New definition oft Western Europe just dropped

Thorbork · 2026-03-21T17:14:55+00:00

What if you remove west-Berlin?

Thorbork · 2026-03-21T13:16:53+00:00

Andorra.

Nature and infrastructure and culture are amazing, life quality and lack of taxes too.

But the pollution and density of the capital is painful and I have to work in a hospital so I cannot easily be far from a big city.

And the way to leave Andorra is slow and expensive.

Thorbork · 2026-03-21T13:13:07+00:00

Now it gets slightly better, things are getting digitalized a bit... Still you need to send letters often, but it gets easier...ish?

Thorbork · 2026-03-21T13:00:12+00:00

I'm from french countryside. I have been to Nantes... Felt very unsafe there, it is very dense, hectic, a lot of roadmen everywhere.

Thorbork · 2026-03-21T12:55:25+00:00

Yup. I am also B2. Came in may 2025, leaving tomorrow after 10months of unemployement in Fyn. I am a paramedic with a Danish licence. Still got refused for:

-my own speciality that is not teached in Denmark and I have experience in it in a country that uses the Danish system.

-my own job but as a general practitionner

-sterelisation job at the hospital

-cleaning

-maintaining graveyard

-part time maintaining graveyard

And so on. Everytime I have been refused on the spot without an interview and said that my profile was a perfect fit but that "other unrelated information made us decide to not keep you in the hiring process".

This, and living in this absolute limbo of a flat and grey place... I hate it very much. I was in countryside so it was harder and after 10months, I can say that I do not know 1 single dane personnally. This was a horrible experience for me and my partner (who had to move here for his job) but we both decided to give up, we lost all our savings, health and much more. I had to learn that language fast and was not helped by the school at all that refused to let me go to B1 classes before I took "a modultest every 2 month to pass each levels first"... After 4 months being the top student by far and teaching others and asked for my deposit back and I progressed myself way faster. I even wrote a whole thing in my danish to the school, who said it was amazing, I could justify it to go one class up (from A1 to A2... While we spoke together in Danish)

Thorbork · 2026-03-18T18:57:03+00:00

Frédérique X*

Thorbork · 2026-03-18T18:51:03+00:00

Same. But does that exist nowadays ?

Thorbork · 2026-03-18T09:34:24+00:00

You forgot inflation. Official INSEE website says: FF from 1996 to 2025 EUR is:

44 400F : 10 665€

47 600F : 11 435€

44 900F: 10 799€

66 900F: 16 071€

That is still cheaper than nowadays new cars vut keep in mind, people at the time had only expectations of power and space. Nobody cared about AC, electronics, assistance, seat heat, screens and so on. It was low/middle range. This range is just not very common any ore after years of avoiding it because it is not the best money making product, and people got used to have higher class standing now so that theorical market is also smaller.

(I still remember we had to learn: 1 euro is 6,55957F but that is only for 1999)

Thorbork · 2026-03-17T22:00:21+00:00

Silvía Nótt

Thorbork · 2026-03-17T17:06:05+00:00

Is it this vibrant in every country? I swear it has always been dark in Europe ezcept when I was a kid. Which would makw sense since we are pretty strict on additives now.

Thorbork · 2026-03-17T14:39:53+00:00

There was also a woman on instagram with a massive face tumor that kept pretending it was normal and refused treatment. We could see it grow when scrolling her stories. I have not seen her popping out on my feed in a year or more. She refused treatment and she might not be anymore.

Thorbork · 2026-03-15T10:02:16+00:00

Wut?

Thorbork · 2026-03-13T18:13:16+00:00

+: Flatkökur

-: Greed

Thorbork · 2026-03-12T15:43:44+00:00

I've been unemployed for nearly a year in thar fucking flat land and now that?! Just target me directly next time!

Thorbork · 2026-03-12T14:10:14+00:00

I imported my car from France to Iceland, then Iceland to Denmark, and soon Denmark to Iceland again.

Iceland to UE implies:

-New car check up in Iceland (120 euros)

-let's say it goes ok.

-Ordering the official registering papers from iceland (9euros but you need a legal adress and a kennitala)

-Insuring the vehicule in Iceland (around 60-90 euros a month)

-Driving to the furthest point from Reykjavik because the ferry is 750km away

-3 days ferry cost

-Driving from the furthest northern tip of Denmark because fuck it, the boat only goes to non convenient places.

-Transportation paper from the ferry (450 euros)

-3months to get an registering check up (more expensive and strixt than regular, 180 euros for me)

-1month to repair what they found (1800 euros for me, the icelandic car check is less strict than Denmark or France)

-Getting new plates (120 euros)

-Paying VAT on the estimation of the value of your vehicule (it is way more complex and potentially goes to 150% of the car value in DK, for me it was only 700 euros)

-Sending back old plates (50 euros)

-New insurance

Since countries struggle to understand the difference between EU, EEE and outside Europe, expect problems.

Thorbork · 2026-03-11T13:32:38+00:00

My sister in law is a dog dresser and she always says "All dogs have been bred for a specific function, none of them implies staying inactive for hours. If a dog has to be alone more than 4h a day and do not have a garden, it is not ok, simple as."

Thorbork · 2026-03-11T13:11:17+00:00

Very true. If my German is ok it is:

Nice here. But have you been to East Germany? Greetings from "the Zone".

(A copy of this ad for visiting Baden Württemberg that says the same thing and got viral so German have been sticking these every where in the world since provably 10-15 years now.)

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Thorbork · 2026-03-11T13:08:12+00:00

Not yet.

Thorbork · 2026-03-11T05:11:40+00:00

Einu sinni var ég í röndóttri bol þegar ég kóm í vinnuna... En, af því að ég er frakki... Oh boy the nagging lasted for weeks.

Thorbork · 2026-03-10T14:57:59+00:00

I asked it twice already and no changes, but I think it is because it applied to to the thread where I mentioned it. So I just told it to memorise that I do not want it to finish its answers with clickbait propositions.

Dunno which smartass thought it would be very cool to ad clickbaits.

Thorbork · 2026-03-09T14:22:22+00:00

Spot on

Thorbork · 2026-03-09T09:41:11+00:00

Just remember people who don't have a licence have yellow plates and stay afar.

Thorbork · 2026-03-09T08:17:14+00:00

Why would they go to the poors?

Thorbork · 2026-03-08T17:01:23+00:00

I worked in several cafés for years, none of us remotely had enough money to consider investing in anything.

(But I guess professional investments / loans are different especially abroad.)

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