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for consulting learning norwegian would probably be an advantage.

It's implicitly understood that learning a country's official language(s) is an advantage.

In Scandinavia you could get by with English as a lot of people speak it, but for business dealings you need to learn the local language.

If nothing else you will need to communicate with the authorities constantly - immigration/work permit matters, insurances, health care, etc.

So don't expect English to carry you far unless you know at least the basics of the local language.

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You could try freelance work for clients remotely. That would give you a lot of freedom to choose where to live. I am an American living, working (as a freelance programmer) in Czech Republic -- good economy (especially Prague), low crime rate, low cost of living. Happy to answer questions.

Nice to see praise of my city. As a research software engineer I am in the top 1 % percent here so it is definitely a good career choice here.

However, the cost of living is skyrocketing now in Prague compared to the rest of the country and our wages. For the cost of my small flat (60 m^2) I could buy two nice big houses in a smaller city just 60 km from here.

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I'm mostly just curious. There is a lot written about immigration to the US but not too much about emigration from it. I agree that moving away doesn't really solve the problem and that despite our flaws I believe we have an advantage in many respects. Democracy isn't perfect, and sometimes it means you lose. It means you need to talk to people who disagree with you and persuade them, and I think this cycle shows tha…

Yeah, democracy seemed to work OK. The average american wants it to be illegal to not be a God-loving hetereosexual white man. And they elected someone who will make sure that laws get passed to move the country in that direction. The problem in this case is that that's terrible.

Last time I checked Trump was running on a pro LGBT platform...

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What about the language barrier? Would English be enough?

Looking at the brackets in original post it's mostly Lisp

I know it was a joke, but we might actually be hiring someone to do scheme development (in Sweden, not Norway). We started as a mostly delphi shop doing software for smaller private healthcare businesses. Most of our internal tooling evolved started as one-off scripts I wrote in guile.

Our business grew to deliver huge installations on tens of thousands of computers, and our internal tooling grew as well. We have well over 100k lines of scheme. Since it works well, we don't really want to invest in porting it. We tried rewriting our macro system in python, but it was god-awfully slow, and ended up being harder to read. With scheme, we can just rely on syntax-case to de-construct the macros, which is not only fast but also easy to extend.

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You could try freelance work for clients remotely. That would give you a lot of freedom to choose where to live. I am an American living, working (as a freelance programmer) in Czech Republic -- good economy (especially Prague), low crime rate, low cost of living. Happy to answer questions.

Any advice on landing remote freelance gigs? I assume you don't use lowest-common-denominator sites like eLance.

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whoishiring.io

If I remember correctly, it started as a pet project of some guy who wanted to tech himself some techniques. It is a great aggregation of sources that is first filtered by geo (also holds remote positions), and then can be filtered deeper on other criteria such as skills/languages or visa-supporting employers.

Highly recommended.

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Norway: http://m.finn.no/job/fulltime/search.html?occupation=0.23&fi... 281 java positions, 182 c#, 91 c++ New ones coming in every day. There is a lot of demand here for skilled developers, most positions are not for startups, but established business. Software developer salary is typically lower than in the US, but then again, cost of living (as far as apartment rent goes(in Oslo)) is lower than in SV. C#/Java back…

What about the language barrier? Would English be enough?

I am from Sweden and basically everyone here (except some immigrants) speak english very fluently. You would have no issues living in any Nordic country with only English.

I worked at a pretty international company before where there was several individuals whom had lived in Sweden for several years without even bothering to learn the language.

Don't be that guy or gal though, Swedes don't like it when you live here for years without learning anything. Norway is the same, same with Finland and Denmark.

You are welcome, if you ever consider moving I could probably give you some tips of potential employers!

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