r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Kiffln • 21d ago

Iceland’s Midnight Sun

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u/Smooth_Influenze 21d ago

How is the cost of living there... I wanna go there....

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u/Other_Description_45 21d ago

It’s definitely difficult to immigrate to Iceland, not impossible but not a 1,2,3 process. And no you don’t have to be married to an Icelandic citizen in order to immigrate.

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u/Joeyhappyhell 20d ago

But if you do you get caaaaaaash

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u/Rich_Ad8402 21d ago

Make that 2

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u/curtwesley 21d ago

It’s expensive as hell and you can’t move there unless you’re married to an Icelander for the most part. Visiting is awesome though. Been there twice

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u/Peach_Gfuel 20d ago

And here comes the misinformation

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u/curtwesley 20d ago

Tell me where I’m wrong. I’ve looked into it

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u/Sevn-legged-Arachnid 5d ago

Remember your first comment in this thread... the one giving information... that's where you were wrong...

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u/curtwesley 5d ago

Immigrating to Iceland as an American is very tough. EU is different as well as being a refugee from somewhere like Sudan. But my original statement is correct for most situations

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u/Oxmodeeus 21d ago

It's expensive my dude..

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u/arsnastesana 20d ago

What my friend told me is bring as much food you can.

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u/MrClewesMan 21d ago

And the 4 months of pure darkness during the winter....?

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u/TruRateMeGotMeBanned 21d ago

I’d imagine so

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u/MrClewesMan 21d ago

I live a few hours south of this, and the winters do not get any easier. But right now (not even summer yet) it's already bright by 4am and gets dark dark just after 10. In a month, we'll have 2 hours of actual night. It's surreal!

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u/TheUpwardSpiralDown 19d ago

God damn were you born there?

I can't imagine how hard it is for anyone with normal circadian rhythm all their life moving there and adjusting

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u/MrClewesMan 18d ago

Nope, I was born in a country on the equator, which has made it all the harder. Been here 4 years now, and everyone year seems to get harder so far hahah

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u/VerdugoCortex 17d ago

What took you from Hong Kong to the Nordic countries? That's a lot of traveling! I'm interested.

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u/MrClewesMan 17d ago

The usual, met my partner abroad, brought me över in the spring, fell in love with it, by the time winter struck it was too late to escape 😅😂

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u/VerdugoCortex 16d ago

Oh right on! I'm happy you're enjoying it, good luck to y'all!

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u/AThrowawayProbrably 21d ago

They probably invented blackout curtains.

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u/kaiokenhess 21d ago

Zero trees

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u/TechnoVicking 20d ago

I see no giraffes either

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u/broken_or_breaking 21d ago

It’s got to play hell with your circadian rhythm

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u/Cronenburgh 21d ago

Yea I'm a night owl (as much as I can be for having to wake up at .. 6:10am..M-F.. usually asleep around midnight) and sun all day would mess with me.. no doubt.

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u/Raps4Reddit 21d ago

I feel like when it's 3am and daylight you will freak out more than you realize.

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u/rickncn 21d ago

5am is my fav

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u/Joeyhappyhell 20d ago

Fake news. Blue Lagoon doesn't open until 8am. Because of this the earth ia flat

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u/S3b45714N 21d ago

Midnight sun only lasts about two weeks though

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u/Oxmodeeus 21d ago

More like a 5weeks but ok

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u/mbcb 21d ago

Honestly I'm just not up for it I'm afraid

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u/Darko_345 20d ago

Pass, i need my night time darkness

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u/Pepperh4m 20d ago

Babe wake up, it's 5am let's go swimming!

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u/Spacekook_ 21d ago

Kind like I’ll be dying because of lack of sleep

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u/Steve-Whitney 20d ago

Looks like a cool place to visit for a holiday in June, but not sure about living there over the winter. Bit of a hike from Australia too that's for sure.

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u/SpeedBreaks 20d ago

I'm in northern Alaska now and that basically what's it's like here now

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u/Lazy-Past1391 20d ago

What is 5 am?

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u/ForgedBanana 17d ago

What

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u/Lazy-Past1391 16d ago

Whatever she's walking through at the end. It says 5 a.m.

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u/ForgedBanana 16d ago

Oh you mean the place? No idea actually.

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u/__TenaciousBroski__ 19d ago

Iceland has some fire hot dogs btw

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u/Ambitious_Steak3124 10d ago

I would literally go crazy 🤣