RE: To live in this wonderful, poor country
It is true that many pensioners in Germany are not doing well. I find the scenes of old people who have worked all their lives and are now forced to collect returnable bottles from rubbish bins in order to buy enough to eat unworthy and shameful. But there are also those with a reasonably decent pension, from the middle class. They think very carefully about where they can get the best quality of life for their money. If you measure this in terms of housing, staff, care and fixed costs, Bulgaria is a desirable place to live. In the past, it was Mallorca where all German pensioners felt they wanted to spend their retirement. Today, Bulgaria and Hungary, away from the big cities, are far ahead.
It's completely normal for a local to see things from a completely different angle. I also can't imagine what could attract anyone to Germany of all places...
I have always said that if a Western European has decided that he has fallen into a crisis at some point in his life, it is not the crisis that we call a "crisis". Also, a person in such a situation cannot be compared to the life of those who have been in a crisis their whole life and cannot get out of it. 😄
Anyway, written in this way, it misleads the reader to say: Hey, but we've lived here very well, since people from developed countries decide to come here.
Without taking into account all the other factors that would be behind this decision.
And the people on the other side, do they also take all the factors into account?
A few months ago I met a woman who grew up in Germany, now forced to live in one of the largest cities in Bulgaria because of her husband. She said this: "in Germany the electricity never went out. Here it goes out all the time."
For the past two weeks we have had constant problems with water, and now, having the opportunity to shower, wash clothes and wash dishes, these simple things feel like a luxury that we are not entitled to.
Do foreigners want to live like this? Because I grew up this way, used to it, so to speak, life goes on like this, no matter where in the country you live, and there is no way out of this way of life...