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From the American girl who was so very lucky to be a part of your wonderful culture for 1.5 years, a place that felt like home from the first second I set foot in Jylland. My residency ran out. I have traveled the 8 months since to Portland, Seattle, Victoria, Quebec, Burlington, San Antonio, San Francisco, Cleveland, Melbourne, Dayton, Portland-Maine, Colorado Springs, I am now in NYC, all to find a place that felt as much like home as Denmark. It does not exist. I am working hard every day to become more fluent in Danish, I will do anything to return. I am working harder than I ever have in my life. I was a military Captain, I am a chemist, I am an artist, I am a person who embraces your culture as I admire it more than any other in the world. Why do you not want me? I had a job in Aarhus, I was attending sprogskole hver dage (yes, I know there are errors), I made my home in Denmark and I worked very hard for it. Why do you let the people who don't care about your culture stay but yet I cannot?
[quote=jt1033;3564614]From the American girl who was so very lucky to be a part of your wonderful culture for 1.5 years, a place that felt like home from the first second I set foot in Jylland. My residency ran out. I have traveled the 8 months since to Portland, Seattle, Victoria, Quebec, Burlington, San Antonio, San Francisco, Cleveland, Melbourne, Dayton, Portland-Maine, Colorado Springs, I am now in NYC, all to find a place that felt as much like home as Denmark. It does not exist. I am working hard every day to become more fluent in Danish, I will do anything to return. I am working harder than I ever have in my life. I was a military Captain, I am a chemist, I am an artist, I am a person who embraces your culture as I admire it more than any other in the world. Why do you not want me? I had a job in Aarhus, I was attending sprogskole hver dage (yes, I know there are errors), I made my home in Denmark and I worked very hard for it. Why do you let the people who don't care about your culture stay but yet I cannot?
Jennifer Holm[/quote
Denmark is really nice. Im Swedish so I have been there a few times. Don't you love the laid back lifestyle over in Scandinavia.
Sincerely,
-- Come on a student visa and attend college.
-- Looks like it's hard to get a work visa, as it always is with European countries, but maybe you'll get lucky and they'll really need your skills.
-- Maybe you could meet a nice Dane and get married?
Your attitude is a good reason why you should not live in Denmark.
I think it's a valid question. My answer from what I can see is immigrants provide a dependant voter base for socialist politicans. If Europe started taking on lots of hard-working, family/values-oriented people (of any persuasion), it might embaress the slothenly Europeans. Young Danish kids would be exposed to extremely dangerous ideas like christanity, capitalism, gun ownership and personal responsiblity.
-- Maybe you could meet a nice Dane and get married?
Which is not a guarantee you can immigrate. I'm married to a Dane, and it is still not possible to move there unless we live in Sweden or Gemany for a while first. If that Dane has a good income and a reasonanly sized (according to the gov't) place to live already, then it will be easier.
From the American girl who was so very lucky to be a part of your wonderful culture for 1.5 years, a place that felt like home from the first second I set foot in Jylland. My residency ran out. I have traveled the 8 months since to Portland, Seattle, Victoria, Quebec, Burlington, San Antonio, San Francisco, Cleveland, Melbourne, Dayton, Portland-Maine, Colorado Springs, I am now in NYC, all to find a place that felt as much like home as Denmark. It does not exist. I am working hard every day to become more fluent in Danish, I will do anything to return. I am working harder than I ever have in my life. I was a military Captain, I am a chemist, I am an artist, I am a person who embraces your culture as I admire it more than any other in the world. Why do you not want me? I had a job in Aarhus, I was attending sprogskole hver dage (yes, I know there are errors), I made my home in Denmark and I worked very hard for it. Why do you let the people who don't care about your culture stay but yet I cannot?
Sincerely,
Jennifer Holm
Denmark has some illogical immigration laws. You can thank the Danish People's Party (far right) for that. Based on the most recent election, it's going to be a long time before they relax some of the strict rules that they came up with.
Ufortunately you are right, the immigration laws in Denmark have become very very strict. it is hard to get a job in DK unless yu speak danish or may get a highly professional job, wwhere you are a spcialist i.e. University and so on.
Sorry... from a Dane from Ã…rhus..
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my plea. I think I just needed a hug as I'm completely exhausted from this whole experience. I'm finally gaining my footing in the US and wish to thank all the people who have been so supportive during my desperate home searching travels. I never imagined I would feel this way as I didn't have any shock moving to Denmark. Sorry it's taken so long for me to respond, I don't have my computer with me yet.
Hi ktalley. I agree, the Scandinavian lifestyle is wonderful. I'm American btw.
I was married to a Dane which is how I came to know Denmark to begin with but I wouldn't do that just to move to another country. I knew nothing of Scandinavia before I met my husband.
DKF, looking over the laws we thought we'd have to make our home in Sweden too but after completing the process everything worked out simpler than imagined. We rented a 1 bedroom apartment and had minimal income but the Danish minimum wage is much higher than the US so it's not hard to meet those requirements, unless one falls under the 24 year age limit. Let me know if I can help you at all with my experiences.
Even though I was caught up in it, the tight immigration laws are something I admired, perhaps because of the novelty of being somewhere where problems are acted upon by the government. I know some of the restrictions are more extreme than many people wish they were, but it's a lot better than doing nothing.
Shizzles- Just when I thought I could not possibly be more frightened or weirded out by being in the US lol.
C Jesssen, it would be a big mistake to not require immigrants to speak the language, assimilate, and become educated assets. Otherwise your charming culture would slowly dissolve away. Personally, I found Denmark did a good job to provide a means for satisfying the requirements, free sprogskolen and career counselors and access to Danish mentors even. I'm continuing my education with a private tutor over here and I've found a wonderful Danish American group to be active in that is a welcome reprieve.
Perhaps I will only be able to visit a few months a year in Denmark at best, who knows, but I'm going to work as hard as I can.
Good luck all with your 'best place to live' search,
Jen
jt1033 you are quite right, it would benefit denmark to open up more.
But the scene in denmark right now is so that the jobs get more and more highly skilled, it can be hard for danes or even the ancestors of immigrant these days.
There is not a lot of unemployent, but the labour market is quite strict about sprogskole/danish and other qualification. i might nok be so hard for an american - I dont know.
Right now is the wonderful time to visit Denmark, the weather is finde, the trees green, the evenings long and the ice cream shops open
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