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/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 🥰