According to a recent study in Belgium is a country where more energy is consumed. The cause is the proliferation of company cars. Very often, companies offer their employees as fringe benefits, company car and petrol card unlimited. This peculiarity is explained by the reluctance of others to move to Brussels Belgium. He prefers to remain in residence at the cost of driving for two hours each way. Then you put the tax that, in fact, encourages this form of additional salary. A real madness. In fact, Brussels is a city where the car if they could easily do without. For a number of reasons.
1. Rents. Are lower than other funds and do not vary too much from one area to another. Some friends paid 600 € for an apartment of 50 square meters to two hundred meters from the Grande Place. The center of the center. Unthinkable elsewhere. So that you can decide, without breaking, to live a stone's throw from where you work.
2. The city and urban planning firm. Living in central area with three-quarters of an hour's walk to get almost anywhere can get interesting. In most public transport, after all, are decent and cheap.
3. The report center - periphery in Brussels is different than elsewhere. In fact the capital is a summation of municipalities. Which is why the services are homogeneously distributed throughout the territory.
4. Electronic commerce is sufficiently developed. The Delhaize chain of super markets, for example, has a effeciente delivery service of home shopping. You pay a premium, which disappears when the expenditure exceeds a certain amount. Now you can make to deliver at the home of all.
5. For occasional use of the extensive network of car sharing, Exchange who enjoys a good reputation. According to some calculations, if you travel less than 15,000 km per year car sharing is much more convenient to car ownership. One of the interchange is 50 meters from my house.
If you want the car if they can successfully do without.
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