About minerva

Status:

Expatriate  

Gender:

Female

Currently Lives:

United States

Citizen Of:

Norway

Some Forum Posts:

Norway: moving to Norway:

Hi, I don't think you need to be worried about moving from the Netherlands to Trondheim, Norway. I'm a Norwegian living in the US, and I miss Norway a lot. This fall I will move back to Norway, thank God, after "negotiations" with my husband:-) I do not recognize the bad things other posters have written about life in Norway here, so you can relax. I lived in Trondheim for two years, and that is the city my husband and I will move to with our son later this year. It's a great city, not that big, but not too small either. It is beautiful. That Norway is expensive is a fact, but the salaries are higher than in the US for instance, so it about makes up for it. And nobody likes paying taxes, and yes, taxes in Norway are pretty high. But then again, my American husband pays almost as much in taxes here in the US, but he does not get free healthcare for instance. In Norway we do. I was shocked after the first doctor's visit with our son here in the US. It cost about 400 dollars to get a regular vaccine shot for a baby! Very immoral and shocking. In Norway you don't have to worry about paying health insurance, it is paid through taxes. I would rather pay a little bit more in taxes so I don't have to worry about health insurance and and doctors and nurses that care about profit, money, first and foremost and not their patients.

Date Joined:

1/14/2009

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