The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
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While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
  • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 days ago

    How hard is it for an American family with two “desirable” skill sets (we’re both software engineers) to emigrate to Denmark? Asking, uh… for a friend.

    • YetiMindtrick@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      That depends, if you are nice white people, then you might well be welcome, while my Brazilian wife with a post doc and experience in renewable power grids can’t get a job interview to save her life, despite those being in demand skills. My fellow Danes are racist as fuck.

    • Pissmidget@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 days ago

      Well, their way of counting is all messed up, and so is their language, so it will probably require slot of patience. That or a lot of schnapps.

      Source: Have been to Denmark.

    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 days ago

      I’m sorry to say, but if you’re not an EU citizen it’s quite hard actually. Denmark has super strict immigration laws, unfortunately. But if you get a job in Denmark, you can have them help you apply for a work visa. Once you have the visa, the actual practicalities of living in Denmark are not too difficult, although there will definitely be some obstacles on your way.