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Title: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 23, 2015, 10:03:52 AM
Screw this, I'm getting the hell out of here.  Y'all can have fun with this mess.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 23, 2015, 11:58:12 AM
Screw this, I'm getting the hell out of here.  Y'all can have fun with this mess.

Where are you going to go? All the countries have hilarious leaders right now.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 23, 2015, 10:56:26 PM
Screw this, I'm getting the hell out of here.  Y'all can have fun with this mess.

Where are you going to go? All the countries have hilarious leaders right now.
Norway.  August 30.  Plane tickets ordered.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 24, 2015, 11:50:59 AM
Screw this, I'm getting the hell out of here.  Y'all can have fun with this mess.

Where are you going to go? All the countries have hilarious leaders right now.
Norway.  August 30.  Plane tickets ordered.

Can I go too?
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: rooster on July 24, 2015, 01:21:33 PM
Can I go too?
I'm would also enjoy living over yonder. Let's just get married and go, pls.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 24, 2015, 02:01:41 PM
You can only live in Norway if you marry a Norwegian, which is why moving is an actual option for Dave, whereas we are screwed.

Norway knows it is one of the best countries on the planet and hold that policy to prevent them from being invaded by people like me.

Why Dave still lives in the US at all when Norway is an option is a huge mystery to me.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 24, 2015, 02:04:17 PM
You can only live in Norway if you marry a Norwegian, which is why moving is an actual option for Dave, whereas we are screwed.

Norway knows it is one of the best countries on the planet and hold that policy to prevent them from being invaded by people like me.
Nah, she could just marry me. I have the right to live and work (or even live and not bother working) in Norway by virtue of being British.

https://www.gov.uk/working-abroad/overview
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 24, 2015, 02:06:47 PM
I guess that would work assuming she is a firm believer in masochism.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 24, 2015, 02:13:06 PM
I guess that would work assuming she is a firm believer in masochism.
Trump, Clinton or Thork. All three would go out of their way to fuck her in the ass.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: xasop on July 24, 2015, 03:33:00 PM
As much as we all love to hear about Thork's sexual fantasies, can we keep this thread on topic? Please and thank you.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 25, 2015, 12:01:23 AM
You can only live in Norway if you marry a Norwegian, which is why moving is an actual option for Dave, whereas we are screwed.

Norway knows it is one of the best countries on the planet and hold that policy to prevent them from being invaded by people like me.

Why Dave still lives in the US at all when Norway is an option is a huge mystery to me.
There are other ways to get in such as working permit (but you need a job already) or staying with a family as an au pair.  But yeah, really hard.  Not like the US at all.

As for why...
Language mostly.  I didn't know it and I had a job so she moved here when we got married.  Now we're moving back.

Also: Trump sucks.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 25, 2015, 01:01:50 AM
I need you to hook me up, Dave. Find a Norwegian chick and tell her about how you know this cool guy on the Flat Earth Society that is mildly rich and wants to move there.

Actually, forget the mildly rich part. I'm sure even mildly rich here is poor there.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: rooster on July 25, 2015, 01:04:13 AM
Hey Thork, about that marriage proposal....
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 25, 2015, 01:24:38 AM
I suppose I should actually visit before wanting to move there. Pretty dumb fantasy to want to just move to another country.

Time to get really interested in foreign exchange programs.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 25, 2015, 03:14:12 AM
Apply to a university there.
Or, just go for a week (or two) visit.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Vindictus on July 25, 2015, 04:18:33 AM
Go and declare asylum.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 25, 2015, 11:29:52 AM
Apply to a university there.
Or, just go for a week (or two) visit.

This is a good idea.

Go and declare asylum.

...this is not.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: xasop on July 25, 2015, 11:45:21 AM
Go and declare asylum.

...this is not.

To be fair, Vindictus lives in Australia. Just about any other country has better asylum seeker policy than we do, so it seems like a good deal to us.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Ghost Spaghetti on July 27, 2015, 08:24:28 AM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: xasop on July 27, 2015, 01:45:54 PM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?

That sounds like paradise. I love people who mind their own business and don't try to talk to me too much.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 27, 2015, 02:10:32 PM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?

They aren't antisocial, they just like space.  Or tend sheep.  Usually both.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 27, 2015, 02:33:46 PM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?

They aren't antisocial, they just like space.  Or tend sheep.  Usually both.
You'll be stunned to learn that sheep farming in a place that is covered with snow isn't the most profitable enterprise in a land that makes most of its money from North Sea oil, mining and fishing.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Lord Dave on July 27, 2015, 02:39:26 PM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?

They aren't antisocial, they just like space.  Or tend sheep.  Usually both.
You'll be stunned to learn that sheep farming in a place that is covered with snow isn't the most profitable enterprise in a land that makes most of its money from North Sea oil, mining and fishing.
You'll be stunned to learn that most of Norway is not covered in snow all year round.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 27, 2015, 03:20:55 PM
One thing that struck me about Norway was how incredibly antisocial they are, this was particularly evident in Svalbard. How much do you have to hate your neighbours that you find the tiny town of Longyearbyen 'too busy' and decide to live outside the town limits halfway up a snow-covered hillside with polar bears prowling around outside?

They aren't antisocial, they just like space.  Or tend sheep.  Usually both.
You'll be stunned to learn that sheep farming in a place that is covered with snow isn't the most profitable enterprise in a land that makes most of its money from North Sea oil, mining and fishing.
You'll be stunned to learn that most of Norway is not covered in snow all year round.
You aren't going to be getting as much sheep sex as you hoped. Norway has a tiny sheep population. There aren't enough to go around.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 27, 2015, 03:25:47 PM
Also, you are going from somewhere reasonably 'free' to somewhere with less freedom.

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

Australia is 4th, despite all Parsifal's whinging about repressed immigrants and badly treated Abos. 
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: rooster on July 27, 2015, 09:07:50 PM
Here is a very relevant reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3eqhp4/eli5_whats_the_catch_to_living_in_a_socialist/
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 28, 2015, 01:11:03 AM
You aren't going to be getting as much sheep sex as you hoped. Norway has a tiny sheep population. There aren't enough to go around.

Wow. I don't want to go anymore.

Also, from that Reddit thread you posted:

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i'm suspicious because you started a conversation with a random finn and he tolerated it.

w0w

So, it looks like they don't really tolerate the cold as well as I thought, and that the extreme cold leaves people stranded indoors, which makes them intolerably introverted. A lot of people in the thread are like "wow, that's amazing, a country full of me!" but actually an almost homogeneously introverted country would suck balls.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SwedenYes

double w0w
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Vindictus on July 28, 2015, 09:14:10 PM
It's uncommon for people to talk to you in Australia as well. I haven't spent a lot of time in the US, but people didn't approach me there either. I don't see how it's a special thing among the Scandinavian countries.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Jura-Glenlivet on July 28, 2015, 10:02:43 PM

I found the people of Norway to be wonderful, some of the women are just stunning, the Sognefjord is stunning, but the drink is bloody expensive and there are shit loads of mosquitos.
We were supposed to be driving up to Hell in Finland to send postcards but we never got there.
On the way back we stopped for some muppet Englishman who had left his lights on and flattened his battery, he tied a tow rope around our back axle so we could give him a tow start and when he got going and removed his rope he had fractured our brakes, he just fucked off.
A local garage fixed it so the front brakes worked, for half a bottle of southern comfort as we were running out of money, drove through the night to Gothenburg and slept on a beach, when we woke everyone was naked. Ahh the Scandinavians. have fun.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Rushy on July 28, 2015, 10:59:44 PM
I haven't spent a lot of time in the US, but people didn't approach me there either.

Probably because you're a dirty aussie
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Hoppy on July 29, 2015, 06:48:41 PM
Hey Thork, about that marriage proposal....
Getting it up the ass doesn't sound like of a proposal.
Title: Re: Living in Norway
Post by: Thork on July 29, 2015, 08:02:39 PM
Hey Thork, about that marriage proposal....
Getting it up the ass doesn't sound like of a proposal.
It is an indecent proposal.  :-B