Hedges are great for nature, for birds to shelter in safely when waiting their turn for the feeder for example. As a Brit who has spent a lot of time in DK I think the country and it's people are wonderful, they have a great sense of humour [very similar to the British, often dark], they're very sociable people and I love their beer and food. Denmark, keep on being great!
For any Americans wondering about the recycling center Imagine a landfill, but without the food waste, without the smell, and everything is sorted into containers so it can be recycled, and the space outside of the containers is just clean pavement/tile
@@kenboje971 Do remember that, after having to pay for health insurance, college funds and paying off debt and that housing is comparably aprox. 40% cheaper in Denmark; the average dane has on average more liquidity than their American counterpart. (37% of Americans can't pay an unexpected $400 expense)
@@kenboje971... And if you fall over in the street and need an ambulance nobody asks about ypur money, they just get you treated first... Even if you are a tourist and need rescue at sea etc. And I do not think anybody here is homeless with a fulltime job. Maybe some people should stop worrying about the taxes...
Well, I think hedges look better than fences. About the fish, no matter where you live in Denmark, the ocean isn't far away. We have eaten a lot of fish since the ice age 🐟🦞🦣.
Think about it, hedges is god for the C02 it lets birds build nests helping wildlife, they are beatifuly natural seperator. Sure its a lot of maintainance but I think its worth it in the end :)
Dont get me wrong, I do love the look of them. And it’s so fun watching the birds disappear into there. But the maintenance. So much more maintenance 😬
And when you live in an apartment building, you hardly ever have to go to the recycling places. The apartment buildings are required to have containers for recycling. For plastic, cardboard, glass, fabrics, metal, paper, batteries, paper, foodwaste, small electronics, “dangerous” waste like paint, etc, etc, etc
One thing I like about recyckling centres is that, if you smile nicely and live in Jutland, you can find spare parts here. I once broke a glass shelf for my fridge - so I went to the Recycling centre, opened a few fridges and....yes, they had a spare.
I got a parking ticket in December on Ørebakken, the steepest hill in Helsingør. It had been snowing, and even though I had winter tires on, I couldn't drive up to my customer with their computer. So I stopped at the end of their driveway for 10 minutes. DKK 510,- in fines, and now I am fighting with "Parkeringsservice Helsingør" (strange name by the way, because there is no service at all). Now I have sent them a link to your video, and asked them to check 6 minutes and 50 seconds into it, because, as we discussed over the family dinner this evening, your description is so precise on what it is all about; that we in Denmark general believe, that people do not do harmful things on purpose, and that these parking fines is the total opposite off this believe.
The long summer evenings do make up for the short winter days. Where I live in the UK it does not get completely dark until 2300 but the winter is gloomy when it is dark at 1630. Little stores are good because you can walk to them. You could compost most of your hedge clippings, just get rid of the branches or you will need a machine. It is surprising how much it rots down.
Regarding the final issue, the messages in E-Boks tends to be alarming for other subjects as well. I live on disability pension (førtidspension), and I sometimes gets letters in E-Boks that start by saying "Your pension is changing", or "We have reassessed your pension". This typically just means that they have raised it for inflation, or that they have double checked their calculations, but it is pretty nervewracking every time.
I love everything is digital here, soooo much better than were I lived (Netherlands). I can at least take action immediately and I can see my info completely. I do get letters that start with "YOU HAVE TO DO THIS, OR IT"S JAIL TIME!" basically, had to get used to that a bit, but it kinda falls mute as everyone gets that and I doubt it ever is practiced. :) It's an aspect I don't like about any government, because it basically targets those who are super anxious or don't understand much.
I can get pretty much anything I need in my Superbrugsen. I don’t need to go to four different stores for my groceries. Of course if I am looking for something like speciality fish or meat, I would go to fish monger or butcher, but for all my everyday groceries, they have everything I need
So fun hearing your views. Great show. I am Danish living in an other country. Funny how enjoy doing my hedge in my House in DK but yes I don”t miss the 10 buckets for waste❤️
I love how you slag off hedges and being honest about the things you don't like in Denmark. I love Miranda's laughter @9:10 . Good job, and thanks for sharing
I love the concept of parking tickets. i don't like getting them (luckily VERY rarely), but i totally respect that it makes parking work. people would block traffic and not care if they got tickets. it just makes parking work
The problem is how petty they are about it, i dont have a problem with it being expensive, it is more the "The booth is too small for this car, so you are to blame as you are parked 1" outside it." mentallity, and their lack of abillity to follow the set rules like observation time which they all too often just skip past and hand out the tickets as they see fit. Then there is their mentallity when people have actual well founded complaints and they just blatently ignore it as they know 9/10 people will just pay rather than take the fight to court, a fight which the company often already know they will lose if it hits the courts as they have lost them so often on the same basis. Problem is in general that it is now a business, where it used to be public servants that handed them out, who had nothing to really gain from handing em out apart from following the rules and that was their job.
@@decay79 They are petty because the control is run by companies that have to make a profit. If it were the kommune, you could probably expect more leniency.
You misinform. It is not correct what you write in the last 4 lines. You must remember to distinguish between the private companies and the municipal. Municipal P-guards exist in the best of health, and carry out checks on all public and municipal roads as they have always done. The private p companies carry out checks on all private land registers, it can be shopping centres, housing associations, etc. Private companies are not allowed to carry out checks on public and municipal roads at all, and municipal p guards do not enter private land registers. So it is untrue when you write that the private sector has taken over control, that it is the private sector that "distributes" them on public and municipal roads. If you drive into an area where there is a large black sign with a white P, it is a private company that carries out checks in a private area. I have worked as a P-guard in the municipality for 10 years, And then as a traffic officer for 5 years.
Also- Just want to point out, You can explain your situation and depending on the scenario and reasoning you might be lucky. I know this because i had a timer which had broke, which i did not see. it automatically sets when the car stands still.. and i had to go 5 minutes into a store to get something needed to fix a situation at home. He was very understanding, and dropped the ticket. I then ran in after a new batery to make sure it did not happen again. So it all depends on the situation, ill intentions / miss parking intentionally or going over time often will hand you a ticket - mistakes can in some cases be overseen. and you can be let off easy.
@@EL-fd4fk Dont change that they are petty and try to bend the rules, i cant even get dropped off by a mate at my home address before they are ready to hand him a parking ticket, even tho they clearly have not observed him for any ammount of time.
Thank you for the video - it’s always interesting hearing your perspective on things. I think I’ll be more appreciative of recycling centres from now on. Considering complaining is a national pastime among Danish people, I think your list of ‘hates’ were rather mild. And I’m looking forward to the Danish summer as well!
There are lots of places in Denmark that use fences.. usually the solid partition kind more often than the chain link type. we have rattan-style fence that you can't see through between our apartments up near Helsingor.
The hedge is better to keep the noice down from your neighbour, that's why, but yes they are a lot of work, you can trim it once a year tho. And parking tickets, I think we all hate them, but they are to avoid most to park in the way, coz it was a problem, specially in the bigger cities. And the size of the tickets have been smaller, but has increased so many times coz people simply ignored it all the time, so the more expensive it is, the less people have parked where they shouldn't. It's just sad when people like you or turists come here and doesn't see it and gets a ticket. Hope it gives a perspective of why it's there 😁 And the recycling stations are good, just remember that they are only for delivery of your old things, not to pick up things from there, coz that's illegal. Coz you never know the reason why it was thrown out. And the toilets are mostly coz they stopped working and they then needed a new one. 😁
Comments as a Dane: Hedges - I have seen all the american fences and I find them cold and unpersonal, but I get the thing about maintaining them. Parking tickets - I know a guy that lives in Odense and never pays for parking, as the fine, when he gets caught is lower that the amount he otherwize had to pay. Therefor a lower ticket will not helpe. Migration / Work visa - Unfortunately we have a foreign policy that is dictated by a few politicians that have their entire polity build on the fear of strangers. As a dane I love to hear others view on Denmark and that includes your take on us. Thanks.
Thanks for you input on our culture. However I personally like looking at hedges more than fences. I calming and love all the small birds that lives in the hedges. It is also nice to have something green during the long time where there is no leafs on the trees
Regarding hedges, seems like it totally depends on where you live. I live in Denmark as well, and where I live, we only have a tall hedge on the right side, between us and those neighbour, while on the left, there's a semi tall fence going from the road to the neighbour garage, which then counts as the rest of the fence, covering between us. From our front lawn to the road, we have a rather small fence there. And the back yard is totally just fences.
Hedges/fences are actually a mandatory thing. They are not needed, but if just one of your neighbors wants a fence or hedge on the border between them and you, you have to cover half the cost. There are also rules of how high the fence or hedge must be.
I understand every point, including the hedges! Now, don't misunderstand...I LOVE the hedges, I much prefer them to fences (painting), but I hate the upkeep! Which is why I hire a very nice man; every year, to come and do it all for me 🤣 Personally, I prefer the small grocery shops, baker, butcher, fruit/veg. They are quaint and easy-going. I actually detest the bigger stores like Bilka & Føtex! 🤮 They are so impersonal, every store is setup the same, from Cph to Hirtshals! It's hard to grasp the finer details and customer service is too 'pushy' for me. Good to see you again, guys! hello from Hundested 🌸 🌧 (where it also is dreary, but we have the wild Kattegat!!)
6:50 I COMPLETELY agree on this one. A couple of years back I have to pickup a package at a grocery store and I was in there for UNDER 5 minutes. When I got out a "nice man" told me that my parking meter wasn't working (the batteries had depleted) and I looked and said "Oh, thank you" and then he continued to hand a ticket. I was furious.
Honorable mentions in both categories would for me be Digitization: Almost everything can be done online; car registration, doctors appointments, passports, moving places. This also ties into why i hate it... if you aren't the most IT savvy person you will suffer for it (as a former homeless person I can relate to people living on the streets and there you can easily lose your phone, ID etc and once you do... your down shitscreek).
Great video as always. I completely understand and agree with your number one dislike. I know several foreigners who came here to Denmark and the system is set up almost as if we don't want them to come and apply at all. For example, as a foreigner you can't get a Danish bank account which is required for Nemkonto without a social security number. But you can't get a social security number without a signed job contract. But you can't get a job contract signed without a social security number. It's a Catch 22. Most foreigners who get invited to Denmark to work will have their contract ready when they arrive already so there will be no problems. But if you come without prior arrangements, it can be almost impossible. many cleaning companies now simply say they will sign you on and later put in the social security number simply to get staff because few Danes want to work in cleaning and it is so difficult as foreign unskilled labour to get into the Danish system. It is kind of ironic since on average a Danish couple makes 1,7 children, which means we depopulate the country by ourselves. We need the influx of other people to keep the population from declining and the same with our active workforce.
You guys get garden stuff picked up??? Lucky you. We have to bring it to Genbrugsstationen ourselves (Lolland-Falster). That was actually quite a chock to me when I moved here two years ago.
A beautiful way to explain ones relationship with Denmark. "Five things we love, plus beer" :) I tend to agree with you on the fish thing though, and im sorry to hear you have so much trouble with the immigration system.. It really need a overhaul.
Just to let you know: The recycling centres are not free. They are paid for (at least partially) by owners of housing in the municipality you live in. If you rent your housing it is most likely a part of your base rent. But it is free in the sense that you don't have to pay at the station, to get rid of your stuff.
Love the recycling too , my daughter was at Copenhagen University for a year and I remember the janitor stressing that everything was separated into different bins boxes etc - it’s taken so so seriously
As a native: I agree on all 10 points, maybe except for not being able to buy everything in the same place. I certainly buy my bread at a bakery, my cheese have to be in a special shop so much better ( and more expensive)
Why would one prefer a fence to a green hedge which - depending on the hedge - can bloom, changes colors with the season, provides a home to birds and hedgehogs and pleases the eyes? Work?
i got a parking ticket in Oslo Norway at 1.30AM !! whilst parked in a Cul-de-Sac on a Sunday Morning because I parked less than 5M from the junction. Which had no markings to show you. Google translate struggled to translate the wording from the Ticket!
Considering how expensive fish actually is, having at least one day at the workplace cantina, would be a treat. Also remember, two of the big pillars of Danish industry is farming and fishing. So pork and fish will always permeate Danish cuisine.
You must visit Sorø on 28 January at 5 - 10 pm and experience a beautiful light festival in the city and park. it will help you through the last part of the dark season😊
Interesting to hear about your loves&hates. I don't understand the one about Small shops? If you need quick shopping - just go to the supermarket. But if you want to know about the goods and the person who sells the goods, the small shop will be able to result in increased quality for your family. Both in terms of the goods, but also in terms of human contact. And in Denmark, this personal meeting is just about to become a scarce commodity. As you may know, we don't even have to physically go to the supermarket to shop. You can have it ordered and delivered via the internet. Like in Everything via the net!
Yeah ... hedges... Danes do have a love-hate-relationship with those too. Guess it is just "that's what we usually do"-kinda thing. But ask some of your co-workers or other Danish friends living in houses what they think about trimming their hedges, and also try to explore the term "Liguster Mafia" (liguster being a particular type of hedge plant). It is a tongue-in-cheek sarcastic term for those who want to control the neighborhood and are very zealous about rules - one of them being the height of a hedge :).
@@TravelinYoung Haha - hope not. The Liguster Mafia's natural habitat are the sub-urbs, where they have found particular ways of upholding Janteloven. So while Janteloven supposedly originated in Nykøbing Mors (that's a very loose interpretation as you might know), the Liguster Mafia are the ones upholding it in suburbia :).
You guys need to add some descriptive b-roll, for instance of the recycling centers. It's much easier than trying to describe, what is a foreign concept to some.
The weirdest thing immigrating here (and I'm an EU citizen so that already makes it easier, go figure), was getting my mitID. I was walking through the steps just fine, everyone was super friendly, but I had to get that mitID to actually take care of a lot of stuff. I was required to take along someone who has a mitID as a witness. I was like "huh?", I had all my ID stuff which is enough to identify me anywhere in the world, but nope, I needed a witness. I luckily knew someone who was so kind to join me, but if you don't know anyone, it makes no sense whatsoever. :)
You don't have supermarkets where you live? I can't remember ever being in a grocery store or supermarket that doesn't sell toiletpapir while other basics.
Toilet paper wasn’t the best example, we for sure have toilet paper at grocery stores. But if I want something a grocery store doesn’t have AND toilet paper I would need to go to more than one place. It doesn’t take long to find yourself needing to go to 3-4 stores where in the us we could go to just one. At times that is charming but occasionally it is frustrating if we are in a rush.
I think many People miss the small stores. Many towns are becomming ghosttowns because all the small shops are gone. Instead we now have a Brugsen, an Aldi, netto or something like that. Often over crowded. The small shops often had a bigger sortiment. They were specialists in their fields. Especially in the hollidays like Christmas it was much more cosy to walk from shop to shop and there would be music and All the Windows and streets were decorrated... .
Nice, I suspect in a lot of cases they send the bill to the rental car company who then forwards to you. That has happened to me with speeding tickets at least :). Every time I drive in France!
I don’t get the hate about small stores? it seems that you would be able to get most things at Kvickly/Føtex/Bilka and only need to visit a pharmacy or a Natas/Normal for very specific items, and on Fyn some of our grocery stores now have pharmacies in them. Must be the same at Sjælland.
Best way to deal with the winter dark is a daylight alarm clock. Getting a dose of daylight to start off the day is a good way to get energy and keep the body on the right schedule.
The christmas trees are only inside for a short time - because they will dry up and loose the pine needles. 20/30 years ago rødgran (red pine?) was a common sort used here, and they will shed after just a few days. Now other sorts of christmas trees have taken over, and they will keep for a bit longer. But if you are used to plastic trees (are you?) in the US, where I know it is quite common, that would not be an issue there. The milk with fish "you will not be my friend"- thing... Why? I don't get that
Some information about your hate object No. 2 Fish. Why is fish a that common dish in Denmark? The reason is that fish was the cheap way of getting meat. Look on the country, a small country with a very long coastal line. This gives a vast opportunity for fishing. There was on top of that a number of large rivers with plenty of fish. The most common fish was herring, and it was possible to store it for a prolonged time if salted. Salted herring was a very large export factor in the medevial time and even later on. This is as well the reason for all these weird servings of herring. Fish was the cheap way of getting protein outside the bigger cities. Salmon that is very common nowadays was in old day a very expensive fish. Nowadays you keep them in big nets, in the ocean. This makes it much less expensive.
More common to see trees and shrubbery planted along a yard fence-line in USA. I grew-up in suburban Maryland and there were a couple hundred things planted along the backyard fence-line, from mountain laurels to crape myrtles to hollies and other small trees. As a kid, not having front yard hedges added to neighborliness, made it easier for the mailman, and meant I could often cut four yards across at the same time for pocket money (the fifth yard had a hedged driveway). Why are you hauling away trimmings? Run the lawn mower over them to mulch it and put in a compost pile along with your vegetable peels, eggshells, and such. The parking ticket thing is part and parcel of the pettiness and jealousies of Janteloven, nothing to be done, Danes are passive-aggressively vindictive like that.
9:44 Interesting one to be on the dislike side. I think it is on my top 5 things I like about Denmark. Im not a fan of the shift towards big stores. The small stores and small local convenience stores are what make me feel like its hyggeligt. I dont want these monopoly conditions in Denmark. These small stores creates great social, cultural and hyggelig value to a small community that exist within a bigger city like Copenhagen. Perhaps just one Danes perspective on the topic. Thx for the video :) *Edit* - I totally agree with number one. Sadly over decades, our politicians have made it really hard for immigrants to settle here. And they keep changing it, as you point out. It's a shame :(
Regarding the shopping, we do have Bilka in Denmark, thats probably the closest you get to Walmart/Target, theres one in Hillerød, one in Fields and one in Ishøj, whichever is closest to your home
Yeah, problem is driving that far takes as much time as visiting multiple stores. We never lived 10 more than minutes from a Target, so that has been an adjustment.
I know you dont want to discuss politics, but I would like your opinion on what positive traits etc. danes in general could learn from the US and americans and vice versa. I would say danes could maybe learn about openness towards strangers (inclusiveness) and being serviceminded...
all people i know have a hedge, if they have a garden. though enforcement is rare, i had heard few towns enforce hedges for all for aesthetics. A part of copenhagen have a rule that all residences have to be able to see a tree.
Yeah im from Denmark and i also love christmas its just the holiday. And if you haven't learned the word yet you need to know Hyggeligt if you dont know its kind of really cosy and its my favorite word. But another fact Halloween isnt that huge in Denmark but its because Fastalavn is a kind of danish Halloween. love your videos
Hedges? I mean I’m sure you share your hatred of them with overworked gardeners and steeplechase horses, but I had not seen that one coming. Fun video as always, guys.
hihi... was that really what you hate, I was just nervous that you would come up with something much worse. But you love Denmark and that's great. Nice that you love the way the Danes, through 100 generations, have shaped the country we call Denmark and the way we live. As for fish, remember that no matter where you are in Denmark, there is only 30 km to the sea, so we eat fish in all possible ways. For many 1000 years it has been what we survived on. and if you have too many cardboard boxes, it's because you shop too much online... ;) spend time in the small shops, and you'll keep the wheels turning there too. And as for January, light sterin candles in the windows, also out in the garden, give the birds outside some food, snuggle under the blankets and enjoy the fact that the hedge won't be cut until 6 months from now ;) Thank you for your always wonderful way of telling about your life here in Denmark, I love that you love it. And I am a faithful follower.
You mean that week of summer XD Fish is very important part of our culture so it does not surprise me but it sounds like a KBH issue we bring our own food any where I have worked in Jylland
Ha-ha, love you guys: 4 minutes about the good things and 10 on the hate stuff 🙂 You need to do a video about KOLONIHAVE - That's a danish summer thing! You're welcome to my place (I'll gladly serve fiskefrikadeller and homemade hindbærsnitter). The invitation is open if we can figure out how to arrange it.
IN fairness to parking tickest, mind you I HAAAATE them too, but they are at the minimum of tickests. You can't get a lower ticket doing anything lower then 750,- . Which is why I am glad I don't own or need a car anymore. Now all I have to do is make sure my bikelights work and keep away from the oneway street traps^^
I asked for specific this video a little while back. Thank you for your opinions and i totally get it :) All the stuff your "hate" Goes for the native danes. But actually if you have good nabours you can come to an agreement to make a wooden fence, but it can only (like hegdes) be maximum 180cm (5,9-6 feet tall) Mostly people use it more as a thumb rule than being stict about it. Parking has gone nuts totally agree on that. Back in the days when i grew up in the early 80s it was very common for danes (in the middelclasses) to have a fish day, a soup day, every week. I think that us having the smaller shops was to keep a town alive. Many places specially in middle big cities (100k) pop, when they open a mall, the smaller bussiness are closing and struggles. I was interested what you think from being newcomers on how we handle crime and homeless people? whats your thoughts? ofc from your observance.
Parking tickets and the fees are way out of proportion, it has become a major revenue for the city and the companies. There are many stories over the years of unjust tickets, simple because they are on some form of commission, also the hourly price kept going up for years until the government put a lid on it. I hate both the fees and the tickets too!
Like these videos with listing things. Top 5 etc… As a Dane I REALLY also like our cake and pastries. Haven’t found any similar good abroad and I’ve tried a lot! And yes - hindbærsnitter are the best. I even baked my own when I lived in Canada for 3 years cause I missed them + quality of baked goods… Think many of us welcome the long Christmas season cause it’s full of light and events, like the Christmas markets, you guys also did a video on, hanging out with friends and the whole darkness is lit up for 1-2 months before boring January begins… Hate hedges, would hate to own a house with one, love how green they are when others have them!! Expanding nature :)
I'd say parking tickets is part of our Danish trust system, we trust people to follow the rules, and trust the system to incentivize not repeating mistakes. Trust and Consequence.
I'd say that the whole commission based salary approach is build on anything but trust. The parking company doesn't trust their agents to write the tickets they are supposed to, and the agents don't trust that the car owners are following the spirit of the law when they catch them not following the letter of the law.
like the germans says: Vertrauen ist gut Kontrolle ist besser how is that danish trust in any way.. if you trust people you dont control them. if you control people you dont trust them
I totally agree on your No 1! Being Danish with a Danish adult son who needed to leave this country to be with his Korean wife! Danish immigration rules/laws sucks!
Try to find help for your hedges in your local area. Maybe through FB. It shouldn't be very expensive. Parking fines are hated by everybody. I don't like cold fish. As long you have a job and only been in "prison" once, I don't think you should worry about visa and all that crap. Remember, we need hands here in DK, very badly indeed. Short-staffed everywhere.
I don't know how long you are away from Amager but there is one big place close to Christianshavn and probably a lot of other places do this as well, but you can drop off items that are still usable and then you can pick up stuff that other people have left as well. As for the parking, I am getting my drivers licence right now and I just had three hour theory session solely on parking rules. It is insanity XD The immigration thing ... We are sorry :(
@@danniandersen5858 XD Depends on the arrow below the sign, how far you are away from a corner in this scenario. But aside from that, all days after 18 and before 10. Exempt for sunday which is before 8 but after 17.
@@danniandersen5858 I hverdagene kan der parkeres frit efter 18.00 til - 10.00 og Lørdag frit fra kl.17.00 - 10.00 Om Søndagen frit efter kl 17.00 til 8.00 UPS men jeg er også tidligere p vagt
I'm lucky enough to live within walking distance of a Bilka that has a pharmacy right after self-checkout... I don't complain about shopping in the same way... I'd complain that it'd be a 5km walk to save 100kr because the good prices are all in different places.
Fine! Then we Danes just may leave before the last 5! And as our friends from the east used to say. "Trust is fine, but Control is better!" And the hedges. I formerly lived in a house with a small garden, mostly clay and very hard!! So I dig a hole in the clay and filled it with clippings, compressed it and filled it on top. In a short time it became fine loam soil, intended for gardening, and much more soft than the clay had originally been.
Hedges are great for nature, for birds to shelter in safely when waiting their turn for the feeder for example. As a Brit who has spent a lot of time in DK I think the country and it's people are wonderful, they have a great sense of humour [very similar to the British, often dark], they're very sociable people and I love their beer and food. Denmark, keep on being great!
For any Americans wondering about the recycling center
Imagine a landfill, but without the food waste, without the smell, and everything is sorted into containers so it can be recycled, and the space outside of the containers is just clean pavement/tile
But do remember how much you pay in Taxes here in Denmark...for being in a wonderful world
@@kenboje971 Do remember that, after having to pay for health insurance, college funds and paying off debt and that housing is comparably aprox. 40% cheaper in Denmark; the average dane has on average more liquidity than their American counterpart. (37% of Americans can't pay an unexpected $400 expense)
@@Lorentari I'm not allowed to answer🔥
@@kenboje971... And if you fall over in the street and need an ambulance nobody asks about ypur money, they just get you treated first... Even if you are a tourist and need rescue at sea etc.
And I do not think anybody here is homeless with a fulltime job.
Maybe some people should stop worrying about the taxes...
@@kenboje971 With all of the deductibles in Danish taxes, there are some US states that sometimes end up higher than the danish taxes.
Well, I think hedges look better than fences. About the fish, no matter where you live in Denmark, the ocean isn't far away. We have eaten a lot of fish since the ice age 🐟🦞🦣.
Think about it, hedges is god for the C02 it lets birds build nests helping wildlife, they are beatifuly natural seperator. Sure its a lot of maintainance but I think its worth it in the end :)
Dont get me wrong, I do love the look of them. And it’s so fun watching the birds disappear into there. But the maintenance. So much more maintenance 😬
@@lopaisate that’s why I have a gardener who trim them twice a year😉
And when you live in an apartment building, you hardly ever have to go to the recycling places. The apartment buildings are required to have containers for recycling. For plastic, cardboard, glass, fabrics, metal, paper, batteries, paper, foodwaste, small electronics, “dangerous” waste like paint, etc, etc, etc
Well, of COURSE we don't like fences! We find them of-FENCE-sive! ;P
10/10 Quality dad joke. Well done! 😂
Why thank you! I DO try my best! ^^
But why beat around the bush?
No pun Intended off course.......😜
Haha 10/10 far joke
One thing I like about recyckling centres is that, if you smile nicely and live in Jutland, you can find spare parts here. I once broke a glass shelf for my fridge - so I went to the Recycling centre, opened a few fridges and....yes, they had a spare.
I got a parking ticket in December on Ørebakken, the steepest hill in Helsingør. It had been snowing, and even though I had winter tires on, I couldn't drive up to my customer with their computer. So I stopped at the end of their driveway for 10 minutes. DKK 510,- in fines, and now I am fighting with "Parkeringsservice Helsingør" (strange name by the way, because there is no service at all). Now I have sent them a link to your video, and asked them to check 6 minutes and 50 seconds into it, because, as we discussed over the family dinner this evening, your description is so precise on what it is all about; that we in Denmark general believe, that people do not do harmful things on purpose, and that these parking fines is the total opposite off this believe.
At least you dont have to repaint the hedges as you do the fences 🙂
The long summer evenings do make up for the short winter days. Where I live in the UK it does not get completely dark until 2300 but the winter is gloomy when it is dark at 1630.
Little stores are good because you can walk to them.
You could compost most of your hedge clippings, just get rid of the branches or you will need a machine. It is surprising how much it rots down.
Uups former parking attendant here, trying to find a hedge that's not been trimmed yet to hide in 🙈 keep up the great content😊
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😂😂😂😂the most hated man on the planet.
Your politeness is actually quite cute! 🙂
Such a fun list, and the points were fun to hear. Love ur style and view.
Regarding the final issue, the messages in E-Boks tends to be alarming for other subjects as well.
I live on disability pension (førtidspension), and I sometimes gets letters in E-Boks that start by saying "Your pension is changing", or "We have reassessed your pension".
This typically just means that they have raised it for inflation, or that they have double checked their calculations, but it is pretty nervewracking every time.
Not to mention the messages always comes late in the evening.
@@tobimobiv1 Do you know you will loose your ,, Folkepension" if you didn`t worked longer then 10 years in denmark ?
I love everything is digital here, soooo much better than were I lived (Netherlands). I can at least take action immediately and I can see my info completely. I do get letters that start with "YOU HAVE TO DO THIS, OR IT"S JAIL TIME!" basically, had to get used to that a bit, but it kinda falls mute as everyone gets that and I doubt it ever is practiced. :) It's an aspect I don't like about any government, because it basically targets those who are super anxious or don't understand much.
Go to Bilka then, its a one stop shop, just like Wal-Mart and Target.
Bilka is indeed the closest to Target and Walmart, but it’s still considerably smaller and with a less broad product portfolio.
I can get pretty much anything I need in my Superbrugsen. I don’t need to go to four different stores for my groceries. Of course if I am looking for something like speciality fish or meat, I would go to fish monger or butcher, but for all my everyday groceries, they have everything I need
So fun hearing your views. Great show. I am Danish living in an other country. Funny how enjoy doing my hedge in my House in DK but yes I don”t miss the 10 buckets for waste❤️
I love how you slag off hedges and being honest about the things you don't like in Denmark. I love Miranda's laughter @9:10 . Good job, and thanks for sharing
I love the concept of parking tickets. i don't like getting them (luckily VERY rarely), but i totally respect that it makes parking work. people would block traffic and not care if they got tickets. it just makes parking work
The problem is how petty they are about it, i dont have a problem with it being expensive, it is more the "The booth is too small for this car, so you are to blame as you are parked 1" outside it." mentallity, and their lack of abillity to follow the set rules like observation time which they all too often just skip past and hand out the tickets as they see fit.
Then there is their mentallity when people have actual well founded complaints and they just blatently ignore it as they know 9/10 people will just pay rather than take the fight to court, a fight which the company often already know they will lose if it hits the courts as they have lost them so often on the same basis.
Problem is in general that it is now a business, where it used to be public servants that handed them out, who had nothing to really gain from handing em out apart from following the rules and that was their job.
@@decay79 They are petty because the control is run by companies that have to make a profit. If it were the kommune, you could probably expect more leniency.
You misinform. It is not correct what you write in the last 4 lines. You must remember to distinguish between the private companies and the municipal.
Municipal P-guards exist in the best of health, and carry out checks on all public and municipal roads as they have always done. The private p companies carry out checks on all private land registers, it can be shopping centres, housing associations, etc. Private companies are not allowed to carry out checks on public and municipal roads at all, and municipal p guards do not enter private land registers. So it is untrue when you write that the private sector has taken over control, that it is the private sector that "distributes" them on public and municipal roads.
If you drive into an area where there is a large black sign with a white P, it is a private company that carries out checks in a private area. I have worked as a P-guard in the municipality for 10 years, And then as a traffic officer for 5 years.
Also- Just want to point out, You can explain your situation and depending on the scenario and reasoning you might be lucky. I know this because i had a timer which had broke, which i did not see. it automatically sets when the car stands still.. and i had to go 5 minutes into a store to get something needed to fix a situation at home. He was very understanding, and dropped the ticket. I then ran in after a new batery to make sure it did not happen again.
So it all depends on the situation, ill intentions / miss parking intentionally or going over time often will hand you a ticket - mistakes can in some cases be overseen. and you can be let off easy.
@@EL-fd4fk Dont change that they are petty and try to bend the rules, i cant even get dropped off by a mate at my home address before they are ready to hand him a parking ticket, even tho they clearly have not observed him for any ammount of time.
Parking yes in all bigger town...but in a village no problems and its quiet peacefull..
Thank you for the video - it’s always interesting hearing your perspective on things. I think I’ll be more appreciative of recycling centres from now on. Considering complaining is a national pastime among Danish people, I think your list of ‘hates’ were rather mild. And I’m looking forward to the Danish summer as well!
There are lots of places in Denmark that use fences.. usually the solid partition kind more often than the chain link type. we have rattan-style fence that you can't see through between our apartments up near Helsingor.
The hedge is better to keep the noice down from your neighbour, that's why, but yes they are a lot of work, you can trim it once a year tho.
And parking tickets, I think we all hate them, but they are to avoid most to park in the way, coz it was a problem, specially in the bigger cities. And the size of the tickets have been smaller, but has increased so many times coz people simply ignored it all the time, so the more expensive it is, the less people have parked where they shouldn't.
It's just sad when people like you or turists come here and doesn't see it and gets a ticket.
Hope it gives a perspective of why it's there 😁
And the recycling stations are good, just remember that they are only for delivery of your old things, not to pick up things from there, coz that's illegal.
Coz you never know the reason why it was thrown out. And the toilets are mostly coz they stopped working and they then needed a new one. 😁
Comments as a Dane:
Hedges - I have seen all the american fences and I find them cold and unpersonal, but I get the thing about maintaining them.
Parking tickets - I know a guy that lives in Odense and never pays for parking, as the fine, when he gets caught is lower that the amount he otherwize had to pay. Therefor a lower ticket will not helpe.
Migration / Work visa - Unfortunately we have a foreign policy that is dictated by a few politicians that have their entire polity build on the fear of strangers.
As a dane I love to hear others view on Denmark and that includes your take on us. Thanks.
Thanks for you input on our culture. However I personally like looking at hedges more than fences. I calming and love all the small birds that lives in the hedges. It is also nice to have something green during the long time where there is no leafs on the trees
One thing I love: You guys!
Regarding hedges, seems like it totally depends on where you live. I live in Denmark as well, and where I live, we only have a tall hedge on the right side, between us and those neighbour, while on the left, there's a semi tall fence going from the road to the neighbour garage, which then counts as the rest of the fence, covering between us. From our front lawn to the road, we have a rather small fence there. And the back yard is totally just fences.
Hedges/fences are actually a mandatory thing. They are not needed, but if just one of your neighbors wants a fence or hedge on the border between them and you, you have to cover half the cost.
There are also rules of how high the fence or hedge must be.
I understand every point, including the hedges! Now, don't misunderstand...I LOVE the hedges, I much prefer them to fences (painting), but I hate the upkeep! Which is why I hire a very nice man; every year, to come and do it all for me 🤣
Personally, I prefer the small grocery shops, baker, butcher, fruit/veg.
They are quaint and easy-going.
I actually detest the bigger stores like Bilka & Føtex! 🤮 They are so impersonal, every store is setup the same, from Cph to Hirtshals! It's hard to grasp the finer details and customer service is too 'pushy' for me.
Good to see you again, guys!
hello from Hundested 🌸 🌧
(where it also is dreary, but we have the wild Kattegat!!)
And you can blame the Americans for the big shopping centers 😂😂😂
6:50 I COMPLETELY agree on this one. A couple of years back I have to pickup a package at a grocery store and I was in there for UNDER 5 minutes. When I got out a "nice man" told me that my parking meter wasn't working (the batteries had depleted) and I looked and said "Oh, thank you" and then he continued to hand a ticket. I was furious.
Ah yes parking wardens a hated species in all the world I suspect.
Honorable mentions in both categories would for me be Digitization: Almost everything can be done online; car registration, doctors appointments, passports, moving places. This also ties into why i hate it... if you aren't the most IT savvy person you will suffer for it (as a former homeless person I can relate to people living on the streets and there you can easily lose your phone, ID etc and once you do... your down shitscreek).
Great video as always.
I completely understand and agree with your number one dislike. I know several foreigners who came here to Denmark and the system is set up almost as if we don't want them to come and apply at all.
For example, as a foreigner you can't get a Danish bank account which is required for Nemkonto without a social security number. But you can't get a social security number without a signed job contract. But you can't get a job contract signed without a social security number. It's a Catch 22.
Most foreigners who get invited to Denmark to work will have their contract ready when they arrive already so there will be no problems. But if you come without prior arrangements, it can be almost impossible. many cleaning companies now simply say they will sign you on and later put in the social security number simply to get staff because few Danes want to work in cleaning and it is so difficult as foreign unskilled labour to get into the Danish system.
It is kind of ironic since on average a Danish couple makes 1,7 children, which means we depopulate the country by ourselves. We need the influx of other people to keep the population from declining and the same with our active workforce.
You guys get garden stuff picked up??? Lucky you. We have to bring it to Genbrugsstationen ourselves (Lolland-Falster). That was actually quite a chock to me when I moved here two years ago.
A beautiful way to explain ones relationship with Denmark. "Five things we love, plus beer" :)
I tend to agree with you on the fish thing though, and im sorry to hear you have so much trouble with the immigration system.. It really need a overhaul.
Just to let you know: The recycling centres are not free. They are paid for (at least partially) by owners of housing in the municipality you live in. If you rent your housing it is most likely a part of your base rent.
But it is free in the sense that you don't have to pay at the station, to get rid of your stuff.
Also. I feel like you can get almost anything you need in Bilka. But i get it's not the same size as Target or Walmart
Yay, a new episode. We have missed you.
Thanks! We’ve just been so busy :). Lots of things going on in the Young house.
Love the recycling too , my daughter was at Copenhagen University for a year and I remember the janitor stressing that everything was separated into different bins boxes etc - it’s taken so so seriously
As a native: I agree on all 10 points, maybe except for not being able to buy everything in the same place. I certainly buy my bread at a bakery, my cheese have to be in a special shop so much better ( and more expensive)
Why would one prefer a fence to a green hedge which - depending on the hedge - can bloom, changes colors with the season, provides a home to birds and hedgehogs and pleases the eyes? Work?
i got a parking ticket in Oslo Norway at 1.30AM !! whilst parked in a Cul-de-Sac on a Sunday Morning because I parked less than 5M from the junction. Which had no markings to show you. Google translate struggled to translate the wording from the Ticket!
Considering how expensive fish actually is, having at least one day at the workplace cantina, would be a treat.
Also remember, two of the big pillars of Danish industry is farming and fishing. So pork and fish will always permeate Danish cuisine.
You must visit Sorø on 28 January at 5 - 10 pm and experience a beautiful light festival in the city and park.
it will help you through the last part of the dark season😊
My beloved grandfather grew up in Soro before he immigrated to the US. Please tell me more!
@@triciabyrne7761 search at kyndelmisse Sorø👍
Danes also hates parking tickets!
Nice to see leverpostej did not make the list :)
Oh and im a dane, and i dont eat fish at all, so you at not alone there.
Interesting to hear about your loves&hates. I don't understand the one about Small shops? If you need quick shopping - just go to the supermarket. But if you want to know about the goods and the person who sells the goods, the small shop will be able to result in increased quality for your family. Both in terms of the goods, but also in terms of human contact. And in Denmark, this personal meeting is just about to become a scarce commodity. As you may know, we don't even have to physically go to the supermarket to shop. You can have it ordered and delivered via the internet. Like in Everything via the net!
Yeah ... hedges... Danes do have a love-hate-relationship with those too. Guess it is just "that's what we usually do"-kinda thing. But ask some of your co-workers or other Danish friends living in houses what they think about trimming their hedges, and also try to explore the term "Liguster Mafia" (liguster being a particular type of hedge plant). It is a tongue-in-cheek sarcastic term for those who want to control the neighborhood and are very zealous about rules - one of them being the height of a hedge :).
Hilarious! The mafia has found us!!!
@@TravelinYoung Haha - hope not. The Liguster Mafia's natural habitat are the sub-urbs, where they have found particular ways of upholding Janteloven. So while Janteloven supposedly originated in Nykøbing Mors (that's a very loose interpretation as you might know), the Liguster Mafia are the ones upholding it in suburbia :).
@@TravelinYoung I've grown up with the term "Liguster facister" - sorta the same thing but more political I guess ;-)
@@TravelinYoung "Liguster facists" is the right term. Not mafia.
You guys need to add some descriptive b-roll, for instance of the recycling centers. It's much easier than trying to describe, what is a foreign concept to some.
We have Target and Walmart type stores... but they are called Bilka in Denmark!
Yes, but there aren’t very many. It’s a bit of a drive to get to one, whereas we always lived no more than 10 minutes from a target in the US.
The weirdest thing immigrating here (and I'm an EU citizen so that already makes it easier, go figure), was getting my mitID. I was walking through the steps just fine, everyone was super friendly, but I had to get that mitID to actually take care of a lot of stuff. I was required to take along someone who has a mitID as a witness. I was like "huh?", I had all my ID stuff which is enough to identify me anywhere in the world, but nope, I needed a witness. I luckily knew someone who was so kind to join me, but if you don't know anyone, it makes no sense whatsoever. :)
You don't have supermarkets where you live? I can't remember ever being in a grocery store or supermarket that doesn't sell toiletpapir while other basics.
Toilet paper wasn’t the best example, we for sure have toilet paper at grocery stores. But if I want something a grocery store doesn’t have AND toilet paper I would need to go to more than one place. It doesn’t take long to find yourself needing to go to 3-4 stores where in the us we could go to just one. At times that is charming but occasionally it is frustrating if we are in a rush.
Hindbærsnitter is my favourit as well with 8-10mm icing on it.
Hedges are good for biodiversity! And birds! Mostly birds:p
I think many People miss the small stores. Many towns are becomming ghosttowns because all the small shops are gone. Instead we now have a Brugsen, an Aldi, netto or something like that. Often over crowded. The small shops often had a bigger sortiment. They were specialists in their fields. Especially in the hollidays like Christmas it was much more cosy to walk from shop to shop and there would be music and All the Windows and streets were decorrated...
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Ones in Denmark we got a parking ticket 500 DK , called them when back in Florida called . Then told to forget it. So saved $ 100. Yahhhh.🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸❤️
Nice, I suspect in a lot of cases they send the bill to the rental car company who then forwards to you. That has happened to me with speeding tickets at least :). Every time I drive in France!
I don’t get the hate about small stores? it seems that you would be able to get most things at Kvickly/Føtex/Bilka and only need to visit a pharmacy or a Natas/Normal for very specific items, and on Fyn some
of our grocery stores now have pharmacies in them. Must be the same at Sjælland.
Best way to deal with the winter dark is a daylight alarm clock. Getting a dose of daylight to start off the day is a good way to get energy and keep the body on the right schedule.
The christmas trees are only inside for a short time - because they will dry up and loose the pine needles. 20/30 years ago rødgran (red pine?) was a common sort used here, and they will shed after just a few days. Now other sorts of christmas trees have taken over, and they will keep for a bit longer.
But if you are used to plastic trees (are you?) in the US, where I know it is quite common, that would not be an issue there.
The milk with fish "you will not be my friend"- thing... Why? I don't get that
Why don’t you go to Føtex of Bilka?
If you like help with your sniffle. Put a blue wicks in kop of hot water. Stir untill its melted and drink the delicius hot beverage. 🙂 really helps
Try going to a German Christmas market this year - they go ALL-IN
Haha - we've got cake day at the same day as fish day to sort of balance things out 😄. It Wednesday, by the way.
Can you make a detailed video on the recycling centres in Copenhagen and the process to drop stuff there ? Thanks!
Some information about your hate object No. 2 Fish. Why is fish a that common dish in Denmark? The reason is that fish was the cheap way of getting meat. Look on the country, a small country with a very long coastal line. This gives a vast opportunity for fishing. There was on top of that a number of large rivers with plenty of fish. The most common fish was herring, and it was possible to store it for a prolonged time if salted. Salted herring was a very large export factor in the medevial time and even later on. This is as well the reason for all these weird servings of herring. Fish was the cheap way of getting protein outside the bigger cities. Salmon that is very common nowadays was in old day a very expensive fish. Nowadays you keep them in big nets, in the ocean. This makes it much less expensive.
Parking tickets... don't get me started! It's BIG BUSINESS in Denmark. Copenhagen is a complete nightmare. It's not for the faint of heart.
we have cake day on fish day, to keep us going.
though a couple of my colleagues will go for takeout at least once a month on fish day
More common to see trees and shrubbery planted along a yard fence-line in USA. I grew-up in suburban Maryland and there were a couple hundred things planted along the backyard fence-line, from mountain laurels to crape myrtles to hollies and other small trees. As a kid, not having front yard hedges added to neighborliness, made it easier for the mailman, and meant I could often cut four yards across at the same time for pocket money (the fifth yard had a hedged driveway). Why are you hauling away trimmings? Run the lawn mower over them to mulch it and put in a compost pile along with your vegetable peels, eggshells, and such.
The parking ticket thing is part and parcel of the pettiness and jealousies of Janteloven, nothing to be done, Danes are passive-aggressively vindictive like that.
I lived in the US for 25 yrs and I miss shopping and Target so much
9:44 Interesting one to be on the dislike side. I think it is on my top 5 things I like about Denmark. Im not a fan of the shift towards big stores. The small stores and small local convenience stores are what make me feel like its hyggeligt. I dont want these monopoly conditions in Denmark. These small stores creates great social, cultural and hyggelig value to a small community that exist within a bigger city like Copenhagen. Perhaps just one Danes perspective on the topic. Thx for the video :)
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- I totally agree with number one. Sadly over decades, our politicians have made it really hard for immigrants to settle here. And they keep changing it, as you point out. It's a shame :(
Regarding the shopping, we do have Bilka in Denmark, thats probably the closest you get to Walmart/Target, theres one in Hillerød, one in Fields and one in Ishøj, whichever is closest to your home
Yeah, problem is driving that far takes as much time as visiting multiple stores. We never lived 10 more than minutes from a Target, so that has been an adjustment.
@@TravelinYoung another good reason for not living in Copenhagen 😆😆
I know you dont want to discuss politics, but I would like your opinion on what positive traits etc. danes in general could learn from the US and americans and vice versa. I would say danes could maybe learn about openness towards strangers (inclusiveness) and being serviceminded...
If you cannot come to an agreement with your neighbor - hedges are the standard. It is the authorities way of saying - "You both lose!"
all people i know have a hedge, if they have a garden. though enforcement is rare, i had heard few towns enforce hedges for all for aesthetics. A part of copenhagen have a rule that all residences have to be able to see a tree.
Most places I have worked have had fish day and cake day on the same day. Usually Wednesday.
from my (limited) experience with company canteens, they don't prepare the dishes like I do at home. Often strange combinations, especially in salads
Yeah im from Denmark and i also love christmas its just the holiday. And if you haven't learned the word yet you need to know Hyggeligt if you dont know its kind of really cosy and its my favorite word. But another fact Halloween isnt that huge in Denmark but its because Fastalavn is a kind of danish Halloween. love your videos
Hedges? I mean I’m sure you share your hatred of them with overworked gardeners and steeplechase horses, but I had not seen that one coming.
Fun video as always, guys.
Keeping you on your toes! :). We’ve had people complain about being to slow to trim our hedges as it’s not something we are used to doing.
hihi... was that really what you hate, I was just nervous that you would come up with something much worse. But you love Denmark and that's great. Nice that you love the way the Danes, through 100 generations, have shaped the country we call Denmark and the way we live. As for fish, remember that no matter where you are in Denmark, there is only 30 km to the sea, so we eat fish in all possible ways. For many 1000 years it has been what we survived on. and if you have too many cardboard boxes, it's because you shop too much online... ;) spend time in the small shops, and you'll keep the wheels turning there too. And as for January, light sterin candles in the windows, also out in the garden, give the birds outside some food, snuggle under the blankets and enjoy the fact that the hedge won't be cut until 6 months from now ;) Thank you for your always wonderful way of telling about your life here in Denmark, I love that you love it. And I am a faithful follower.
You mean that week of summer XD Fish is very important part of our culture so it does not surprise me but it sounds like a KBH issue we bring our own food any where I have worked in Jylland
Flæskesteg-place? …. I want to know more ☺️
It was downtown on the harbor in islands Brugge.
@@TravelinYoung thank you 🙂
Ha-ha, love you guys: 4 minutes about the good things and 10 on the hate stuff 🙂 You need to do a video about KOLONIHAVE - That's a danish summer thing! You're welcome to my place (I'll gladly serve fiskefrikadeller and homemade hindbærsnitter). The invitation is open if we can figure out how to arrange it.
IN fairness to parking tickest, mind you I HAAAATE them too, but they are at the minimum of tickests. You can't get a lower ticket doing anything lower then 750,- . Which is why I am glad I don't own or need a car anymore. Now all I have to do is make sure my bikelights work and keep away from the oneway street traps^^
Have you tried shopping in Bilka in Fields. Guess you can get anything in Fields.
Yes, just pretty far from our house.
As a Dane, I really love to get your perspectives on living in Denmark 🇩🇰🙂
And.... I totally love hindbærsnitter too🤣
🇩🇰Velkommen 🇩🇰
Hahaha ha I love this . The truth served with some humor is always appreciated 😄 (I’m danish)
I asked for specific this video a little while back. Thank you for your opinions and i totally get it :) All the stuff your "hate" Goes for the native danes.
But actually if you have good nabours you can come to an agreement to make a wooden fence, but it can only (like hegdes) be maximum 180cm (5,9-6 feet tall) Mostly people use it more as a thumb rule than being stict about it.
Parking has gone nuts totally agree on that.
Back in the days when i grew up in the early 80s it was very common for danes (in the middelclasses) to have a fish day, a soup day, every week.
I think that us having the smaller shops was to keep a town alive. Many places specially in middle big cities (100k) pop, when they open a mall, the smaller bussiness are closing and struggles.
I was interested what you think from being newcomers on how we handle crime and homeless people? whats your thoughts? ofc from your observance.
I fully agree on those fish-dishes - I loathe them
Parking tickets and the fees are way out of proportion, it has become a major revenue for the city and the companies. There are many stories over the years of unjust tickets, simple because they are on some form of commission, also the hourly price kept going up for years until the government put a lid on it. I hate both the fees and the tickets too!
Like these videos with listing things. Top 5 etc…
As a Dane I REALLY also like our cake and pastries. Haven’t found any similar good abroad and I’ve tried a lot! And yes - hindbærsnitter are the best. I even baked my own when I lived in Canada for 3 years cause I missed them + quality of baked goods…
Think many of us welcome the long Christmas season cause it’s full of light and events, like the Christmas markets, you guys also did a video on, hanging out with friends and the whole darkness is lit up for 1-2 months before boring January begins…
Hate hedges, would hate to own a house with one, love how green they are when others have them!! Expanding nature :)
Hindbærsnitter for life!
I'd say parking tickets is part of our Danish trust system, we trust people to follow the rules, and trust the system to incentivize not repeating mistakes.
Trust and Consequence.
BUT there were much less areas 20-30 years ago where you could get a ticket. These parking “agents “ have been on the uprise … and it’s not necessary
I'd say that the whole commission based salary approach is build on anything but trust. The parking company doesn't trust their agents to write the tickets they are supposed to, and the agents don't trust that the car owners are following the spirit of the law when they catch them not following the letter of the law.
like the germans says: Vertrauen ist gut Kontrolle ist besser
how is that danish trust in any way..
if you trust people you dont control them.
if you control people you dont trust them
@@Hansen710 Lenin said: trust but verify. Like you say not very Danish supposedly
I totally agree on your No 1! Being Danish with a Danish adult son who needed to leave this country to be with his Korean wife! Danish immigration rules/laws sucks!
Try to find help for your hedges in your local area. Maybe through FB. It shouldn't be very expensive.
Parking fines are hated by everybody.
I don't like cold fish.
As long you have a job and only been in "prison" once, I don't think you should worry about visa and all that crap. Remember, we need hands here in DK, very badly indeed. Short-staffed everywhere.
I SO MUCH understand your hate of the immigration system!!!!! A lot of Danes do as well.
Sadly, I think it depends who you ask. I'm sure you can find someone who doesn't think it's strict enough.
I don't know how long you are away from Amager but there is one big place close to Christianshavn and probably a lot of other places do this as well, but you can drop off items that are still usable and then you can pick up stuff that other people have left as well.
As for the parking, I am getting my drivers licence right now and I just had three hour theory session solely on parking rules. It is insanity XD
The immigration thing ... We are sorry :(
Parking.
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Test! When can you park more than 2 hours :p
@@danniandersen5858 XD Depends on the arrow below the sign, how far you are away from a corner in this scenario. But aside from that, all days after 18 and before 10. Exempt for sunday which is before 8 but after 17.
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I hverdagene kan der parkeres frit efter 18.00 til - 10.00 og Lørdag frit fra kl.17.00 - 10.00 Om Søndagen frit efter kl 17.00 til 8.00 UPS men jeg er også tidligere p vagt
I'm lucky enough to live within walking distance of a Bilka that has a pharmacy right after self-checkout... I don't complain about shopping in the same way... I'd complain that it'd be a 5km walk to save 100kr because the good prices are all in different places.
The hedges is because we love the natural things
Fine! Then we Danes just may leave before the last 5! And as our friends from the east used to say. "Trust is fine, but Control is better!" And the hedges. I formerly lived in a house with a small garden, mostly clay and very hard!! So I dig a hole in the clay and filled it with clippings, compressed it and filled it on top. In a short time it became fine loam soil, intended for gardening, and much more soft than the clay had originally been.
I thought the 5 things you didn’t like were weak. There are huge stores in Denmark - not sure where you are but hyperstores are there in the country
I agree... and I miss US shops here too... I'm a Dane ;-)
Im a fence or wall guy hate to cut this damn hedges and i got a lot 🤦🏻♂️
your right about the things that are bad in denmark, and that is why we love beer and make the best beer in the world
Haha, Nice!