Nick and Chelsea's GenXcellent Adventure
Oct 21, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 10 segments
What aspect of Belgium did Nick and Chelsea discover immediately upon their arrival in Brussels? Belgium bureaucracy. In this episode learn how they navigated the red tape that accompanies moving into…
Yes.
Yeah.
yeah but uh it's something you learn right away and we got it right away when we came when we landed here in brussels
yeah because you have to like you have to get and you have to get your id and they don't make it it's not simple there's multiple steps to it and you need all this paperwork and Nothing can be electronic, which is sort of like getting your driver's license in Washington.
Nothing can be electronic.
Well,
and you know, I guess we kind of experienced a little bit of that even before we came here, even before we were back in the States.
Yeah.
Where everything is done
electronically.
We kind of experienced a little bit different.
I mean, you're like, should I really be putting this sensitive information onto these various things?
But not just that.
You could also go and have to do something official.
And usually if you show them a photo or something on your phone of the document they need, they would accept it.
You know,
like I did that plenty of times.
But when we were doing the various visa things, mostly that you needed to do, but also, um, also, you know, both of us, we ended up having to like take hard copies to the Belgium embassy.
Yeah.
I mean, like the police clearance, for example.
Yes.
Yeah.
yeah but uh it's something you learn right away and we got it right away when we came when we landed here in brussels
yeah because you have to like you have to get and you have to get your id and they don't make it it's not simple there's multiple steps to it and you need all this paperwork and Nothing can be electronic, which is sort of like getting your driver's license in Washington.
Nothing can be electronic.
Well,
and you know, I guess we kind of experienced a little bit of that even before we came here, even before we were back in the States.
Yeah.
Where everything is done
electronically.
We kind of experienced a little bit different.
I mean, you're like, should I really be putting this sensitive information onto these various things?
But not just that.
You could also go and have to do something official.
And usually if you show them a photo or something on your phone of the document they need, they would accept it.
You know,
like I did that plenty of times.
But when we were doing the various visa things, mostly that you needed to do, but also, um, also, you know, both of us, we ended up having to like take hard copies to the Belgium embassy.
Yeah.
I mean, like the police clearance, for example.
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