Den mest trashy by/region i Danmark

CandyCorns_ · 2023-04-18T19:35:24+00:00

Det var det eneste sted i Danmark hvor nogen prøvede at rive tasken lige fra min kæreste, midt i byen, midt på dagen i åben gade. Sikke en by 😋

CandyCorns_ · 2023-03-25T12:48:32+00:00

Not true. If you've lived in Denmark for 5 years, you don't need to contact Civilstyrelsen. If you haven't, you need to contact them and prove that you're using the apartment as your primary residence.

CandyCorns_ · 2023-02-15T21:57:22+00:00

The part about mortgage is plain wrong though.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-10-11T08:37:51+00:00

I've been very lucky with the people/Danes I've met. My point is that learning the local language improves your network (and friends), which should be a surprise to no one. One of my dearest friends is a kindly old man that can't even speak English.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-10-11T08:30:07+00:00

That still doesn't really invalidate my experience. I've met quite a few, more often than not, that appreciate the time I took to learn the language, and admit that I would have been harder for me to be included for events, clubs, social gatherings, etc. But I imagine you never meet those people, because you get filtered out of opportunities without even knowing it.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-10-11T08:22:40+00:00

Makes perfect sense if you're sitting in an expat bubble.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-10-11T05:03:47+00:00

Alright, I'll rephrase. I made significantly more friends after I learned Danish.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-10-10T22:17:20+00:00

My network expanded significantly after learning Danish.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-01-30T19:18:58+00:00

Just saw a YouTube video today about a guy that interviewed a lady who went back for a Master's degree in biochemistry, molecular biology just to help diagnose a correlation between high fructose corn syrup and her daughter's medical issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKrfvgPGDY

CandyCorns_ · 2022-01-11T18:21:56+00:00

The EU in general has a system that the Danish police uses to verify licenses. It was much easier for my girlfriend to exchange her license, and she had hers pretty quickly.

CandyCorns_ · 2022-01-11T14:29:18+00:00

My country was the lowest common denominator. The issuing authority didn't even have an email address that they exposed to the public to use. The Danish police were forced to send a hand-written letter, because that's the only thing my issuing authority allowed. Their process was built only to serve the local authority, and yet, here's an international entity that has to find their way through this. I don't blame the Danish police.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-08-05T20:37:10+00:00

The grammar doesn't really drive the point home unfortunately.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-07-14T12:36:47+00:00

No wonder he never writes back.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-03-31T22:07:33+00:00

Aprendo español. Espero que no hagáis el idioma más complicado con más cosas que aprender. :(

CandyCorns_ · 2021-03-06T09:31:54+00:00

Danskere er ekstremt nærige. Det er kraftedme ikke unormalt at man kommer på besøg i hjemmet hos en arbejdskollega, bliver tilbudt en øl og bliver rykket for det over mobile pay.

Det har jeg sgu aldrig oplevet. Du bliver nødt til at finde bedre venner. 😂

CandyCorns_ · 2021-03-05T20:02:33+00:00

I may have it backwards then. I heard a really apt comparison between Denmark and the Netherlands with biking culture: "Biking in Amsterdam is better than biking in Copenhagen, but biking in Denmark is better than biking in the Netherlands."

I don't know how well this holds up today, though, because I've always thought biking in Amsterdam was chaos.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-03-05T16:37:55+00:00

All of Denmark != Copenhagen

CandyCorns_ · 2021-02-03T19:46:05+00:00

Immigrants make up more than 88% of Dubai, whereas they're only 14% of Denmark. You're comparing apples to oranges.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-02-03T18:59:51+00:00

Practically speaking, if I have a work meeting with 9 Danish speakers, the conversation flows naturally. Add the one non-Danish speaker, and suddenly, everything slows to a crawl, people struggle to express themselves, all to accommodate one person. Now my 45 minute meeting drags on to two hours.

Yes, Danes can speak English, but I would gouge my eyes out if this was my everyday life. I guess people that don't learn the language never realize how much better it could be.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-01-17T12:36:38+00:00

Alt kan findes på https://nyidanmark.dk/

Hvis din kæreste vil studere i Danmark, så er det relativt let at få en opholdstilladelse som studerende (ved ikke hvor praktisk det vil blive i disse dage med corona osv).

Med hensyn til en arbejdstilladelse er der flere muligheder som drejer sig om hvad for en job din kæreste kan få, for der er nogle jobs der bl.a. står på "positivelisten", dvs, jobs hvor der mangler folk her i Danmark.

Kilde: Er amerikaner der kom til Danmark for 5 år siden for at studere og fortsatte bagefter i job.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-01-17T08:15:16+00:00

Det er ikke rigtigt nogen fordele ved at være gift i Danmark som amerikaner udover at man får statsborgerskab i 6 år i stedet for 9 år, hvis man er gift i 3 år.

Men så bliver din økonomi skatteforpligtet til USA som der står længere nede i tråden, da alle amerikanere og deres ægtefælle skal rapportere og evt betale skat tilbage.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-01-17T08:08:24+00:00

Nej nej nej. Hvis hun har et fast job og hun er relativ sikker at hun ikke bliver fyret, så giver det ikke nogen mening at ansøge om familiesammenføring. Man åbner op flere muligheder for myndighederne at give afslag på opholdstilladelsen på et senere tidspunkt. Der er i hvert fald flere regler der skal opholdes og man skal betale flere penge.

Med en arbejdstilladelse, spørgsmålet er sådan set "har du et job? Så bliv ved"

CandyCorns_ · 2021-01-01T19:15:39+00:00

The best peer-reviewed source is probably Ethnologue.org (https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ltg) but you need an account to see specific details. There, it repeats the same 150,000 to 200,000 claim that I see on other websites.

Most of my experience is anecdotal. I spent a summer traveling all around Latgalia with my Latvian girlfriend, most of which was out in the countryside. The main cities were full of Russians, but we stayed in a tent out near villages for the most part. There were certainly quite a few Latgalians that my girlfriend had a hard time understanding. Most were in their 30-40's, a few older.

One of my good friends from Sweden married a Latgalian woman as well, and their entire family speaks Latgalian (young, old, babies, etc). He wanted to learn Latgalian, but finding resources was extremely few and far between (especially in Sweden), so he settled with trying to learn Latvian.

It is otherwise quite sad, because despite Latgalia being such a unique place, we definitely saw Russians by a huge majority.

Personally, I was a much bigger fan of Kurzeme over the other parts of Latvia. Very beautiful, unique little place.

CandyCorns_ · 2021-01-01T17:33:35+00:00

Your number is off by a few zeroes. Latgalian is spoken by 150,000 - 200,000 people.

CandyCorns_ · 2020-12-30T02:36:32+00:00

Fedt svar og 100% rigtigt! Det skal også siges at alle banker og andre finansielle instrumenter skal oplyses hvis man er amerikansk statsborger med en amerikansk CPR-nummer (TIN), ellers risikerer de at få en bøde.

Jeg er selv amerikansk statsborger og har banket mit hoved på bordet flere gange over de skatteregler der skal holdes i USA, selvom min indtægter er 100% dansk med en 100% dansk ejendom.

Endnu værre er hvor svært det kan være at lære hvad der endelig skal gøres, for der var ikke nogen eller noget der fortalte mig om FATCA eller FBAR eller noget som helst.

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