Three things that people who moved to Norway cannot get used to even after years of living in the country
Man is such a creature that he quickly gets used to everything. And to the good, and, what is most interesting and inexplicable, to the bad. If you live in one country from birth, then all its pluses and minuses become a given, and they are no longer perceived as something out of the ordinary.
Take at least the Norwegians. They live in a country that has consistently ranked first in the Human Development Index over the past few years. High salaries, a huge social package and numerous benefits to citizens are taken as a given, to which Norwegians have become accustomed since childhood. But there is also the other side of the coin, which is noticeable mostly to visitors…
This photo shows a typical Norwegian summer in the fjord region. This is the city of Ålesund. In mid-July, the temperature is stable around +10 degrees, and a day without rain falls no more than a couple of times a week.
The Norwegians themselves are accustomed to such weather, because they live in it from birth. From the rain they have membrane clothes, from the cold – warm socks, and from the eternal blues and despondency – hiking in the mountains. For them, this is the norm of life, but when a person from sunnier places arrives in such weather conditions, it will not take long to earn depression.
It rained for the third day in a row…
Rain in Norway is another story altogether. Even St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, or cold Murmansk, famous for its precipitation, is not at all the same as the Norwegian fjords. Rain here can charge for several days, and for several days it will go without stopping at all for a minute.
Flying over Norway
And the short daylight hours complete the conversation about the Norwegian climate. In central Russia in November, there is clearly not enough sun, but imagine what it is like for the inhabitants of Trondheim or Tromso. In total, about half a million people live beyond the Arctic Circle in Norway – this is about 8-10% of the total population of the country. For comparison, it's like we have about 12 million people living in the Far North…
But people get used to everything, especially since there are enough positive aspects of life in Norway too. Would you be able to live in a similar climate? Share your opinion!
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