Belgium home paradise: detached living for less than 300,000 euros, renting for 800 euros

Desperate to find a house? Distraught by the prices? Or just done with the busy Netherlands? The Valhalla of the housing market: Belgium is a half-hour drive from – for example – Eindhoven. Buy or rent dirt cheap in an oasis of peace. Roel and Martine exchanged their terraced house in the Netherlands for a villa across the border: “There is still talk at the checkout in the supermarket, it is just a bit more relaxed here.”