Anyway, as far as I have experienced, Norwegians are not interested in having educated foreigners come to their country. They are the weirest most jealous bunch I have ever seen. They always insult you and they are rude as hell. They are not shy, just socially inept. Also, I never saw such immature spoiled assholes. They take on average maybe 8 years just to finish a lousy Master’s degree. Losers really, and when they see someone 30 who (in the real world) has managed to finish school in time and be what is perfectly normal outside of Norway for their age, they start talking about how young you are to be doing what your doing.

argghghghhghg, I hate this place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to leave.

Now, looking at Norway compared to for example the US, I would never relocate to any State is the US. I’m married to an American woman and she couldn’t move out of that country quick enough. Sure Norway is an expencive country to live in, but if you take all of the costs Americans have to pay in insurance and other hidden taxes, it’s the same…
Minimum vage in the US force people to have two and sometimes three jobs… My son that is 17 yrs old make 95 Nkr an hour… that’s $15. For an adult, minimum vage is 120-130 Nkr… that’s $18-20 an hour. Housewifes that had dedicated their life to the family insted of working, is guaranteed a pension when they reach the age of 67, like any other working man or woman… And why not…? Have they done any less work during all those years…? Hell NO!!! They have done a whole lot more than most people!!

I don’t have to worry about my kids all the time. They can go wherever they want and stay out late without the risk of them getting snatched by some child molester. Sure we hear about them every now and them, but we are still lightyears away from beeing forced to use something like an Amber Alert, witch is a brilliant thing though when needed. My youngest daughter was pretty suprised when my mother-in-law freaked out just because she wandered off on her own in a mall when we visited TN last year. She’s used to do that here, and she can… Try to explain to a Norwegian child why they can’t do that in the US… It took a lot more explaining to convice her that all Americans are not likely to kidnap her. She heard about those things constantly when they where there and since she understand the English language, she heard about it on the news as well.

I had an accident at work, where I was electrecuted while connecting a cable (I’m an electrician). I was forced to spend 24 hrs in a local hospital for monitoring of the heart. I was sent home and never saw a bill or had to call an insurance company. It was free. My father suffered under a heart and kidny failure and was in and out of hospitals for the last 20 yrs of his life… He never paid a single penny for all that treatment. He also had to take a lot of medecine for his problems, but he did not have to suffer anything financally because of that. Here we pay 20% of what the medecine cost and the rest is paid for by the Norwegian State. I know Hillary Clinton has been here in Norway several times to study our health system… Think about that the next time you are going to vote for a new President… if she’s one of the candidates that is.

I agree with you Jon, about the tings you don’t miss about Norway, but once you are back in Norway when you grow up and have a family, I think you will be able to sit down and write about at least 100 things you don’t miss about the US. The safety of Norway is always there for you when you have had enough of the “good life” in America.
Enjoy your stay “over there” and keep up the good work that make Hollywood angry!!!

Best place to live in? yes, if u are a robot! To live in Norway u should be fake and tell all the time how happy u are to be there, be super fake-nice to people. It’s like a sub real world. I travel all around the world but i haven’t experience something like that in any other country. It’s not possible to make any comments: i don’t like the weather – answer: Go to your country. Sorry, i’m not so happy about sausages – answer: take a plane and go to your country. I don’t know why people ask all the time if they don’t wanna know your answer. So the first rule to survive in Norway it’s to say that u love to live there, and other places aren’t as good as Norway, that the food is the best in the whole world (There are continuously some problems with Norwegian meat and milk, to be vegetarian is something like mission impossible and why people have some many problems with weight?). I’m sick and tired of all the propaganda.
And all the rules of behavior, “gå på besøk”, way of parting, way of drinking, tax, tax, breathing tax will be next!
Why are so many people with education that don’t get a job, and so many that have a job and are lazy asses and can’t do anything right at all. Send Mr. Trump and get them all fired!
But then u have a waiting list of 6 months/1 year when u have important health problems. Or u get an operation and u have to be in an office or be sent home because it’s not place in hospitals. Many schools in small places have to be closed, roads in the north look like shit, hospitals let people go. Where all the taxes go?!
But Norwegians can’t complain because that’s considered unpatriotic.
”Skjoenner ikke at du kan vaere saa utakknemlig, Norge er tross alt ett av verdens beste land aa bo i”
Comments like this should really be translated because it’s really shows the reality of the country, the guy wrote 10 things he personally doesn’t miss about Norway (like any normal person could find about their own country). That’s not to be ungrateful it’s called to be real person. I’m sure that he loves Norway very much, what shall we say to him?…Don’t take a plane and come home?

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PS: Come on… the food in Norway sucks!