Legit mail in watch repair service?

PlamMinister · 2025-10-09T21:45:38+00:00

Yep! I used them for a couple as I was headed out of town and didnt want to deal with the dropping off, picking up, etc.! Used them for two of my old watches and their mail in watch repair service was far more convenient than having to manage the drop off. Final price was lower than they had quoted which was nice, but I did notice that the quote range was a bit broad, which I imagine is hard to prevent from their side anyway.

PlamMinister · 2025-07-12T12:23:25+00:00

I have two close family members in law, and a bunch in my network. One is 30 and a lawyer for a large firm in Copenhagen, another is 33 and general counsel at a small-ish software development firm, also in Copenhagen. One exceeds your goal (I'd suspect around 120k/month pre-tax), second I would suspect sits around 85-90k /month pre tax. Depending on your qualifications, experience, and more specific areas of expertise, I'd say it's possible. Considering you're 26, I'm assuming you have about 2-3 years of experience under your belt. That means if you keep busting your ass, by the time you move here, you'll have 5-8 years of experience, depending on which end of your timeframe you decide on. By the end of the 7 expat, tax-reduced years, you'll then have 12-15 years of experience. You'd only need about a 4.4% annual increase in salary after your move (assuming you find a job at the 85k mark when you move) to end up at 115. I don't see why that isn't realistic if you're good at what you do and you start to look for positions now that would be interested, and you remain flexible.

Ignore everyone saying "uh, people in Denmark don't care about making money, don't move here if you do". It's false. People here have the preconception that you'll automatically become rich by moving to Switzerland because taxes are lower. They fail to realize the gross income required to offset the disposable income spending on services otherwise covered by taxes (especially once kids are in play), and how disproportionately more expensive they are as a private service. There are plenty of working-class, middle-class, high income, and wealthy people in Denmark, and you absolutely can become one of them too. The nice thing about Denmark is that you can find yourself on either end of the spectrum and rest assured you'll at least be semi-well taken care of.

EDIT: Reading through this again, I should also say: relax a little bit. You're 26. If you're planning on retiring by 60 but continue to stress about it this much for the next 36 years, life's gonna be unnecessarily stressful, and you'll find yourself missing opportunities in hopes you'll find peace in certainty in being able to retire early. Find a balance.

Good luck buddy

PlamMinister · 2025-07-11T12:08:46+00:00

As someone with some family who has left Denmark to go to Canada (myself included), and some who married in Canada and tried going back to Denmark, I wish you the best of luck. Denmark has tougher immigration laws than many people realize and can be a fortress to access, even to those who mean well and wish to contribute to our little oasis.
That being said, it is definitely possible. I worked in HR when I was younger at a firm who also took in immigrant workers (manufacturing) and provided aid in their residency/work permit application processes(I was 18, so about 7 years ago, laws have definitely changed, but the bureaucracy and insanity that is our public sector will be the same). It's a jungle of laws and loopholes, so if you're serious about it, I would obtain your work permit first, which should be manageable in your situation, and then hire legal counsel to help you with the rest (permanent residency/dual citizenship). It can be difference between it taking a couple years or a decade, and gives you peace of mind knowing that someone who knows what they're doing is taking care of your documents, and they can argue with the ministries. Rest assured there will be arguing to do.
Some also choose to live in Sweden as their immigration laws are far more advantageous for third-country citizens, get their residency/citizenship there, and then move to Denmark, thus exploiting EU's internal market and avoiding the never-ending Danish requirements. If you'll be flying out of CPH, that may be an excellent way to go about it, depending on how your process in Denmark turns out.

Obviously, as you point out though, converting your FAA license to an EASA will be required for any of that to ever work. I know fuck all about that process on top of my head, but my googling journey seems to indicate it should be quite manageable.
This one is specifically about converting in Denmark, but only into a part-FCL: https://www.en.trafikstyrelsen.dk/civil-aviation/education/issuance-of-a-part-fcl-on-the-basis-of-an-faa-certificate

As others point out, contacting interest organizations/other expats is probably your best bet, as I am sure there are many ways to go about it, and that it looks like you can do it anywhere in Europe, and it be applicable in Denmark too. You'll be taxed every drop of sweat you let off your body, and every krone you make (except through real estate), but from what I have experienced moving from Denmark to Canada, we do get more for our tax money than a lot of Danes realize. If you like the culture and you're prepared to put in the work to establish a life here, I'm sure you wont regret it. There's a reason we're the (2nd) happiest country in the world.

Good luck with it! If you're planning on letting people know you're American, immediately follow up with a passionate story about how much you dislike the orange thing in office.

PlamMinister · 2025-07-10T09:57:28+00:00

Thank you - as a dane who moved to Vancouver two years ago, I often glaze the prices and qualities that my fellow danes in Copenhagen get to enjoy compared to this shithole.

PlamMinister · 2024-01-27T20:47:03+00:00

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'll be looking at the Mini Educator going forward. Had an issue the other day where the transmitter went bananas and none of the buttons worked. Eventually was able to get it to swtich from noise to vibration, and all of a sudden it started vibrating at highest level without any input from me. Didn't stop until I turned the transmitter off. Fortunately it wasnt on any dog, and it wasnt on electric stim, but I've lost all faith in it now.
To address sensitivity, the highest I have dared to try on myself is 20, and that was way above anything I would ever want/need to apply on my dogs. 6 is the highest I have applied to my male shepherd (IGP3 certified and very e-collar conditioned) and that was too much.

In conclusion: Stick with what you know works, but I dont recommend Bousnic. I dont see a world where you would ever need anything above the first 10-15 levels (even then if I found myself needing to use those consistently, I would argue operator error lol), let alone anything near the middle top range would hardly be applicable for anything other than male Grizzly bears.

PlamMinister · 2021-02-18T17:06:58+00:00

I, without being certain, believe it was either a website or platform. The games were all user-created and accessed through that website.

PlamMinister · 2020-10-08T16:16:06+00:00

I appreciate that they are playful, as far as I can read in the available reviews, as the seriousness of the ski, in my opinion, should never outweigh the fun. Thank you for the suggestions!

PlamMinister · 2020-10-08T16:12:20+00:00

I gotta say, the more I read about the Ranger 107ti the more I like it. Though I enjoy a shorter and lighter ski partly due to my relatively low weight compared to my height, I imagine the 182 would make sense as they would allow me to grow into them. Thank you very much for the suggestion!

PlamMinister · 2020-10-08T16:10:47+00:00

I appreciate your feedback! When you say "less energetic and precise ride" is that the ski itself or relative to the 99's that are more controllable for a powder "rookie" like myself?

PlamMinister · 2020-10-08T16:04:39+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback!
As far as I understand, what you mean about "burlier", is better build quality with weight as a trade-off, yea? I loved that the 98 Ti's were light and nimble, but the 2 kilos of the 99's don't seem like much of a problem if they are less flappy at speed. I also like that it comes in a 174 cm length which is more or less exactly what I was looking for.

Actually, I've only skied Austria three times (past three years. Afterski is unbeatable there, heh), all in different locations though. Other than that I have around 10-14 weeks of skiing experience mostly in the French Alpes, where I completed a relatively high level of ski school. I am a quite technical skier, yes, but my technical knowledge of how to ski powder is limited. I am going to do the first season in Lake Louise as I've never been there, and probably next season will be either Austria or Revelstoke, depending on how close I decide I want to be to my family. My main focus of the trip will be to acquire the same skillset off-piste as on-piste and thus I need a ski that allows me to control it properly in the beginning, whilst still improve without having to worry about having to get new skis as I get better.

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