Ana Rita Pereira Marques, born in Lisbon in 1995, lives in Schaerbeek, has Portuguese roots and works as a policy officer. Came to Brussels as an intern in 2021, after studying in Denmark. Loves walking to work and the fact that you can really do anything in Brussels.

She thinks the best thing about Brussels is the people and the park life. The hardest part is the cleanliness, the rubbish and the rats. She also worries about the transience of work and friends if you can't stay.

Brussels for her is the diversity of people, including in international work teams and the culinary diversity: she sometimes goes to a Portuguese and Brazilian supermarket. Her questions for the future are about green in the city, the waste system and political shifts in Europe.

Chloé Van der Straten, born in 2013, lives in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre and is a pupil in primary school. She loves the many parks in her neighbourhood such as the Park of Woluwe and the Bois de la Cambre where she goes for walks with the dog and meets up with her friends. Brussels for her is the Grand Place with its old shiny buildings, Stokkel, and especially the scouts.

She sees herself staying in Brussels as an adult, close to her parents and grandparents. Her questions to the future are about preserving old buildings, surviving the cinema and her home and neighbourhood.

Loves the multilingualism and diversity of Brussels, cycling, but finds cleanliness and drug use on the streets a real challenge. For her, Brussels is the beauty of Mont des Arts, places like the KBR, the protests against terraces in public spaces and for the Marchant Bridge.