Comment by ionwake
7 months ago
Denmark, is a great country, however even I notice problems here as there are in other countries. Corruption and poor decisions. For example a local government office has a brand new facade finish ( amongst other work) that has taken about 4 years to do, its an entire building. Tall buildings are banned in Denmark so its actually surprisingly imposing. Trouble is, they did not use the tax funds to improve the local school for children. I am not joking, its a literal portacabin. Yes there are normal schools in buildings, but the main primary school for this village, ( and bear in mind this is denmark where most things are still carefully constructed and beautiful), is 2 literal portacabins / part of a small modern house, in dire need of upgrading.
Im not saying the new government building is saurons tower, but there was no need to divert funds to improve it, it was just one of the buildings in a non descript village. I wouldnt normally care, but I know someone who goes to the primary school, and apparently it was a big upset that the funds for it went to this government building instead.
Before anyone thinks I am being mean to DK, a very similar thing happened in the UK, the local library that used to be in a large building got moved to essentially a backwater dark room in a terrible part of town, and the main building converted to bigger nicer officer for the local government.
Its a problem I am seeing all over europe.
Just sat badly with me.
EDIT > WTF everyone always so touchy. Everyone just relax ok this is a public forum.
> Tall buildings are banned in Denmark so its actually surprisingly imposing.
False. Buildings higher than 5 stories require municipal council approval (whereas normally it's a functional approval, not a political one), but that's only in Copenhagen. Other municipal councils do not have the same restrictions, and there are plenty of examples of tall buildings in Denmark.
The restriction in Copenhagen is historical, due to the fires that consumed the city; so to increase fire safety, buildings were height restricted. That most of Denmark otherwise don't have a lot of tall buildings is primarily due to a lack of demand.
I know bro I am just keeping it simple for people who arent danish.
Thank you for the elaboration though
I don't get the point of your comment. Some random municipality construction case has nothing to do with this story.
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As I read through the first two paragraphs of your comment I was thinking "that sounds like the sort of thing that happens here in the UK" and I have often though there is a general deterioration in the Europe (and as far as I know north America too).
Then I found you seem to think much the same.
> Tall buildings are banned in Denmark
This of course not true.
Im simplifying the complex rules for the crowd , you didnt pick up on that but its ok bro I appreciate the clarification.
>Denmark, is a great country, however even I notice problems here as there are in other countries. Corruption and poor decisions. For example a local government office has a brand new facade finish ( amongst other work) that has taken about 4 years to do, its an entire building.
I'm sorry but when my own president is hard at work enriching himself and his family to the tune of Billions of dollars at the expense of the citizens here this sounds like a joke.
I don't know if it's 'corruption' or just a different sort of 'common sense' that needs to be corrected. There is a reason that 'if you've got nothing to hide why not consent to the search' is ages old and still present.
You don't always have to assign corrupt intent to people who may just be ignorant.
Maybe Denmark isn't as beautiful as you describe and you are simply biased.
The scandinavian countries are widely upheld as some of the best and most civilized countries in the world second only to japan and switzerland. Sure countries are complicated affairs and we can bicker for years about these kinds of opinions, but it's not some kind of weirdo niche to think denmark is a far above-average country.
But several not so pretty aspects were just pointed out in detail.
Perhaps they're just countries, with their own problems and benefits, just like everyone else.
Or, should I just continue to parrot a delusional fantasy of Scandinavian countries being the promised land, with no problems whatsoever?
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They were. Currently I would avoid Sweden: https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/sweden-immigrants-crisis/ Other European countries will follow. And yeah, I am against uncontrolled immigration. That’s probably the single way to destroy developed country very quickly.
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> Denmark, is a great country
Is it? From the outside it looks like a nanny state where every piece of individualism is removed.