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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are comparing apples to oranges. Denmark population is only about 6M total. (The size of South Carolina and smaller than TN). The population is 87% native danish. Leaves only 10-13%immigrants. Their tax system is extremely high and vary socialist society. No incentive to work hard when all goes to taxes. Hard pass!!![/quote]

What does immigration have to do with it?[/quote]

DP but there is a LOT of research indicating that homogenous societies are happier in general.  Progressive researchers often believe that expanding the social safety net of government can replace this effect such that different groups don't see themselves as competing or in conflict, but obviously that hasn't resolved the issue yet (they propose it will if government gets big enough).  I guess we shall see, if they succeed.  So far, data from major metropolitan areas which have more expansive safety nets doesn't look good but there are lots of factors that play into that.[/quote]

When she sums up how she's living more Danishly now, a decade into her Danish life, Helen singles two things out: She is less stressed and more trusting. That comes pretty naturally in a country where people leave their babies sleeping outside in their prams and forget to lock things. "It's just assuming that the people around you are nice. In the UK, we were brought up with this idea of 'stranger danger' and taught to trust less, whereas trust has always been high here. I appreciate it, especially coming from London, where it sometimes feels unsafe." Whether the big things - trusting in the good of people - or the small things - eating dinner at 5.30, which she would previously call ridiculously early - doing them the Danish way became second nature to Helen.

https://www.helenrussell.co.uk/books/the-year-of-living-danishly/

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