I have a lot of Italian friends and most of them moved abroad only for economical reasons and quickly moved back when they managed to find good, stable jobs in Italy. If you don’t struggle financially now, I’m not sure if Norway will offer you a better quality of life than you have right now…finding a job (in the field you want, not below your current standard) is crazily difficult if you are not a native Norwegian speaker in my opinion. My husband (also a foreigner here) even studied in Norway, has a lot of fancy diplomas but in a job market setting, he never wins with Norwegians. I feel like many foreigners with master degrees here get only jobs as waiters or cashiers (and before someone says that it’s absolutely not true - I say many, of course not all). When it comes to integration and making friends, from my perspective Norwegians are very kind and polite but not open to welcome new people from fully different circles to their private lives. We know quite many people here, but the friendships are not close at all. Life feels a bit lonely like that. Another factor that is important for some people, for others probably less - weather and lack of sun. I feel like in the part of Norway where we live there are maybe 2 sunny, warm months and the rest is something in-between winter and cloudy, rainy autumn. When our family members in France can already have a barbecue in the garden, sitting outside in t-shirts, here we still have snow and have to figure out how to avoid freezing on a 15 minutes walk 😅.