BBC at Baarle-Hertog

The world's most unique place ever seen!

[@MeatNinja]

"And now we're in Holland" Goddammit. You're in Noord-Brabant.

[@Kjell14081]

Living in Belgium, i actually never visited the place, but i just want to see it once, will be a fun ride crossing so much border.

[@maxhess3151]

When the reporter has to check which country he's in before signing off...

[@alanzeng1128]

And I saw a reporter had to check the place where he's reporting at,when he was staying in a fake Paris symbolised town in Hangzhou,China...

[@ReadeRomke]

Why is the reporter is saying Holland? We don't say scotland when we are in London? This is North Brabant and that's in THE NETHERLANDS!

[@DessislavaJeleva]

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.

[@Laufgraf]

@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 =)

[@zachg9421]

im american btw NETHERLANDS!!!

[@baarle-hertogiinfoantwerp3528]

Welcome !

[@fb767]

@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...

[@Laufgraf]

@fb767 you know "Four corners"?

[@fb767]

i love borders.

[@licewithrice]

The account you responded to has been deleted. I am curious what they said about that, since I have Asperger's

[@LeCombat86]

This is ridiculous. They speak the same language, they share the same culture and they work together. Flanders should join the Netherlands.

[@philippenachtergal6077]

There was a tiny bit of an independance war to get away from them... (It was tiny by most independance wars standards I guess)

[@issooosos221]

Haha

[@rosstedfordkendall]

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?

[@haku8645]

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

[@HANSMKAMP]

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.

[@LuckyBird551]

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.

[@LuckyBird551]

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.