Nah for my wife it was just all around boring. She’s from Indonesia, far more car centric than here.

She liked Mechelen, Antwerp, Brussels, Bruges, Aalst, Ghent, …

She just didn’t like liège. Happens. I liked the river, very massive.

All these cities in Flanders used to be car centric. Grand place in Brussels used to be a parking spot.

Your politicians just made different decisions.

Even though you’re more left wing than flanders.

Every place has been ex-industry. Wallonia just isn’t inviting to capital. Flanders has right wingers dropping tax on capital while Wallonia has left wingers increasing tax on capital.

Of course more investments will happen in flanders.

My wife never wants to go to Wallonia ever again because I showed her liège.

https://imgur.com/a/JE9bY6N

That was a few months ago.

Was gonna show her Charleroi next 🤷🏻‍♂️

Uhu

What do you want to talk about? We don’t need terms. Get rid of the terms. What in society is bothering you.

Terms are unnecessary. Use synonyms, use whatever. Explain it fluently as if I’m a quite young person. Like I would explain accountancy to you while trying to avoid the situation of you telling me that I’m talking Chinese to you.

The only base we need, is that in social science, you cannot take authority. There are no facts. One group of people can act completely different than another group of people, even though everything is exactly the same beside the people themselves. Their personalities will alter quite a lot already.

So let’s talk about what you want to talk about.

Social science. Nothing written there is accepted as facts.

There’s plenty of areas in this world where multi cultural people live with eachother and view eachother of the same nationality.

USA is probably the best example of this, because it lacks an original culture.

But I gotta admit, it’s difficult to convince lots of diaspora that they are Belgian even though they are fucking born here lol

🌝 in this meme I portray myself as the chad and you as the wojak

Me, my pregnant wife, my retired dad and my working brother all live in one house. Belgium

Can we afford to live in 3 houses? Yes.

Is it necessary? No.

The house is paid off. One house is being heated, …

Me and my wife save up about 2500 euros per month. My brother saves up even more because he’s spending literally nothing. He saves up his entire paycheck.

Building generational wealth is pretty fun. My parents worked for us. Me and my wife work for our kid. I got basically a house as inheritance in a great economy. Our kid will have a house + investment portfolio (Stoxx 600, gold/silver, …)

Our biggest “waste” of money is traveling. I don’t even have a car, just using my taxes to have a long tail e bike that does the same shit.

We have 2 cars on the property, they barely are used. Literally one is being used to drive to train station. The other one for the grocery store within 2 km. It’s good that one of those two is a company car, otherwise gigantic waste of money.

Our household (my wife works 14 hours per week ATM). Earns a net income of: 9300 euros.

Include capital gains of like 4%. It becomes a total of 13300 euros net “income” per month. An e bike valued 9,5k euros. An electric car.

All because we are mentally stable enough to live under one roof.

Don’t you worry, my job will be replaced by AI as well. By 2026 peppol invoices will be enforced in Belgium. Reducing bookkeepers their workload.

ITers replacing my job: 😁😁😁

ITers replacing their own jobs: 😧😧😧

My mate is applying to Amazon as warehouse worker. He has an IT degree.

My coworker in the bookkeeping department has two degrees. Accountancy and IT. She can’t find an IT job.

At the other side though, my brother, an experienced software developer, is earning quite a lot of money now.

Basically, the industry is not investing in new blood.

Both powers have been handling in their own interest.

Biden sending funding to Ukraine has been good for Europe. Trump stopping this funding has been bad for Europe.

Biden wants to keep the American hegemony.

Trump wants to isolate the USA in favour of companies inside the country.

The EU hasn’t been arming themselves because there was no need for it. Not threatening with weapons is being a quite attractive trade partner. The lack of weapons caused Europe to be more stable when cooperating with eachother.

There has been a major history of infighting in Europe. So unifying ourselves after the 2nd world war is a major benefit for us.

Now that we are more unified, we can rearm ourselves properly. With hopefully a European army that defends the whole European union.

Obama/Biden were good for Europe. Trump is bad.

If the next president is good for europe, then so be it.

But the volatility shows that changes must be made. More autonomy, the stability of china is actually looking quite good.

But china shows different issues. That of freedom of expression.

So, we’ll need to rearm, have a bit more hard power. We can’t be the only ones trying without.

Get rid of your military might and then we can do the same. But nah, that’s not going to happen.

Some minority of kids can be exempted. You’re the one exaggerating

Brazil and nobody dying, what kind of propaganda is this?

But do it in a smart way. A single person using violence against someone stronger than him, is dumb.

Something like BLM movement is smart.

Just trying to resist arrest, however angry it may make you, is dumb. Unless of course you’d be sent to gulag. Then do resist.

You need to use power in a smart way to gain the upper hand.

We failed to make Russia bend the knee with soft power.

Rearming Europe, after decades of trying without, is necessary because there’s an ongoing war in Europe.

We overestimated our influence without an army, and that’s even with the army of turkey and USA on our side in case we’d get attacked.

Violence is necessary, just unwanted. If someone hits my wife then I’m not going to use my words to solve the situation.

It’s complicated because if you give everyone a gun, then there’s a shooting happening every day. Give nobody a gun, then we don’t know how to defend our countries.

Pros and cons to be outweighed, depending on the larger context.

You simply move out of the way. Nothing more to it.

I’ve never seen a siren stuck in traffic in my life here in Belgium

Vapes create a gigantic cloud and it smells quite bad.

Both are bad, but vaping is just even more annoying.

What is such a inhospitable climate? They should aim to be healthy

Yep, meanwhile my country built bike highways. I’m at work after 35 minutes of cycling. (15 km)

I live outside of a city, so I can choose between multiple cities where I wish to work. It’s pretty convenient.

I simply don’t feel like accepting a job offer that has a bad commute.

The biking is a huge stress reliever, I come fresh at work and freshly home.