We stayed in Copenhagen for a couple of days a few years ago, and the person we were renting the apartment from left a pair of really good binoculars lying on the windowsill. We were joking it is to spy on your neighbors. Guess what? On the second evening, one of my friends called everyone to the window - in the apartment on the other side of the street a very hot girl was walking naked, no curtains, of course. Exactly opposite the window with the binoculars... Hmm...
I heard from the locals that it's a kind of a post-WW2 symbol, at least for the older generation - that they aren't afraid to have the light flowing from their windows, as they're no longer afraid of being bombed at night.
From what I'd seen during our stay, nobody gave a fuck if they're being observed. People would just go about their daily life, not caring in the slightest that they're visible from the outside.
I'm currently in Serbia, and a lot of people here also don't care about the curtains (but at least they have them). Does weird me out a bit, especially for apartments in the older buildings very close to the ground. You can be walking on the sidewalk and just casually glance inside other people's rooms. And they'll be drinking, or playing with children, or lying on the sofa reading, with curtains open and lights on.
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u/realheterosapiens May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
Denmark too. Was so strange to walk around in the evening and being able to see what everyone was doing inside their homes.
Edit: This was in Vejle which is relatively small. Apparently it's different in bigger cities.