Oshawa, the city I was born in, is located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario a 30 min drive east of Toronto. Its about 40 miles across across the lake from Upstate New York.   Oshawa is the home of General Motors of Canada and several other automotive related manufacturers.   It is also home to three institutes of higher learning, Durham College, Trent University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.   It is grown to a population if about 160,000 people.  

Oslo city is the Capitol of Norway. With the surrounding area there are approximately 1 million people living there. So it is not a big city. Oslo is located in the south of Norway at the end of a fjord, Oslofjorden. Oslo city is surrounded by beautiful hills and forests, a large nature area for recreation as hiking, swimming and skiing.