Seeing that you are in Belgium, I'd prefer to live in this graveyard in your place.
I like how people act like its so horrific. Our own politicians for example.
The bad parts of brussels, are about the same as la gare du nord in Paris.
Antwerp, despite largely overrated, is not bad. I'm living just outside of it, its quite okay. The biggest threath, is that one of the streets (50km/h street, separated by a large grass section in the middle, each lane is like 2 cars wide), doesnt have concrete sidewalks. God, the horror !
Got a great job with massive growth potential, in a exponentially expanding company, and we got just about the best health care in the world. Oh and i got company insurance that i cannot pay over 75 euro/year for any kind of hospitalisation, in a single bed room.
Its boring as shit to visit as a tourist, but its absolutely not bad to live in.