I have been in Copenhagen this week

Monday, September 19, 2022 Francisco 0 Comments

“No one gets into trouble without their own help.”
– Danish Proverb


“Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.”
– Danish Proverb


1.Flat country

2.No police in sight, I haven't seen one

3.I haven't seen anyone checking if I had a train ticket (I had a 3 day pass)

4.There are no doors to enter the Metro

5.You enter the BUS in any door you don't have to show the driver your pass

6.Apparentely people ride bikes everywhere

7.People have no house maids , they do it themselves

8.No UBER , difficult to get a cab

9.People work very little

10.No stress, no one complains in a queue , no one changes lanes in the traffic or does crazy maneuvers...

11. Design everywhere which means  things are easy to use

12.I went to Lidl , just one cashier open, no one complained. Good business for Lidl the only cashier was fully used.

13.Satrurday night lot's of kids used their bikes to go out at night instead of using UBER etc...

14.No security guards at the door of any building

15.I went to SONJA café , service is very slow, I order a coffee juice & eggs. After 30 min they gave me the money back. 5 people could not do the eggs in 30 minutes. service is relaxed. zero rush

My conclusion is that is a very efficient country , efficient,  you don't spend money in a security guard, you don't have an extra employee in Lidl people wait, you have a slow service in most cafés, the Hotel I stayed only had one student at reception, she did breakfast, reception, rented bikes etc....

the country is not build for someone to collect your trash. If you don't do it ...... 

People don't work a lot, no stress people are relaxed . Even the traffic works ok because people don't change lanes .

They have some good companies like Lego or Novo Nordisk but it's not a country like Sweden with many world household names.

I don't know if Government is small and efficient like the rest of the economy.

The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said:

I know that some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.[


  • Low corruption 
  • High trust (mayby from low corruption)
  • Strong work ethics (but not a lot of work)
  • Tradition of taking responsibility
  • Low level of tribalism, they are together 




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