You pay taxes to the country where your front door resides, but I read there is one house where the border bisects the front door... so what do those unfortunate people do?
If I'm not mistaken, in that particular case, the man actually demolished his old front door and moved it so he could still be resident in Belgium instead of the Netherlands
That house has two adresses, a Dutch one and a Belgian one. The Belgian address is Loveren 2, 2387 Baarle-Hertog in Belgium and the Dutch address is Loveren 19, 5111 TA Baarle-Nassau in the Netherlands. Baarle is the weirdest town and only for that reason I am against annexation of either whole Belgium or the Belgian Baarle enclaves by the Netherlands. The town would lose a lot of tourists which are now looking at the weird border situation.
They pay taxes for both countries. The house also has two Electric meters, so it pays the electric bill for the electricity the use in the Netherlands and another bill for the one they use in Belgium. The house also has two numbers in the front (one for Belgium and one for the Netherlands) and one dorbell on each side of the door (one for Belgium and one for the Netherlands). Also, there is only one police station, but it is shared by both the Netherlands police and the Belgium police at the same time.
haku8645 No that's for a house that was in one country but the man wanted to live in the other country. He tore down the door and placed it on the other side of the house.
I was thinking the same thing. It is North Brabant, it is not Holland! I guess living here for an year has made me sensitive to the whole "Holland" thing. I guess calling Het Oranje "Holland" is not helping the matter outside the Netherlands.
@fb767 This is really exciting, i understand your love with borders... I MUST VISIT Four Corners at least once in my life... and Baarle-Nassau/-Hertog isn't far from where I'm living =)
@Laufgraf Woah, that's pretty cool. Also, if you're a fellow border-lover then you gotta check out Nahwa on Wikipedia, it's the same idea as this video, a territory of the UAE that is inside a territory of Oman, which itself is inside the UAE. Can't explain the love I have with borders...
@zakyboss ja tuurlijk is het daar leuk en accent dat is eigelijk wel wat verschillend er word daar soms echt brabants gepraat door de boeren en belgisch (soms nog meestal door de ouderre bevolking) ook en dan nog gwn algemeen beschaafd Nederlands
Ik fiets graag in het Nederlands-Vlaamse grensgebied. Twee jaar geleden heb ik de grensovergang Baarle Nassau/Zondereigen gefilmd, typ maar eens "Zondereigen SrCl2" in de zoekbalk...
