{"id":8972,"date":"2013-11-30T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:59:44","slug":"jeg-elsker-norge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2013\/jeg-elsker-norge\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeg elsker Norge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today I have moved away from Norway where I have made my home for the past two years. It feels sad, as I do love Norway, the people, and will miss my life there. But I think it was time to move on. The company I worked for in Oslo has downsized dramatically recently, which involved chopping jobs, including my own.<\/p>\n<p>My chosen career path (WordPress development) involves work which can be outsourced at any given moment, and even though I could probably have found another job in Oslo, there is always a concern that my employers would simply realise they could have the same work done elsewhere for cheaper and I&#8217;d end up having to find another job again. With that in mind, I took a job working for a growing company called <a href=\"http:\/\/10up.com\/\">10up<\/a> in the USA. They don&#8217;t care where I live, so instead of living in the most expensive place imaginable (Oslo), I have decided to have a crack at living in Berlin, Germany, where costs are significantly lower.<\/p>\n<p>I know very little about Berlin, apart from the fact that I always have a terrific time when in Germany and I think my mindset fits in well with the German way of doing things. I&#8217;m hoping this will be a long term move, but I hoped that my move to Oslo was going to be long term (or even permanent) too, but that hasn&#8217;t worked out, so I&#8217;m not promising anything.<\/p>\n<p>I had a very poorly laid plan for my arrival in Berlin. I have no work visa (the German embassy in Oslo told me to apply after I arrived), nowhere to live (I&#8217;m crashing at a hostel at the moment) and no backup plan for if it all falls to pieces and I don&#8217;t get the work visa I need. I always seem to land on me feet though, so either things will work themselves out or I&#8217;m going to have to haul my butt to some place else until I figure out plan B.<\/p>\n<p>To all my friends in Norway, <strong>I will be back!<\/strong> Probably not to live, but definitely to visit. There are too many people I will miss for me not to come visit. In fact it looks likely that I will be back on the 25th and 26th January for <a href=\"http:\/\/2014.norway.wordcamp.org\/2013\/11\/20\/announcing-wordcamp-norway-14\/\">WordCamp Norway 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos I took during my awesome time living in Oslo &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2012\/01\/29\/new-camera\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2012\/01\/waterfall1-680x510.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2012\/06\/11\/sunset-near-ingierstrand\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2012\/06\/sunset-3-680x510.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2012\/06\/25\/skjaersjoen\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2012\/06\/skj%C3%A6rsj%C3%B8en-1-fdr-680x458.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2023\/04\/liuba-ryan-orange-bay-1.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2012\/08\/kringlevann-5-680x510.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have moved away from Norway where I have made my home for the past two years. 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