Hi Ankesh, and others involved in this discussion.

I'm an Australian living in Denmark, and you're right, Taxes here are ridiculously high, and public servants take up 900,000 jobs, in active workforce of less than 3 million!

Tax rates start at around 45-50 % and go up to 63%. Vat, or 'Moms' as it is called here is 25%, on everything you buy.

A car that costs US 30,000 in Belgium ends up, with the help of a 180% duty (vat is added before the 180% kicks in), on all new cars, costing close to US 100,000.

I honestly think that there must be something in the water, that makes The Danes forget how much it costs them to enjoy the right to live here.
Combine this with a climate that is cold, damp and dark in the winters, occasionally warm in the summers, and a landscape whose highest 'mountain' peaks at 135 m above sea level.........

Why am I still here? Three days after I arrived in the country back in 1991 a local asked me the question.
"If not for Love, what the f&?k are you doing in Denmark?

Right there lies the answer!