It might be a cultural thing, if you're content in Danish you're "tilfreds", but that's still a more positive word than content. Happiness is translated to "ly

It might be a cultural thing, if you're content in Danish you're "tilfreds", but that's still a more positive word than content. Happiness is translated to "lykkelig", which technically is a much more positive state than "tilfreds" (also much more positive than happy), but I don't think many Danes distinguishes that hard between "lykkelig" and "tilfreds", in terms of expressing their level of happiness with everyday life. We're generally more muted in our feelings and tend to not use the extremes, unless sarcastically. At least that's my take on Danish mentality. You could perhaps use reasonable or tolerable, if you want the same result at perhaps Americans would expect to get from "content".