Life in Denmark

  • More and more schools in Copenhagen introduce driving bans in the morning

    More and more schools in Copenhagen introduce driving bans in the morning

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    The Copenhagen Post

    Several schools in Copenhagen have introduced a ban on cars passing by in the morning, typically to drop children off. The idea is to create safer school roads and make it easier to monitor the traffic.

  • Highs and lows: Five Turkish expats discuss relocating to Denmark

    Highs and lows: Five Turkish expats discuss relocating to Denmark

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    Lotte van den Hout

    Moving abroad brings many changes, especially moving from the Anatolian or Southern European region to a Scandinavian country. Here, five Turkish expats share their experiences of moving from Turkey to Denmark for work and education.

  • Condoms are “boring” and “difficult”, so Danish youth choose to have sex without them

    Condoms are “boring” and “difficult”, so Danish youth choose to have sex without them

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    The Copenhagen Post

    A new study by the World Health Organization WHO shows an “alarming decline” in the use of condoms by European teenagers. This also applies in Denmark.

  • How to easily get your child into a snowsuit – without blood, sweat and tears

    How to easily get your child into a snowsuit – without blood, sweat and tears

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    Christina Kronback

    As we find ourselves in early September, it may still be hard to imagine colder days ahead. But in the Nordics, winter is never too far away. So let’s take a step ahead and talk about a Danish winter essential for your little one – the snowsuit.

  • How a group of Turkish expats found their feet in Copenhagen by mixing Danish and Turkish culture

    How a group of Turkish expats found their feet in Copenhagen by mixing Danish and Turkish culture

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    Lotte van den Hout

    Turkish people are the biggest minority group in Denmark. TEID, Turkish Expats in Denmark, brings newly arrived Turkish expats together in a community that helps to navigate new experiences in Denmark, share Turkish food and music, meet new people across cultures, and contribute to Danish society.

  • Why are Danes so Danish?

    Why are Danes so Danish?

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    Jay Cannon

    Devastation started creeping in around application 183. I understand that I am not the most qualified person in the world, but when you don’t get a response from New Balance about selling shoes, doubt takes over.

  • Danes’ life expectancy rising again after pandemic decline

    Danes’ life expectancy rising again after pandemic decline

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    Christina Kronback

    Women can expect to live 4.6 months longer on average – the biggest year on year increase in 27 years – according to the latest lifespan model results from Denmark’s largest pension and insurance company, Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP).

  • How do I deal with my colleagues after summer?

    How do I deal with my colleagues after summer?

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    Why do summer holidays put Danes in such a bad mood? Don’t they know they’re the luckiest people in the world? Five weeks of holiday! Trips to Mallorca! That’s such a fantasy to people back at home (the US). And then they come back to work and spend all day complaining about the flight or the food or the weather. What gives?

  • Conan and the houseboat in Copenhagen

    Conan and the houseboat in Copenhagen

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    After Woody Harrelson has asked everybody and their mother to buy a houseboat in Copenhagen with him, author Xinxin Ren Gudbjörnsson writes a letter to his latest target, Conan O’Brien, convincing him to take up the offer.

  • When Janteloven meets Hollywood

    When Janteloven meets Hollywood

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    Looking back on the moment I realized I didn’t understand Danish culture at all.

  • Who are the internationals in Denmark, and where do they come from?

    Who are the internationals in Denmark, and where do they come from?

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    In the first part of an analysis of internationals coming to Denmark, statistician Sa’ar Karp Gershon shares insights on how the Danish population has changed over the last 30 years. Did the policies regarding foreign residency and acquiring Danish citizenship affect those changes?

  • A sense of the city

    A sense of the city

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    Owen O’Sullivan

    “I’m often asked to recommend restaurants and bars for friends visiting Copenhagen. Recently, when asked about my favorite place to eat, I was surprised to find myself stumped. To be honest, it has never occurred to me to experience a city through gastronomy – I think it can make visiting new cities feel homogeneous.” Here, podcaster, writer and comedian Owen O’Sullivan makes the case for ditching the itinerary and simply walking the city.