As many as 40 percent of asylum seekers to Norway regret the desicion to travel to Norway in the first place after returning to their home countries.

When you are in between countries you are in limbo.  You can only live year by year as that is all you are approved to do until you get a permanent residency permit.  After three years on a temporary residency permit I have finally been upgraded to permanent. It certainly hasn’t been an easy road [...]

This (long) post was a lot harder to write than I thought.  It isn’t that Norway isn’t a great place to live but everything I found that is great is based on my own value systems.  So, to get a well-rounded impression of why it is ‘great’ to live in Norway, I hope that all [...]

You need to have a certain personality to survive Norway.  I’m lucky, I enjoy my own company and can amuse myself, so the standard isolation as an ‘immigrant’ is quite perfect for me.  However, others who need social interaction have a much harder time of it.  Below are some tips (well, more like humorous tactics) especially [...]