Your Cons are really my Pros 😉

– On your last breath, you will only take one pair of shoes with you …
(and best things in life come for free)

– I don’t drink alcohol (and there is growing trend of many more like me)
(would not miss the Fri/Sat high street mess week in/out)

– Spend much of my free time outdoors (Mountains, countryside)
(yes, keeping active it’s a good thing, I see around me too many couch potatos)

– I like open door policy (no need to lock the front door) and anyone is welcome
(and there is nothing wrong with the great art of conversation)

Looks like part of Norwegian society do not live “consumerist” life style …
or Keeping up with the Joneses …

You just have to get a passport and apply for a temporary residence permit. After you’ve lived there 3 years, you can apply for a permanent residence permit. In order to apply for citeznship, you have to have lived there 7 years. Hope this helps. My father was also a Norwegian citizen born in the states. Good luck to you

My Parents were born in Norway, I was born in Bergen and left at 6 months old and raised elsewhere. I still have to go through the system as a foreigner. They are very strict even as natural born citizens. I agree, it’s difficult. I carry a USA passport but live here as a foreigner getting my residency then citizenship.

Check out Ulladulla / Milton area in NSW Australia, best place in Australia !

I live in “ paradise “ in Ulladulla Milton Mollymook Narrawallee area, ( NSW Australia ) great beaches, friendly people, most facilities for day to day living. It’s the best place I have ever lived and won’t be leaving ( have even purchased a place in the cemetery to be buried here as has my brother.
Have live here over 20 years and my brother has lived here 45 years plus.
Summers are hot, while spring and autumn often have best weather and winters are only 3 months with no snow.
I just could not handle the long winters even though I like snow skiing ( it’s a 5 hr drive to go snow skiing here, in February it’s not unusual for the ocean to be 23/24 C.

This was my perception also, as I see Norwegians as friendly but in a much more reserved way.
Now the Danish in comparison are very friendly but in a far more outgoing way.

I have been to Norway twice 5 years apart in the 80’s
I traveled extensively by train mainly but also some boat and bus.
Norway is a photographers dream, particularly in the Lofoten Islands, Andelsness and Aurlesund. Train journey to Bergen from Oslo is a must as is the side line deviation from Mydal to Flam ( walk back down through the Flam Valley ).
I travelled as far south as Stavanger and as far north as Alta.
As Far East as Bergen and Alesund as Far East as Roros.
I’m not a big drinker but your tax on booze is very high.
I would love to live in Norway during their summers, being from Australia winters are too cold for me…har de bra !

So true! People don’t understand what it is like to work at the post office. People are very quick to judge. When someone tells me rude and degrading things, I just tell them that we are hiring..

Wish i get a job referral and i land there some day, fingers crossed 🙂

Thanks heaps Mathew for the feed you shared on Norway. As a first gen’ Aussie (from Norwegian stock) I have a deep nagging desire to explore my Viking roots after exploring the diverse contents of Aussie.

Regards.. Jordie Gundersen