Category: Bureaucracy
“Not for sale”
Last Thursday, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then I made the fatal error…
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An inauspicious start in Greenland
It wasn’t a promising start. I opened the official-looking letter to find only a few lines of text. I had been judged “unqualified”…
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Should I choose expensive, rude, and absent, or expensive, unsafe, and insecure?
We were getting sick of having our boat in the main marina in Nuuk. The draconian rules were designed to take advantage of…
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Greenland’s special brand of weirdness, part one: Air Transport
There’s a lot of weirdness in Greenland. Some of it is funny. Some of it is sad. Some of it is just weird….
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How is your lunch?
*Photograph by Hans Peter Kleemann . Child abuse. It’s not a subject most people want to talk about. And certainly not at the…
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A flaw in the system?
Recently, I wrote about how easy it is to bank with the Bank of Greenland. A recent experience leads me to believe that…
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Permission to reside in Greenland
As a non-Dane, I need a work permit for me and my family to live in Greenland. When I applied, I was told…
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Imploding reindeer emoji
Last week the Greenlandic coalition government collapsed – again. This time, the problem was airports. For many years, Greenland has been keen on building…
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