The MANY things we wish we knew before moving to Denmark

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  • @birterasmussen8133
    @birterasmussen8133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The main small talk in Denmark is always about the weather 😊🌞🌧️❄️

    • @athkar9503
      @athkar9503 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In Greece too , whether or family or sports or politics is the usual small talk

  • @KiwiCatherine
    @KiwiCatherine 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The adult julekalendar is so funny

  • @cathedraldarkness
    @cathedraldarkness 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just got back from Copenhagen a few days ago. Your videos were very helpful for the trip! One thing I totally wasn’t prepared for was how my blood pressure medication schedule was messed up due to the time change. We weren’t in Copenhagen long enough to fully regulate. So keep that in mind if your on a medication schedule.

  • @KimDominoEvers
    @KimDominoEvers 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think as a Greenlander moving to Denmark it is difficult to make Danish friends unless you have something i common. I have among a Danish education made friends and breeding Whippets (Dogs). You have to have something i common to make friends in Denmark i think to get through the barrier. Danes are very polite and kind ppl... no doubt about it and they don´t like nosy ppl either. Love your channel. Hugs Angel

  • @henrikpersson4371
    @henrikpersson4371 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Always sing it, when learning new language.
    Helps the muscles to train and it easier to get the rigth sound.
    namaste

  • @muhest
    @muhest 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It is not an attempt to gaslight or put you on the spot when danes say: No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
    It’s more in the direction of, no point in complaining about something you have no control over.
    My mom used to say that to me and my brothers growing up. Including the early years where she would dress us. So that would be gaslighting your own children.
    But even if theres no point to complaining about it, we still do. A favorite passtime for danes is complaining. To the degree where - if you don’t complain about something, are you really danish? 😂
    Thing about week numbers … in my experience it’s mostly used if you’re employed in any sort of public capacity … teachers, doctors and nurses, civil servants a.o.
    Not so much in the private sector.
    I’ve lived 61 years now … and I have never gotten used to scheduling according to week number.
    Only week I know with certainty is winterbreak is _always_ week 7. And week 26 is around midyear or sommin’. 😂

    • @stenerline
      @stenerline 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah week 7.. unless it's week 8 as in some parts of the country, the week system is so annoying! - you can add it easily in Google Calendar and Outlook

    • @DeanPPower
      @DeanPPower 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Winterbrek is only week 7 for about half the country, the other half uses week 8, and even some weird municipality have even week 6 or week 9

    • @michs342
      @michs342 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm working in the IT business and we use a mix of dates and week numbers for planning.

  • @LasseStaldMadsen
    @LasseStaldMadsen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    'De Nattergale' is a pun on the the english words Nightingale, we have a the same bird calle Nattergal, but if you add an 'e' to the end it means something to the effect of 'the Night Madmen' or 'natte tosserne'

  • @spencermoore137
    @spencermoore137 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Coming up to 2 years here and about to leave. I have some great Danish colleagues but didn’t manage to make one Danish friend. I think it is difficult everywhere but even harder in Denmark. I think there were a few key reasons why my wife wanted to leave. Even darker and worse weather than England was one. Housing so expensive and I was surprised that my salary plus a large deposit wouldn’t buy us anything we would want. Flats look lovely in Copenhagen but things we consider basic in the U.K. - eg more than one bathroom/toilet not available. But also I couldn’t play much tennis (I’m still on waiting lists to get into a club).

    • @Jetmab04
      @Jetmab04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And, these are just the small things...
      Try to be a Dane coming there... They certainly know about racism over there... Especially against their own.. Small, small people.. 😱

    • @blueeyedpunk
      @blueeyedpunk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ofc it wouldn't in Copenhagen it's a very expensive City. Also a lot of the flats are very old and kinda still like they were back then. I don't think it's that hard to make friends in Denmark. Harder than some places, but Danes make real friends

    • @Jetmab04
      @Jetmab04 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blueeyedpunk OK blue eyed punk and, exactly how would you classify a "teal friend"?
      The latest experience I've had with my former people is, everyone else (world wide it seems!?) now have to learn to do/be like - what they call "the rest of us" which made me wish all these "the rest of us" back to their own little Hell.. and, stay there..

  • @kvagtholm
    @kvagtholm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    you can always wear shorts and tee as long as it above 12 degrees celcius. if it should rain a little - it wont kill you. just go to cover and wait it out. or ignore it.

  • @knudsandbknielsen1612
    @knudsandbknielsen1612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the Danish weather!
    When I was young, I hated it.
    But it grows on you, and you may get to love it!
    The sad, soggy and wet most-of-the-time makes for
    an almost insane joy when it stops for even a few days,
    where then the wind obviously sets in and makes you
    want to climb under a mountain and light up!
    I took my bicycle and turned it away from said wind,
    in the sunny spring days we now enjoy!
    Sit back, let the eastern wind ease you out west,
    experience the light green surroundings
    and the many, many bicycle lanes that let you
    escape the concrete and the abstract of the city,
    and hear the birds, see the butterflies, hug the trees
    and pretend that you're just measuring their size like
    an old time body builder coach on steroids.
    Then park the bike and rest your sore bum on a bench,
    and try to unwind, 'cause you won't want it all to get lost
    or just pass you by without you knowing it.
    Then really try! It's hard to derive anything from any moment
    except "What do I do next?" or "Why am I thinking about money right here,
    where no one is selling or buying anything?"
    But try again, and some silly bird flirts with your ears,
    and you know you're almost there!

  • @TainDK
    @TainDK 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love all of this - thank you for sharing your view. I especially love the advice "get an immigration lawyer" cos even if you wanted to help, it might be the wrong advice etc. and as the HR couldn't do anything about a wrong thing, neither could you - perfect advice.
    Also, Nice to see you Mike - you been missed
    Oh and the potato week is 42 - if its hard to remember and you know of "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" just think of the answer 42, the answer to Life, the universe, and everything ;-)
    also week 26 is the last week of June (not necessarily full week, but it starts at the end of June) - sometimes it is also the first week of skolernes sommerferie sometimes that starts at week 27 (skolernes sommerferie always is off in July, so if week 27 does not cover the beginning of July, it starts at week 26 so you are sure to be off all of July - at least thats how it has been so far - it might change =)
    Lotta love

    • @klausolekristiansen2960
      @klausolekristiansen2960 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hvorfor er det ikke jul i juli? As a child, I found that strange.

  • @MrFtoudalk
    @MrFtoudalk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I think it was Piet Hein who said: "Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!" (Alle taler om vejret, men ingen goer noget ved det)

    • @klausolekristiansen2960
      @klausolekristiansen2960 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Danes usually attribute this to Storm P, Americans to Mark Twain.

    • @MrFtoudalk
      @MrFtoudalk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@klausolekristiansen2960 Well, I agree. It was Storm P. I'm getting old, and I've lived abroad since 2003....

    • @ane-louisestampe7939
      @ane-louisestampe7939 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definately Storm P. - but he could very well have nicked it from Twain 🤣
      Edit: It's a "Flue", not a "Gruk" 😉

  • @philipsrensen1095
    @philipsrensen1095 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Store bededag was always a friday 😉

  • @ane-louisestampe7939
    @ane-louisestampe7939 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    We've got two kinds of Christmas: The Employers' and The Employees'

  • @renebechandreasen5642
    @renebechandreasen5642 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ther's a big difference between tr cities and the country. Out in the county, we all know each other. 😊

  • @DrDization
    @DrDization 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For a good christmas story advent tv serie, then the best would be Jul på Vesterbro ;)

  • @Gert-DK
    @Gert-DK 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We will and can live with they took Store Bededag, but we will mention it the next 20 years. Politicians will not have a chance to forget it.

  • @PalleRasmussen
    @PalleRasmussen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing (except in Greenland). It is a Northern Europe thing. Germans are big on it too (if you go watch Liam Carpenter's videos about the culture shock for a Brit moving to Germany and you will notice the similarities). We and they also say "I am not made of sugar", when it rains and others look for shelter/lee. And we mean it; you cannot live here, if bad weather bothers you; you have to adapt to it.

  • @akyhne
    @akyhne 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember my granddad. He was a farmer. When he and his som, who took over the farm, stood in a field, the conversation could go like this:
    GD "It's gonna rain in 2 hours".
    Uncle "Nah, it's blue shy".
    GD "Just waut and see".
    Uncle "Are you sure".
    GD "I can feel it in tve air".
    Uncle laughs.
    It could go on for ten minutes, that conversation. Needles to say, it started raining two hours later.

  • @knudsandbknielsen1612
    @knudsandbknielsen1612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an American living here, you are entitled to comment on the weather. It is not about the man. The ball is heavy!

  • @CharlieIsOnTheMoon
    @CharlieIsOnTheMoon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact: "fart" is also an old way of saying "journey". Middelfart is therefore "In the middle of the middle of the journey" and can be called "Halfway point" XD

  • @helenehindberg61
    @helenehindberg61 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Dane I have to go against the majority and declare: "Yes, there IS bad weather and we have it all the time!" 😄 The older I get (turned 52 on the 8th) the more intolerable this climate feels 😒

  • @ebbhead20
    @ebbhead20 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not all Sankt Hans evenings is a kids thing. In my town we had 3 diffent onea and they stated at 21.00 and went on to midnight or so. Like the kajak club had one where we had hotdogs, ispinde and beer sold. But the big ones with thousands of people like in Odense last til 5 in the morning. And it gets a bit wild. Naked guys and girls running around the fire. Or riding their mopeds naked around the fire. Amazing perfect bodies from 17 to 27 year old girls. The guys not so much.. 😅 Thanks to some 13 year old girls i didnt have to think about drinks that night. Got really drunk once with these teens that had vodka galore in their bags... Fun night.

  • @havenisse2009
    @havenisse2009 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    About moving here and getting in: Denmark like any other country wants skilled workers but must make rules to deter refugees from arriving in massive numbers. And rules can not be made to in/exclude race, religion or country. That is exactly why rules are adjusted all the time. And Canada / USA is 10 fold worse for entry. You are assumed to be "bad" and must prove you are "good"

  • @uteberg4781
    @uteberg4781 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm longing so much for getting in contact with people of international background here in denmark. I'm living in South Jutland and moved here (from Austria) 2 years ago. I loved living in Vienna, because of its international background and I'm missing that. Do you know any internet platform, where I could get in contact with international people? Thank you for your videos!! 🤗🌻

    • @ndexer
      @ndexer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you wan't international contacts Copenhagen is the place to go, very international city.

    • @uteberg4781
      @uteberg4781 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ndexer I absolutely agree! But I have an organic flower farm here, its therefor not that easy for me to move to Kopenhagen. Thats why I thought of an internet platform to get in contact. Maybe also someone lives nearby? 💖🤗🌻

    • @atranceillusion3058
      @atranceillusion3058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@uteberg4781 what is the name of your organic flower farm? Sounds interesting.😊

    • @blueeyedpunk
      @blueeyedpunk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why do you want the international backgrounds of people? I mean you can speak with Danes

    • @uteberg4781
      @uteberg4781 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blueeyedpunk I AM speaking with Danes, but as I explained before I'm coming from a big city with international background and I love the exchange of different cultures. It inspires me, I love to learn about other habits and I can't imagine to lock up just with one culture/nation ... That seems pretty much like horror to me, no matter what culture that would be, monoculture is not my thing (not in landscaping/gardening etc. and also not in social or cultural matters) ... we live all on the same world together, thats my approach and I want to enjoy this diversity! 🤗💖

  • @ConradMolden
    @ConradMolden 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Big prayer day! 🙏😂

    • @RobeTrotting
      @RobeTrotting  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tak for alt 😂

  • @birterasmussen8133
    @birterasmussen8133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The potato week is week no 42 😊

  • @ParisianThinker
    @ParisianThinker 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in France. What about fingerprints and photo? I have done that here. Where to do it there?

    • @vrenak
      @vrenak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I assume you mean for things like for a danish passport. You just book a time at a borgercenter (citizen centre) in your municipality at a time of your convenience, show up for your time, and check yourself in on the screen, and wait to get called. These centres are most commonly located in city halls and libraries, but they can also be in connection with other public buildings, or stand alone, you choose from a list when booking your time.

  • @Gert-DK
    @Gert-DK 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To Annie: All native Danes speak English, it has been mandatory since 1943. German (French) is also mandatory, only 4 years. But it not certain they want to use their English or German. I have a friend with a brain damage, he has forgotten it.

  • @mortenbork6249
    @mortenbork6249 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Join a "forening" for a hobby you want or have. You will make friends there more easily than elsewhere , in Denmark.

  • @KHValby
    @KHValby 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a person who has traveled to the US, as a tourist - since 2001, I´m not shredding any tears for you. It´s usually taken me up to 2 hours just to get threw US CBP 😒 ! And that´s just as a "Frekking" Tourist, going home in a few Weeks later🙄. So how do you feel your own Country is handling things ? Immigration and the like ? i Do ❤your Vlog, even though I don´t agree with everything 🙄 !

    • @RobeTrotting
      @RobeTrotting  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lots of deflection there

    • @vrenak
      @vrenak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@RobeTrotting Yup, Having travelled to the US multiple times at different entry points, it's a LOT about the place, like going in via LAX = horrible (they're basically the staff at the royal theatre in Olsen Banden ser rødt), Seatac = breeze, Boston = organised but slow.... Same goes when returning to Denmark, different entry points into Europe means different experiences.

    • @RobeTrotting
      @RobeTrotting  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vrenak How did this become about airports?

    • @vrenak
      @vrenak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RobeTrotting probably because we tend to fly to the US and not sail anymore, also there's a bridge or two missing to drive.... :) (Someone with another channel would just love crossing the atlantic on a bridge, while he's still Young.)

  • @thomashansen4988
    @thomashansen4988 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Start in a club of somewhere sort, hobby that you like, there will be a club for it😊

  • @nicolejensen6441
    @nicolejensen6441 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We drove to Houston to do my biometrics.

  • @miriamjenkins7337
    @miriamjenkins7337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the talking about the weather thing has to be a shallow Copenhagener regional thing because it's never been relevant where I live except maybe as a greeting, and even then it's kinda rare. I lived for a while in the Netherlands in my youth and they did often mention the weather, which was absolutely baffling to me.

    • @RobeTrotting
      @RobeTrotting  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Y’all find any way and reason to bully Copenhagen 😂

    • @miriamjenkins7337
      @miriamjenkins7337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RobeTrotting Haha, too true! But I feel like that's mutual.

  • @conn7125
    @conn7125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As I’ve heard most of our government wants to change “ storebededag” back to a day off 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @KiwiCatherine
    @KiwiCatherine 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Regntøj is usually made of polyurethane

  • @generalgrievuuz
    @generalgrievuuz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love victim shaming people that rock up somewhere drenched when the weather prognosis for days has said we would be getting rain and they chose to leave home wearing a t-shirt. Sorry not sorry xD

    • @drumstick74
      @drumstick74 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah *lol* it really _is_ the person's own fault with the pretty accurate weather forecasts we get.

  • @BenjaminVestergaard
    @BenjaminVestergaard 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes, unless you're a stubborn fool, like me, knowing both the Danish language and the Danish legalese language, trying to obtain (win?) A Danish residence permit for your spouse, which sounds easy right?, you'll feel like giving up halfway through.
    It's "easy", as such, to get a residence and work permit if you have the right education, but if your plans are longer than asking for permission to stay, every year... my best advice would be, lawyer up and learn Danish to a useful level.
    The immigration authorities will be as stubborn as you, only speaking their own language (in this case Danish legalese) and even a native Dane, like me, will struggle to keep up when the law is changed... so, find a lawyer to be your shield against Danish bureaucracy if you can afford it.
    I spent way too much time reading for my ex, and mother of our kids, to stay in DK, despite her education being way above my class. But luckily she's permanent resident now, so the kids don't need to get used to any odd arrangements.

  • @rickybuhl3176
    @rickybuhl3176 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    '..the greater good'

  • @renebechandreasen5642
    @renebechandreasen5642 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Se jul i Gammelby. 😉

  • @kristofferolsen8973
    @kristofferolsen8973 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's not gaslighting if it's true 😂

  • @michelotte9341
    @michelotte9341 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hi guys. I love most of what you create, but its very difficult for me to listen to your potcast. There is so much interuption, like when someone talks, another person is like yeah mmm or ohh. Sorry guys my head cant have that. But all love to you.

    • @annieineventyrland
      @annieineventyrland 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’m sorry! I really try to stay quiet but I get excited!

  • @akyhne
    @akyhne 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact:
    Christmas is on the 24/25th of December, because of Scandinavian pagans. They were already having pagan celebrations around that date, so to ease in the move from being pagan to Christianity, the (probably) catholic church decided that was the date to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
    So, it's really not his birthday that day, it's a few months off, if I remember correctly.
    Anyway, he's a made up person anyway, so probably why the church didn't care about the change.

  • @ralfchristophersen1951
    @ralfchristophersen1951 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Once again thanks to Mike and his slightly geriatric partner, and not least, the beautiful female counterpart.
    Intertaining as always.

  • @athkar9503
    @athkar9503 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's Christian holidays that every Christian nation have , or so i thought from here in Greece, eu . Are there not the same in USA?

  • @knudsandbknielsen1612
    @knudsandbknielsen1612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always enjoy your videos. I am heterosexual. It makes no diff to me. You are scentient people, nice, clever, open minded and intelligent, and that matress! Sorry :D

  • @ParisianThinker
    @ParisianThinker 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What taxes do Americans pay to Denmark as a retiree there?

  • @jjinwien9054
    @jjinwien9054 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sure this is very good for anyone planning a move to Denmark - but for the rest of us?

    • @RobeTrotting
      @RobeTrotting  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It’s the only video available on TH-cam. Sorry 😢

    • @helenehindberg61
      @helenehindberg61 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RobeTrotting This is the best response I've seen in a long time 😆

  • @klausolekristiansen2960
    @klausolekristiansen2960 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Christ´s heavenfaring. Ascension in English. (You three know of course, but your viewers might not.)

  • @Faruk_Abdagic
    @Faruk_Abdagic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *'Globetrotter..

    • @klausolekristiansen2960
      @klausolekristiansen2960 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ???

    • @vrenak
      @vrenak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Skal det være en korrektion af "Robetrotting", som er et bevidst ordspil på order Globetrotting?