macdo,
After 2.5 years of living/working OST ... NO ... I am most definitely not a fan!
The Jupiler beer is some sort of chemical formula and when the police launched a pre-Christmas drink/driving clampdown it was the police themselves that were selling a list of where/when all these checkpoints were ... they didn't catch many drink/drivers!
About the only people paying income tax at the airport were the handling agent, ATC, fire, security etc. Every so often the police would raid the airport for tax/immigration dodgers, funny enough we'd receive a phone call to let us know the police were on their way, as the police would be driving in to the airport there would be a long queue of traffic heading in the opposite direction and towards the Icarus restaurant.
Once the police realised that the airport had become a ghost town they'd head for the Icarus restaurant also, the police would be drinking with us knowing darn well who we were but if we were ever asked we were just there on holiday!
The Icarus restaurant, half way along the airfield, on the sea side, is the ex WWII Luftwaffe officers mess, it was built by British POW's and they put a bit of pride in to their workmanship.