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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 🤷🏻♂️
Yup, we're an ex-industrial city trying to modernize. It's hard, so please, be nice and acknowledge the progress instead of dismissing it. I'm not responsible for the choice the older generations did and your post here feels like an insult to me. If you're old enough and have oriented the choices that were made in your city so that it's not car oriented, then congratulations on making the good choice. If you're just lucky to leave in one because your parents made the good choice, then good for you. But please, don't look at others trying to improve their place from your, or your wife's high ground. There are places like the one you showed in every urban suburb of any post industrial city.
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.
I live in Charleroi and agree with the sentiment :D it's not the same vibe as Liege though, might be even worse...
I like watching YouTube videos explaining the Charleroi metro.
I live in Belgium and don't think I've ever been in Liège or Charleroi