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To: tejek who wrote (258520)	11/7/2005 4:38:32 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572687

Re: Forget your tweaking of Mechelen's/Malines's status as a city, is Taro's explanation correct otherwise? I beg your pardon?! Taro hasn't "explained" anything --he merely commented on the real-estate attractiveness --or the lack thereof-- of Mechelen and, since I'm no real-estate developer myself, I graciously concede... Just a little niggle though: Ryanair is based at Charleroi, not Brussels. In Mechelen, which used to be an attractive and expensive park style sleeping city with house prices constantly climbing for years, this trend seems to have been reversed. Many non immigrants moved out to other areas thus leaving a stagnant housing market and a lot of shops closing doors behind them. It is amazing how cheap you can rent what used to be a nice 4-5 rooms apartment for a medium size family, when planning for for instance an international sales office for a multi national company with the need of good communications, vicinity of a great airport (Ryanair et al) and multi language people.