Comments on: Living on Svalbard: Everything You Need to Know /living-on-svalbard/ All Things Norway, In English Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1045894 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:34:26 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1045894 Watch the BBC documentary, Ice Town! I bet it was still not too crowded back then. But now, it’s the artic key west!

]]> By: Laura /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1027488 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:55:56 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1027488 In reply to Erika.

Bad for wildlife. As they are everywhere.

]]> By: Laura /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1027487 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:54:50 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1027487 In reply to Gus Brunson.

I really doubt that a person from Cameroon needs you to explain to them that Africa is a continent.

]]> By: Ray Santos /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1021600 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 05:46:18 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1021600 Lucky people always at the other end of the world…LOL…LOL

]]> By: Younes /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1012803 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:48:12 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1012803 In reply to Jorey D. Terencio.

Is there a worker contract?

]]> By: Gary /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1009182 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:09:26 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1009182 Great article, thank you very much for the information. I am an Australian citizen and looking to live elsewhere. I am thinking very seriously about moving to Svalbard. Housing appears to be a big problem and I would like to move there with the aim of establishing a business to provide short and long term housing to address the shortfall. I would be interested in your thoughts on this, and who/where I should begin my inquiries.

]]> By: Julie /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1003378 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:55:43 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1003378 hello. I have a master’s in nursing from Belgium and I want to settle in Svalbard. What are my chances to find a job as a nurse or as a head nurse there? My English is decent but I can’t speak Norwegian I’m willing to take courses.

]]> By: Patrice Nagel /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1002708 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 02:15:39 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1002708 In reply to Yusuf.

Are you trying to start an argument? Who cares what color you are. Why are you asking if you can’t live there because you’re from Nigeria? If you read about Svalbard and living there instead of making this about race, you would see you don’t just go live there. Geeze grow up

]]> By: Erika /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1001357 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:24:45 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1001357 In reply to Akshit Kumar.

NOOO can people read. You don’t own land there you rent it so you could rent land and get a mortgage but you will never own the land

]]> By: Erika /living-on-svalbard/#comment-1001356 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:22:08 +0000 /?p=16788#comment-1001356 In reply to W.

I don’t think they will get ‘residency’ well they will in terms they are aowed to live there but not residency for Norway. I think for US and Europeans it is just a way of life they want to live in nature. I think for other 3rd world countries ppl wrongly believe it’s a way into Norway or Europe if they stay there first which as stated in the article it is NOT and can’t be used as a ‘gateway’ for access to Europe. So I think those are 2 different reasons depending on where ppl are from for why they want to go there

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