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I'm my city - Burgas in Bulgaria - the poorest country in the EU. The minimum wage for an 18 year old is enough to pay the rent on an apartment and buy food and socialise The average family has 2 kids on. 1 salary in their mid 20's. The min wage is about 1,100 лв a month and my rent on a 800sq ft apartment next to the sea is 300 лв electric 25 лв 1gb internet 25 лв water 10 лв and i buy quality food so I spend 300 лв a month on food.
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I LIVE IN AN EX COMMUNIST BLOCK in Burgas Bulgaria, its hard to imagine how GREAT it actually is, its kinda like a low rent [literally my rent is $150 a month] Amsterdam. The commi city planners got it STOP ON. They even thought about the type of trees to plant, FRUIT TREES - why? 4 months of FREE FRUIT for every resident. :-D
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LITERALLY JUST DISCOVERED why they are called big box stoors. I thought they sold things in big boxes like refrigerators and washing machines... Not really much of a thing over here in Europe due to planning regs
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Same here in Bulgaria - we don't have these stoors or Amzn - so we have busy, thriving high streets. There is a 2 year waiting list for a shop to rent in the city centre here in Burgas.
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I LITERALLY LIVE in an ex communist incredibly well-designed city and it F_KING LOVE IT. Example - thousands of fruit trees all different varieties = 4 months of FREE FRUIT. I mean figs, pomegranates, pears, apples, cherries, about 10 types of plum that ripen at different time, grapes, peaches... Also the bus service is so good I gave my car away after it had not been used for 3 years and the brakes were solid.
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I live in Bulgaria - we have great public transport and I finally gave up the car about 3 years ago. Financially it has TRANSFORMED my life. I live a pretty minimalist life but my one remaining luxury was a 5.0L S Class Mercedes. Even though I was not using it a lot - the simple cost of ownership was the difference between having lots of spare cash to save each month and being broke at the end of the month.
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@Freshbott2 - I think you are basically correct. What I see as a European is that Americans have been trained to believe that government provide NOTHING, and if they do its not for you its for the scroungers in society and 99cents out of every $1 in your taxes is WASTED. Americans just DONT BELIEVE in government, tax cuts have wone elections for 40 years. Also - Americans have been trained to believe that cars somehow = freedom and that is communist to make them use a train or a bike. The final thing another commenter said - Americans REALLY don't like to do things other countries have done. It implies the other country did something better first...
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I live in Bulgaria now. We don't really have a loneliness problem and even in the lockdown, living on my own I never felt lonely. I gave this a lot of thought and my conclusion was the city planning. We have a group of apartment blocks that has its own little shopping area, the next group has their shopping area, and we DONT have Amazon - so these are busy. I realised it was my daily, very brief, interactions with the shop keepers that stopped me from feeling lonely. Now the lockdown is over I can see how the busy shopping area is a focus of the society, and how incredibly important it is.
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AGREED - but I live in a fully bike-centric city in Bulgaria - Burgas - I bought a "city bike" for me and a "Dutch Bike" for my girlfriend - there is NO compassion. The ergonomics of the Ditch bike are fantastic. My "city" bike is a mountain bike with skinny tires and no suspension, its a joke for city use.
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HOW SMALL does your penis have to be to live in suburbia and buy a massive pick up truck...??? Here in the EU they are mostly bought by gym owners as advertisements - they graphic them up and they instantly appeal to the EXACT demographic they are targeting - insecure men.
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WHEN I MOVED TO BULGARIA I looked at the communist apartment blocks and though "OH MY GOD - Imagine how horrible it would be to HAVE to live in one of those" NOW - I live in "one of those" and I look at western suburbia and think "OH MY GOD - Imagine how horrible it would be to HAVE to live in one of those" - also, Id be REALLY lonely
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@Freshbott2 - Where I live its 10% flat rate tax on everything - wages, stock dividends, capital gains, benefits. Then they rebate low wage people. The benefit is there is no point employing an expensive accountant to save you money - whichever column you put it in its still 10% - so its super cheap to collect and enforce and in reality at 10% the super-rich are actually paying more then in the USA. That said it needs to rise to 15% - the EU has paid for a lot of infrastructures that will need maintaining.
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@nimrodbegg123 - The nemesis of democracy is television and to a lesser extent radio. As soon as these were invented people started to elect politicians on style way more than policy or track record. so you end up with the perverse situation where I, a literal communist, support the unelected hereditary peers... That alone should tell everyone how utterly broken modern "democracy" is. A classic example was the UK government a few weeks ago making it legal for water companies to pump raw sewage into the rivers and the sea, it was the House Of Lords that stopped them. Why were they going to allow sewage in the rivers, cos they have a massive majority and they dont care cos Boris Johnson has a massive voter base cos he is popular despite being utterly useless and a pathological liar. You cant imagine the great great-grandchild of Thomas Jefferson voting to allow raw sewage to be pumped into the rivers of America can you???
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@BestHakase - Same wiht the UK - Lobbying is a respectable profession. Here in Bulgaria its a crime, this is partly why Bulgaria is the "most corrupt country in the EU" cos they are amature at the corruption and have not legalised it...
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It took me a full 30 seconds to work out what the heck he was talking bout LOL
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IT WAS NOT until I read Karl Marks Das Capital that I realised almost all the arguments people put forward to explain why things went working are total BS… The real reason is the UNDERLYING ECONOMIC MODEL DOES NOT WORK. For example - the reason the USA has a housing crisis is Cheap plastic crap from China >>> Below. If you have $100 million an you want more - which you do cos you are greedy - then you would normally invest in a business that makes things. But in 2 years it will be made in China for half the price and you will make almost NO profit. Share dividends are at an all time low. SO instead you buy houses, you only rent some of them out to keep the income artificially high and as all the rich people are buying houses the people cant BUY a house, so they pay what you ask.
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TO EVERYONE SAYING THEY ARE VERY HEAVY can I just say the modern ones are not - they have 3 or 8 gears - they are absolutely fine for any normal city... Maybe if you lie in Edinborough give it a miss, but in most cities, you will be fine.
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IM PRETTY SURE you would be arrested for most of those examples people sent in - in the UK... The UK pole's job is to make the lives of ordinary people absolute misery whilst ensuring people who commit violence against women have a life free of the worry they might get caught.
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I live in a fully bike-centric city in Bulgaria - Burgas - I bought a "city bike" for me and a "Dutch Bike" for my girlfriend - there is NO compassion. The ergonomics of the Ditch bike are fantastic. My "city" bike is a mountain bike with skinny tires and no suspension, its a joke for city use.
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OH WOW I just realised I have not seen a pot hole for about 10 years... I forgot they were a thing.
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@Erik-ou3tl - We dont have that here in Bulgaria. What they do on New Years Eve is throw huge fireworks of the balconies of the communist-era apartment blocks - honestly, it looks like the footage of the first strike on Baghdad in the Iraq war. When I moved here 12 years ago there were potholes so big I smashed 2 wheels in ONE of them - then they rebuilt every road and turned the city into an Amsterdam style cycle, walk and trolleybus city and as the traffic usage is so low the roads still look absolutely brand new.
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I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ELECTED TRUMP...!!! any country capable of being dum8 enough to allow this model of business to happen si eventually going to elect Trump
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@nimrodbegg123 - This is similar to the phenomenon of the hereditary peers iin the house of Lords in the UK. They get to rule over the country because an ancestor was made a Barron in 1730 or something and they are there for life - logic tells you this is a terrible thing. YET, in reality, these people tend to stop the ELECTED politicians doing horrible things to appeal to their base and force the government to do things in the longer-term benefit of the country. If you put aside your prejudice and look at the actual VOTING record, they are the best thing the UK has. It would be like the USA having the great great-grandchildren of the founding fathers in the Senate and you cant unelect them, they have no need to pander and are likely to think of the country more than say - Ted Cruz.
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@Freshbott2 - I live in Bulgaria now, that's the country with 10% flat-rate taxation. I don't know if that is what you were asking?
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