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Extremely common? It's really different from country to country; the Swedish market is strictly controlled, while just next door in Norway the market is free and open.

Norway's economy is on fire, check out http://www.finn.no/finn/job/fulltime/result?JOB_CATEGORY/CATEGORY=5409&areaId=20061 Most of the ads are in Norwegian but the job titles are the same in the US, its just transliterated. Norway is desperate for qualified people right now, nobody can find decent employees, people with your qualifications start at about $100k a year. Maybe more depending on the city in Norway and the Company. Oslo is not the greatest city to live in, but the job market is really good and you can catch a flight to just about anywhere really easily. Stavanger is great city, its actually where I live. Its an oil town so there is lots of foreigners, however its small and its expensive to travel out of Norway from here.

A shit, just spent 15mins typing something up and lost it because i didn't get /.'s anonyous coward posting system. Short redo:

Get the airport express train (30$ at current exchange rate each way, but youll get used to it in Norway) from the airport, takes about 15min to the city centre (Oslo S). Every other train continues past the central station to Asker, With the Asker trains you can get of at both Oslo S and the "Nationalteateret" Station. Each station is roughly at oposite ends of the main street Karl Johan. You'll find parliment and the royal residence at Karl Johan as well as lot of hops. If the weather is good, head over to Aker Brygge (turn 70-80deg at parliment facing the royal residence and continue towards the sea) nice place for a beer at the seaside, beware of prices.

Maps of the area are good both at Google Maps/Earth and http://finn.no/kart

Big Beware:
When returning to the airport, scedule plenty of time for security checks which can run upwards to 1:15-30huors if peak periods. (buissness innbound/outbound travel 07:00-09:00 and 15:30-17:30 ), but it seems the security check lines are more of a lottery. Have gone straight throug in 5min and waitetd 45mins.

"Frognerparken" also known as "Vigelandsparken"
http://finn.no/finn/map?utmx=260163&utmy=6650869&s earchLevel=&mapTitle=Frognerparken,+OSLO,+Park

"The Munch Museum"
http://www.munch.museum.no/
http://finn.no/finn/map?street=T%F8yengata+53&rout ePointId=r_to&routePointId=&no=&zipcode=&knr=&gnr= &bnr=

"Frognerparken" also known as "Vigelandsparken"
http://finn.no/finn/map?utmx=260163&utmy=6650869&s earchLevel=&mapTitle=Frognerparken,+OSLO,+Park

"The Munch Museum"
http://www.munch.museum.no/
http://finn.no/finn/map?street=T%F8yengata+53&rout ePointId=r_to&routePointId=&no=&zipcode=&knr=&gnr= &bnr=

Probably because they are americans. This is a map showing Oslo (the capital of Norway), and surrounding areas. Note the complete lack of any roads, names, or any useful information at all. If you zoom out, you will find out that google knows that Norway is a country, but it doesn't even know the name of our capital.

Well, back to http://finn.no/kart/ for me...

There's a funny Traffic Wave Generator in Drammen, Norway. Unintended of course, but nonetheless. It's a longish bridge going from northeast to south in this picture, and at the northwestern end, there's a lot of traffic coming in, and at a relatively high pace. The speed limit is something like 90 km/h, which means the average speed is probably well in excess of 100 km/h. Then the limit on the bridge goes down to 70 km/h, and at the same time, it merges to a single lane in either direction. Bound to be trouble as it is... But to make matters worse, shortly after the 70 sign (perhaps 50 meters), there is a photo box, that, if it has film it in, will shoot pictures of anybody speeding.

But the true sign that nobody in authority has the faintest idea why this is the most hated persistent traffic jam in the country is a big, official sign saying "In case of a jam, follow along!" I mean, WTF are you going to do, I'm not sitting here for fun (or profit) you know! :-(

What they officially seem to be advocating is the fast acceleration. But not everybody can. For example with my mother's little engine, I can't... There is very little you can do to assist evaporation, as he well argues in the paper.

So they created the worst, high amplitude traffic wave in the country by putting a traffic control camera in exactly the worst thinkable spot. There would necessarily be a traffic wave there anyway, but it is making matters so much worse.

I admit that there is a thing I do not quite understand. The jam often extends the whole bridge, and does not dissolve before a km afterwards. It would be interesting to study this from the air...