I can't say I've been to either country, or encountered many natives from either.
However: a friend of mine went out to visit some collaborators last christmas in Lund, in Sweden, and said the country was lovely, the christmas markets were wonderfully quaint and all the people were very nice.

By contrast: whilst on holiday we were staying across the road from a holiday house owned by some Danish feller. He was surly, rude and perpetually grumpy - whilst all the locals in this pokey little village would greet one and all with a polite "Bonjour", he would walk straight past everyone, refusing to make eye contact, let alone greet them. In the end we just knew him as Grumpy Dane. He was an arse.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:04, Reply)