I live in Belgium. It has about 11M inhabitants. Brussels is the capital. Official languages are Dutch (in the north), French (south) and German (east).
What's good about Belgium:
What are the perks and flaws of your country?
What's good about Belgium:
- Central in Europe, easy to travel everywhere by plane (multiple airports), car (big network of highways), train, boat (some large harbors in Belgium).
- Nice culture: a lot of history, art, architecture... to be found.
- Good food: influenced by French cuisine but with own character.
- Most people living here speak multiple languages (3 or 4 is normal, mostly Dutch, French, English, German).
- Good infrastructure, economics are fine, living costs are not too high.
- Not a lot of nature, especially in the north (where I live).
- A lobby of large labor unions still think we live in the 1800's and hostage the entire economy.
- Some cities like Brussels and Charleroi were terribly governed and are now places you want to avoid.
- Very high state debt (currently about 103% of GDP), almost no natural resources at all.
- Not entrepreneur-friendly and therefore not a lot of big companies here. AB-Inbev is probably the only Belgian big shot.
What are the perks and flaws of your country?
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