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<blockquote data-quote="Rotsne" data-source="post: 214944" data-attributes="member: 6326"><p>Just to clarify. I am not a Muslim. I came to Denmark for some 15 years ago to work here. As for my wife's view of the situation, she agrees with me. She doesn't want our children to attend schools outside our county before they have finished High School. It would properly make her even more ill, if it came to that. </p><p> </p><p>You have to remember that Dane are very tied to their local community. It is also one of the reasons why they can be so safe regardless of the fact that they have not even 1/10 of the security level in the states. If something is out of the ordinary, they all are alerted. Their prison population is only 1/10 of the one in the United States, teenage pregnancies are rare, while alcohol use is high the rehab level is low, they have only 1/3 of the beds for psychiatric care compared with other Nordic countries and as shown before low level of DUI's. But the pricetag is that you have to live inside the norm or they will isolate you as a community as all.</p><p style="text-align: left"></p><p>Many Danes live all their life in the same town and consider people living only 30 miles away as strangers they wont have any thing to do with. Try moving a firm 20-25 miles and you will for sure lose 75% of your employees. Trust me. My firm tried to do that as many others. If they have to travel even one hour to work, they will start looking for a new job.</p><p> </p><p>But even with the problems I have faced with my children, I wouldn't think of ever moving to another country for one second. Letting your children drink alcohol aged 15 and knowing that they legally can buy all kind of alcohol once they turn 16 is scary - very scary, but as long as I know that they can go down the street safely 24/7 I just have to live with it (We have no curfews at all. Even children down to 12 have been spotted out after midnight).</p><p> </p><p>I am so happy that we avoided boarding school ("Efterskole"). It would have been imprisonment for a crime which have not been committed. Thank you very much for your support, even if our culture can be difficult to understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rotsne, post: 214944, member: 6326"] Just to clarify. I am not a Muslim. I came to Denmark for some 15 years ago to work here. As for my wife's view of the situation, she agrees with me. She doesn't want our children to attend schools outside our county before they have finished High School. It would properly make her even more ill, if it came to that. You have to remember that Dane are very tied to their local community. It is also one of the reasons why they can be so safe regardless of the fact that they have not even 1/10 of the security level in the states. If something is out of the ordinary, they all are alerted. Their prison population is only 1/10 of the one in the United States, teenage pregnancies are rare, while alcohol use is high the rehab level is low, they have only 1/3 of the beds for psychiatric care compared with other Nordic countries and as shown before low level of DUI's. But the pricetag is that you have to live inside the norm or they will isolate you as a community as all. [LEFT] [/LEFT] Many Danes live all their life in the same town and consider people living only 30 miles away as strangers they wont have any thing to do with. Try moving a firm 20-25 miles and you will for sure lose 75% of your employees. Trust me. My firm tried to do that as many others. If they have to travel even one hour to work, they will start looking for a new job. But even with the problems I have faced with my children, I wouldn't think of ever moving to another country for one second. Letting your children drink alcohol aged 15 and knowing that they legally can buy all kind of alcohol once they turn 16 is scary - very scary, but as long as I know that they can go down the street safely 24/7 I just have to live with it (We have no curfews at all. Even children down to 12 have been spotted out after midnight). I am so happy that we avoided boarding school ("Efterskole"). It would have been imprisonment for a crime which have not been committed. Thank you very much for your support, even if our culture can be difficult to understand. [/QUOTE]
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