I’ve spent a few days there working for a Japanese television program - it seems everyone there has a quirky story regarding the borders. The city hall has a b

I’ve spent a few days there working for a Japanese television program - it seems everyone there has a quirky story regarding the borders. The city hall has a border going through it. Both the Belgian and Dutch municipalities are housed there, as are the two police stations. The Belgian and Dutch police share one office, but the border goes right through it. https://goo.gl/maps/LBreHZLyjqo https://goo.gl/maps/LBreHZLyjqo The police shared plenty of stories with us about how they have to cooperate with each other in order to do their work - since some of the borders are “3D” (eg. where the ground floor of an old house is half Belgian half Dutch, but the upper floors are full Dutch) they sometimes officially need the help of the other police to get access to all of a crime scene. Then there’s the fact that people in that town consciously choose in which of the two jurisdictions they do something: getting gas, going to school, groceries, all related to tax and regulations. If your house is located in the two countries at once, the position of your front door decides under which jurisidiction you actually live. Same for stores / restaurants.