Wheres my money?

Firstly, Denmark is a country that has been wealthy for a considerable time. Irealnd has only been "wealthy" very lately.

Secondly, they don't all piss their money away on three or four bed semis in the arsehole of nowhere and are happy to live in apartments close to the city centre and therefore excellent public transport is viable due to higher population densities. By not blowing their money on gaffs in the sticks with gardens they can spend their hard earned cash on what they see as more important things.

Thirdly, like the rest of Scandinavia, they don't tolerate corrupt/parochial politicans. Recently a Swedish minister resigned for forgetting to pay her tv licence. Can you imagine that here? :rolleyes:

Fourthly, their taxes are actually higher than here.

So do you want to pay higher taxes? Do you wanna get rid of corrupt/parochial politicans? Live in an apartment?

Of course if you think Denmark and their system is superior to here, you can always move there and try and get a job.

Good luck.

Been to denmark quite a lot over the last few years and your a bit off with your facts as pointed out.


they a royalty and own some other countries, grand country but they a bit wierd with the whole blackadder chruch crap they have going on.


Danish wedding AVOID!!!!!!!!

Their public transport sucks balls too try get a bus at 4am when the pubs close well some of then anyway, they stop at 12!!!!!

means you have to find another bar to drink in till 7am and then go home by their eerily scary on time public transport.


OMG they force you to drink 24/7!!!!!

Oh Zebra3 easy enough to get a job over there just a shame you have to leave it after 6 months and get 90% of your full wage whilst you learn danish for a year.....terrible

dreamers75 wrote: »

Their public transport sucks balls too try get a bus at 4am when the pubs close well some of then anyway, they stop at 12!!!!!

means you have to find another bar to drink in till 7am and then go home by their eerily scary on time public transport.

Suburban trains in the Copenhagen area stop at around 01:30 I think it is and start again at about 05:00.

And yes, it does actually be on time. The moaning from the locals if a train is two minutes late is unreal. As another tourist once said to me over there, they only have to deal with " the rich man's problem".

You've got the wrong Lebowski.

Sleepy wrote: »

high income != wealth

Ireland had high tax revenue for a few years. An incompetent government pissed it away... We've never been a 'wealthy' country, we had a high GNP for a decade or so.

Not the same thing at all.

Yey, yet there was no appetite for higher taxes like Denmark.

The Govt. gave tax decreases to everybody and most decided to piss it away.

I've yet to see an example of a low tax, high quality public services country in Europe, but hey, we fell for it!

Seems you have to have high taxes to have good roads, good health systems etc.

Who'd have thought that? A novel idea I know!