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Okay so we’re moving from Bodø this summer and people ask me why (because I’m the sinner ;-)). This is why:

- I don’t like concrete (betong)
- I don’t like rain in January when there should be snow
- I don’t like crappy newspapers
- My desired workplace is not here right now
- The cultural life is too small (Maybe I’ll come back when they have build a proper concert house. The one they have looks like the sixties and has too expensive tickets.)
- The whole town actually looks like it’s from sixties’ Yugoslavia. (I’m sorry about that former Yugoslavian countries.) The city centre around the main postal office, the City Hall and the so-called park is the saddest sight.
- I miss my friends
- This is not what I dreamt of and I believe everyone has to follow their dreams. Life is now.
- That horrible herring oil smell!
- The city council/city mafia/whoever really governs this place doesn’t know the procedures of sensible city planning
- The bus is too freaking expensive
- The cinema is so small that it only shows the most commercial films
- When there is no concert on, there is really not anything else to do here in the evenings but bowling, drinking, eating expensive food, going to the movies (please read previous point), playing pool, playing air hockey and….well yeah, that’s about it.
- This city is so destructive: cafés are closing down frequently, it seems like nothing is able to start up here and actually survive. Buildings are falling into disrepair.

Bodø city, Bodø by…

If my project of going to Africa goes down the drain, I have a plan B: moving to Oslo. Because:

- It means a lot of opportunities and a richer cultural life
- My relatives (are almost extinct, but) live there
- A ticket to Finland costs 300 krones
- It has beautiful parks and beautiful old buildings (I know it has got ugly buildings as well, but that’s nothing compared to Bodø)
- I have friends there (I have a couple of friends in Bodø too and of course I’ll miss them)
- Andreas will have the opportunity to study what he really wants to study
- Grønland! The small shops, the colours, people from all over the world

This said, I’m going to miss a lot of people, like my sister, and places like Mørkved, Erlingbu… But you got to leave something behind to follow your dreams, right?