my norwegian roommate (2)

Continuing the previous article "My Norwegian Roommate (1)", it may be divided into 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. It seems that there is no logic, indeed there is no logic, it is completely determined by personal time and preferences, where it is written.

In Norway, down payment has also become an obstacle for young people to sell a house. Beard said that he had rented a house for more than ten years and paid more than 5,000 kroner a month. In the end, the house was not his own, so he was eager to buy house.

Interestingly, I thought that the whole world needs a down payment to buy a house. The down payment is also a big obstacle for young Chinese to buy a house and go upstairs. However, buying a house in the Netherlands does not require a down payment and can get a full loan. Young people have a fixed amount of money. Buying a home is easy when you work. It can be seen that the difficulty of buying a house for young people can also be controlled through various artificial regulations.

Bearded has a 37-year-old girlfriend. He always emphasizes that he is seven years older than him. However, the difference in appearance is much smaller than the difference in age. He laughed and said to me that my girlfriend looks small, so I can find a comparison. Her young boyfriend, if you are not married, then you can too, because you look too young. Hahaha, I thought he could jump out of the shackles of age and choose a mate freely, but it sounds like if his girlfriend is not too young, can't he find a boyfriend who is seven years younger?

In addition, his girlfriend and ex-husband have two children, about ten and five years old respectively. Usually, if two children go to see their father, he will go to his girlfriend's house for a day or two. As I said before, he doesn't want to have children, so a girlfriend who already has two children is a good fit for him.

His girlfriend has a big house. Once, he shared with me a photo of soaking in the jacuzzi in the garden of his girlfriend's house, telling me that it is really nice to have a girlfriend who can make money. He also made no secret that he likes to eat soft rice, or thinks that eating soft rice is not a problem at all.

I don't know that Big Beard's concept of marriage and love is largely influenced by his parents, but his parents are also eccentrics worth mentioning. He said that other people's parents either lived together or were separated, but his parents were in the middle, and his parents were not separated, but they did not live together. It's a bit similar to weekend couples. They are usually busy with their own work and have their own houses. On weekends, the two will get together.

When Beard heard that I was studying global health, he thought of his younger sister in Australia in the southern hemisphere, because she studied international relations. Similar to our major, it is actually very difficult to find employment. The same is true for his sister. After graduation, it is difficult to find a job in Australia.

What I'm more curious about, though, is why his sister wants to stay in Australia. It is said that Norwegians are the last to want to immigrate, because Norway is probably the best place on earth. Statistics show that since Norway discovered oil and became one of the richest countries in the world, Norwegian immigration to the United States has been greatly reduced.

When I told Beard that I didn't have a good relationship with my family and wanted to go far, he said, you're not the only one who has a bad relationship with your family, so is my sister. He has a very close relationship with his sister, but he is also conflicted about her sister wanting to stay in Australia. On the one hand, he wants her to live the life he wants. All kinds of things, such as marriage, childbirth and other major events, he can not share.

When it comes to his sister being alone, he always admires me for coming to Norway alone, from China to the Netherlands before, such an experience. It was hard for him to imagine how much difficulty a person would need to live in a strange country. He has lived on this land since he was a child. Even after college, it is only a two-hour drive to go home. It does not mean that he is inseparable from his family. Even if it is only an hour or two, he rarely returns home. . Rather, living in an unfamiliar country is not only the absence of family members, but also a lot of inconveniences in life, study, and interpersonal relationships.

I can imagine his fear of these difficulties, and I can understand that some people are very willing to live in a place they are familiar with. Just as some people love a familiar place deeply, I also have a deep yearning for an unfamiliar country. It doesn't mean that I have better adaptability or stronger life skills than others, but that I just enjoy the surprise or fright that comes with this uncertainty and the unknown.

Each is fine.

to be continued