You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I always describe Belgium as the sort of place which has its own lovely features, none of which are so earth-shattering that you’d regret spending your weekend holed up in a hotel room rather than out exploring. But if it continues to function so (predictably) well with no government, I just might have to emigrate there.
From the comments:
It always fascinates me that so many people, and especially the pols themselves, really believe that if they didn’t go through their expensive and pointless legislative/administrative/judicial dance about everything and anything that’s hot on the nightly news “crisis-o-meter”, society would be innundated with insoluble catastrophes 24 hours a day until they deigned to save us from ourselves with some more incomprehensible legal gobbledegook enabling legislation empowering more meddling beaurocrats to devise another maze of rules and regulations which cause more problems and expense for ordinary citizens and taxpayers than any of the alleged “crises” ever could have.
If you feel overwhelmed by that run-on sentence, I can only imagine how overwhelmed you must feel at run-on government.
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I’d highly recommend you try at least a couple of months in Belgium Jackie. I lived there for 2 years and loved it.
Belgium is an unusual society - everybody is fluent in 4 languages and steadfastly refusing to speak 3 - so the split that Perry alludes to I’m sure will come in some form eventually.
I think people often blur and confuse the interferring, uber-government megalith that is the EU (just because it is based in Brussels) with the government of the country itself. Certainly the Flemish and more cosmopolitan areas are laid back, legislation light and life and business are easy and enjoyable in my experience.
I think the Belgians should make “no government” a permanent state - it works!
I spent five or six months living there and still have friends in Leuven - I really love Belgium. But it’s probably even better with no government.