Belgium

Belgium is a compact country at the crossroads of Europe: Brussels supplies international work, Ghent and Antwerp a calmer urban life. Rent is lower than in the Netherlands or Germany at comparable quality, though income taxes are among the heaviest in the region. The weather is mild and damp year-round, with cool summers and frost-free but persistently wet winters. The complications are three language regions with the bureaucracy that follows, and a tax burden worth calculating before the move.