Driving in Norway, debate whether to move to a country where you will not be able to drive

Upon arriving in Norway you will be allowed to drive for 90 days on your current drivers license and then will have to retake your entire driving education and be forced to work with “Vegvesen” Norwegian equivalent of the DMV in the USA.  Expect no assistance and a blaze attitude where Americans are seen as people unable to drive a car or motorcycle.  Irregardless of your perfect driving record and decades of driving in USA or other countries, Norway will require you to retake all drivers education and be forced to be put thru a system that is grueling, hostile and discriminatory.   My experience was met with 3 different version at the counter at Vegvesen where no one really knew the answers and I had to apply in writing to get the correct and real answer.  I was told I would be given 2 attempts to pass the practical test, but no information was furnished stating what skills and or tasks were required and to take the driving test you are required to rent or get a vehicle from a licensed driving school and they can discriminate against you because it is their own private property ( cars are owned by the driving schools) and it is a racket where a licensed driving such as myself with decades of perfect driving record comes to Norway and told that we Americans cannot drive and get our licenses from a candy box.   Expect to spent $3000 to $5000 dollars to get a license for each driver and no guarantee whether you will pass or not and it is up to the “sensors” are backlogged and most driving stations have one or two people to take you thru the test.  Expect them to be hostile, rude and overall unprofessional.   Norwegian Vegvesen refuse to allow the test to be video taped and contrary to most countries where a video tape is mandatory, Norway does not want to have or make their employees accountable.  The complaint process is a waste of time.    oddly the stats for American drivers is such that we are good drivers in comparison and the logic in Norway is backwards, because upon applying for the license you get a temporary extra 90 day license that is temporary and this makes no sense because we are such horrible drivers ( based on some flawed logic ) they let us drive for 90 days and then revoke our rights to drive.  Until we have passed their rigorous testing and subject to the bad attitude or personal bias I got to feel when “sensor” implied that we in the USA cannot drive, telling a driver who had driven for 4 decades both car and MC without a single accident but of course Norwegian goverment does not account for the decades of experience.  Sort of ironic since we who came from Southern California drive 3 X the miles per year than the average Norwegian driver and since experience and zero accidents are due to driving a lot, the contrary is true here.   Swiss nationals now are able to drive in Norway without having to go thru this exercise, perhaps due to that most of the Norwegian wealthiest have moved to Switzerland to be tax refugees they are due to wealth allowed to bypass making this a class system and discriminatory.    If you have kids, are offered a position in Norway then get used to walking and taking public transportation because it will be a good year or two until you can legally drive and be insured in Norway and this means no way to go to store, soccer practice, see Norway or travel because some pompous fools in Government have decided that we from the USA cannot drive, sort of odd since private ownership of a car in Norway was not allowed until mid 60’s and people were forced to take public transportation.  considering we Americans taught them to pump oil from North Sea, paid for Marshall assistance after WW ll we are suddenly  second class citizens in Norway in regards to driving a car, a practical right stripped from us.  Even more angering since American tourists driving in Norway have an almost non existent traffic accident ratio in Norway and in Europe overall. And there are no stats to support their claims.  It it strictly about creating revenue for the state and traffic schools.  In 2025 the right wing goverment will take over in Norway and the allegedly corrupt AP and SP will be gone and they will surely implement that  private driving schools can pass drivers and determine who is safe to drive like what happened when the bi annual car inspection was taken from Vegvesen due to Norwegians were enraged by being forced to sit at Vegvesen for an entire work day due to government inefficiency and allowed private mechanics to become authorized to do the bi annual check ups.    If you are being offered a job in Norway, be prepared to lose your right to drive and be forced to rely on public transportation and if you have kids, perhaps choose a different country.   complaining to the Norwegian goverment is a waste of time equal to the US Embassy who deem this to be a local issue.  More drunk drivers are arrested per capita in Norway than the USA by a ratio of 3 to 1.  Also be prepared to pay the highest rated insurance for your car because you are forced to start at a bonus of 60% which is equal to the rates for a young male under age of 25 in the USA, regardless of decades of clean driving record in USA..  Norwegian government will not listen because as long as it is an AP corrupt leadership where those at the top are fleecing the nation, it will not change.  right wing will change a lot of things for the better in Norway.  AP the workers party has lost 50% of its supporters in last 18 months.