Yes, I agree. But that wasn't the point. The point was - as someone who has lived in multiple countries (including Denmark) and comes from a pretty corrupt and not-so-well-developed country regarding social and economical benefits, I would like to make the danes know that they really should appreciate the system they have there cause there are very few countries that have things developed in such a comfortable and supporting way. And - of course every country has it's flaws and weaknesses, but it's never bad to appreciate the benefits you have.

In the first year of our current governments statehood there was hired an additional 40.000 people in the public sector. At least half of those are what is called "cold hands" that don't enrich the welfare state one bit. If you are unaware of what isn't needed in the country with the worlds largest public sector (per capita) then you haven't researched the subject for even 5 minutes. Also tour de france does more than "Bring joy to people", it attracts alot of tourists to the country and is good for the marketing of the country. It is an investment, not needless spending Also, when i say wasteful i mean in terms of economy. Private corporations and especially large ones are very good at minimazing said wastefulness as that is what needs to be done to grow the organization. This does not apply to the public sector

mostly underfunded as in the vast majority of schools have completely outdated maps and history books, not enough money for extra teachers, smaller schools having to shut down left and right forcing kids from villages to travel further to bigger schools that are in most cases already too filled - it's literally been made fun of for years that top politicans will tell people to keep their kids in public schools while they put their own kids in private schools; what a strange coincidence and education is NOT free, it's funded by taxes - theres a huge difference and yes, the police here is a joke I can't even remember the last time I saw an officer walking around in the streets, but they sure as shit have plenty of police officers ready to write ur a ticket and making sure u dont have any weed in ur pockets, at the same time u wont get any help if u call the police and tell them ur bike was stolen or ur house was robbed for less than 100.000kr. also in most cases they will happily lie to u and tell u if u record them they can charge with some made up law which is illegal btw, and if u feel unsatisfied with ur encounter u can complain to DUP who are managed by former police officers? how big of a joke is that? and I literally don't give two shits about what statistics and indices say these last couple of months have been plenty proof that Denmark is extremely corrupt; the government and it's support parties not wanting to look into the mink scandal, the major of Aalborg accepting bribes, minister of food has been caught using his minister credit card for private transactions, a union boss was found to have pulled 3.7 million kr into his own pockets from the union, minister of culture just spent half a mil on a trip to sillicon valley to hand over a letter that was already sent months prior + no one were even there to receive it and she spent an extra day driving a leased car around the coastline lmao matter of fact it seems to me that u suffer from a total lack of looking around u, I never said Denmark was terrible but it's very clear that we are paying way too much for our social services and a great example of that is looking at how the people in charge spend that money I like certain aspects of this model - like u mentioned i.e. SU, I think it's a wonderful system - but dont fucking tell me that this is the best when its clearly not, #294 Canada literally has almost all of the same perks as Denmark, but at the fraction of the price and ofc they also have political issues and corruption cases but it's at a much smaller scale

its not cold there lol.

not at all

Hmm maybe

During winter the lowest it goes here is usually -20 maybe -25 degrees and during summer its usually 25-35 degrees. Living costs should also be quite cheap, at least compared to a country like Denmark.

Our houses are so well insulated, its relatively cheap to cool down the whole house, because it will keep the cool inside as well as it keeps the cool outside during winter. Of course it costs some money, but getting an AC in the first place already costs money.

That's the Nordic countries, not Scandinavian.

That is simply incorrect. Just say the Nordic countries, it's really not that hard.

Yes Gamla Stan / Vasastan are poor areas

There are tons of indian immigrants in the UK Even a fair amount in scandinavia Just because Belgium and Greece are both in the EU doesn't mean they have even a remotely similar culture. I almost couldn't come up with 2 more different european countries.