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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/55165102

Hey, I've seen this news about job offers in Norway but someone told me it's probably a scam. What's your opinion and would you recommend moving to Norway? I'm from Spain and I don't like the direction of the country.

LLM answer: Norway’s Decline: Eroding Welfare, Rising Discontent

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

I don't know much about Norway and I don't know if the post is legitimate, but my old coworker moved to Sweden ten years ago.

She told me that she was surprised to learn how much psychic distress she regularly carried around because there was no serious safety net where we lived (C*nada), and that she gets so much more of her life to live without that threat haunting her. That thought rolls around my head all the time.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

EURES jobs are as legitimate as you're going to get on a job website.

And as for moving to Norway, I have a bias. I am specifically planning on spending a year in Norway post graduation.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'll recommend Frifаgbevegelse as an English-language news source for foreign workers in Norway. https://xn--frifgbevegelse-t82m.no/tags/news-in-english--6.508.2154.14c30896d1 (note: replace the 〇 with the letter a, it's a Sremovedhorpe problem thing). It is important as a worker in any country to know your rights.

Forskning.no has also published articles in Norwegian about immigrants' reasons for leaving Norway:

https://www.forskning.no/flyktninger-helsetjenester-innvandring/hvorfor-forlater-folk-norge-en-av-grunnene-er-misnoye-med-helsevesenet/2573720

https://www.forskning.no/innvandring-migrasjon/flere-flytter-fra-norge-dette-kan-vaere-arsakene/2568949

I really can't say much about what it would be like for someone born in Spain to move to Norway for work, and I certainly couldn't say anything about this program specifically. If there's anything I could mention it's that NAV (welfare administration) has made me mentally fedpost whenever I've had the displeasure of interacting with them: Norwegian welfare's been getting hollowed out and privatized more and more for a long time, and the country as a whole is not headed in a good direction, either. You might've heard about the rising far-right party that narrowly lost the election earlier this year.

So if OP's only hangup with China is learning Hanzi… I've studied Kanji, which is a bit different, but I still want to say that Hanzi is probably easier than you think, and there are of course a lot of different ways to move to China that require different levels of proficiency in the local script or language. I can't say whether Norway or China or staying in Spain really is the best choice for OP, because moving to a new country is going to be a big decision and a difficult task no matter what: There are always people who have moved to one country or another and loved it, others who have hated it, all depending on luck and circumstances and personal decisions.

[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I would also like to say that I'd much rather move to China but learning a whole new alphabet seems too much for me. That and the possible conflict over Taiwan scheduled for 2027.