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Norway: moving to Norway:

I agree with all the negatives&positives:). I've lived long-term in 4 countries in Europe, I'm fluent in 5 languages (besides norwegian, which I've been learning 12hours/week for 2 years during my PhD scholarship here) which made it easy for me to connect with the locals everywhere. Here's my experience from Norway. Yes, the nature is beautiful&clean, the fjords are wonderful....for about a month or two. After that, they're just a piece of cold rock, albeit still a nice one. High taxes? Well, I do see the point here, but I'd never bitch about the issue - I pay 10% more, but my 'income' has doubled since I moved. So did the price levels(depends), but still, no worries, my disposable income (and I'm a frugal SOB) is the same as before. Socialist welfare state? It's not my cup of tea, not at all since I was always smart&able myself, but if they have the means to pay for it (and they sure have. Hint: natural resources), why not. Why not??? Hahaha, well I thought so until I found out that the toilet stinks the same after being used by a norwegian. I know, unbelievable. But sadly true nonetheless. What I mean is that, apart from a few differences in behaviour (lack of social skills&communication, girls being very direct&open to ONS etc), they are still people as usual. Some are extremely nice&happy&full of smiles(I'd certainly say they are the minority though:), others were cold&rude&impolite. Some were normal, some ceased to be normal (no smiles&communication ever) after they found out I'm actually not a nordmann, some thought as a guy born in a 'poor' country I'd be an easy catch. My friend found love here, i.e. the last one of his regular ONS realized she's old enough&way out of his league so he'd be a good catch, while he's happy he's not alone&can practice the language with her&eventually settle in an environment where his perpetual laziness is not a hindrance to his profesional development. I mean from what I've seen so far, the word 'work' is an oxymoron here. Or a complete joke in any case... But as I said, they're just regular people living in a welfare state, so no surprises. I don't know about morals, they strike me as a bunch of isolated modern ex-farmers&fishermen (the older ones) with a bunch of (often) spoiled&clueless kids(the younger ones) who care about this issue to the extent that it makes them feel good about themselves in a good old Maslow's pyramid sense. They like ONS, seem to have an undertone of self-delusional sense of grandiose in their public conduct (but in my experience that's common in rich people who haven't had to work for it), whilst when they get drunk... My own advisor (a professor, not a bright one btw) is seemingly very nice, but after hacking into his computer I know that he has no problem being in a sexual relation with his student(he's married also) in exchange of his assistance, abusing his power over me&other foreign students, publishing my work under her name and threatening to 'get rid of me' when I started to ask a few questions not to his liking... Btw his body language is so restricted I'm still not quite sure if he's that delusional about himself or just a general piece of xxxx - I just ignore him&concentrate on investment banking. As for getting a job here, well, a headhunter told me(på norsk selvfølgelig) he could get me one, but given the expenses and my preferences I'm more than happy to listen to all the very nice&smart norwegians who for some reason are keen to advise me to go the Fxxx back where I came from(as I said, I'm happy to oblige, I strongly dislike laziness). So overall I'd say they are very nice&bit shy, but still human.

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