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Italy has the same, called "anagrafe", you need to update the registry every time you move to another city or even if you change street, since the registry not
by antirez 10y ago
Italy has the same, called "anagrafe", you need to update the registry every time you move to another city or even if you change street, since the registry not only tracks the relationships between individuals but the historical movements of single persons, and is also used in order to make you pay taxes about producing trash. Similarly when a child is born, the first thing to do for the parents is to go to the office and register the newborn, with the ability to recognize it, or not, for both the father and mother, as your child. That is, the mother can pretend that the child she just gave birth is not her, legally, if she is not ready to have a family, and this is considered by Italians a fundamental right of women, even if it is rarely used. It's a bit annoying to deal with this registry normally but it's an useful thing.
- robryk 10y agoInteresting case: Poland has an address register that is slowly being deprecated -- it is no longer necessary to ever update it and in increasingly fewer situations a record from that registry is required (and it would be very unpopular if people actually had to report to the government that they've moved). I wonder what are trends related to such registers in other countries.
- antirez 10y agoIt is unlikely that it gets deprecated here. It's used for too many things. For instance one part of the free healthcare you get is a local doctor usually a few blocks from where you live where you can go for basic needs. This is also assigned based on your current address.
- robryk 10y agoThis also used to be the case in Poland. Now you can choose the GP you go to and change that decision IIRC twice a year. Choosing a doctor that's far away makes no sense, so there's no or little reason to restrict that choice to close doctors.
- antirez 10y agoMakes sense indeed. GP means generic physician? Thanks.
- maxerickson 10y agoGeneral practitioner. Same difference though.
- mantas 10y agoLithuanian there. I think we inherited a very similar system from soviet times. Various things are slowly decoupled off the address registry. Major thing left is voting in election. Someone is eligible to vote for municipality. As in, for mayor of that municipality or it's parliament member. There're also optional municipality services that run off the same registry. For example, your kids may be rejected from municipality-sponsored kindergarten if you're not registered in the same municipality. This is to ensure another municipality is not receiving your taxes while you leech off neighbouring one. I guess that will get centralised sooner or later.