the housing market in Denmark is approachable - you can get houses near major cities for usd 80k.
Social security, you can go unemployed for years and still pay your bills.
Government provided education with stipend - having masters degrees are common.
And the economy is strong.
Most Danes understand that this is inevitable - the big issue is that the politicians have given themselves more favorable terms.
- housing for 80k USD is 525k DKK: no way you can find anything at that price anywhere close to cph. Not sure for other "major" cities, but in cph you can expect to pay 4mil DKK (600K USD) for a ~60 sqmt apartment, prices will fall outside the cities, but nowhere close to 80k USD. Where did you get that number?
- you pay for your unemployment benefit, thought an a-kasse. Its not forever and it might barely cover your bills depending on where you live/your mortgage. If you have family its probably not enough and you need to add an insurance on your salary on top of that.
Just wanted to give my 2 cents.
Look 20 minutes out of Odense, Aalborg, Randers, etc.
Don't let yourself believe that a country is nothing but its capital - it is correct, that if you decide to live in a 4mil DKK apartment in the Copenhagen area, then you have also opted out of public help, and you are on your own.
Copenhagen: ~1.4M people
Odense: ~190K people
Aalborg: ~120K people
Randers: ~64K people
Again - why this extreme focus on the specifics? I merely argued that the housing market in the broader Denmark is reasonable, and you can usually easily commute to jobs in a city while living cheaply - something that is strictly more difficult in the US.
Saying that there is cheap housing 20 minutes outside of a town with 64K people doesn't really make the point that it's inexpensive and accessible to live in / near major cities.
> but I find disingeneus portraing a picture where in dk you can buy a house for 80k USD and leaving out the information that you are probably in the middle of nowhere - no jobs, no public transport, no services
The point is exactly the opposite. You can get a house at a reasonable cost, 20 minutes away from a city you can likely get a job in - Even well paid tech jobs (They exists in both Odense and Aalborg).
I fint it disingenuous to pick pick out a very specific situation like this instead of looking at the broader argument.
Can you share what well paid tech jobs exist in such cities? I mean jobs open to foreigners not just Danish citizens.
There are 53706 homes for sale today. 2784 of those are actual homes, not empty lots, costing less than 600K DKK.
I would not expect to live a healthy, comfortable life in most homes at that price range. Draft, mold, poor insulation and high energy bills.