hey guys welcome back to the channel we're going to be checking out a video man this one's a little
bit different this one is titled I am much happier living in Copenhagen that is Denmark than the USA
look inside my home unlocked I don't know why the title is so extended but this says CN BC
make it that's where this video is coming from wait hold on hold on what is this video about
again okay we're going to checking out this video either ways because I really don't know what we're
getting into because this is coming from CNBC make it I really really don't know what this video is
going to be about then cuz um but either ways um shout out to Denmark I'm trying to learn as much
as possible about Denmark I'm you know hoping that you guys from Denmark would actually leave
a lot of you know comments in the comment section about videos regarding Denmark so I can check them
out um whatever the video is I'll check it out obviously foreign reacts we do that stuff here
anyways Man Without further Ado let's get right into this video thank you for watching please do
like and subscribe it was kind of random that I chose Copenhagen for study abroad I think when I
first got here I just thought it was so beautiful and Charming my dorm that I stayed in for study
abroad was right by new Hound which is that iconic canal with all of the colorful houses and that
whole part of the city is old and historic which you don't get much of in the US especially in
Texas where I'm from so I think I oh hell no oh hell no I get you mama and ain't no worri
Texas that's like the most modern state in my humble opinion like Texas is like
really really really modern like the houses are modern everything
is like so modern Charmed by Copenhagen from the very beginning hi Welcome to
our Copenhagen apartment come on in okay that's clean that's huge
though my name is Alana bull I'm 30 years old and I'm an American living in Copenhagen Denmark our
rent is about 14,600 Danish croner a month which is about $2,100 how what my name is Alana bull
I'm 30 years old and I'm an American living in Copenhagen Denmark our rent is about 14,600 Dan
so the Danish Danish the Danish money is not strong because she said 14,000 which is 2100
a month I thought Denmark like would have had like an insane currency I thought that you know
like the euro is really strong euro is stronger than the United uh States uh dollar apge for that
croner a month which is about $2,100 croner okay croner okay I'm a primary school teacher and I
work at an international school here in Copenhagen before I moved to Denmark I was living in Dallas
Texas and I been there for about 3 years the first time I came to Denmark was when I was
studying abroad in college I did a summer program in Copenhagen and absolutely fell in love with it
so a few years later I went on a backpacking trip with one of my friends and of course I
wanted to come back to Copenhagen so we did and that is when I met my husband who is [Music]
danish when I met my husband and we were doing long distance of course we were talking about
who would move where and he was very open to moving to the US actually but ultimately we
decided that I would come here I really love the size of Copenhagen I love that it feels like a
city it feels very International but it's small enough that everything's still very accessible
especially with the public transportation that we have I never lived in a city with good public
transportation before so I yeah dude um yeah I'm sorry but this one is smacking because
um you remember she said Texas Dallas Texas and I told you it's modern um yeah she's not
lying when she said public transportation let me tell you you there are certain places in the
United States where public transportation is a okay it's it's okay it's it's it's decent it's
not great it's very much better than places like Dallas for a fact for a fact right you'll still
have your city buses in Dallas I'd imagine but it's nothing compared to what she's going
to experience in Copenhagen I can guarantee you that it as a parent I also am so happy
to live in Copenhagen the whole city feels very familyfriendly like you never feel like you're a
nuisance going around somewhere with your stroller that's crazy I can speak Danish I'm not fluent but
I tried to cram as much Danish learning into the first like year and a half that I was here
especially before I started working I can have most everyday exchanges and conversations in
Danish the hunt what you [Music]
hunting right before I moved I was mostly just really excited I guess I was just really ready
to not be long distance anymore I was also feeling really burnt out from my teaching job in the US so
I was and you know what like I'm not even I'm not even going to be that God you know who is
not going to say this I'm going to say it she being a teacher in the United States compared
to Denmark I can only imagine how relaxed she feels and this is where I'm getting at a lot of
the mass shooting that happened are unfortunately recorded in schools a lot of them right she could
be a victim of that if she was a teacher in the United un States however the chances of she being
a victim being in Copenhagen Denmark probably is zero that is lifechanging right there I'm
telling you that is lifechanging I'm happy for her ready for a change we started looking for
apartments online and browsed around a bit and then we decided that a new build was probably
best for us for a couple of reasons we knew that we wanted a fairly modern kitchen and bathroom
which are harder to come by in the city center especially if you have a budget as we [Music]
did we found this apartment online when I was here in Copenhagen and we
were looking together but then I had to go back to the US so my husband came to
a viewing of the apartment by himself and he you know sent me pictures and he said
it looked good I trusted his judgment and then we fed and were able to get a
[Music] lease 1,000 square ft they put that shade in [Music] American Amma used to be the
place where they would dispose of waste until the 1970s and so it was referred to by some
people as Island not anymore though I don't think people still call it that it had that reputation
[Music] okay one 2 3 D I would say our rent is higher here compared to Dallas Texas cities have
a much lower yeah Texas is not that expensive um in terms of like I said it's like it's it's
more modern in my humble opinion and it's actually easier to get a house I think you
can get like a huge ass house in Texas for like $250,000 like Texas is like like it's legit let
me tell you that it's legit it's just that you know it's going to give you that real American
Experience like I really love Texas everything is bigger in Texas it's not a lie um you know trucks
are literally what you're going to probably want when you're in Texas cuz you're going to see a lot
of dudes like that's one thing I love about the United States and truck culture sorry for getting
off topic but you know it's very much present especially in places like South Carolina North
Carolina I'd imagine Texas is um you know right in the line with North Carolina South Carolina
regarding truck cultures you know so yeah Texas is not bad at all but in terms of what she you
know could experience in Texas compared to the Copenhagen it is very much different cuz Texas
is where you can get them guns out for real okay you can get them guns out for real right you got
kids walking around with guns in Texas that's that's legit facts okay and um the truth is you
know the lifestyle the public transportation yeah it's more expensive in Copenhagen but you know
yeah cost of living I think it's a good value for being in Copenhagen and for the amount of space
that we have especially because since we moved in the landlords can't increase the rent very
much every year it's tied to inflation so kind of the longer we live here the more reasonably
priced it seems compared to other things in the area wow upfront cost okay talk to me before we
moved in we had to pay two months of rent upfront and 3 months of rent as a security deposit so that
was about no way what no this sh is scary $1,500 I was really surprised I think my last apartment
in Dallas I paid like 200 $50 as a security deposit yeah it's it's not that serious in
Dallas I imagine in Texas in general like $1,500 so it was like a fraction of my monthly rent that
I paid for the deposit and I got it all back too and that's generally what I hear is people often
don't get their security deposits back here so we'll see really when we moved here we didn't
really have furniture because I moved with three suitcases I didn't ship anything from the US and
my husband had been living with a roommate before we moved in together so he didn't have a ton of
furniture either basically I think he had a desk and a couple of bookshelves damn Denmark
is expensive $3500 $3,300 for a bed dude that damn same damn well I don't have a headboard on
my bed but I I'm damn sure that's the same damn size bed I have and I paid about less than $1,000
for the largest size bed you can possibly find in Finland for the largest size bed you could find in
Finland and I've had like under $1,000 like dead ass and I'm pretty sure to get a headboard um for
your bed is not going to be that expensive that's probably like $500 or less wa Denmark is actually
expensive what so we had to buy everything else we also had to buy like light fixtures because
those don't come installed in our apartment and most Copenhagen apartments and that's apparently
something that a lot of Danes like they like to choose their own like fures and make it fit their
style and kind of set the mood of the room but it was definitely not something that I ever had to
do in the US so I was surprised that we had to do that all right let's see the propy I'll show you
our main living area so over here is our living room and also when you go into different Danish
homes you'll notice that a lot of them have the same kind of like little Danish pieces so we have
some of those scattered around one of them is this little hoptimist which comes in a lot of different
like colors and then this monkey is ubiquitous in Danish homes this is our kitchen and dining area
our one wall of kitchen uh which is definitely small that's smaller than what you had in Texas
hey Mama Mama I'm M Texas ain't no way she was G to say that's smaller than what is in Texas dude
you don't want to see the kitchen that I have in Finland dude the kitchen kitchens in Finland
are small unless you're talking about a really expensive house but I I I think for an apartment
like this in Finland I think you'd probably be reaching about $3,000 that's what I think I'm not
sure but that's what I'd imagine maybe you could possibly get something around this price range
in Finland but I do think that Denmark is more expensive than Finland I do think so I do think
so that I was used to in the US pretty limited counter space I do love that the appliances blend
in with the kitchen this is our dishwasher when we moved in the apartment was a really good size
for just me and my husband but now that we have a child and my husband works from home sometimes
it is feeling like it would be really nice to have an extra room that could be an office but
for now this is our best solution so is it only a one bedroom this is our bedroom we likeed that
it had a great size this is probably almost a king-size bed we have not adopted the European
model of two separate duvet hell no that's one thing I will never adopt I don't know what the
Flaming gingerbread man got into Europeans and they were like you know what but I want
my [ __ ] separated I don't know why do you guys do that like I genuinely I'm actually confused
like when I was trying to get a bed in Finland I experienced the same situation where the bed was
separated and I was confused I was like why is it separated I still don't know the reason and I
would love to know the reason please let me know in the comment section down below mostly because
when I moved here I just didn't like the look of it we were very lucky to have builtin wardrobes
most people have to build their own wardrobes and like bedroom closets are definitely not
common in Copenhagen this is my son's room uh when we first moved in this was our office SL
guest room so when I first moved here I wanted to have a guest room so that if anyone came to visit
me they would have a free place to stay but then we had a child so now it's his room this is our
bathroom SL laundry room we have a shower but no bathtubs so like many people who have children in
Copenhagen we have this little plastic bathtub that we use for baby baths I mean the bathroom
is pretty solid I appreciate the fact that the um laundry uh stuff you know they're under the
counter um because here in Finland mes are just literally right beside the shower so
yeah I can see myself here I I'm not going to say the rest of my life but like indefinitely
I certainly could see us moving a bit outside of Copenhagen but I don't want to go too far and it's
always a possibility that we could move to the US or somewhere else I would say I'm happier living
in Copenhagen than in Dallas I think a big part of that is job satisfaction honestly I work much
more reasonable hours the expectations are more reasonable my salary is reasonable we all spend
a big chunk of our life working and so I think that that makes a big difference but I also think
that I'm able to enjoy the time that I'm not at work more because I'm not stressed about things
that I probably would be in the US don't want to get too controversial here but one of those is
gun violence I don't have to worry about I know gun violence for myself I know she's literally a
freaking mother and a teacher like it doesn't get any deeper than that when it comes to gun violence
in the United States because a mother worries about her child going to school and a teacher
worries about them damn kids in the school and herself at school when a shooter pops off you know
what I mean so I definitely understand where she's coming from regarding the safety or my child's and
I think that that's just a big stress on so many Americans right now um that I am very fortunate
to not have to think about and you know I don't have to worry about if I lose my job are we not
going to have health care I think that the Danish social system does so much for its residents that
just allows you to live your life with less stress and enjoy it more and that's something that D's
really value yeah oh you did oo how was it hey I'm happy for her um I I I definitely think Denmark
sounds like a great place sounds very expensive though I must say that um considering that it's
um a TW bedroom area with a smaller bedroom I I don't know maybe the pricing is not actually bad
the 2100 I think it was um I don't think it was bad but um definitely expensive I will say that
I'm not going to hold you on that it is expensive but I don't think it's bad I don't think it's bad
you guys can let me know what y'all think about the pricing but everything else man it's really
great shout out to Denmar because obviously you know it's not Flawless it's not you know like
everything is just you know smooth and there's no issues you know like obviously she she told
you that the houses you know were bigger you know modern whatever you know and um might
be a little bit pricey and such like that but the most important components is her job and her life
you know and she's clearly living a great life so shout out to her and all the best you know
and um you know everybody else man this is what you get when you move to Denmark I guess but um
yeah let me know what you guys think about it in the comment section down below thank
you for watching as usual recommend uh videos about Denmark thank you I'm out of here peace