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Moving from the US to the EU soon... Any advice? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all!

We're very excited to move to Denmark soon as lifelong Americans. I have a good job lined up, and we're set on a place to live for a while.

Any advice from people who have done it, looked it up, had friends who have done it, etc? Just in general :)

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Do not believe this liar. Danes speak the truth.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Too bad nobody can understand what they are saying

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Could a Dane confirm any of this or review it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Am Danish. This is fairly accurate, a solid 60% of Danish is just random guttural sounds. This documentary however misses that the remainder is 30% raw deadpan sarcasm, and 10% English words pronounced in an awful accent.

To contrast and compare, this is an average modern Swedish television quiz show: https://youtu.be/lzv6ljgwgzs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Frederick,

Thank you very much for this quality review, comment, and link. I'll have a look this evening.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Euro-fight!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Scandi-fight is even better. All the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians secretly love each other (basically the same people and the same societies) but they’ve made an international sport of dissing each other. It’s like three brothers come home for Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"Finnish him!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Denmark isn't real, it's a fabrication of big pork to keep us in line. Don't believe their lies.