Is Liège the ultimate Veeky Forums city?

>European
>Not too big, not too smal (200k inhabitants)
>Character
>Rich history
>Decent night life
>Decadent
>Dark and gloomy
>Great beer and food
>Heavy drinking is socially acceptable
>People open up at bars and tell you their lives
>University
>Unemployment and heroin
>Lively cultural scene
>Everybody has a weird job
>Lots of bookstores
>Important train station, easy to travel around Europe
>Mines and immigrants
>Cheap
>Crime and violence

Could this city be the ultimate place for living the literary lifestyle?

No

>Smells like shit
>Ugly
>People only speak French

But user, those are all good.

Any eastern european city with a decent university will do.

No. My ex cheated on me there while she was studying abroad.

Tell us about it.

Every girl who studies abroad cheats

Played in a concert in Liege during the summer, it's a lovely city.

>eastern european city with a decent university will do.
Plovdiv is one of the most Veeky Forums cities in Europe desu.

>one of the oldest, if not the oldest still inhabited city in Europe
>human settlements here since 4000BC
>architecture is a mixture between Roman empire buildings, Bulgarian national revival, Soviet architecture and modernity
>interesting landscape
>population of about 350 000

to be fair im biased since I was born and lived there for about 20 years, but even when you're walking you get a feel you're knee-deep in European history and culture

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Looks like your regular, former roman settlement, city here in Romania.

that's like, at least 20% of european cities

>belgium
nah, don´t wanna get bombed

Do you know how the university of Plovdiv is?

Yeah, it's pretty based. Walloons do comfy depression better than most people.

Those industrial outskirts are top tier as well. Looks like Chernobyl.

It's called Luik.

this

all of your points work for my city too

nah i prefer life here in northern italy

My friend did one year in Erasmus there and I've visited him twice. I can tell you it's a cultureless shithole with an insufferable "bro" party culture worthy of american campuses. The Carré fills up every night with some of the lowest tier drunkards and thirsty alpha boys. There's trash littering the streets every single day.

Belgians in general are also some of the smuggest cunts I've ever met, second maybe to Dutchies. My choice for most Veeky Forums city would be Bologna. Superior in almost all the aspects you mention and actually culturally relevant.

Do you even gloom?

Why are the Dutch so smug? It seems to be their defining characteristic.

But there isn't one decent university in any eastern european city. Is there?

Ghent is the most Veeky Forums Belgian city

Luik is oke if you don't own a car.

Antwerpen is 't stad en al de rest is parking.

>the shitty small belgian city I live in is the best city, right?

St. Petersburg and Moscow are two examples of cities with universities, which employ top tier professors. It's just that their management is shitty. But the intellectual scene is very much alive nonetheless.

>>Not too big, not too smal (200k inhabitants)
That's WAY too tiny.

Can't live a proper life with such a small population of people to pick and choose from, socially etc.

Donji Lukavac.

>Belgian/French city

If I wanted to experience Africa I'd just visit the original.

Liège is only good for making god-tier waffles, otherwise i'm glad to stay in my homely Nancy.

>Heavy drinking is socially acceptable

How is this at all Veeky Forums?

>decadent
>Veeky Forums
?

I studied there for 2 years, by Bulgarian university standards its average I would say. there are several other unis in the city, I think the most popular is the medical one, because of it now the city is full of greeks, turks, indians and negros

I biked through Belgium and its relevant cities this summer and in terms of litness it's Ghent > Antwerpen > Brussels > Brugge = Liege. Lille beats them all though.

De tijd is rijp voor een hereffening van 1832: ruim baan voor het Nieuwe Groot-Nederlandsche Rijk!

mudslime? nah we're good muhammad.

Okay so. Girl and I were together for almost six years when she decided to go for an Erasmus to Liege. That was cool so she went there for one semester. Few weeks after the left, things cooled down a little. There was a lot less contact and she grew more and more distant. I confronted her about it more than once, but she always denied that anything was up. Then, photos started to float around Facebook, but they didn't show up on my feed. Friends of mine were sending me those and I suppose she changed her privacy settings so I couldn't see what photos she was tagged in. It showed her at parties (at nights when she told me she was busy studying), with a guy in suggestive poses. In other words, she hooked up with this Italian dude while I was at home, oblivious about it all. After I saw those, I confronted her one last time and she didn't deny it anymore. She was actively cheating on me. I was devastated, but also naive, so I booked the next train to Liege to save the relationship. It was a catastrophe. She was living in a shitty neighborhood, in a shitty apartment with other students. I came for one weekend and we settled on talking things out, so we went straight to her room to discuss the whole mess. It was all civil, she said she regretted it and I had a good feeling that we could forget about this and keep on being a couple. Then things are kind of a blur. We went to this festival where the whole city had candles everywhere, came home, had sex. After that, she told me that she didn't love me anymore. I flipped out, threw her jewellery out of the window (fourth floor), kicked a cabinet in and tore posters from the wall. I was in rage. The only thing I did not hit was her. After that I took my backs and stormed out into Liege at 2am. Which is not a good idea as it's really not safe. Went to a park bench near the train station and just waited for the sun to rise. Hung out with some homeless guys. I didn't get mugged so I got lucky.
Once I got home I fell into depression for half a year. Liege is a shit city.

is this a serious question?

It's Berlin

oh m8, sorry for that

Pics or GTFO

Pics of what, mate? Those off Facebook? I deleted my account there after this mess, figured social networks were nothing for me. I'm way too paranoid now anyway.

Everyone cheats on Erasmus m8 - the main offenders tended to be French and Spanish.

As a Belgian, lol, yeah it is.

Massively unemployed socialist voting part of the country, known to be filled with lazy as fuck people, but proud of their "hon hon, culture, n'est pas", i.e. literary lifestyle.

It's the most Veeky Forums shit you can imagine yes.

I feel for you m8.I sincerely believe that you did the best you could for her. I went through some similar shit. She was a bitch and I wasn't able to admit it was a mistake to love her because well I loved her too much. For what its worth, she doesn't deserve you and I hope that you find happiness in some other soul. Until then, steel yourself and don't make the same mistake. Peace

Guys, thanks. It happened, and because of it I was in an abyss for a long time. Far too long, and it wasn't even worth it. Our identities are moulded by our experiences, and the way we handle them. So the only lesson learnt is that we all need to find how to deal with them constructively. Find solace and comfort in something else and move on.
We are bound to fall on our asses but life really goes on. It goes on until we drop and until then, and we have to make the best of it, pain and sorrow aside.
Cheers. All the best, to all of you.

Flemish cities are better to be honest

This is the ultimate Veeky Forums place to live in. I wish we'd all go there, collectively.

I heard that it really works your creative instinct, there's something in the air that just ignites your brain cells.

>not living in leicester
blows any other european city out of the water

>I hope that you find happiness in some other soul
Yeah, his own. Relying on externals for happiness is a fool's game to be honest.

It really causes the imagination to flourish. Where a normal person might see a handful someone with that level of concentration can look beyond the facts and come up with millions.

This.
I tried to find happiness in my girl and got fucked up.
It isn't worth being suicidal for a year.

>smells like shit
But Paris smells like piss
>ugly
lol no
>people only speak French
How is this not Veeky Forums? Are you some pleb who thinks people should learn your language?
I'm inclined to believe this. If there's to be a group of ex-pat burgers who get famous it'll probably be Eastern Europe this time. People forget that Paris was popular because it was dirt cheap to live in for Americans.
I was in Liege for a semester and I fucked my share of study abroad girls.What year was it? 2013?

Sounds comfy.
wtf I love Romania now

i've never been to switzerland or austria but i reckon a small swiss or austrian town would be the best place to live provided there are no muslims or slavs.

Care to elaborate on bologna? Do you live there! ? I ask this because I'm considering the idea of studying there. It seems pretty Veeky Forums desu, I mean, Dante fucking Alighieri studied there

>intellectual scene in Russia

Excuse me but Palmerston North in the great country of New Zealand is the intellectual capital of the Southern Hemisphere

Nah, 2014.