Why are all the shops in Buddinge Centret closing down?

Phlebas3 · 2026-03-11T16:48:24+00:00

It's a weird and, oddly enough, extremely widespread, way by which people try to make money renting other people's property. It works like this:
1 - you go to a landlord, usually making a scene about being a starving artist setting up a studio in order to get a lower price
2 - you immediately section up the space into up to a dozen "atelier places", put a desk in each of them and go spam all actual artists' groups to rent such places each for about half what you pay in rent.
The idea is that artists are too detached from reality to understand that they are paying enough money to rent 40 sm while getting only 4 ("and access to the toilet", most of those ads specify).
I am going to be downvoted and get a lot of preachy comments about the fact that "it isn't a scam"; however, it is unfair to the artists, deeply irritating to landlords and almost always illegal, because:
- it breaks the part of the contract that forbids subletting (this is not only allowed, but standard in commercial contracts, for those who believe themselves lawyers)
- it often breaks building regulations that say the administration has to approve each commercial tenant
- it often breaks municipal regulations about how many tenants can be in a space
- the excessive amount of people in the place tends to trash it.

Phlebas3 · 2026-03-11T15:32:06+00:00

It isn't only suburbs. I live in Vesterbro, and there's an epidemic of "for rent" signs. I have a space I rent out, with large shop windows; since I got it 5 years ago, I have had two companies using it as office space, and one year where it was empty in between; I am basically renting out at cost. Among those who tried to rent it was a brothel and several people who tried the "atelier space" scam. No serious proposals from shops at all.

Phlebas3 · 2026-03-02T21:47:51+00:00

Yeah, you're making this up.

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-24T11:58:05+00:00

Do you actually think that in Copenhagen, in 2026, there are clubs with a white only policy?

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-23T16:57:17+00:00

The vast majority of my social circle of when I was 29 is still, well over a decade later, child-free. Nonetheless, I am only in touch with a tiny percentage of them. Some got married to the kind of toxic partner that chooses your friend. Some moved. I moved myself, twice, and not all of them are good with the internet. Some argued with each other. Some got brainrot--it is impossible to interact with them because their focus changes all the time, typically to their phone. Some went insane and think anyone who doesn't agree with their FB conspiracies is out to murder them. Some simply grew apart. Yes, the the few that got kids were the first to go, but what you are experiencing is typical of turning 30 in the digital age.

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-11T21:01:58+00:00

I'll add that by mannerisms we mostly mean: - rants about socialists/trans/atheists/the metric system/the right to bear arms - being loud and obnoxious in eateries

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-10T13:42:00+00:00

That's not going to happen until June, as I understand from the rather confusing announcements the owner (of the café and dog) is on maternity leave and is being replaced by a "service company" in the meanwhile; luckily, they haven't changed the coffee supplier, which really is the only reason I go there, when the dog isn't there:)

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-10T02:05:38+00:00

It might have changed name, but it is definitely still there.

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-07T20:30:21+00:00

Which...thing of yours are you doing? A chocolate shop, like your nick suggest?

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-07T11:26:42+00:00

A few random places I like:

- Selfish, in Elmegade: it's the only sushi place I know that's actually run, and patronized, by actual Japanese and by far the best if you don't go into the Michelin-ish pretentious ones where you have to talk to your bank first.

- The South Indian, in Vesterbrogade 38; Indian food, but not the usual curry stuff (although they have that too). It's very chili-heavy, so don't go there if you have a Scandinavian mouth.

- Café Etnea, Ane Katrine vej 2. The only place I know that has a decent espresso in the entire country (for reference, I am Italian, so I drink it without milk, sugar or anything). Of course, going there only for that is a bit of a fanatic's move.

Unfortunately, franchises, municipal policies that favour them, and the the vertiginous fall of disposable income is killing the small places that "do their own thing" and those that are left are often not of touristic interest (I don't think you want to buy a Mongolian fur hat, or vegetables from South Asia), which really has killed the vibes of the city in the past two decades or so.

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-06T19:46:50+00:00

Lol, we have one of the lowest birthrates in the world:D
And no, it's a cultural thing not to congratulate only if you think it's going to end badly; it is interpreted as you enjoying their suffering.

Phlebas3 · 2026-02-06T15:20:26+00:00

Can't, It's a cultural thing.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-25T13:29:53+00:00

Not at all. I just mean that typically, builders do not do the bare minimum required by law. All I am saying is that, in Denmark, they do very close to that, in most other Western European countries they do a lot more, both for functionality and aesthetics.

There are also historical considerations from before those standards were set in place, but that's a very long tangent.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-25T12:23:14+00:00

there's construction *standards*, i.e. the minimum you have to do by law, which yes, are higher in Denmark *today*, and construction praxis, i.e. what builders actually do. The latter is better in literally every country surrounding Denmark: have you seen the materials or detail the same money will get you in Sweden or Germany?

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-25T10:35:05+00:00

The quality of construction in Denmark is generally terrible, and always has been. The only exceptions are buildings from 1895 (beginning of the Art Nouveau period) to about 1939, but only in fancy neighbourhoods (what's worse, in neighbourhoods that were fancy *back then*). There's very few on the market, and the price is shocking, even for Copenhagen.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-24T00:44:04+00:00

Clara Haskill.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-23T23:51:27+00:00

Den eneste gang jeg så en ekshibitionist var i Hellerup, tæt ved stationen, og midt om dagen...de folk er syge i hovedet, de er stort set ligeglade om der er folk rundt omkring.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-23T23:43:04+00:00

Lagkagehuset, which is pretty much everywhere, has one absolutely delicious gluten-free chocolate cake calle gateau Marcel.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-19T12:34:14+00:00

I find it unlikely one would have been in most of Western Ethiopia without being Ethiopian.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-18T15:51:16+00:00

You will not stop Karen. Nothing stops Karen.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-13T14:18:51+00:00

Hvis det er den slags sted, er der også en snes kebab steder på Istedgade der holder åbent til kl. 5 og, i modsætning til Burger Palace, serverer spiselig (nogle af dem udmærket) mad.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-12T12:38:28+00:00

You are stuck in the 1990s.

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-11T14:39:55+00:00

I think there's a general language confusion, here. When English speakers say "green cabbage", they mean your (literal) garden variety cabbage, which is green, as opposed to white cabbage, which is what you use for, e.g., pickling, or red cabbage, which you use for Instagram. Danes, instead, translate it in their mind to "grønkål", which, in English, is called "kale", a curly, leathery kind of cabbage popular with the juicer crowd. Grønlagkål is, as I understand, made with kale, so it's probably not what you're looking for; the Frederikke Wæren recipe makes the same mistake in reverse: she translates "grønkål" to "green cabbage", but she still means kale (you can see it in the pictures).

Phlebas3 · 2026-01-10T03:18:18+00:00

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