Calling all Europeans...
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Fenlock
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Regarding denmark:
Our official external web-site is: denmark
For denmark in numbers look here www.statistikbanken.dk
For those of you who are a bit experimental there is Lejre Experimental Centre
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nb. One thing nobody will tell you about denmark is the weather. it can change very quickly from clear skye to overcast, from balmy to cold.
Our official external web-site is: denmark
For denmark in numbers look here www.statistikbanken.dk
For those of you who are a bit experimental there is Lejre Experimental Centre
/Fenlock
nb. One thing nobody will tell you about denmark is the weather. it can change very quickly from clear skye to overcast, from balmy to cold.
Fenlock said:
I live in Brest now. In the most western point of French Brittany. With some 300 rainy days a year. Where storms rage agains the rocky coast, winds blowling like the howls of banshees and water hitting against your window like the fingers of death.
Weather doesn't scare me anymore
One thing Ive heard about that is worth checking out before moving to an European country is how much your education is worth there.
I worked as a substitute at a school in my hometown and one of the teachers I was working with was married to an American psychologist who had moved here. When he moved here, he was informed that an American education for a psychologist werent accepted in Sweden, he had to go through a Swedish education for something like 3-4 years before being allowed to work. I dont know if it is the same thing now (this was something like 20 years ago), but it could cause some problems and frustration if you are not counting on it.
I worked as a substitute at a school in my hometown and one of the teachers I was working with was married to an American psychologist who had moved here. When he moved here, he was informed that an American education for a psychologist werent accepted in Sweden, he had to go through a Swedish education for something like 3-4 years before being allowed to work. I dont know if it is the same thing now (this was something like 20 years ago), but it could cause some problems and frustration if you are not counting on it.
Zarrock God of Evil
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Horacio said:
Engineers are generally in high demand, even though, our IT and Telecommunication sectors have been hit by the bad times as in other places, but it's usually not too big a problem if you have a solid education as well as practical experience.
-Zarrock
Zarrock said:
And he's not even overdoing it
Ode to my country of home. Yonder there beyond the sea... blar blar blar.I'm currently living in Dundee Scotland (somewhere between Edinburgh and Aberdeen), and should you be even remotely interested in Denmark, then I can only suggest that you have a look at it over Scotland (sorry Scots).
Edinburgh doesn't seem to bad though, but I've only been there a couple of times though.
(Striking description of Aberdeen up there ^ though
).med stud said:
Excellent point! This is at least partly due to the fract that up until recently, europeans have been much less mobile than americans, at least when it comes to moving from one country to another.
They've done a great job at normalizing degrees across Europe, but there's still a huge probelm with recognizing degrees from outside the EU. AFAIK, this is a true more or less across the EU, although some countries may have easier regulations for some fields.
Oh and Dragongirl: I've always found Europe to be very democratic compared to the US. It's not just Denmark.
Ok, I'll shut up now 
Carnifex
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To be honest, if you go to a country where english is not the primary language, even if the bulk of people can understand it I wouldn't expect to be able to get away with just speaking english. If you're going to live there you almost certainly *will* need to know the national language.
Utrecht
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Carnifex said:
In fact, you will find that in a great many countries, english is the de-facto language of business. when I was over in the Netherlands working for a Telcom - all of our meetings were conducted in English - even though I speak Dutch...
Even more shock (at least for the Yank) was when we had meetings in France - all were conducted in English as well. Now granted we had folks from Sweden, Netherlands, England, France and the US - so English became the default.
Actually, it was quite humerous, when I was in France, I was assigned as the Project Manager, I found that the assumption of Americans as obnoxios twits (at least from the French's perspective) came in quite handy - I already had a expected pattern of behavior that I only had to slightly reinforce to sucessfully manage my programers.....
Mathew_Freeman
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Carnifex said:
Take note of this in particular if you go to Scotland
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