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To try to express how I feel about not only being an expat in Denmark, but being an Australian in Denmark, I wrote a song about it! The link below is to the videoclip we shot in and around Copenhagen...

I'm working in Denmark since almost ten years now. Here's my two sides of the Danish postcard: living in Denmark/Copenhagen is comfortable, enjoying an atmosphere of mutual respect and consideration, easy communication as most people have excellent command of English and are willing to use it, whatever your problem is you get a helping hand. The dark side of the postcard is that no matter how long you live in the country you are confronted with a closed society. Many of my colleagues and friends invited me and I - like it is good tradition in DK - returned the invitation. However, on the long term you never feel like you are part of the society as you find yourself left with your friends being expats as well. Danes are most happy when they are among themselves, speak their language and drink and laugh. Understandable given they are only 4.5 million people sharing the unique language feature (which nobody else will ever be able to fully penetrate unless born in the country), but sometimes painful to realize. I should mention though that the upside outweighs the downside.