You're still poorer. I think.Until those vile, treacherous Dutch started blockading the Schelde, of course. That's what, in the end, made the Dutch rich and the Flemish relatively poor up 'till the industrial revolution.
However, the only thing that matters these days is football, in which we have you beat by a looooooooong shot.
Also, my sense of irony is currently dead, dunno why.