Live in the town, in the country, or by the water

Move to Denmark’s biggest municipality - Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality

How and where do you want to live?

Do you want to live in a flat, a small town house, or your own detached house?

Do you want a home with lots of indoor space as well as outdoor space for vegetables and a trampoline in the backyard?

Do you want to live in the middle of nature - in a village or in the countryside?

You can find your dream house in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

 

There are about 56,200 inhabitants in the biggest municipality in Denmark, so we have lots of space, houses appealing to everybody, and good offers. In round figures, half of us live in the biggest towns. One fourth lives in the villages and the last fourth lives in the countryside.

Many newcomers choose to start renting a home instead of investing in buying a home. By renting a home you get the opportunity to check out the area, before binding yourself to an owner-occupied home.

 

Live in the town

If you prefer to live in the town you can read more about the five biggest towns: HVIDE SANDE, RINGKØBING, SKJERN, TARM and VIDEBÆK. 

 

 Butiksliv

 Foto: hvidesande.dk

 

In the towns there are people and life around you. There is a good and varied selection of shops, cafés, and restaurants plus a lot of sights and cultural offers. The selection is both bigger and more exciting than in many other towns of the same size, because we are lucky also to have tourists to improve the customer base.

You can both rent or buy a home in the towns. Compared to other places in Denmark the price level is low, but compared to the prices in the villages of the municipality or housing in the countryside they are higher.

 

Live in the countryside 

If you prefer more peaceful and relaxing surroundings, you can move into the countryside or close to the water. There are many options in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

 

Foto: Jørn Deleuran

 

You can live in the countryside with lots of space and far away from neighbours, but it is also like living in the countryside if you choose to move to one of the many major or minor VILLAGES or just outside one of these.

The villages are located right in the middle of nature and can also offer housing overlooking both the fields and with room for a trampoline, a rabbit cage, and vegetables in the backyard.

 

  Foto: AGM

 

In the villages you will get close to the day care institution, school, shop, and especially closer to the neighbours. This gives your children good playmates just around the corner and a chance for the adults to become part of the local community. 

We have a tradition for an active associational life in the villages, and you will quickly get a sense of belonging, no matter whether you choose a home in the village itself or a place further out in the countryside. For information about life in the villages, click on the MAP.

 

Lyne Friskole

Foto: Ralf Andersen

 

To find a Home from Abroad

It may be a little bit difficult to find the home of your dream when you have just had a job and are to move to Denmark from abroad. It may be useful to have a little time to get to know the area a little better and have a look at the various options. Therefore, most foreign newcomers choose to start out by renting a home. Instead of having tied yourself financially to buying your own place it is also easier to be released from a place you have rented if - contrary to expectation - it turns out that you or your family are not happy to live in Denmark.

For more information, click on FIND HOUSING FROM HOME, RENTAL COSTS? and BUY YOUR OWN HOME.

 

 Skjern Aa dalen

Foto: RKSK

 

The Chinnow family

 
German family:

Good working conditions leaving room for a family life close to the North Sea

In 2019 the Chinnow family moved from Löbau in Germany to Hvide Sande in Denmark. Four years later the family is not in doubt: -We’ll stay here!

The couple Dagmar and Udo are working at the local companies, Hvide Sande Røgeri and Danwest, and they both see the career opportunities as one of the really big gains of having moved to Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune. Here they have been able to let go of their previous worries about job safety and fair pay, and last year their dream of buying their own house came true. 

The two children, Pauline and Pepe, are also happy about having moved to Hvide Sande. They like their new school and appreciate the Danish school system with less tests and more variety during the day. 

In Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune the family has found both tranquility, a house, career opportunities, and new friends. When the holiday makers have to go back after 1-2 weeks’ holiday all four of them are pleased that they can stay and fulfil more dreams in the middle between the North Sea and Ringkøbing Fjord.

The Chinnow family - Read the full story here

Ioana and Sorin

 
Romanian Family:

We have been made very welcome

”We love our country, Romania, but we have also grown very fond of Denmark which has become our home,” says 37-year-old Sorin Ungureanu who - together with his wife Ioana and their two children - find themselves so much at home that in the autumn of 2017 they bought the house of their dreams in Borris. Borris is a town with approximately 800 inhabitants in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality – geographically the biggest municipality in Denmark.

“We have been living here since 2011 and our children are fully integrated in the local community and gradually, so are we. We have been made to feel really welcome in this town. People gladly help us and we are very happy about living here,” Sorin says whilst simultaneously smiling at Erling Søndergaard - one of the passionate locals who likes to give a lending hand. Erling has helped the family with the purchase of their house, and as a friend of the family he joins our conversation as to why Sorin and Ioana came to Denmark and what it is like for a foreign family to move to Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

”We are also happy having you here. We can tell that you like being here, and you have also done a great deal to become a part of the community,” Erling points out referring to the fact that Sorin among others has been active in leading a father-child gymnastics team and a table tennis team in town.

Ioana und Sorin - Read the full story here