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Woman plans fun day sampling hand sanitizers in Grand-Rue boutiques

Motivated by the shortage of things to do and fear that if she spends another weekend indoors she’ll lose her mind, a woman from Esch has planned a visit to the capital on Saturday to sample free hand sanitizer in Grand-Rue boutiques.  “I’m so excited just thinking about all those fancy scented hydroalcoholic gels,” said […]

Expat visits Guichet.lu to see if she can express discontent or if she’s just here to pay tons of tax while driving property values up

Saying “grrr,” a mother who moved with her children to Luxembourg a few years ago whose life has been thrown into chaos yet again by a last-minute decision to close schools has taken to Guichet.lu in a desperate attempt to make her voice heard.  “I can’t vote, I’ve got no political representation, the government doesn’t […]

Buy now: homes on sale for 125% of usual price

Now that the sales period has begun, property sellers in Luxembourg are offering homes for a solid fraction above their usual prices. Real estate investor Landon Richer says this period is one of his favorite times to raise prices by 10, 20, or even 50 percent.  “We’re slashing prices upwards and giving ourselves the best […]

Opinion: it’s time to recruit drug dealers to get the vaccine for us

While it’s easy to criticize the Luxembourg government for the snail-like vaccine rollout, it’s clear that neither Prime Minister Xavier Bettel nor Minister of Health Paulette Lenert are fully responsible. Governments across the EU are grappling with similar shortages. There is simply not enough supply to go around, and we’re now witnessing a massive blame […]