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Welcome to Norway, the happiest place in the world!

I’m not even joking.

Norway is consistently held up as having the best standard of living in the world. It regularly tops the United Nations’ Human Development Index and has one of the highest GDP’s of any nation. Unemployment is low and the country has a well-funded pension pot thanks to the oil industry.

I moved to Norway in 2011 almost by accident. I was lucky enough to be offered several jobs abroad and I plumped for the pull of Scandinavia.

After I arrived, the most common questions I received were:

• “What is Norway really like?”
• “What are Norwegians like?”
• “Does everyone has blonde hair and blue eyes?”
• “Is it really that expensive?”

And so, Life in Norway was born!

Originally a personal blog titled Diary of David, the vanity eventually subsided as I realised there was a need for a wider resource for the international community in Norway. That international community is bigger that I’d expected; there are 407,262 people with foreign citizenship living here. As accommodating as Norwegians are, it can be difficult to navigate your way through the bureaucracy and understand the cultural quirks as a foreigner.

Far from just my personal ramblings, the site now hosts several regular bloggers from across the country, with new features being added all the time. Although aimed at expats within Norway, the site is also popular with Norwegians abroad, those with Norwegian heritage or just those interested in Scandinavian culture. All are welcome here!

So stick around and become a part of the rapidly growing Life in Norway community