I'm kinda sitting here laughing, thinking "Danish Ghetto?"
How dangerous could that be?
Turns out that it's not really that dangerous. After 2 colleagues were harrassed / threatened by some lowlifes that wanted to enter our building all hell broke loose. Now we later learned that the perpetrators were involved with another government office in our building (CFU) and wanted access to the councillors there.
This really flipped our boss out, now building security has been changed. The doors are now out in the open and visible to the public and procedures have been changed to beef up local security.
Now we had the local cops involved and the head of the local police-department showed up to brief us on the situation in the area. The basic message was that the area involving the bike-paths are as safe as any here in Odense. There are no more violence-cases here than the rest of the city. Which actually does reflect what we have experienced so far. I also have no reason to doubt the danish police, they are among the most reliable and well-trained police forces in the world.
So the danger is not the ghetto itself but the clients that frequent the building. This really changes things for me, because I can look at the building from a 100 meters and judge if it's safe to proceed, and vice versa when I leave.
I'm still leaving my job, but I may push the date back to the january/march time frame when the project completes.