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there has been a severe decrease in my LJ-writing, and i'm not entirely sure why. i just don't feel like it lately. but i still love LJ above all facebooks and myspaces and twitters and what have you.
i have been busy or not busy
it's up for discussion
i mean, i've been doing things left and right, but it's just about one of the calmest periods of my life so far
my husband is here and we're slowly establishing him in a new country and our relationship in a new place. considering norway's incredible bureaucracy which one doesn't notice if one lives here all one's life, i am surprised that anyone at all coming here alone can manage actually creating a social foundation for themselves.
take getting a phone for example.
you can't actually get anything else except a prepaid if you haven't lived in norway for 2 years or have at least 3 paychecks and a steady job to prove that you can actually pay your bills. reason: too many people come for a year, don't pay their bills and then just escape the country for some reason or other. outcome: fucks every other honest person over by complicating things too much. of course, if you are affiliated with someone, they can be the legal owner of the phone and number until you have enough credit history to actually transfer. which is what we are doing, but hell damn it took kos 1 months just to register everything and it will take another week before he can actually use the sim-card.
getting a bank account was also not as easy as i imagined. i'm used to being able to just open on right then and there online, without further ado. but we had to go through some steps and call everywhere before he could finally open one.
kos has a social security number (which also took a long time to get, but actually not as long as we imagined), which helps him a great deal. another thing one may not notice completely is exactly how much you need your social security number for EVERYTHING YOU DO. EVER. all those european immigrants who can legally stay here for as long as they want really, but don't get a social security number, are actually not that privileged after all. who'd've thunk it.
but i'm not actually that frustrated. everything is going slowly in the right direction and in 6 days, we're leaving for our ridiculously long honeymoon (6 weeks or so), so the only complaint you'll get from me is that we're missing out on all festivals this summer *woe*
i have been busy or not busy
it's up for discussion
i mean, i've been doing things left and right, but it's just about one of the calmest periods of my life so far
my husband is here and we're slowly establishing him in a new country and our relationship in a new place. considering norway's incredible bureaucracy which one doesn't notice if one lives here all one's life, i am surprised that anyone at all coming here alone can manage actually creating a social foundation for themselves.
take getting a phone for example.
you can't actually get anything else except a prepaid if you haven't lived in norway for 2 years or have at least 3 paychecks and a steady job to prove that you can actually pay your bills. reason: too many people come for a year, don't pay their bills and then just escape the country for some reason or other. outcome: fucks every other honest person over by complicating things too much. of course, if you are affiliated with someone, they can be the legal owner of the phone and number until you have enough credit history to actually transfer. which is what we are doing, but hell damn it took kos 1 months just to register everything and it will take another week before he can actually use the sim-card.
getting a bank account was also not as easy as i imagined. i'm used to being able to just open on right then and there online, without further ado. but we had to go through some steps and call everywhere before he could finally open one.
kos has a social security number (which also took a long time to get, but actually not as long as we imagined), which helps him a great deal. another thing one may not notice completely is exactly how much you need your social security number for EVERYTHING YOU DO. EVER. all those european immigrants who can legally stay here for as long as they want really, but don't get a social security number, are actually not that privileged after all. who'd've thunk it.
but i'm not actually that frustrated. everything is going slowly in the right direction and in 6 days, we're leaving for our ridiculously long honeymoon (6 weeks or so), so the only complaint you'll get from me is that we're missing out on all festivals this summer *woe*