Denmark grants VISA if you find a job making > 62k USD per year. OR you work in an industry on the "positive list" which includes management, doctors, research, and tech jobs in general.

I'm sure lots of countries have similar rules.

Doesn't Denmark have all kinds of rules that make it very hard for a foreigner to find an approved job in the first place though?

They have to demonstrate that they can't find a citizen to do the job etc...?

I don't think there is such requirements: https://www.workindenmark.dk https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/work/work.htm

But: - tech salaries aren't US competitive - people often speak Danish (sometimes it's a requirement)

And while you'll probably do fine with English in Denmark in general. Long term you would need to learn the language. And to be fair, it's a useless language, there is only 5M speakers, why would anyone spend time learning that? :)

And yes, you would experience racism too. Just because it's a borderline social-libertarian paradise doesn't mean all the people are angels.

Germany has something similar called Blue Card.