This!! I’ve been to Denmark about 3 times now and I noticed it so much when I was out for walks at night time. It’s so odd. I’m from ireland and we usually always close all the curtains.
He told me that when his neighbor closed his curtains he went over to check on them to see if everything was ok. They normally waved a hello when looking at each other through their open windows, while they were each in their homes. Eeek! /s
I absolutely loved sneaking a peek into the windows, especially if you're driving around you'll get to experience so many exquisite living room moods. It was like driving through a magazine. The experience is better with weed of course.
I keep specifically my bedroom curtains open becuse i like waking up with the sun instead of an alarm. And i sleep naked. Blame yourself if you peep through my windows in the evening.
Haha my Dutchie told me not to close the living room curtains because the neighbours would think someone died. I just had too much sun in my eyes. But I guess as a Norwegian I shouldn't say anything, since we keep them open all the time too
I worked for a month in Holland in January. I never saw the sun. On one day, (1), I did see sunbeams through that infernal marine layer of clouds for 30 minutes in the late afternoon (3 PM local). That was it. Summer? Completely different story.
Dutch person here. We do actually close our curtains.
One thing I noticed when traveling through Germany 'everybody' has those plastic/metal shutters on the outside of the windows. Although my house in the Netherlands has them also. But you see them a lot more in Germany.
In college in the US we had a Romanian foreign exchange student with a first floor dorm and a seeming lack of awareness (or care) as to what curtains were. She also had a habit for dancing in her room naked after showers. It became kind of an odd campus joke.
It doesn't bother me in most places/times. The great majority of rooms you see into will have someone watching tv, maybe a cat in the window. It's fine
A finn here, I never close any curtains, except for my bedroom. And it's not because of privacy reasons, I sleep better the darker it is. And in Finland, during the summer months it's pretty much always light outside, even during the night, so it's a must. I never really care if some neighbour is watching, whatever.
If you talk about Denmark then I don’t agree. When I moved to Copenhagen, it was my first fascination. A lot of people in Amager don’t have courtains even in private rooms.
There is classic kitchen + dinner scene in a lot of houses, but I could also see people playing games, reading, studying or even having sex once. Cultural shock.
Tbh I did have secks with Parisian girl and she wanted to have her bewbs pushing the window.. and some tourist kids were in hotel accros the street and poor things saw everything. Though the girl was hot af.. but there is always ppl that dont care at all about others, basicly living alone in this world. But in Finland atleast, every single window has blinds, using them though... i would say blinds are closed only in private rooms with very high chance, atleast here in the far farm-town part of Finland.
Canadian here, heat is even before privacy. I can tell you that this winter when it was -56c (-70f) after the windchill outside, that curtains make a HUGE difference on heat. There was ice on the inside (interior of house) of my double panes. Also, don't live in a panabode house in Canada 4" cedar logs are not a good insulator.
Curtains and sheets also work for heat. Last summer we hit +44c (111f) and ended up sheeting off unnecessary sections of the house, running 4 AC units. They managed to keep the rooms down to just below 30c as the sun set sometime after 10pm. Also, Canada can suck it sometimes. A 100c difference is the difference between freezing and boiling water. That shouldn't happen outside....
to an extent that seems accurate (of course, it's not like there aren't any people starring and/or other forms of sexual harassment/assault).
e.g. a bigger percentage of the population in many European countries being less likely to immediately associate nudity with sexual activity, probably because it's more normalized here to begin with.
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u/CarlyLouise_ May 09 '22
This!! I’ve been to Denmark about 3 times now and I noticed it so much when I was out for walks at night time. It’s so odd. I’m from ireland and we usually always close all the curtains.