The Plan

My parents are moving, to freaking Svalbard. Yes, it's completely 100% true. They want to do something different, something exotic for a few years. If it had been me, I would probably have gone to some Mediterranean island, but it isn't, and it's their life long dream to go live on Svalbard, so who am I to stop them.

Stop them? There is no stopping them, and am I glad? You bet I am, I am ecstatic. My parents are moving to Svalbard, and I am moving home. You might ask why, why the freeking fracking warm place would you move back to your small town when you were one of the few lucky ones who got out?

I'll tell you why, fresh air, living right by the edge of the forest, a great big house, no roommates, herbs, fruit, strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, all strait from the garden.

I know it might still sound crazy, specially to those who know me and have heard me say that I'm never moving back there ever in my life, like a thousand times. I'm not all sure if it's going to go well, but one won't know until one tries. Maybe I'll end up staying for good.

It's not like it's at the end of the world, it's like 30 minutes away fro Oslo by train, and I'm going to the city center approximately five days a week, give or take a day. And it's not like it's among the smallest of places ether, and not like everyone knows everyone, even though sometimes it feels like everyone I meet knows who I am and I don't know them. All of Nittedal has 21.000 inhabitants and if my calculations are right Hakadal has somewhere between 4.500 and 5.000. So not all that small.


Simply moving back would of course be no challenge, I would just have to get up a bit earlier in the morning and to bed a bit earlier in the evening, and I would be able to live my life as normal. Therefor I am embracing the country life whit all it's pros and cons, I am going to find out if I can reap all the benefits of a life in the countryside as well as a life in the capital. I am setting out to prove that you don't have to chose, you can have the best of both worlds.