I love English as well. :|

I'm mostly learning Norwegian because I get too embarrassed forcing people to switch over to English, especially over the phone, and I don't want to have to always ask for help reading important documents and letters. There's too much room for misunderstandings.

I also want to work doing the same thing I did before I moved here and at my level and there's not much demand for someone who only speaks English when there's Norwegians everywhere who speak English as well as Norwegian. Or if I want to go to university at undergraduate level I need to learn Norwegian.

My dentist doesn't speak much English but she was the best one I could find in the area, the ones who spoke English well didn't know as much about teeth, so I have to take someone along to help translate.

You can exist and get along relatively easily knowing only English, you can communicate, but I don't think you can have a "normal life" the way you'd be used to back in a country where you speak the language, and the same way as everyone else here, if you don't speak the language.

Most people speak English, so there's no worries about getting lost and without help or the ability to communicate, and that's very comforting to know, and a lot easier than moving somewhere where people don't speak English this well, but that's not the same as the argument I hear from from some Norwegians online that "oh you don't need to learn Norwegian". You do need to learn Norwegian if you want to do more than sit at home, maybe do some "unskilled" work, and occasionally buy groceries. That might not be a "hard time" but it's a pretty lonely and alienating life.

There are television shows I want to watch where English subtitles just literally don't exist anywhere. People around me talk in Norwegian because they get bored of English after awhile and I only have a vague idea of what they're saying.

There's no reason for anyone who isn't moving to learn Norwegian, but if they wanted to learn a second language as a hobby than Norwegian isn't a bad choice, in my opinion it's way easier to learn than even languages like French or German. People should learn Norwegian, it's an adorable language, you call vegetables "green stuff" and hospitals "sick house". :3