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Moving from the US to the EU soon... Any advice? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by frank@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi all!

We're very excited to move to Denmark soon as lifelong Americans. I have a good job lined up, and we're set on a place to live for a while.

Any advice from people who have done it, looked it up, had friends who have done it, etc? Just in general :)

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[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless work is helping you out, expect to have difficulties opening up bank account in EU due to FATCA. Lots of banks don't want to deal with that, so they'll outright reject Americans.

As others have said, try to learn the language, at least a little. Although I'd say 90% of the population will know English.

Take ferry over to Germany if you want cheaper beer/wine/alc. The Swedes go to Denmark, and Danish go to Germany :).

Q: will you be returning to the US?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

They are helping set up a bank account, thankfully.

Yeah, for sure we are leaning in and gonna try to learn Danish. Worst case my wife and I have a secret code language to ourselves in the future :)

We don't intend to return, but anything could happen in life