Denish Immigration laws to tightened even further.

Fair point Tom

i havent experienced the business workplace culture you have, so cannot pass comment

my only experience of 'service culture' is retail, and i always had nice services i shops and libraries etc i Arhus.

but as i said earlier, the first time i heard of awful Danish service culture was from Arhusians complaining about the awful attitude of shop assistants in Copenhagen, before i even joined FiD.

its the actual reason my danish fiance refuses to move to Sealand as she sys the people are weird and once was enough! LOL.

but maybe my experience at the arhus sprogcentre counts as terrible service culture?

i know you hate comparisons, but im not making this one to lesson your point.
but i wouldnt be so sure that people would be so readily fired in UK for bad service anymore.
as we now have a culture of awful corporate service, whereby the way comoanies treat their customers as money dispensing non entities leads litttle in the way of example to their employees.

the banks, broadband firms, and utilities are pretty much demonised over here now.

but this story form the dnaish dog forum might hearten you Tom.
A company hired some builders to fix a pavement.
for no reason at all, one of the builders literally booted a ladies little dog across the pavement.
once the company investigated, they didnt just demand the building contractors fire that member fo staff, they fired the entire company and will never use them for any contracts ever again.

now, that is cool!

I don´t care what obligations there might be here, if I was THAT unhappy, I would pack my bags and leave ASAP.

I can't speak for Babs and her reasons for staying, but I can speak for my reasons for staying until further notice:

1. I want to take my husband (the Dane) and son (who was born here) with me when I go and not split up our family while we wait to find out whether or not they get American residency and citizenship, respectively. I have been the primary caregiver for my son since he was born; never once putting him in daycare. It would be a detriment to his well-being and to his future adjustment to life in the US if I were to just up and leave. I will not give my child abandonment issues.  finish his first year of school

2. I want a job over there when I move. Yes, I know that as a mother of a minor child, I would qualify for the public dole in my home state, but I don't want to do that.

3. I have problems, which I freely discuss here. I'm fortunate enough to be receiving treatment to one degree or another for them and I would like to have these problems under control as much as possible and have clear, defined methods of treatment I can take to a professional back home before I move.

4. I want a place for my family and me to live before we move. Yes, we could live with my mother for a time, but her place isn't really large enough to accomodate three adults and a growing child.

Excuse me for being a practical adult instead of giving in to emotion.

3.

I just started to read this very interesting thread so I started at the beginning and encountered something that upsets me.  So I am backing up a bit.

Edited by littlemermaid - 01 Aug 2010 at 12:32am