Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Hand Sewing an Apron in a Day" video.

I live in Bulgaria now - all the "Babas" [grandmothers] are out on a morning with their A-frame Baba dresses and their aprons on sweeping the streets outside their apartment block. Its really important when choosing an apartment block to live in to asses the quality of your Babas. It will affect the quality of your life LOL
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@angelmaden1559 - I live in one of those horrifying looking communist era tower blocks they use in horror movies - and I LOVE IT. They are built so unbelievably well and the city planning is amazing. Lockdown was not an issue as everything I need is within 10 minutes walking distance. And everyone looks after everyone else - I was brought fresh vegetables all summer from peoples gardens - most people have a 2nd home in the countryside, cos communism in Bulgaria was pretty good to people. Honestly, when I moved to Bulgaria I was such a snob about these blocks, from the western propaganda. I have never felt more like I live in a village then living here - and I moved FROM a village in the UK. I could go on all day about life here, but the Babas worm my heart every morning as I walk my dogs at 7 am and they are all out sweeping up. Then later when the kids finish school the Babas look after the kids - no one pays for child care here, the old people do it.
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@AmaltheaVimes - I'm incredibly lucky. I appreciate every day of it cos it won't last forever. The world changes and becomes more homogenised. Everywhere becomes more like everywhere else... So I make an effort to appreciate it whilst it lasts.
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@HosCreates - OH, I'm sorry. I mean that. Now I have lived here 12 years, I dont know how people in the "west" survive. The idea that you grow up and move hundreds of miles away from your parents just seems idiotic to me now. Yet it is exactly what I did. The average person moved hundreds of miles away, then pays for child care whilst their parents are at home bored, and they don't know or trust the neighbours and its probably illegal to leave the kid with them any way. It just seems totally messed up to me now. Its very strange. So many things that seemed normal to me in the UK, just seem crazy now.
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