Why I Left the USA & Moved to Europe
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- I moved to Norway from the USA 3 years ago and never looked back. Here's why...
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:16 Cost of Living & Consumption
04:15 Education & Healthcare
08:02 Work Life Balance
12:02 Nature
14:33 Language
16:32 Cultural Differences
18:21 Conclusions
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My wife is from another country and learnt German. She is super fluent and she is super at every aspect, expressing her emotions and feelings. So that is possible: the more immersion the better. The more years the better
Nice to hear about your Norwegian experience. I am Norwegian, and I would say Norwegians in general want immigrants to learn the language, so of course we have to do our part. If people switch to English, make it a habit to say "Kan vi ta det på norsk? Jeg trenger å praktisere." Then I am sure most Norwegians will understand, and do so.
You know, we also like to practice our English skills, that's probably why we switch to English when we get the opportunity to do so in real life, but your need for practicing Norwegian as an immigrant has priority in your case.
Another thing I can say according to the language, I have had colleagues who told that they started to think and dream in Norwegian after living in Norway for seven years. They worked in a workplace where Norwegian is the common language. You will also understand more of the dialects with time. I am from up North, living in South, and even if I have lost some of my dialect, I still have much of it intact, and immigrants understand me when speaking.
I can add that me moving to the southern part of Norway was a huge cultural switch. I missed my family, the culture and nature up north for many years, and if it hadn't been for my husbands connection to this part of the country, I would have moved back long time ago. It took me 20 years to finally settle, and now it feels good to come back home after visiting my relatives and birth place.
Really good advice! Let the locals know you WANT to practice your Norwegian, and they are bound to help by speaking slower and more clearly. You can always switch temporarily to English to clarify a point if needed, but total immersion is the best way to go.
But Norway doesn't have a minimum wage. Maybe your source was using a number that is negotiated between the labour unions and employers. But there's no legal minimum wage.
In Germany, as a non-EU foreigner, you can still study tuition-free, except for the so called semester fee, which comprises an administrative fee, a fee to the student-services organization managing cantinas or dorms, for example, and usually the transportation ticket for the whole state (with the new Deutschland-Ticket, more and more universities offer a nationwide semesterticket). These fees are anywhere between 200 and 400 Euros per semester, depending on the location of the university. Only one of the 16 states has introduced a tuition of 1500 Euros per semester for non-EU students some years ago. This tuition free education is not a kindhearted gift, it's a win-win situation. Many students stay after their graduation to work and live in Germany thus paying taxes and also creating jobs. This outweighs the costs for their education and for the rest who returns home. But the latter also are a gain because they tend to belong to the elites in their countries who decide on trade and other relations. Guess where they have the best relations to...
By the way, according to studies from the Commonwealth Fund, waiting times for doctors are lower in Germany than in most other countries (twice as many doctors per capita than the US), and also, the weather is better and more moderate than in Norway, and travel opportunities are higher due to 9 neighboring countries, not to speak of more moderate costs of living. 😉
But I'm looking forward to my next vacation in Norway, to be sure. 😄
Nice video. I was in Norway 30 years ago, went to Folk School there. Very nice memories. Norwegians are very nice & friendly people. Then I visited Norway a couple of years ago and could not recognize it. Looked like more the Middle East. Sad.
Nice video 👍 I also moved to the Netherlands
15:39 - Wait, how did you realize that? Tons of people learn a second, third, fourth language fluently and are able to integrate just fine. Are you sure you are not being pessimistic here?
Wish u the best
I had a time lapse with my insurance when I went to see a nurse practitioner to get a refill on my prescription and I was charged $350 for a 15 minute visit here in US.
Depends on what is important for a person
For me family and long term good friends are very important so i wouldnt move to another country unless i was starving!
Work-life balance: In the US you live to work (work overrides everything else, even your health and sanity), in Norway (and Europe in general) you work to have a good life.
The dialog differences are certainly more extreme in Norway than the accent differences in the US, where pronunciation varies but the bulk of the vocabulary is the same. You probably hardly notice the differences - and the same goes for Norwegians regarding the Norwegian dialects. Give it time (a decade or two) and you'll be fine.
Give yourself some time with the language. One of the things that you won't have when you learn another language is the cultural context. When you grow up with a language you understand all the innuendo, the slang and cultural references, which you don't otherwise. Watch their films, local TV and get to know their artists and personalities! In the US, you knew this organically; however, if you were to move to the UK, Canada or Australia you would face the same hurdles. Yes, you would understand most of what people are talking about; however, every cultural aspect will go right over your head.
I moving to Czech Republic. The cost of living in the U.S is astronomical. If you are a peasant in the U.S it's over for you . Minimum wage adjusted for inflation should be 22.00hr in U.S. Poland is a
million times better for quality of life for the average American in the U.S. I'm in a small town in Texas it's like a third world. The U.S incarcerate it's citizens 10× more than Europe. Are food is also rubbish highly modify for shelf life.
@@frugalfrugal I think you are at a enormously different income level The prices very greatly in the states and Europe. Poland sucks is a broad statement. I find it hard to believe that rent is the same in Czech Republic and the states. My sister's rent is 3,000$ a month for a average 2br and 2ba. She only grosses 110,000$ a year. I have been all over Poland and Czech Republic. I have a small pension and am a simple person. If I was a Doctor or very high wage earner maybe the states are good. My housing and utilities in a 3rd rate town in Texas are astronomical. Maybe Europe does suck for you for me I don't think so.
Stick to your Norwegian even if they switch! If you keep on going, they might eventually get the message that you want to communicate in Norwegian. Stick to your guns!! My second language is French although I have visited Norway about five times. If you haven't done it, take the Hurtigrutten (misspelling) from Bergen to the Russian border or vice versa!
It's interesting that you don't even talk about the gun violence and violent crimes in USA......
You even say it openly. Money is your motherland. Yesterday was America, today Norway. Movers I don't think people love self serving movers.
Only 21 vacation days and only 16 paid sick days. That doesn't seem right, not for a Nordic wellfare state. Yearly vacation should be 5 weeks at least and paid sick leave days should be limitless. Usually, the employer pays your salary for a limited time and the state pays for the rest of your sick leave. And you can of course not be fired but you're job will still be waiting for you when you return. (The employer will hire somebody to do your work while you are away.)
Also, all public holidays and removal days are paid for. At least, this is how it works in Finland.
@@koschmxThe dude is talking to himself. Looks like he’s enjoying the conversation
@@Gittas-tube Finland and Norway are mostly the same. But Finland has 30 days bound by law I think? In Norway the minimum bound by law is 21, although most people have at least 25 days.
I left Scandinavia for America.
why haha
@@dante9002 it’s very hard to explain unless if you already know Scandinavian culture and politics very well.
One example, 20% of Sweden voted for Swedish democrats, a political party literally founded by Nazis.
So 1 in 5 Swedes you talk to are literally neonazis.
I remember arguing with a bunch of Nazi Swedes. They such huge idiots.
I would have been better off if I never learned Swedish.
i think 'those' people are just nationalists. Sweden is ruined by immigrants, gun violence, gang wars, women getting harrassed. i would love to live in sweden if it wasn't for the weather and all the r$pist low iq immigrants @@NH-zi4jr
If you are smart and hard working and having a good health, then you can earn 2x in USA compared to in Norway, but if not, i cant understand either.@@dante9002
I don't recomad any one to move to this county :
'Norway is not only the worst-rated Nordic country in the Expat Insider 2023 survey but also second-to-last worldwide (52nd). It also comes 52nd in the Personal Finance Index, only ahead of New Zealand (53rd). More than three in five expats (62%) rate the local cost of living negatively, compared to 35% globally. What is more, 37% say that their disposable household income is not enough to lead a comfortable life (vs. 27% globally).
Expats Do Not Feel at Home '
## expat Insider 2023
I don't recommend reading Expat Insider. It's all about what you find important and what matches with you. These kind of listings have to focus on specific measurable aspects, if they want to be any good at all, but often don't give a good insight in what they are actually using as input and how they measure that or what life is really like. If you only want to work and earn much money, Norway is not the country for you, and neither are most other European countries. If it's other aspects of life you're looking for, you'll have to find the matching country. I'm not from Norway by the way.
Don't you miss the dirt streets, the gun violence and the social inequality?
As an Norwegian i can say that our Capital city in Norway have dirty streets and knife violence 24/7 since most immigrants live in Oslo, and our State statistic company says that in year 2075 there will only be 10% true Norwegians left in our capital city... And then the majority of the population there will be the peacefully islam kind.
College shouldn’t be free in any country. Especially for the purple haired gender studies majors (future starbucks baristas). Go USA!🇺🇸
It used to be free in the UK (still is on Scotland) but not any more. This has had a detrimental impact on university study and (for obvious reasons) people are more likely to go for degrees that would give a high paid job, rather than study a topic where they have real passion; the impact of this is that there are less people with high levels of skills and knowledge to push subjects forward, and as a result the UK has slipped behind other countries in terms of research, innovation, and international standing of academia. I am guessing from your tone that you are not very familiar with university degrees and the rigour of study, but remember it is never too late.
If you don't have anything to tell, please shut your mouth.
there's a balance between providing free gender studies toilet paper "degrees", and cutting 90% of people off from access to higher education by making it prohibitively expensive.
If you want to live in a third world shithole where no one holds an education, of course you'll vote for greed and make college unavailable.