COMMUTING

Compared with (say) the U.K., commuting in Denmark is relatively easy. I drive 44km to the school where I work; on good roads with little traffic, it takes me about half an hour. Traffic jams are non-existent.

Even so, the nature of commuting is changing here, particularly since the start of the financial crisis. Basically, the number of commutes has fallen, but their average length has risen, from 38km in 2008 to 43km today. As jobs have become scarce, particularly out in the sticks, so people have to travel to the big cities in order to work.

Walter Blotscher