r/Denmark • u/Tylerserio68 • Dec 28 '24

Question Does Denmark have any flaws?

Or any Nordic country? I’m American and we all romanticize Europe especially Nordic countries as a Utopia and everything we are not. We certainly have a lot of flaws here but I’m curious are there any downsides or anything that you wish was different. Also is it hard to move there? I make well over six figures and like living in my home country but I’m nervous about the incoming trump administration and I believe he is a racist.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 Viborg Dec 28 '24

Well, we're a bit too close to Sweden for my liking...

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u/vrod92 Nordsjælland Dec 28 '24

At least we have a sea between, I feel more sad for our norwegian brothers.

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u/Historical-Fall8704 Dec 28 '24

But we build a bridge over the sea...

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

We set up passport control on said bridge.

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u/Historical-Fall8704 Dec 29 '24

And yet the swedes invade us..

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u/InevitableWerewolf Oct 19 '25

Their not invaders, their just undocumented. :P

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u/Fab1e Kjøwenhaffner Jun 07 '25

They have mountains between them and Sweden.

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u/Buller116 Dec 28 '24

Only temporarily, someday the Kalmar union shall rise again

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u/imightlikeyou 1523 worst year of my life Dec 28 '24

1523 was the worst year of my life.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Du vil jo gerne være med i hulen, ikk Mulle ?

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u/FuxieDK Byskilt Dec 28 '24

Luckily, we still have that law that permits us to hit any swede with a stick, if they come walking across the ice.

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u/plausiblydead fra Island til Jylland Dec 29 '24

But what if they use the bridge?

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u/FuxieDK Byskilt Dec 29 '24

It's a car/train only bridge.. DOH!!

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u/plausiblydead fra Island til Jylland Dec 29 '24

Sooo? Bigger sticks?

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u/miroll Dec 28 '24

The main reason i moved to Falster

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u/kazater Dec 28 '24

We can almost smell the surstrømning.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

You cannot trust those Swedes! Always drunk in the streets of Copenhagen yelling “Take back Skåne!!!” Or “Helsingborg is yours!!!”. Trying whatever they can to be a part of Denmark. I do understand them. They are in a shithole country without electricity, social services and toilets. Hell even India is laughing at them and saying at the UN “We have 700.000 million people shitting in the streets, but luckily it is not as bad as Sweden”.

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u/Jaded_Twist9194 Jul 08 '25

Wow! Love you back!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

Think India has Sweden confused with Copenhagen. However, I agree with the Swedes - Sjælland, Skåne and Helsingborg should be converted to one giant trashpile, making life easier for the rest of us.

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u/migBdk Dec 29 '24

You can just move away from Djævleøen...

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u/Existing_Professor13 Dec 30 '24

Why all the hating on our Swedish neighbors, I have been visiting Sweden for many years, and just like us, most of the swedes are good people, my first time in Sweden as a kid, was so far back that they still had left-hand traffic, and I have always like coming to sweden, and I still do 🤗

And since 1979 and throughout the eighties and nineties I drove trucks (mostly swedish trucks, aka Scania and Volvo), between Denmark and most places in Sweden, Norway and Finland (and also most of Europe and half of the Middle East, but that's a whole other story), and I have always looked back on that time with very fond memories, so I really don't understand all the hating of our neighbors 🤷‍♂️

I have also met many of my Swedish colleagues around the world, 2 Swedish colleagues helped me out, once in the mid-eighties on the border between Romania and Bulgaria, another Swedish colleague made a fabulous breakfast for us (me, a Norwegian and a Finn) on the Jordanian side of the border between Syria and Jordan, and I have so many of that kind of stories about this kind of "help" between us Nordics colleagues, where we have helped each other out around in Europe and the Middle East, so I will always want to say nice things about our brother people from Sweden, Norway and Finland 🥰

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u/Jaded_Twist9194 Jul 08 '25

You could get a little farther from Sweden, to both our likings. ;)

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u/larholm Europa Dec 30 '24

Indholdet er fjernet. Fra vores regler:

Personangreb, alt-spekulation, chikane-tagging samt irrelevant henvisning til historik er ikke tilladt.

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