Why I moved to Norway
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- Why I moved to Norway my story:
I grew up in west Germany and got sick about the city live and a change was needed. I decided in 2013 to escape this stressful and unhappy live for a more relaxed and free lifestyle.
In this episode I'm explaining why I moved to Norway and showing u three seasons of weather conditions. During the years I build up a new live and even managed to settled down by buying a house instead of renting.
This was a big project to renovate on my own with some help for getting the outside and inside done.
With this movie I want to give u best impressions how living in northern Norway is and which opportunities u got.
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Welcome to our humble kingdom of Norway!
Thanks for all your kind comments and Support. 🤘🙏☺️
I am happy to see and hear that you follow the same belief as I, "You can do it if you try!" This is how I came to leave New York City and moved to California; slowly and surely I moved to a mountain home in the far north of California because of the outdoor activities. I only discovered the beauty of Norway a few years ago, and through a Norwegian friend I discovered and fell in love with Tromsø, the hub to so much of Northern Norway. Be safe and stay well.
Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion, sorry for net getting back earlier I needed to be home and have it quiet. I can imagine it's a huge difference from New York to California. Yes Tromsø seems to be the Hub of Northern Norway.
I look forward to future video posts whenever you might produce them. I know what it means to have some quite time to recharge. My friend in Tromsø also works two weeks, on two weeks off. He just got back to his apartment late last night, but I will give him the space he needs to recharge before I contact. Be safe, stay well. @@ArcticNorthAdventures
Nice to hear your story
I’m also interested to live like you
Enjoy the life with close relationship with nature
I loved this. So genuinely captivating! Makes me want to be in Norway 🇳🇴 🥰
Thanks a lot, did u been in Norway before ?
It is only this "idyllic" a few months of the year. Almost totally inhabitable the rest of the year. Roads are closed and you will be isolated in total darknes a big portion of the year. It is not for everyone. Also, notice how a lot of these people blessed with the peacfulnes of the areas come from totally stressed out metropolian areas. Anything change to that could feel like heaven if you are tired of it. Moving to northern norway into no mans land is probably only for those with extreem desires and needs. And there is the issue of even getting a job up there, as most cities up north are on a declining population with very little opportunity. It might look pretty on a short tutorial, but there are lots of issues to consider before making the leap moving there. Eventhough i find it pretty for a short trip, wich I do every 2-3 years I would never settle or live there. There are so many better places to settle in Norway.
@@ArcticNorthAdventures We are looking to go in 2024 :) Next year is western & southern Europe & then Morocco. 2024 is Norway & I’d love to spend time on Svalbard :)
0:50 What a view!
You seem to have found genuine life quality my man :-)
🙌🙌 great work!!
One of the best videos about northern Norway and reasons to move. Thank you. Well done.
Thanks a lot that u liked it. Appreciate it
Thanks that was great you have an awesome personality glad you're making videos friend.
Thanks for your kind comment ☺️
Interesting video and story, all of that experience is waiting for me hopefully
Such a beautiful video!
Thank you so much
Stunning views! Loved your video a lot. Norway is such a beautiful country!
Thanks a lot ☺️ i have also made some drone footage in My other playlist
@@ArcticNorthAdventures I'm going to check them out soon then. Thanks! 😉
@@vivianvi5486 I will put some links in my description of this movie 🎥 🙂
So cool to see my area through the lense of someone who's not native.
Thank you, AwZm to see.
And also like that you chose to live in Vesterålen, instead of Lofoten.
Looking forward seing more from you😄
Nice to hear from you thanks for your kind comment ☺️
Danke, hat mich berührt
Es ist schwer zu sagen, ob ich für immer im Norden leben möchte, da ich dort nie war, jedoch das, was ich jedes Mal sehe, zwingt mich beinahe sofort zu packen und von Berlin dorthin zu ziehen. Und so seit Jahren. Norwegen, Schweden, weit weg in den Norden - majestätisch schön. Ein tolles und kreatives Video! Grüße aus der Tretmühle Berlin :-)
Danke für den Feedback, freut mich das ich gute Eindrücke vermitteln konnte in meinem Video. Was Natur angeht hat man sehr viele Möglichkeiten in Nord Norwegen 🇳🇴 und das direkt vor der Haustüre. Liebe Grüße 🖖
Hi, sobald du für mehr als 14 Tage Berlin verlässt und dann wieder zurück kommst, wirst du erkennen was für ein "Drecksloch" Berlin in Wirklichkeit ist. Egal welche Großstadt man nimmt, es ist und bleibt eine zu kleine Fläche für viel zu viele Menschen und der Kontakt zur Natur kommt immer zu kurz. Dabei ist genau die Natur so wichtig für jeden Menschen, denn wir stammen aus ihr und gehören zu ihr. Wünsche dir viel Erfolg bei deiner Entscheidungsfindung und kann dir einen Besuch Norwegens nur empfehlen. Es gibt kein anderes Land auf diesem Planeten, welches so majestätisch, wundervoll und kraftspendend ist. Alles Gute! :)
es hat sich eventuell für einige vor 15 Jahren gelohnt. HEUTE würde ich 10000km weiter wandern! NORWEGEN ist auch nur eine EU- Kolonie, wie z.B. gesamte OstEUropa. Ohne ÖL und GAS siehts hier bald wieder aus wie in den 40gern- 60gern.....😐☝(...oder wie im Kosovo...)
nice video! :D
That's awesome. I am also thinking of move to Norway in near future. I always wanted to live with nature and calmness. Seems like Norway is my dream country😍
There Are many places to live ☺️
Nice to hear that 😊 I am definitely planning to move there. Hope I will be able to do that in near future 😊
Nice to see that you are enjoying yourself here in Northern Norway
It’s a very special and remote place up north, can be on some occasion to remote 😅🙏
@@ArcticNorthAdventures You get used to it eventually. I live even further north than this, a couple of hours' drive north of Tromsø. Have a nice day.
thanks for making this. I've been thinking of doing the same as far as moving to Norway but I live in US so traveling or flying during covid makes it a bit challenging at the moment. I am like you as want less city and love being outside and doing outdoor activities even from when I was a kid.
Thanks for taking time and watching my movie, it’s nice to hear from you. I hope it will work out and stay safe ☺️
I would move to USA today....
@@tyskerbarn5171where do you live? I'll trade lol
in Norway. 🙂@@gammaraymonkey
Lovely, one of the best films I've seen by a non Norwegian, about Norge. Love the photography, music, and your appreciation of the land. What about the people and language, do you make friends with locals? Do you practice speaking the language?
Hello, thanks for your kind reply and nice comment. I speak and write Norwegian from the very beginning. Integration is important for me and could speak and write is the first thing to do. I know a lot of locals but to make real friends seems to be difficult . Gladly I could count 2 as friends nearby ☺️
Hallo Alex, so jetzt hab ich wieder ein Video von dir entdeckt. Es ist einfach wunderschön dort. Ich bin mir echt nicht sicher, ob ich dort leben könnte, aber sowas wie snowboarding wäre bestimmt spannend zu lernen. 😊 Mit dem Surfen hast du meine Bewunderung verdient...in so kaltem Wasser. Das wäre nichts für mich "ich als nicht-schwimmer"
Hallo vielen lieben dank furs zuschauen, ja hier kann man sehr viel machen ist aber auch langer winter, bin am überlegen ob ich dieses video neu filmen sollte oder nicht, es hat sich einiges geändert nach drei Jahren 🙈 zu mal wie ich videos mache.
@@ArcticNorthAdventures danke für die Antwort. Kannst du gerne Video machen. Ich schaue es auf jeden Fall 😊 und andere Zuschauer freuen sich mit Sicherheit auch.
Thank you ;-) sia æ en Nordlænning da må være enig, vi er de beste folket i Norge ;-)
Bra man er enig 😂🎉🇳🇴🇳🇴
I lived in Narvik 2 years while studiyng. I heard a lot about 'winter depression' from people I met. It's when it is dark most of the time. I didn't have that, allthough I'm from southern Norway. But some of the locals had winter depression.
So I guess it's not genetical, it's just the type of person you are. I had more problems with the midnight sun, as it was hard for me to sleep with light all around me. Luckily these days it's easier to find good eye masks.
Me myself I moved from the big city of Oslo to a smaller town 100km away. I like the silence and there is nature all around me.
I can imagine about the 24 hours daylight, I got actually used to it, I dont got any problems with winter depressions but I can imagine it can be hard when there has been bead weather before and after the polar night season specially then there has been less sun duo to clouds, but this season is not so dark as the rumors says, comes with a lot of moody and nice colors.
Best to live outside a big city indeed, what do you like more ? Narvik or south in the small city ?
med vennligst hilsen Alex Robins
@@ArcticNorthAdventures I live in Kongsberg. I like it here better. It's in a valley and we do get a lot of nice weather in the summer. And I got a nice view of nature from my balcony. We can get extra snow in the winter though. And Kongsberg is a Tech city and I work in it.
It's quiet here. When I wake up I only hear birds singing. Except for when the unwilling neighbour kids have to go to kindergarten. But that's just some minutes in the morning and some minutes in the afternoon.
We have a decent ski resort, a nice river and lots of wild nature around.
Wow that sounds really nice, I should check it out one day, still have to do my travel roadtrip through Norway. Yeah im aware about Kongsberg a big company, see and hear the name all the time
Great video. Norway is very nice country
Thanks 🙏
This video.... Every stressed european got to see this!!! Man, you really feel like you are alive up here in the north right?! Awesome video man! Had to sub❣✌
Thanks for your comment and that u like it 🙏🙏🙏🙏☺️☺️👋👋
@@ArcticNorthAdventures you really make great videos❣👍👍
@@nulltull thanks 🙏
Awesome video! I can almost hear a nordlending-“twang” to the way you speak, something about the musicality of it! Do you think that’s possible? Or would it be a German accent? I lived near Harstad myself for 17 years.
Thanks 🙏 I try to learn the Northern Norwegian Dialekt not sure if it worked out since many people asking me if iam from Denmark because my accent 😂 did u been in Vesterålen? I was many times in Harstad
I think if you emigrating you have to do that for a positive reason like you did. I have spend my first 34 years in Holland near Amsterdam and now living since 20 years in Switzerland in a small town. I love the mountains, and the forrests here, but mis the sea, but not city life.. Norway have it all, but then I love culture and nice old towns as well, so Switzerland is not bad. I understand your choice, I have visited the Nord Cape meself twice and both times a was like lost in time, travelling all the way along that amazing coast line of Norway. Just nature, every minute beautiful views and a sun that refuses to go below the horizon in the summer. Good luck and may good adventures! Liebe Grüsse, Ronald.
Every history is a good history why people are moving to a different county yours sounds nice too and it’s interring since u moved to Switzerland and u are from Netherlands originally ?
@@ArcticNorthAdventures yes, correct I am dutch ;)
@@ronnie9187 how is skiing in Switzerland ?
Vă mulțumesc foarte mult pentru acest videoclip minunat. Acum iubesc mai mult nordul Norvegiei.
Vă mulțumim pentru vizionare, de fapt mă gândesc să fac o versiune mai bună a acestui videoclip
That's nice, you are very lucky
Beautiful footage! I have also fallen in love with the North and landed on Senja :)
Darf ich fragen, mit welcher Kamera du filmst?
Habe alles nur mit meiner GoPro 9 gemacht 😅 ja das Land ist sehr schon
How I love my country ❤️🇳🇴
Norway is very unique and I really hope the politicians in Oslo do the right choices and trying to preserve the resources norway have and not selling it International. Important to keep the drinking water, green power, fishing industry. Where do you live in Norway?
Very nice video :)
Thanks 🙏
Very Nice video brother
Thanks 🙏 mate
Lofoten is a spectacular part of Norway, I was there for 3 days in June 2015. Did you know that only 10% of Norway`s population lives in the upper half of the country? I can imagine why, gorgeous scenery, but 7 months of winter?! Nein danke! Grüsse aus Oslo.
Seven months of winter can be long that’s truth 😅
Looks like you have embraced what Nordland has to offer. It is a beautiful place. I'm form Finnmark, live in Oslo now, and are kind of jealous. Enjoy man :)
Finnmark is nice, too I just been there recently, but I have to say the winter in Nordland can be quite long with 7 months, at least the last two years something has changed. Why did you moved to Oslo if I may ask?
es hat sich eventuell für einige vor 15 Jahren gelohnt. HEUTE würde ich 10000km weiter wandern! NORWEGEN ist auch nur eine EU- Kolonie, wie z.B. gesamte OstEUropa. Ohne ÖL und GAS siehts hier bald wieder aus wie in den 40gern- 60gern.....😐☝(...oder wie im Kosovo...)
I would never have guessed he wasn't from Norway if I just looked at him.
Thanks for watching ☺️
To take full advantage of your suroundings, you should also learn some basic climbing. There are courses you can take in Lofoten every summer. I did, almost fifty years ago.
Im aware about it, here I have also to limit my activities since I do a lot of other stuff, but u are right its perfect spot for climbing
Hello Alex, thank you very much for your content, it’s fun and entertaining and we can learn a lot from your environment.. Is there a way to get in contact with you to ask you a few specific tips ? 😅☺️
Soo cool video!❤️🤩🤩
What did you do for living? I mean job for survival in norway
Working as an Electrician ☺️
What are your best advices for foreigners to come and start a new life in Norway ?. I plan to work there and maybe live permanently there and I even know basic Norwegian. Greeting from Malaysia. Your video is awesome by the way.
Hello thanks for commenting check this movie out. I will come back to with a guide where to apply in a new movie
th-cam.com/video/mZcbahGRNB8/w-d-xo.html
Nice videos
Thanks a lot Happy new year
The north is nice, but im never moving away from the west coast😂
Every part has its own charm. 😊
@@ArcticNorthAdventures apart from the east, just Starbucks and museums 🤣
can you snowboard all year except summer?
U can snowboard even In may but then there is now snow up to 200 meter
Best period for snowboard ski is from January until April
beautiful thanks for sharing. My only 2 questions are how do you manage with a job/financially and residency?
Thanks for watching my movie 🎥 I have a normal job, financial is with my work and residency I bought my own place which makes it cheaper for living ☺️
@@ArcticNorthAdventures thank you I meant how did you qualify for permanent residency if you're German by birth?
@@user-xn2hf9re8r apply at UDI.no did it after 5 years not sure if eu citizen has to it but I did it anyway and for getting residency u need only working contract for at least 6 months as eu citizens
Sehr schön dort, wenn nur nicht dieser ewig lange Winter wäre ;-)
Der Winter könnte kürzer sein 😅
Is anyone seeing ads on this movie? I did not monetized my channel, but sometimes I see ads on my own movies.
Das sind glaube ich die neuen TH-cam Guidelines. Die dürfen jetzt Werbung bei jedem Video machen die sie wollen. Bei mir ist es genau so...
@@LydiaReimer das ist unglaublich, da sollte man lieber selbst Werbung einschalten aber das dauert wohl noch eine Weile . 😅
@@ArcticNorthAdventures Ja ich fühle voll mit. Ich überlege auch ob es langfristig mehr Sinn macht, mit Patreon weiter zu machen als mit Werbung, weil ja jetzt sowieso schon immer Werbung läuft und mit Patreon kommt es wenigstens zu einem selber. Aber naja. Eins nach dem anderen.
@@LydiaReimer funktioniert Patreon gut ? Konnte nie da wirklich rein schauen ohne einen Profil zu haben 😅
@@ArcticNorthAdventures kann ich dir leider nicht sagen. Habe selber noch nicht wirklich Erfahrung damit. Habe halt nur überlegt dies irgendwann baldig mal anzugehen. Sorry.
I've always wanted to do this (I live in Oslo) can you please tell me about internet coverage. Do you have broadband in the middle of nowhere?
depends where you are but there is very good coverage at least for cellphone,
Stunning beauty
Thanks 🙏
Alex have you thought about picking up photography ? You are surrounded by amazing views and wildlife all year round.
I thought about it but there are so many people out there doing it, so I thought to do video content, since its not so much about it.
@@ArcticNorthAdventures I think You can do both. I mean you are already there... If you are carrying a camera with you other than a go pro might well as take a shot or two. It will give you more content to record and you probably can sell some prints at a later time.
I know the market is bit saturated but no two artist are the same, you will bring in a unique flavour to the table. And I am sure you have places that you go to which are only known to the locals. I really hope you give it a go. Nothing to lose anyways.
There is a video done by coffeezilla with mr beast on youtube trending. Have a look if you are into it.
If I did not catch you again in this year
Godt nytt år Alex !
@@op17567 Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts, I will definitely try it out. Could you be more specific to the video u mentioned? I checked out the channel but might not find it right away.
Ønsker deg også ett godt nytt år, tusen takk ☺️🤘
@@ArcticNorthAdventures
You are welcome. Glad to hear Alex.
I tried to put a link in here youtube took it out.. lol
Type in youtube search bar - Coffeezilla Mr Beast
The video title is "MrBeast master class".
The icon should be mr beast with a cap saying "so you want to go viral"
It was uploaded yesterday.
@@op17567 Thanks will check it out today.
🙂👍🇳🇴
💪🙌👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏👏❤️
Thanks a lot :)
How much did you buy the House for?
Wasn't so expensive under 100 000 euro
Ich weiß das nur von Hörensagen, aber stimmt es wirklich dass die meisten Nordnorweger mit Strom heizen? Und das der Strom noch dazu spottbillig ist?
LG aus Schleswig-Holstein
In manche Städte gibt es Fernwärme aber hauptsächlich heiter man mit Strom also Varmepumen/Fußbodenheizung/ elektrische Heizkörper.
@@ArcticNorthAdventures takk
Is it hard to live in Norway? I heard taxes are pretty high over there.
Hello, compared to the income and taxes u have to pay is it actually lower than in Germany. For sure if u like big cars and alcohol this is high ☺️
@@ArcticNorthAdventures 🤔 interesting, because I was thinking of moving to Norway in the near future and I heard that taxes and the cost of living are higher there. Would you say it’s a comfortable place to live if you’re a foreigner?
@@GEnghis559 I think it depends where u live living cost are for sure higher in bigger cities but it’s similar with other big cities in other countries. Climate is a big difference from the south of Norway compared to the north. It also depends on what u need or want? City life or nature ? There are also something in between in middle of Norway or south west coast.
@@ArcticNorthAdventuresI personally want to live in a more rural like natural area like between a fjord. So it’d be “cheaper” there right?
@@GEnghis559 yes about 30 min or 60 min away from. Cities Someone told med there are also nice places in the south inside a fjord.
Brother help me move here
You can try to do some research its not so hard to find the requirements online on the Norwegian sites, hope this will help.
Very nice authentic films....I noticed you always add an ' s' to moose to make it plural ....but it's always just moose, even if you see 2,10 or 100. One moose...10 moose .....100 moose.....it's cute to hear mooses....but it's incorrect English :)
Thanks for your kind advice. I will keep it in my mind ☺️
@@ArcticNorthAdventures Moose is American, the European version is called elk, which you can pluralise if you want to and is different from what the Americans call elk.
@@peterc.1618 thanks for sharing ☺️
@@peterc.1618 That's not correct. A moose is... a moose(elg), elk is a deer (hjort).
@@magnus6683 Look it up.
Question could Somebody with 52 years emigrate northern norway how Long do you needed to speak bokmal asking for some Carpenters and merchant of wholesale Office worker
I belive everyone can do it important to learn the language as fast as possible and integrate 🙏🙏
unfortunately, if you arent a skilled worker/good at maths, moving is impossible
Can't see why this would be a barrier?
@@ArcticNorthAdventures i mean they only want people who are good at stem stuff and not everyone is good with math or has a disability with it. Pretty unfair.
@@orenges Did you tried to apply somewhere ? Bet it it might be possible for you 🙏
@@ArcticNorthAdventures I cant do/dont like math so its obviously a lost cause
before you move to Norway- take little studies about norwegian post and customs. Its worse than Nord Korea!
I dont see exactly why ? When I checked things up its often not worth it duo to the high cost, anyway you got in Norway a longer warranty if you buy things here :)
@@ArcticNorthAdventures most you cant buy in Norway. No service, not special things, not good old things. All the newest, short live but rich on "colours"... :-))) And if- so get you worst quality to highest prize. :-)
Ja Deutschland ist auch nicht mehr Deutschland.....ich würde auch sofort weg hier
Wo geht’s hin ? ☺️
Are you married?
Thanks for the question, but it's too personal to answer. Thanks for your understanding