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title: "Why The Hell did you move to New Jersey, Roy?"
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published: "2014-10-07T00:57:36"
updated: "2014-10-07T00:57:36"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "After two years in amazing Norway, our Scandinavian adventure has been transformed into what I can only call so far as “The New Jersey Experience”. I’m here on an O-1 visa . I’m also open to doing part time training…"
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# Why The Hell did you move to New Jersey, Roy?

By Roy Osherove October 7, 2014

**Historical article** · Originally published October 7, 2014; technical details may be outdated.

After two years in amazing Norway, our [Scandinavian adventure](http://whythefuckdidyoumovetonorway.com/) has been transformed into what I can only call so far as “The New Jersey Experience”. I’m here on an [O-1 visa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa). I’m also open to doing part time training courses in the area [so contact me](https://osherove.com/contact).

The three little boys, my wife and me moved to Tenafly, home of many other Israelis, to stay 20 minutes away from New York City (baby), in a nice and quiet place with (supposedly) good education for the kids.

### Things we missed in Norway that we can easily find here include, but are not limited to: 

- Hummus
- Places open after 7pm
- Actual Tasty Cereal

### Things we miss from Norway now that we’re in the US:

- Our wonderful Oslo International School. School here is very strict: just 22 minutes of break a day for a 5 and 7 year old are basically torture.
- Law and order
- Paying 50$ for a pizza

### Things I plan to pursue while I’m here

- Leading awesome technological teams, flow and architectures
- Training on the side
-    Try my hand at some stand up comedy open mics
- Work on making some [electronic music](https://soundcloud.com/royosherove/i-give-her-all-my-love-remix) 
- Work on making more online courses (vim is coming!)

### So, why?

We couldn’t think of a place more different than Norway, where we will learn things we didn’t even know we didn’t know. [It’s all about ravines](http://onehundredacorns.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/embrace-ravines-and-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone/).

Let the games begin!


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/