Living in Norway

Norway's steadiness rests on a resource-rich economy, and it shows in the pay, which ranks among the highest anywhere and leaves a comfortable margin once an ordinary life is covered. You keep most of what you earn. Hiring opens up to a degree for someone without local roots, with IT, construction, and the trades among the readier ways in, though English carries only so far before the local language begins to matter.

Norway pulls in far more people than it sends out: 1M foreign-born residents make up 18% of the population, against only 120.9K Norwegians abroad. That immigrant population has grown 36% over the past decade, led by Poland and, more recently, a large Ukrainian community of 71.1K.