• The city streets are filled with smokers: mothers pushing strollers, old ladies, teenagers, you name it.
• No one seemed to care or notice.
• Same with drinking. No one cared if you drank at home, in the street, or in the office on a Friday night.
• People lived and let oth...

• Scandinavians are obsessed with fresh air.
• In Denmark, it starts with birth, when babies are left to sleep outside in their prams even in colder months (and they have so many of those!).
• Danish kindergartens make sure the kids spent a lot (if not most) of their day outside, r...

Even office lunches in Denmark are often eaten with other people, strangers or not. Sharing a warm meal with proper cutlery and a proper conversation is how the Danes dine.

Eating a cold sandwich alone at your desk would be considered weird and unhealthy.

Beca...

• Nearly 60% of people in Copenhagen commute by bicycle every day.
• Danes are obsessed with bikes and often come first in the world’s most bike-friendly cities and nations lists, followed by Netherlands.
• World’s-leading biking infrastructure means that in Denmark, bikes have the...

• Denmark has some of the world’s highest taxes and prices for consumer goods and services. That’s why Danes eat home whenever possible.
• This means less processed foods and a more relaxing atmosphere when consuming your meals.
• A dinner with family or friends will always be more...

• Danes are obsessed with mood lighting.
• It’s like the whole country agreed to wage a war on bright hospital lighting so favored in the U.S.
• It all starts with hygge — a Danish word that roughly translates as coziness and is a way of life in Denmark.
• There’s nothing a D...

• Denmark has very little bureaucracy and almost no paperwork. Every transaction is electronic and streamlined to a minimum. The country is as efficient as it gets.
• You can call it electronic minimalism and, as with regular minimalism, it declutters your life and saves your time, both ...