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Here is a strange thing - here in Bulgaria THEY DO. My peanuts were 2.89. then they went up to 3.09. 3.99. 4.45 and now they are back to 2.89 and it happens on lots of things - I have no idea what this it - Im guessing its a hang over from communism that they ar enot as evil???
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@ianl1052 - yeah - you completely missed the point of my comment
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@PORRRIDGE_GUN - Yeah I agree this could be the reason. But i can't ever remember the prices of anything going DOWN in the UK after it went up. It sets a new benchmark and then thats where it stays. Butter is another thing that has risen in price and fallen this year. Its a common thing across food products for them to go down nearly as often as they go up.
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@ab-ym3bf - here is a weird thing about me - I have "emoji blindness" I have no idea what any emoji more advanced than a smiley face means
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HAHAHHAHHAHA
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@ab-ym3bf - THATS the one I know!
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@garethmartin6522 - We have strong growth and rising waged - up 500% since 1990. Many things are very "strange" in Bulgaria by British standards. You can buy 1 razorblade or 1 tide pod or 1 Elastoplast - any shop will split a pack and sell you it at the exact fraction of the pack. Companies pick up and drop off their employees in mini buses - you don't commute. Schools and hospitals are distributed - 27 hospitals in my city over 50 schools and when you buy an apartment they give you the walking times to the schools and doctors and other stuff. Car insurance rates are the same for everyone regardless of age or gender. Bus fares are 70p no matter how long the trip - flat rate 1 stop or 20 miles. The whole of society is just structured differently as a result of communism, so this is what I THINK it will be. You will have charged a fixed % of your costs as profit under communism and they still do, so energy comes down the factory lowers the price, the wholesaler lowers theirs and the shop lowers theirs - is my guess...
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@beachcomber1able " The remainder of the taters must have been green after a couple of months," I could not afford heating either so they lasted quite well LOL
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@garethmartin6522 - I completely agree wiht " I think actual Communism would be significantly different and wouldn't use money at all." It is really interesting living here and talking to people, communism as we call the system they had, was not so much better than we were told [it was] but completely different. We in the west fixated on the lack of shiny new consumer goods as proof of its failure and they were not in any way looking to build that society quite the opposite. They wanted a sustainable society where things were well made and laster for ever and THEIR primary focus [here] was the children. Its a children-centric society NOT a consumer-centric. Here ths idea of sending your kid to daycare wiht a stranger whilst you go to work to earn money for consumer goods is basically considered child abuse. The GREAT father is the one who finished work on time every night and is in the park with his kids playing. The BAD father is the one working late to buy luxuries. Comparing capitalism with communism - at least here in Bulgaria - is like compairing a lobster with a goat and saying which one is best. Sure we all LIKE a lobster, its luxury, but the goat is way more practical and useful for the long term.
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@beachcomber1able I once lived on a sack of potatoes for 4 months when I was super broke - its a bad idea they sap vitamins out of your body and make you ill...
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@ohgosh5892 AND YOUR COMMENT show a total lack of comprehension of my comment - buy an education.
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@garethmartin6522 "All of this is directly contradictory to the way the USSR was depicted in the West as a grey monotony of deprivation and misery." 100% I first came to Bulgaria in 1994 and honestly I was expecting grey and snow and it was blue skies, golden beaches and palm trees. "not least because at the time it was a backward agrarian economy quite similar to Africa today." In 1905 they still had serfdom, by 1965 they were beating the USA to space. Life expectancy in 1945 was 35, in 1975 it was 75 - higher than Mississippi today "Capitalism is a death cult. " I couldn't agree more. The great ting about communism - they put the manufacture date on everything. My plastic mop bucket 1977, my iron 1962,, my cheese grater 1983 - you CAN make things to last, even plastic things can stay flexible and soft for ever - capitalism makes them to go brittle and crack to sell you another - or just break in 2 years. When I moved here 15 years ago CCCP things were pennies no one wanted them, Not now - people are sick of buying and throwing away modern plastic crap. Its living here that has made me a communist, I arrived a foaming at the mouth capitalist business owner. Even if they failed - they TRIED to build a perfect society. We dont even try.
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@gavinjones3933 - Maybe I only notice it here cos I see them return to a price I REMEMBER. Lets say my peanuts went from 2.89 to 4.45 and then down to 3.25 - maybe I would not notice that??? BUt the 2.89 is in my brain so it rings a bell??? Cos I never noticed in the UK, and its something I have very clearly noticed here since I moved here...?!?!??
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@gavinjones3933 THEY ARE LOL - we still have lots of small local factories [although the American food companies are buying them up very quickly] so yeah my peanuts are roasted fresh locally and sold that week, so each batch tastes different. Same with my coffee the shop is owned by the local roasting house, so each week it tastes a little different - sometimes better sometimes worse. If your product is "consistent' its never great cos its never bad. I love the local producers, but one by one the Nestle logo appears on the packaging...
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@garethmartin6522 - I cant speak for russia cos I dont live there - but the level to which Bulgaria runs around the children is AMAZING. 2 years parental leave if you have a kid Hot food delivered to your door every morning if your kid is under school age Distributed local schools so the kids can walk to school Infant, junior and high schools are next to each other so the older kids walk the younger ones to school Many schools have dorms so you kid can stay over a couple of nights a week to give the parents a break The whole apartment block looks after the kids after school - I have no idea which kid belongs to which parent or grandparent We have hundreds of well provided and wel maintained playgrounds - about 1 for ever 3 apartment blocks We have woods and meadows in the city for them to play in They teach them to drive from 6 in little electric cars, so even the 18 year old boys drive at 10mph around the built-up areas It is society's job to look after kids - so if you take your kid to the gym with yu the receptionist will look after it or people as they go in and out They have the belief that if you traumatise kids in 20 years you have a traumatised society - and you know what - they are correct. We have the joint lowest level of mental health problems in the EU with Romania - and its not lack of diagnosis - every school has an onsite child psychologist and larger schools have a ratio of 1 to 300 kids... I dont have kids - but my life is improved every day by the way they treat kids here...
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