WHY IS BRUSSELS THE WORST TOWN IN EUROPE TO LIVE IN!? Terrorism, hatred, strikes, stench, streets more dangerous than in the city of Pristina (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

This city was imagined to be an administrative center of European Union. A capital city.

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And it became the most horrible European city.

And the most dangerous. Brussels.

Almost every day you can see a news connecting Brussels with terrorism, and according to the intelligence agencies, number of "sleepers" is the biggest here.

But this is not what makes Brussels a horrible place to live in.

Things that were happening in the capitals of European countries - strikes and street blockages are happening every day in Brussels.

Namely, if Romanian villagers are dissatisfied with the price of root or Polish homosexuals have problems in public transport - they strike in Brussels.

They block the streets, stop the traffic and cause madness in the city.

Almost every day.

Foto: brussels.mfa.gov.rs

At the beginning of 2016, Donald Trump said many bad things about Brussels, Belgium, and EU, calling it "hell hole".

It was his way to respond to the question why should the Muslims be denied entering the US soil.

We consulted the sources from Belgium and other countries about the time when EU was European Community, and even before, when it was European Community for coal and steel.

We made a list of 13 reasons why Brussels sounds like a bad place for longer stay.

1. Many "old" residents of Brussels decided to move after the unification of Europe began. NATO HQ is also located in this city. One third of the residents are foreigners.

We decided to "get the pulse" of the real life conditions in Brussels, out of the tourist experience and which cannot reveal what stands behind the surface, excluding the Serbian sources as possibly biased.

Palata nacija, belgijski parlament u Briselu. Foto: Wikipedia Commons

This may look alluring, but here is what a resident of Brussels had to say about his city: "I am from Belgium and I have lived here for 5 years. This city destroyed my life... You come here and you like it, you meet many people. Then time passes and those people leave. You remain alone, without friends, without family". We are sure that this is exaggeration, but for some people this is reality.

Evropski parlament u Briselu. Foto: Flickr/European Parlament

Many foreign residents resulted in higher apartment expenses, which resulted in exodus, so now the people who live there are not interested to build a regular life style.

Hence, many parts of the city are devastated and unkempt.

2. There is a strong cleft between Flemish on the north and Valois on the south, and this is especially evident in Brussels. This would not be a problem, if the antagonism between these cultures was not that evident. If Belgium was anywhere else, it would be destroyed long time ago.

Foto: Profimedia/AFP

3. Poor immigrants live in the north, west, and northeast parts of Brussels. Those parts are good to avoid, even for the shopping or simply walking. This tells you a lot about crime rate and security. But this also says a lot about Islamisation of this city, especially Molenbeek, usually called "Jihadist capital of Europe". Every 11 minutes there is a crime in Brussels which involves violence, with 47.491 offenses in 2015 only. And this is the official statistics, because the police are located only in several communes. Unemployment dictates crime rate. Several years ago, unemployment rate was 20%, and today is probably higher. If you want to get a job, you have to know Dutch and French language. Many immigrants did not become a part of the society, many of them are still trapped in the patterns of the countries they are from.

A photo posted by Henry Lillibach (@dirtybrussels) on Mar 10, 2016 at 9:07am PST

4. Public transport system is not trust worthy. You cannot rely on its schedule. One could say that it is the same situation like in Belgrade, but to be honest, things have grown better in Serbia in these last couple of years. The only chance for not to get into the transportation is if there is a traffic accident, collapse, or mechanical problem.

5. Metro system: one of the worst in Europe. It stinks, light is weak, stench is awful and the exits and transfers are not visibly marked. Facebook page "Things People In Brussels Don't Say" always publishes interesting photos of this side of Brussels, and especially witty comment was the one regarding the old woman who tried to change the station at Art-Loa: "I swear to you, there is an old lady who tried to switch  the station in 1996, and she is still out there".

A photo posted by Mayu Mi (@_mayu_mi) on Mar 10, 2016 at 9:08am PST

Especially bad is the line 2 which goes around the historical city center, and the irony is that the most beautiful metro stations are in the poor regions f the city, because they are the newest.

6. Crime in the metro: Several years ago, US embassy warned its citizens not to use metro after sunset. This is why 75% of Brussels residents use cars, and not public transport.

A photo posted by @badfield on Dec 20, 2015 at 1:21pm PST

7. Due to the number of cars, traffic collapses are happening daily. In other European cities many people use alternative transportation systems, but not in Belgium. Every now and then the city is blocked because of some delegation. Actually, "Wall Street Journal" made a report about this problem and concluded that Brussels residents are the worst in traffic. According to them, an average citizen spends more than 80 hours per year stuck in the traffic, and some sources say that Belgium loses 2% of GDP because of it.

A photo posted by modesto (@bilmodesto) on Mar 10, 2016 at 9:51am PST

8. Protests: Protests of all groups, real and unimaginable. The fiercest protests are those of the farmers who from time to time decide to go against some EU regulations and use the only democratic tool they have: tractors. Thousands and thousands of tractors.

9. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A spectator of the "Cities Journal" put Brussels on the high third place of the ugliest cities in the world, right after Pyongyang and Brisbane.

A photo posted by Henry Lillibach (@dirtybrussels) on Mar 2, 2016 at 8:01am PST

10. Bad urbanization of the city itself, which was awarded with an expression 'Brusselization". How did this happen in the Belgium's capital? After WWII, and especially during the 60s and 70s, many wonderful parks and quarters were destroyed and new, metallic buildings were erected of different styles. Now, everything looks rather ugly. 150 years ago, Baudelaire called Brussels "the laughter capital". Today, no one laughs.

11. Dirt in the city center, graffiti on the walls (not just street art), and especially that it is the European capital of dog pop, which is everywhere.

12. Pavement and the streets are very worn out because of the chaotic self-management of the city (Brussels is combined out of 19 municipalities that are not connected, like Belgrade is; Brussels-the city, is just one municipality. This is why some experts call Brussels "an illusion".

A photo posted by Henry Lillibach (@dirtybrussels) on Feb 29, 2016 at 12:20am PST

Journalist of the French "Liberation" Jean Quatremer described this in the following manner:

- If a street collapses, usually due to the bad sewer system, it will take two months to decide about the fixing. The same goes for the pavements; they could get repaired and then just left because they are in another municipality. Luise Avenue, with many chic boutiques, is divided between 3 municipalities: Sen-Zil, Ixell, and Brussels city. Where does the pavement belong? No one knows. Then there are parked cars, with no space for pedestrians. Police do nothing because they do not know who is in charge.

A photo posted by modesto (@bilmodesto) on Mar 10, 2016 at 7:57am PST

13: Climate is similar, if not worse, than the British. This is why you can always expect rain. Due to all of this, you probably think that Brussels is THE WORST place to live in. However, the city is like any other, it has its good and bad sides. City center is beautiful, and an open-air museum of Secession because you can still find many buildings built in the XIX and XX century.

A photo posted by Frank Schouwaerts (@frank_sterkwater) on Mar 4, 2016 at 12:17am PST

Many of the problems evident in Brussels are present in other cities, even Belgrade (to be honest, crime rate is lower, and we do not have the metro), but there are problems.

Probably more than we care to admit.

Because of the bad image of Brussels, especially evident after Paris attacks on November 13 2015, because many of them came from Molenbeek, city authorities decided to do something about it.

They came up with a really original campaign: a public phone, which you can dial from anywhere in the world and ask the person who responds what they think about the city and what is going on in Brussels.

(Telegraf.co.uk)