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Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Brumefey@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We have better access to healthcare than France, generally good work-life balance, access to education is cheap (1000 eur for one year at a good university ). People are welcoming but also reserved. It’s raining a lot and we spend a lot of time complaining about it.

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  • voidspace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have friends who live there, and they report the same. They visited us for the first time here in London recently, and were quite shocked by the stark differences.

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s raining a lot and we spend a lot of time complaining about it.

    Hey, that’s our brand!

    Sincerely, a dude from Hamburg

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• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  how is Belgium to live in and what would it look like to live there right now?

  It’s literally between France, Germany and the Netherlands, I mean geographically yes but roughly culturally too. Arguably Brussels is a mix of all that and other cities again match where they are.

  So… it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate. You don’t have to be a socialist to be here but if you want to become a rich entrepreneur it’s going to be challenging.

  Source : immigrated there from France ~10 years ago.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s a Western European country with good quality of life despite having one of the very highest taxes rate.

    “Despite”? Try, “because of”

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    • doctorschlotkin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think they’re actually right about this one, taxes tend to cover things that give you high standard of living more than quality of life.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Curious what the distinction between “standard of living” and “quality of life” here is… I’m sure there are subtle differences, but surely taxes contribute to both (which themselves are interrelated).

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re right obviously, you dirty community! /$

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• dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think you can reap the benefits from just using a VPN and set the country to Belgium?

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on how many sites comply, most will likely block Belgian IP’s

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, according to the logs, the population of Belgium increased by ~10x, and most people seem to be moving to this area with loss lots of data centers. Checks out.

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Expensive and gray.
  Going down with the rest of Europe economically

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