Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "The Illusion of Improvement" video.

YES YES AND YES I live in Bulgaria - officially the poorest country in the EU - BUT... Most families here raise 2 kids quite happily on 1 income...!!! 85% of people own their own home with no mortgage. 65% of families have a house in the village for weekends and food growing. Kids get free school meals, old people do the child minding for free, food is more expensive than the UK but people still buy quality food not processed crap. The QUALITY of life for working people is way higher than the UK £££ =/= Quality of life. >>> Its what you can DO with that money.
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WHEN I WAS 24 IN 1994 I bought a 3 bedroomed stone terrace for 2.5 X my salary, I had a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo, and I was at restaurants and clubs every week. THAT WAS NORMAL I feel SO sorry for kids today, I know kids in the Uk who never go out, they save every penny for a deposit and they just get further away each year.
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@steph6109 I agree - it came from the communist era - BUT, they are building lots and lots of new apartments. We don't have a housing crisis, we have 1/10th the UK population and we are building 1/3rd the number of homes each year. You can buy a house in a village for £10k or an apartment in the city for £25k [upwards] . A brand new apartment will cost about €600 per sq m. So that's about 40k for a 68m2 apartment like mine. The average wage in my city is €12k so thats 3.3X an average salary for a NEW apartment. You could find an old one to do up for maybe €15k. ALSO TO CONSIDER- this is a 15 minute city, you dont need a car, the bus is 75 cents a DAY no matter how far you go and the bus is every 7 minutes. BTW - the city is Burgas you can look it up
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@kokofleming8833 NO - they are WAY WAY happier than the abandoned old people lonely in their houses waiting for the kids to remember them that we have in the UK. They are active valued members of society. When you get an apartment its important to check out the quality of the Babas [Grandmothers] cos they run the place...!!! [And your supply of free home-grown tomatoes and cucumbers relies on them!!]
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@clipkut4979 YEP. - forgot that - income tax is a flat rate 10%.
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@RenewalFountain IM sorry mate - its fking tough for young people today. My advice, 1st sort your sleep then work from there. sleep is the foundation of life.
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@RenewalFountain - I spent about 8 years working with victims of narcissistic abuse and the 3 things that are most directly interlinked with stress and depression are: 1) Sleep - I hate to be that guy but get up early and go to bed early 2) Physical fitness / exercise - I would argue that physical health and mental health are the same thing - health. They are SO closely linked I no longer believe in making a distinction. 3) Diet - this is a weird one. But 90% of the serotonin in your body is made by the bacteria in your gut, serotonin is the "contented happy with life" hormone. Cut out sugar, cut down carbs and eat some animal fats like butter and a WIDE variety of different plants, you dont need a lot. You are just feeding the bacteria in your gut. Get up early, go for a walk, and eat low card high variety diet and honestly, that is the foundation for a happy life. BTW - if you get that 2am "I just dont want to go to bed" feeling - thats actually a fear of tomorrow. today is over, the horrors are over, nothing bad will happen, you have got through today but tomorrow - anything could happen. Its normal, most people have this at some point in their life. If you want to get rid of it - get up get straight in a freezing cold shower - that way the worst part of the day is over with immediately. 😀
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@audie-cashstack-uk4881 Your XR2 would be worth about £35k now LOL. I was never good at saving cos I had a very small brain and partied all the time. I know people now in their early 20's and they literally never go out, they just save money. They live 6 to a house and share the £2k rent and save every penny to get a deposit cos they know they cant ever afford the rent on their own and no way can they have kids...
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@nataconly8685 I could not agree more. When I first moved here I thought they were so lazy. No one does overtime, no one works late to get the job done. They get home ASAP and are in the park playing with their kids. It took me 10 years to unlearn the programming and see that I as the idiot, thinking my unpaid overtime in the UK "to get the job done" to "be a hard worker" was just idiotic bullsh!t - its NOT a moral virtue to be hard working and I know 99.5% of British people will not agree, but trust me its not and only protestant westerners and the Japanese think it is. Over here, [traditionally] the good father is the ones that spend the most time with his family, not the one who earns the most money. We have genuinely been fed the fantasy that is WE work harder and make the COMPANY more successful that will be better FOR US in the long run. In reality, they will fire and re hire you on a zero-hours contract.
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@jmc6687 No sorry dude thats not whats going on here. Here they build LOTS of new property and in the Uk you build very little in order to keep the tory voting boomers property priced high.
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@thekiteboatparty3568 - Its quite easy to move here - there is a bit of a labour shortage and a growing economy. There are lots of different qualifying criteria - if you have an income of about €1k a month you can get a 5-year visa. If you have a job here. If you have a needed skill. If you invest I think €250k in property. Basically, if you are any use to the economy you can move here.
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