Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Illegally Using the Euro: Is Bulgaria the Next to Officially Join? - TLDR News" video.

I lived in France at the time of the switch over - prices shot up significantly, mostly on food. If you are on a low fixed income it will be a massive % increase for you as and when Bulgaria adopts the Euro. FYI - I now live in Bulgaria and the price of food is going up dramatically over the last three months anyway.
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@firelaf1284 - it does not matter, retailers use the confusion to increase prices. Prices WILL go up on retail goods, mostly food.
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I lived in France at the time of the switch over - prices shot up significantly, mostly on food. If you are on a low fixed income it will be a massive % increase for you as and when Bulgaria adopts the Euro. FYI - I now live in Bulgaria and the price of food is going up dramatically over the last three months anyway.
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@Silver_Prussian - Здравейте - I am English. I have travelled in 53 countries, lived in France for a while on a yacht and then when I decided to settle down and stop "adventuring" I chose to live in Bulgaria. I have been here for 12 years. It is very far from perfect, but over all it offers [in my opinion] the best balance of quality of life factors and I love it.
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@Silver_Prussian Quote "I wish our country had its dependence to decide for itself not get ordered by the eu" Well - it goes both ways. The roads are now drivable and not full of holes, the street lights work, the city centres are busy, the hospitals are being rebuilt, all thanks to the EU. BUT cos of the EU foreign companies can buy out your Bulgarian food companies, fill everything with sugar and make you all fat - there were NO fat Bulgarians when I arrived 12 years ago, your city centres are looking like any EU city with KFC, Mango, Monsoon, Next etc It is a VERY different country to the one I arrived in 12 years ago - both in bad ways and in good ways.
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@Silver_Prussian - Neither. I'm 50 years old, I am an author. This allows me to work anywhere, so I choose to work here. I rent my apartment in a panel block from a Bulgarian family. I chose to spend my life travelling so I don't have money to buy a house...
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@Silver_Prussian - the EU are not going to give Bulgaria billions and billions of €€€ if its not a member, and it is EU money that is paying for these thigns.
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So standard Bulgarian position on this subject then LOL
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