Greetings from Denmark 2022. I live one hour from Roskilde and it is so nice to see these old movies. Denmark is still a bit like a fairytale, well at least the government is full of muppets. ha ha ha Less than 6.000.000 people live in Denmark. Most of them are satisfied with their life. Normal work is 37 hours a week and most people have benefits like 5-6 weeks of vacation depending on the contract. Danish pastry is still a daily thing, usually for a social gathering at work or with family and some coffee.

@zeusapollo8688

2 жыл бұрын

Green butcher was such good Cinema

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

I have never had anyone in my circle of friends and family, who eats pastry on a daily basis. Weekly maybe. Personally I maybe eat it once every half year.

@thomasbarchen

2 жыл бұрын

Your country and your people are lovely!

Well, not so much fairytale anymore, but still; compared to the rest of the world, and if the weather treats us, we probably have the best beer…sorry.. country in the world…

@familienkoch5016

2 жыл бұрын

Carlsberg

@carscloseup

2 жыл бұрын

Yep..

@betablocker1760

2 жыл бұрын

Oh as a german im afraid ill have to disagree with you

@carscloseup

2 жыл бұрын

@@betablocker1760 About the beer??😂

@betablocker1760

2 жыл бұрын

Well .... what else?

We even have an island called LOLland (our 4.th largest)^^ Denmark was such a nice place, once - true that!

@gerineversleeps2233

2 жыл бұрын

I lived there in Horslunde

@mnp3713

2 жыл бұрын

LOL-Land is the reason for us beeing so happy - laughing out loud

@AntimatePcCustom

2 жыл бұрын

then there is "Middel-fart"

@JegSkaSkiido

2 жыл бұрын

It still is a nice place! You just gotta know where to look.

@Ludovicus1769

2 жыл бұрын

Still is

Lovely slow paced living. Quiet streets. Fresh homemade food.

10:03 cute cats 😻

Sad to read through the comments, everyone seemingly agree's that nothing is as nice anymore.. which I too agree with..

@kim8dk

2 жыл бұрын

With the exception of loss of nature things are nice. People here in Denmark are just so extremely pampered, we sometimes forget what real problems other countries are facing.

Such a quaint, beautiful, place. Would love to move there permanently, leaving this U.S. hellhole.

@xxxxxxxyyyyyyy

2 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind that the salaries are lower, taxes and prices are higher.

@loginavoidence12

2 жыл бұрын

you have an entire continent the size of all of Europe combined and yet you can't find a better place to live anywhere? doesn't seem like the US is the problem here.

@mnp3713

2 жыл бұрын

follow the channel Travelin' Young american family moved to DK

@jasonrhames6182

2 жыл бұрын

@@loginavoidence12 It's the management and the derelict citizens that I could do without.

@frederikmangor5527

2 жыл бұрын

@@xxxxxxxyyyyyyy the salaries are not lower lol, and you pay more in taxes yes, but then you also get free Health Care, schools etc. You get so many benefits When everyone pays High taxes. my uncles pay 58% in taxes, and yes i Think thats too High. and not fair but most people pay around 38%-44%

Denmark as a fairytale country has always been published to draw tourist to come to Denmark.But the reality is another tale.

@Haxcha

2 жыл бұрын

Tror du skal være rimelig glad for at være født i Danmark. Du finder sku ikke noget meget bedre.

Nice

looks beautiful, but things change. Europeans say, "everything is bigger in America." i couldn't stand to live in such confined densely populated spaces. i need to have my space, like walking outside wearing nothing but an open bathrobe with a shotgun in one hand and a cigarette in the other, using those dinner plates i got at the second hand store as clay pigeons. and nobody around to bother about it too. it's the American way

@Peter337

2 жыл бұрын

As a Dane, I envy you!

@carscloseup

2 жыл бұрын

Confined and densely are not entirely true; if you live in the countryside as I do, you'll find places where you can do as you describe; just this morning I was walking outside my house, wearing only a bathrobe, smoking a cigarette enjoying the quietness, with a mile to nearest neighbour.. no guns though...

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

Of course you can do this in Denmark too. Difference is, you can't own an AR-15, and no one wants to shoot you. So you don't really need the shut gun for other purposes, than to go hunting, or have some fun. Besides from the stricter gun laws, we probably have more freedom here, than in the US.

@loginavoidence12

2 жыл бұрын

@@akyhne lol serious case of the redass. no worries, you'll be an American some day if you try hard enough

@lhpl

2 жыл бұрын

Big or small depends on what and how you measure. In many ways USA is "less than" or "behind" Denmark. Similarily, USA is "ahead" or "bigger" on many points where most people would prefer to be behind or small - things like stupidity, guns per capita, cost of health insurance, etc. Most Europeans don't look up to USA anymore.

I want to visit!

@Exiledk

2 жыл бұрын

Better save a lot up then. The most expensive country in Europe... Taxes are unbelievable..

@123dillerfar

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome to visit! :)

@jesperhansen24

2 жыл бұрын

Do you?? All I want is to leave this shithole

"And over here you'll find Hamlet's bare bodkin next to a pile of cheese danish."

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

Said nowhere in the video, lyin' garlic eater.

Danmark længe leve !!!

@Ollox123

2 жыл бұрын

ja!!!

Haha Odense Cathedral is not the “most impressive” gothic cathedral in Denmark. It is quite small for a cathedral and undecorated. I would say the most impressive is Roskilde Cathedral or Aarhus Cathedral. Thay probably only said it in the video, because H.C. Andersen is from Odense haha.

Hard to believe that just a decade before this film was made, Denmark was under Nazi occupation.

@civilservant9528

2 жыл бұрын

What's so hard to believe about that? I'm assuming you're american

@ingeabrahamsen4684

2 жыл бұрын

@@civilservant9528 Why this aggression? The comment makes perfect sense. The pictures show a people and a country in peace and harmony - not the first thing that springs to mind when you think nazi occupation, is it? And why this biased insult about being american? Why is that okay - I seriously doubt, you would say "you must be african or chinese"...

2:40 heselaggegor castle? as a dane, I genuinely have no idea what he's trying to say lmao

@Daemiadk

2 жыл бұрын

Guessing Hesselager gård

Don't fool yourself. In so many ways modern Denmark is much more of a fairytale country than Denmark of the 40's.

"gay copenhagen" oof

@Daemiadk

2 жыл бұрын

Gay once did mean happy. It does have a different meaning now though

I have been in Denmark two months. A very bad experience. No rights, no justice. Only a jungle. But this video is not strange: the Scandinavians countries make every day much propaganda because it is important for them to sell the lie that they are the happiest lands in the world.

@hansen0000

2 жыл бұрын

???? Rights, justice, a jungle of what??

@meseretgglove8093

2 жыл бұрын

i believe fairytale lands are southern Europe ( Italy, Greece, Spain) , eastern islands ( fiji , thailand etc) , and some African countries ( Zanzibar , Kenya etc)

@JeppeBeier

2 жыл бұрын

This video is scripted, recorded, and published by Americans. Though I don't see any propaganda here, I just see descriptions of historical tourist spots in Denmark.

@Lars1963Piil

2 жыл бұрын

@@meseretgglove8093 ... and to repeat oneself :-o

@christianhejlesen

2 жыл бұрын

What rights didn't you have, and where were justice not upheld? BTW it's not the Scandinavian countries that postulates their the happiest in the world, that a report by the UN, go look it up.

50% tax and then 25% VAT. Welcome to Denmark😖

@Hippic

2 жыл бұрын

Then move to the US where tax is 12% and they have universal healthcare, free education + plus you are being payed for take a education ...ohh that right they have any of those things 🤔

@PatrickBergersen

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah this place sucks

@JeppeBeier

2 жыл бұрын

We get enough out of the taxes to make it worthwhile. The tax starts at 39% and when you earn enough to pay a higher bracket, you only pay that higher percentage of the amount you earn above the bracket limit. Besides that we also have a good amount of money we can earn that we don't pay any tax off each year, so it really isn't as bad as it might look if you only read the percentages.

@AurioDK

2 жыл бұрын

@@JeppeBeier Uneducated people are everywhere. Worked in Portugal for a year, paid 36% flat in taxes of a miserable salary and there was no personal deduction like in Denmark. Was even worse in Germany, no personal deduction either and 44% flat tax rate.

@loginavoidence12

2 жыл бұрын

honest question, at what point do you danes just say "screw it" and quit working? i would shake the system down for all the gibs and welfare possible. nobody should be working to give away ³/⁴ of earnings, that's outlandish and pointless indentured servitude

The fairytale of evil - Denmark and, when H. C. Andersen was alive, the Danes hated him ...

@ingeabrahamsen4684

2 жыл бұрын

What nonsens is that ... It's true that Andersen, at times felt that he was more celebratet, admired and praised outside of Denmark, mainly if one of his plays (for the theater) did not become a succes. He was extremely sensitive and vulnerable all his life, so he took it very much to heart if his work wasn't recieved as well, as he had hoped for. When you reach great fame, there will always be envy and hostillity from certain people, but to say that he was hated by the danes is absurd. He had lots of lifelong close friendships, dined out every night. And stayed, on shift, as a most honored guest, at all the castles and big estates for longer periods of time. As a child, a fortune teller told him that he would some day become a great man, and that Odense some day would become illuminated in his honor. And so it did, when the city in 1867 celebrated him with a torchlight procession, and made him an honorary citizen. He was definitely not hated.

@Jetmab04

2 жыл бұрын

@@ingeabrahamsen4684 ok dear Inge...I didn't write this to offend anyone but yes, what I wrote is what is known outside DK.. H. C. Andersen did indeed become a great man...all over the world 😊 What I like about him, is not as much his writings as his paper clips which I love. I never saw any of them in Denmark, during my 40 years in the country but, have seen them exhibited outside Denmark....they are stunning!

i believe fairytale lands are southern Europe ( Italy, Greece, Spain) , eastern islands ( fiji , thailand etc) , and some African countries ( Zanzibar , Kenya etc) No way anyone can call fairytale land Northen Europe LOL

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

And why is that?

@tim3207

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, that most fairytales about castles/princess´ etc is based on northern living... just look at something like the beauty and the beast, the village potrayal is exactly what you saw in this video, could also be like English/Uk country side living.. but def northern EU-mode... and the list goes on, sure there is magical fairytales from around the world too, but the main blueprint, is northern europa middleage lifestyle*

@meseretgglove8093

2 жыл бұрын

@@akyhne Sun , beach , magical scenery , happy people , variety of food nd the list goes on..

@akyhne

2 жыл бұрын

​@@meseretgglove8093 That was some odd choices. Sun? We have long daylight summers in the north. Beach? Denmark is known for its stunning beaches. Magical scenery? Ever been to Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and Norway? Why does many movies have stunning scenes filmed in these areas? Bond, M:I, GOT, Vikings, and many, many more. Happy people? The Nordic countries all ranks in the top ten of happiest people. Variety of food? All countries have a variety of great food. Whether you like it, is subjective, of course. But just saying - the Nordic cuisine, especially from Denmark, is the new black. Some of the highest ranking restaurants in the world are in the Nordic countries, including the best in the world several times - the restaurant Noma. The list goes on? Please tell me. I'm curious. Richest countries maybe? The Nordic. Wealthiest population? The Nordic. Highest GDP per capita? The Nordic countries are all in the top 20! Want to go into other rankings like education level, best healthcare, lowest number of work hours during a year, paid maternity leave etc? I didn't think so!

Saving the very best for last SPOILER ALERT : Danish Pastry. mmmmmmmMM