 regions. I.e. Streymoy and Vágar in one. The rest on that map in the second. And the rest of the Islands (which aren't already in Tórshavn region) in the third. That would cut normal regional administration cost with probably 70-80% compared to what it is now.

Edit: good thing this is in the lounge. Just looked at the thread title again and this has gone waaayyyy off topic.

They did something similar here nationwide to my knowledge. Amalgamated local government councils to reduce administrative costs & wasted federal & state government subsidies (such as on roadworks.) So 2-3 local govs were combined into one. Local governments are high wasters of money to my knowledge. By that I mean they will spend it on personal use under the guise of being work related. Parties, etc. lol 'Some' so-called beautification projects are also a total waste, not gone though a decent preliminary investigation (especially with the public) & whether it really is worthy (as though it were someone's whim of the moment.) At least this is how it was when I worked within local gov., not sure about nowadays.

Brought the topic back into the right country of topic at least lol :D