billyjeanboyke

Brussels, because it's the birthplace of surealisme (Ren

Private basic services are not the way to go, so for me this should stay out of the game. I live in Belgium(verry high taxes and social security fees).Healtcare is fully subsidised in our country, everybody has acces to it. Basic healt insurance is forced by law in our country and provided by 4 state services libiral, socialist, christian and independant (these are linked to the unions) wich you have to inlist in once you start working and pay a yearly fee for. Additional insurances can be chosen freely upon this cuts down costs even more, so healtcare becomes very cheap as to cheap. The maximum cost's of treatments are regulated by state as are the honoraria (fee) for the docter's services this aplies for twin bed rooms. Iff you opt for a Single bed room that honoraria can be chosen frealy by the doctor to a sertain max amount. This is basicly where the second insurance comes in, single room for the price of a double or a double for an even lower price. there are no wards( 3-4-6-8-... beds) in our country, exept for when you don't have to spend the night. There are no waitinglist's for treatments, exept organ transplants but that's to do with lack of organs like in any country exept possebly China. We even take on English and Dutch patients as to releave some of the presure on waitinglist's in ther countries (half subsidised). When I go to the docter/gp for a check up or so it cost's working people(me) and high pension's like 4 euro's Handicap and low pensions 1.5 euro's Same aplies for the farmasist when you need medicine you pay a small fee as to discourage unnessesary use. Fee depends on the category your in and iff you have a prescription or not. Healtcare has many more variables then just full, half or no subsidies. In Game for me Private would mean poor income gets excluded from care from these facilities or les money could be spend elswhere so comercial demand should fall or less money could go to leisure resulting in depressed unhappy citizens. Either way as a city you lose, creating social getto's. You talk about lowering taxes getting more high payed jobs in, but will you be able to lower them iff you have to spend more one Police as for crime will rise, fire departments as for arcenies. Lets ad Vandalisme to the game as wel, repairing or replacing property destroyed out of being bored or frustration because low incomes have less acces to leisure and in game this would mean a surplus cost to the city rich people won't move in unless it's safe, clean and well maintained infrasturcture. Ad an other option where you can chose to repair vandalisme in medium and high class zones and leave the poor as it is as to save some of them taxes for accelerating growth. Lower acces to healtcare means lower life expectancy again for lower classes, save some money on pensions. Maybe you'll win there. As for schools we have a choice out of catholic or state schools both fully funded by state the differince lies in in the choise of religious lessons or not in state or mandatory religious in Catholic. Schools are gouvernt by the cultural/language groups in our country (Dutch-,French-,Germanspeaking) They deside on the courses and so. Schools with high groups of low incomes or religious minoroties (mostly state) get surplus funding based on the amount of students in that catogory, to prevent "Gettoschools" from forming and to insure the same level of quality in al schools. As we are free of choice of school not bound to city or district borders or Cultural groups, so schools not performing wel, lose students, lose income, shut down. This sistem works verry fine and private schools are virtually non existant in our country exept for muslim and expat schools. So why should I want that option in the game? Realisme? We only have a few and the system works. In Game iff you would chose for private shools this works with the radius thingy in the game as you could reserve them for richer neigbourhouds and save some taxes, But With the getto's in place due to exclusion from healtcare, more money schould be derived to these shools as to prevent dropouts adding and adding to the poor class. So again would you make a profit there, or will you need to start raising instead. Public Transport Is also subsidized to a verry high amount in our country to insure a basic service for less dense regions where buslines outside main routes linking cities and vilages are not profitible, this impliments that because all is subsidized no one should walk more than 200 meters to the nearest bus stop. So we have callbusses they pick people up at stops outside routes and can drop them off to the nearest bus/trainstation stop on a main line when they want to travel outside the callbus it's district or any stop by choice in the district. No one is left out, as to private operated public transport would mean only the proffitable lines and citylines would remain or if basic services are requiered by the state people outside these profitzones would pay high fares or the whole network would have high fares resulting in the low incomes being derived of this I see basic right. Again less money to spend for lower incomes, same problems, For Electricity in our country this was untill a few years provided by a state compagny, for reasenable prices. Some stupid comissionairies influenced by lobbyists and countries with a private market as to electricity opted for opening of the markets in the euro union. Resulting in a open private market for electricity and for our country a warning and a possible huge fine from Europe for the strong state monopoly as to not letting foreign players enter the market. Our gouvernment sold 51% of its shares to a French group making the state electricity private. An open market with competition resulted in our country for a huge rise in the cost of electricity for the people as to before, falsly rising prices because of high oil prices even tough many comes from nucliar plants. This private service does us no good and eats away at our budget. And I can go one like this for garbadge, water, postal services, Iff you want these choices in your game Full Half None, be prepared to take on the many problems an frustrations that come with these especialy with the private no funding. This will lead in los of fun playing the game and make you go back to simc4 because it was o so easy to play. These choices come with way to many variables, the manual that comes with the game might as well be the size of a phonebook and would you then still be intrested in playing.

The New concerthall in Bruges Belgium, Terracotta extravaganza and the inside looks as bad as the outside. Just type in concertgebouw brugge in google image search and see for yourself.