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"write yourself out of the registers" what does that mean?
by VectorLock 6y ago
"write yourself out of the registers" what does that mean?
- pinopinopino 6y agoIt is about the central municipality citizen registration. Something you have in certain countries of Europe. You ought to be registered in some municipality, but if you write yourself out and never register in another municipality. You are untraceable, you are gone for the system. They call it "ghost citizens". There is a catch, you will get less pension for example and lose some rights during the time you are not registered. And renewing your passport is not trivial. You can have a company, but not a regular job. You are in a weird twilight zone then.
- VectorLock 6y agoWhat countries are these? You just tell some municipality to delete you from their books and they do?
- pinopinopino 6y agoNetherlands, keyword: Spookburger Google translate is pretty accurate for Dutch these days. It is an interesting read in how we are organized here. In the nineties the decentralization was even bigger.
- pinopinopino 6y agoAnd I think you can do the same trick in Belgium, not sure though. I wanted to be vague to hide my location a bit, but oh well.