Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "How Bulgaria Tricked Putin to Rescue Ukraine" video.

  1. IM BRITISH LIVING IN BULGARIA for 15 years - when the refugees started arriving in Burgas, my town and the one mentioned in the video, I went to volunteer... The line of people already there to volunteer to help them was hundreds of meters long at 9am. Id also likes to say, I don't think Bg's are as pro-Russian as you make out and the country is not as chaotic and poor as you make out. cost of living is VERY low here
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  2. Im British and Im proud to live in Bulgaria. though the image he gave in this video is not the Bulgaria I have lived in for 15 years, very sensationalised...
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  3. YOUR VIDEO LACKS CONTEXT 25% of Bulgarians think the west provoked Russia - YEA everyone in Bulgaria knows you have to be clinically insane to invade in the March Mud so if you KNOW no one is going to invade in March and Russia invades in March the conclusion for many is they were provoked. This is not the same as thinking Russia was RIGHT to invade - I live here and I have NOT spoken to a single person who thinks Putin was right to invade. Quite the opposite. But many do think the USA provoked this.
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  4.  @piotrstepien1234  - Maybe it depends on where you live? I live in Burgas - a touristy city, very western, most people speak English...?
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  5. Im A British author living in Bulgaria - I have interviewed hundreds of Bulgarians for a book and I have NOT found them to be very pro-Russia, many are pro socialism. I think these two things may be getting confused in the western telling of this story as to most westerners Russia and Communism are the same thing.
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  6. Narcissistic TV personalities getting into politics never works out well
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  7.  @problem87  - Yeah - YOU don't know what you are talking about. Im guessing you are American. If a government pursues a policy of massive house building to keep property prices low - for example - that means the people have a very low cost of living. This is why there is such a thing as "PPP" Maybe you should stop commenting on economics.
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  8.  @Perceval777  - You missed the point.
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  9.  @piotrstepien1234  - I think that is probably very true here. Also I think it would be far to say some people here are quite pro Russia, but not pro Putin.
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  10.  @lightyagami1435  You missed the entire point. He says the wages are very low - yes, but so are the costs of living so it balances out. The average Bulgarian has a similar standard of living as the average British person and in Dec 2022 Poland PASSED the Uk for the average standard of living. Actually Romania and Bulgaria are set to pass the Uk for the average standard of living in the next 5 years. My internet costs 15 leva - my sisters in the UK costs £45 - thats 105 leva
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  11.  @kollyoenchev5587  Thank you - a couple of points you mention I would like to comment on. I ONLY know Bulgarian people - I dont associate with Brits over here въпреки че българският ми е много лош. I don't know ANYONE on minimum wage, I also don't know anyone with a mortgage, so most people have OK lives. They are definitely nothing like as stressed about money as my friends in the UK. BUT I live in Burgas which is quite cosmopolitan, so this is not necessarily representative of the whole country. "In conclusion - I think we are moving forward the right way." I absolutely agree - I think Bulgaria is doing a very good job of modernising without AMERICANISING and I think ths is a very good thing. The UK tried to be a carbon copy of America and it has worked out very badly for them. I think the best thing Bulgaria does is look after the children and young families. Again I can not speak nationally, but in Burgas kids under school age get food delivered to the door every day, kids get free school meals, schools are small and distributed so kids can all walk to school, the 3 age groups are next to each other so the older kids can walk the younger ones to school, there is a ratio of 1 child psychologist to every 300 kids in a school, kids learn to drive in little electric cars on proper road layouts from 5yr so they are good citizens on the road when they get a car, many schools have dorms for the kids to sta couple of nights a week to give the parents a break, almost every apartment block has a playground within 50 yards for the kids and they are in good condition, the old people look after the kids after work, no one uses child care here, leaving your kid in storage with a stranger whilst yo work is essentially considered child abuse here. OH and you get [nearly] 2 years parental leave from work when you have a kid and university is very affordable. Bulgaria seems to realise that children LITERALLY are the future and not an impediment to you working 60 hours a week - as they are seen in the USA and the UK
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