Marten (81) moved to Belgium to escape high taxes, but also saw the downside: 'Then I ended up in a circuit of gold diggers'

Marten Rijkeboer (81) is selling his villa in Brasschaat, Belgium, for almost 3 million euros. The man fled the high taxes in the Netherlands in the nineties to settle in Brasschaat, like so many wealthy Dutch people before him. But the man also saw the downside of the decadent lifestyle and recently decided to change course. "I want to take away my son's worries."

Marten Rijkeboer (81) is selling his villa in Brasschaat for almost 3 million euros. The Dutchman fled the high taxes in his home country in the nineties to settle in Brasschaat, as many wealthy Dutch people did before him. But the man also saw the downside of the decadent lifestyle and recently decided to change course. "I want to take away some of my son's worries."