Kittybit8 at 2024-02-14 07:53:36+00:00 ID: kqcwmtp

Dutch probably won’t get you far here. Learn danish and you’ll have a good shot.

CaptainCapitol at 2024-02-14 09:09:31+00:00 ID: kqd2ip3

with those educations/experience, if you learn the language, you can probably get a job fairly quickly.

i work with several people who learned danish while working for the company i work for - it doesnt much matter, if you can communicate in english, depending on industry. - but your employability is higher, if you also know danish.

CouldYouBeMoreABot at 2024-02-14 09:22:21+00:00 ID: kqd3hxl

Read the sidebar.

And look at:

Moving to Denmark

Living in Denmark

Ljngstrm at 2024-02-14 10:06:23+00:00 ID: kqd6v7i

Both your girlfriends are 30?

Head_Replacement9935 at 2024-02-14 09:05:48+00:00 ID: kqd28oa

Ciao, Italian here, also looking to move to Denmark.

I think our terrible living/working conditions shouldn't be your only driver. You talked about it at great length and I hope you're prepared for the culture shock.

I mean, you'll have to get over sins like preferring bread and butter over pizza.

Jokes aside, if you only emigrate looking for better living conditions, you might start hating all the little differences, never really integrate, and eventually return to our Bel Paese with resentment.

That being said, I wish you well and good luck!

Poet_Silly at 2024-02-14 09:14:09+00:00 ID: kqd2vfc

Well, since you both are in your fourties you really should get moving on the family part.

Childcare7 at 2024-02-14 09:22:26+00:00 ID: kqd3i77

You will pay a lot in taxes here.

Matchbreakers at 2024-02-14 09:51:44+00:00 ID: kqd5qlp

So the Schengen area should make the actual move should be pretty straightforward.

In terms of finding employment, we do have major shortage of skilled labour, although most of it is in the service sector (carpenters, electricians etc.) Since much of our heavy industry is gone. Although with your skills I can imagine places they'd be useful, on the basic level, car repair and maintenance, parts manufacturing etc. I'm sure a job that is much more suited to your skills is there, but it might take some searching.

As for your GF, every company needs accounting, I cannot fathom that she wouldn't be able to find work.

I would start looking at and writing companies hiring and see if they would take you, maybe try via JobIndex.dk. language might be the biggest issue, but like 90% of the population speaks English so it depends on the job requirements.

Good luck!

UNRcsgo at 2024-02-14 09:58:44+00:00 ID: kqd69un

If you appreciate freedom, then don’t move here.

Jeune_Libre at 2024-02-14 09:24:43+00:00 ID: kqd3og2

I know quite a few Italians who lives here and work corporate jobs. Very few of the ones I know have left and the remaining are not planning on leaving in the near future.

What seems to be common is that they enjoy the lack of hierarchy, better salary and work/life balance compared to Italy. Common complaints are

• the weather (seriously it will suck compared to what you are used to - winter is looong and dark, and the rest of the year is wet and grey, however when the sun shines it is amazing here)
• Food. Quality is not as good and it’s very expensive, especially to eat out
• Danes are not super social. Don’t expect to make a lot of local friends.

In terms of language; Danish is not really needed to get by. You can get jobs at big Danish companies and international companies. But without Danish small- and medium companies will be more or less off limits. I don’t know much about IT but accountants and financial controllers seem to be in fairly big demand. Your girlfriend’s challenge will be that she only has a bachelor degree. Right or wrong, that it seen as only half a degree here, so she will be competing against people with a masters degree.

Good luck!

Agitated_Hat_7397 at 2024-02-14 10:06:53+00:00 ID: kqd6wlt

There is a lot of work in finance for English speakers, it just generally demands a master degree in economics

Igotanewpen at 2024-02-14 10:38:16+00:00 ID: kqd9e5t

One of my acquaintances is an archeologist and landed a job in an accounting department at a university in 2022 just on the basis of a 12 (18?) week course in accounting. There is a lack of accountants in Denmark. She should look at the universities, council offices (kommuner), governmental offices or international companies.

DearMeToo at 2024-02-14 11:41:02+00:00 ID: kqdeu68

Why do people always think this is a country of milk and honey?

You have to have two income to even get a flat - and with taxes there's not much left.

Plus its cold.

squanderman at 2024-02-14 12:21:16+00:00 ID: kqdiv69

It would be easy for you to get a job - like, really easy. The Danish industrial complex is screaming for workers like you. I can't speak for your girlfriend - I don't know the state of the accounting business. But if she's nice and skilled (and speaks English) I wouldn't be too worried. Employment is at an all time high in Denmark, and it's certainly an easier life than the one you're describing. If you're willing to work, by all means come up here.

abc24611 at 2024-02-14 12:21:16+00:00 ID: kqevcxu

If you're trying to lower your COL, look at countries in eastern Europe instead of Denmark.

mikkelmikkelmikkel at 2024-02-14 18:43:08+00:00 ID: kqf628z

I had a roomie from Sicily who came here to work as a researcher. He’s now living his danish gf and their kid in Nørrebro. Find some threads from foreigners living in Denmark and see what people are saying and how they like it. I wish you the best of luck friends