Continuation of my first article on moving to Denmark. In this part I will talk about how I settled down and looked for housing, about paperwork, about my job and the cost of living, as well as about the general pros and cons of living in Denmark.
First steps in the country
Immediately after my arrival, I checked into a local Bed & Breakfast for two weeks and met with a realtor hired by my employer to help me find an apartment. We began to sort out all the available options, and in the end I settled on a small three-room apartment near the center for seven and a half thousand crowns a month (about 90 thousand rubles). Upon check-in, they demanded a deposit equal to two months of the rent, which they promised to partially return upon my check-out. Partly - because about half of the deposit is usually spent on putting the house in order after each tenant moving out.
At the same time, most of the apartments are rented out after complete renovation, completely white and unfurnished. The main plus is that the tenant's rights are very well protected from the point of view of the law, and the landlord cannot just raise the rental price, terminate the contract, evict the tenant, or even come to visit with a sudden check.
After successfully settling in the apartment, I went to the town hall to register and get all the necessary documents. Everything was standard here - I made an appointment, came on the appointed day, gave them all the papers and a week later received a yellow health insurance card by mail. Then I had to go to the town hall again to get a login and password for government (and not only) online services called NemID.
Immediately after receiving the NemID, I sent to the bank all the documents required to open a bank account, and ... was refused. This confused me a little, and I sent the documents to another bank, where I was again refused. After that, I was already seriously worried, and applied to five banks in a row at once, hoping that at least one of them would certainly not refuse me. And so it happened - I received approval from two banks, and a week later I took out a letter from the mailbox with a bank card.
I still don't know why I was refused the first two times. There is a possibility that this was all due to the fact that one of the largest banks in Denmark was recently caught laundering Russian money , and after that, all banks decided to stay away from the Russians just in case, so as not to get involved in something like that again.
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The weather in winter and autumn is very nasty. At this time, there is almost never the sun, it is very wet, damp and windy. The only good news is that it is not very cold and there is almost no snow - but still I was a little sad this fall.
PS And I also have a telegram channel in which I talk in more detail about Denmark.