Moving to Iceland in 2024 🇮🇸 Where to live, residency, work & more
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- How to move to Iceland? Let's me share my own experience and let's talk about residency, finding a job, where to live, money and more.
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🔗 Useful links - Moving to Iceland
➡️ www.skra.is/english/people/ch...
➡️ work.iceland.is
➡️ www.government.is/diplomatic-...
➡️ island.is/en/category/immigra...
🔗 Useful links - Working in Iceland
➡️ alfred.is
➡️ / working.in.iceland
➡️ / ferdathjonustu.vinna
🔗 Useful links - Housing in Iceland
➡️ leigulistinn.is
➡️ / leiga
➡️ / 177269186264538
➡️ / leiganordurland
⏰ Timecodes ⏰
00:00 You're not alone
00:35 First steps
02:30 Where to live
06:30 Housing & prices
08:13 Finding a job
11:46 What nobody talks about
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If you are serious about finding a job in Iceland, take a minute to check this out : janiniceland.com/work-in-iceland
They celebrated 400,000 population, in fact the national registry numbers it over 401,000 but the true number from statistics Iceland was on Jan 1, 2024 at about 384,000
I think the amount of tourists and my age would prevent me from moving to this amazing country…..money and the long winters wouldn’t be an issue.The more isolated I am the happier I’ll be…😁😁
It's mostly the south that's a bit out of control with the crowds in the summer but if you moved East, North or Westfjords than there are still so many places where you're often the only car on the road for miles 😀✌
I'm a retired firefighter and want to move to Iceland, but I want to stay retired. I receive a good pension and just want to enjoy life.
Well then I think that Icleand could be a great choice. It is a very relaxed place to live in and if you don't need a warm temperatures then it literaly is a paradise :)
Hi Jan, I converted Icelandic Krona's to US dollars and currently there are about 141.59 Krona's to $1.00 US dollar. The rent prices seen really high when hearing the numbers but it comes out pretty close to rent in the US, for the large cities, when you do the conversion.
Thanks for the helpful tips helping to find where someone can live and also the tips to help someone find different possibilities for a job.
There is another You Tuber that lives in Iceland and works on a Sheep farm helping out and also has a job doing Housekeeping for a Hostel. They seem to pay a pretty good wage for Housekeeping.
Thank you for sharing Ben! Yes, I've heard some of the major US cities can easily compete with the prices in Iceland - I guess that's why often many americans don't find Iceland as pricey as they thought it'd be. But for most of the other nations it is a different story - and for me personally, coming from a lower income country I learned it is better to stop converting back to czech crowns so it doesn't sting as much when I go shopping 😀
@@janiniceland Thanks Jan, good to hear that it works in your favor. Every little bit of savings helps.
can you tell us the other youtuber name
@@dedsec_lil_hacke2244 Yes, the channel is @petrherold
thanks for the info Jan, cant wait to explore Akureyri
glad you liked it Kim, Akureyri is great, I'm sure you'll love it there :)
Planning on migrating to Iceland soon and work there, Love this kind of videos. Subscribed for more.
Glad you like it! I wish you the best of luck and hope that you will like it here :)
I always wanted to move to Iceland, I feel like I was born in a wrong country, but as time moved on, got married and got two kids. Now I find it more and more unlikely and harder to move there. Feels depressing.😰
I've met with people who relocated here with the whole family. but I know it is easily said than done and it depends on many things. But everything is possible. I think it is always better to go through a struggle and risk of things not working out rather than having regrets of never following what you want. I also need to keep reminding myself that every day...i wish you the best of luck, maybe just try look into it and see what would it take to make something like this turn into reality :)
I'm Irish living in Ireland ,I used to go and work and live in Europe when I was younger,I'm now 47 and just got confirmation today of contract employment in Iceland, I love living in remote isolation from time to time so it's not like work to me,it's a dream come true ,i never thought i would travel again
Happy for you, I hope you will like it here!
@@janiniceland oh I will, I thrive in isolation spiritually,I was starting to get all fckd up cos i believe alone in nature is my go to cure,also iceland is only other country that i wamt to see
Just saw a job for a welder on indeed. Coming from cork
@@emmethurley3281 I'm off to the aluminium smelter for seasonal contracts ,I'm from Waterford,might catch ya during some of our down time,but I'll be two n a half days transport away from Reykjavik lol
@@JeSTeR-X1o then I thinjk you will enjoy it here a lot. I know it can be challenging for those who need to be around a lot of people 24/7, but for those who enjoy solitude it is a paradise ;)
Thank you so much for your content! It really helps me to be less afraid of moving to iceland one day. Are you fluent in icelandic? If not, are you planning on being fluent some day? It would be nice to have a video about learning the language 🙏
Glad you like it! :) To be honest my icelandic is very bad, I understand some basics, but that's about it. Almost everybody speaks english here and because of how many foreigners live here, half of my friends are not even from Iceland and so I never really felt like I needed it. The reason I'm thinking of learning it now is mostly just to be able to apply for icelandic citizenship at some point. I'll definitely do a video on this sometime in the future :)
I wish you all the luck with that! I tried learning Icelandic by myself but it was really hard. I found a course at a uni in my home town that teaches Icelandic and I've improved a lot ever since! Maybe there's a possibility like that for you in Iceland? Looking forward to see more of your content :)
Nice editing
Thank you!
Great video's mate thank you. Is there a great demand for welders in Iceland? If so, around which regions are those? Thanks mate appreciate it!
Thanks Ryan! Honestly I don't know, but my guess is that you should be able to find a job as a welder here quite easily. The easiest to start will probably be in Reykjavík and this area thanks to the highest concentration of the companies there. On the other hand the competition there is higher too and so I would also look all around Iceland - there are companies spread out all over and sometimes it is not easy for them to find workers with certain skillset like welding who are also willing to live outside of Reykjavík.
@@janiniceland thanks for the reply and tips Jan! Best to keep an eye out for welder job vacancies on Alfred I think :)
Would love to relocate to Iceland one day..
I think it is worth the try :)
Thx as always Jan! Cheers! Still snowing????
Anytime! Oh yeah, today we have another storm (maybe the last one of this season) and so this is been a great season for all of us skiers 😄 on the south on the other hand they already have spring
@@janiniceland Cheers Jan - we are full on biking here.
@@crandallcrute3918 love it! I think that bike season is already on down in the south of Iceland, but with more than a meter of snow around my house, I think it will be a while until I can hit the mtb trails around here haha
@@janiniceland My daughter lives just outside of Whistler (5 hours away from us) and they are skiing in the morning - MTB in the afternoon........pretty slick!
@@crandallcrute3918 haha yeah that sounds like a perfect playground! I wish we had a bit higher mountains here so we could do that too, - but still I shouldn't complain, we just got a fresh powder last night so Im fine with a longer wait to jump on the bike this year :D
I'm 18 from America, doing computer programming or coding for video games. I'm thinking about moving to Iceland in a couple of years. Is there any type of housing that i can get cheaply, but have a stunning view?
Absolutely. If you work from home then it means you can look for an accommodation anywhere on the island and focus more on countryside or smaller towns where the housing is cheaper. Usually each of the towns/municipalities has some sort of facebook group where you can post that you are looking for a place to rent and your budget and people are generally very helpful there. Good luck!
Can i have your contact number
Je mi 20 bez práce a právě o tom přemýšlím 🤔
Urcite to stoji za tu zkusenost :)
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Hi please help me out
Im coming as dependent of student so can i work full time? What kind of job i can get to work? And how much time it take to get job?
And are rate of cheapest studio room for couples ? And how much is montly expenses for couple?
My wife admission in university of iceland in MPH
PLEASE REPLY ME
Hey! you have to check your rights to work as a student, it depends where you are from, age and more factors. Check out the links in the description of the video, I unfortunately can not help you further with this.
Regarding apartment cost, - as I mentioned in the video it depends on where you are renting. I recommend again to check the links in description and do your research - feel free to ask the questions in those FB groups.
Regarding living cost - search in forums, there are many threads on this. It depends on your lifestyle. Outside of renting cost you can expect to spends at least 60.000 isk per month on some basic expenses. I recommend google ,,cost of living Iceland / reykjavík'' and read through the forums :)