What's your view of Belgium?

Hi there,
go a little question for people around the whole world
How do u guys view belgium?
serious answers please not like "waffles"
why do u guys compare belgium with waffles btw??

Some random facts:

We pay with € (Europe, 1USD = 0.73EUR)

Size:
30,528 km2
11,787 sq mi
(Our country fits around 320Times in the USA)

People:
11,007,020
(Our citizens would fit around 28.5times in the USA (we are crowded))

Our main languages are:
Dutch (60%)
French (40%)
German (1%)

Around 99% of our roads has street lights
(If you would be standing on the moon and U could see
Belgium, you would see it as a white dot, Because our street lights.)

We are the only country without a goverment and we have broken
the 'record' for being the country without a govement for +-520 Days

We have a King, Not a President.

For the smokers,
We pay around $7 for a pack of cigarettes (28pieces)
and $6.5 for 50gr of tobacco+rolling papers (+-100pieces)
For the weed smokers ; )
$13.54 for 1.2Gr for GOOD weed around $13.54 for 1.5-2gr of bad quality weed.

Language:
Our main language is dutch, for the rs players go to world 56 varrock bank
And U will know how it sounds
Dutch is a very hard/complicated language to learn, but it sounds nice
although if U would learn dutch, U probaly wouldn't understand 50%
because of our many dialects.

A randoms sentence transalation
Kangaroo008 goes on sythe every day, and likes it very much.
kangaroo008 gaat elke dag op sythe, en vind het zeer leuk.

Start discussing
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I see it as a very peaceful and nice place to go. Anythings nicer than Britain anyway.

 

well, it is kinda peacefull, I haven't been alot in britain,
but for some reason the country looks nice,
prob because it's so diffrent next to belgium

 

my brothers studies medicine there it's really good from what i have heard in the filed of medicine
i have been there twice and i know you are the one that invented the french fries


lots of arabs there so also you should add arabic as a language

beautiful place although weather is fucking bad
u don't have a governemnt for over a year now funny situation

unfortunately mean people very very mean just like germans "european in general are mean"

 

Lenient soft drug usage prosecution, Reduced restrictions on withholding euthanasia, Same-sex marriage legalized, active diplomacy in Africa and opposition to the war in iraq. Belgium is a very politically sound country.

I've always wanted to see Bruges, i hope to do so before the end of my youth.

 

they play good house tunes

 

Netsky and TinTin.

 

chocolate


don't really know enough or care to know enough to have another opinion...

 

I prefer Holland. But Belgium has nice mountains, that's the only thing I really miss in Holland..
What I really do hate about Belgium is that the country is split up in two parts, one where they speak Dutch and one where the main language is French. These sides basically hate each others guts.. That's not a country, that's two countries..

I LOVE how you guys celebrated your record for being the country with the longest time without a government. That's just awesome. Other than that, when you say 'Wablief' I just crack up, it sounds funny xD

 

If not waffles, chocolate.
Soz

 

I picture it as a wet and utterly peaceful Australia. Though the triple language system weirds me out. How does an entire country learn how to speak English, Dutch, French and possibly German.

 

Very limited...I live in Australia.

 

I personally live in The Netherlands. I have been to Belgium a couple times and I like the accent of the people lol, even though it's hard to get used to. I think most people recognize Belgium as a waffle land because the waffles are pretty epic. You made a couple mistakes in this topic, you said that 1 euro is 0,73 dollar but that's not correct, 1 euro is approximately 1,35 dollar so it's worth around 35% more. Another Dutch spelling mistake in the post.. but I can forgive you

 

@RunescapeJJ used a online program for USD - EUR so it's prob not updated my fault

@surround sound
It's not like everyone speaks french/dutch/german
I only speak dutch, (ofc english to)
And we learn french in our school, but I suck at it

@Quackism
I have to admit I can't really stand the french people in our country
Wablief I usually say "wa"
wablief is like the proper way to tell it, we have to use it at school
when we haven't heard something
like , 'what did u say?'

@Mephistopheles
I didn't knew they where from belgium
i've just started listening dubstep/DnB like a week ago
Altough I like metal more \m/

@cronos
U seem to know alot about belgium
Btw GL getting to Brugges some day

@bambino
The medical section is very good here
and about the arabic people
there's no way they gonna learn people arabic here
They sent the arabic people to Belgium during WWI/WWII
but they never expected that they would stay here
Most people are against Arabic's here.

and about the chocolate, It's true the chocolate here is very good
there's like a chocolate store 5mins away from my house,
and in every store here you can buy it
and the french fries,
I love them
and they are invited in belgium
Most family's eat it atleast once a week.

Let's wait for some more answers

 

What happens when you go into the city and encounter French/German people? Do you converse in English or do you just not talk! Also, do you speak dutch or english at home, school, work, shops etc?

I suck at French too, don't you worry!

 

Thats actually 101%. Sorry to say so!
And as I'm personally from Belgium, I don't think my comment has alot of sense.
I think we need a good government by now, stop the money and visums for all people arriving here, and do something about our huge dept.

 

I speak dutch @ school/work/home cause I live in the Dutch side of our country

And well, it's not like there are german/french/dutch people every where.
there like a (imaginary) language border, so if I walk to a shop there's like
0.01% that I will see someone french/german and then there's like 0.0001% chance I will talk to them

BUMP

 

Most of the fact's that you've provided on the OP I didn't even know,
Before Belgium was just place that was just sitting on the other side of the world that never crossed my mind, and now I wouldn't mind visiting Belgium like Amsterdam or England.

 

Well i see Belgium as my 'Neighbour' because i live in The Netherlands.