We moved to a country that everyone is leaving: Sofia, Bulgaria

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   @ExpatJourneyOnline 8か月 ago

   Great video. Very thorough. We recently moved to Plovdiv and are loving it. One point of clarification: while Bulgaria is indeed losing people, they are doing so from the rural areas. The population of the larger cities here–like Sofia–is actually increasing ever so slightly.

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   @tokaihto3350 8か月 ago

   A very neat, sincere and truthtfull discription of Bulgaria for as far as I know about this wonderful country.

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   @MACEDONIAbitola 8か月 ago

   Kiril and Metodij were NOT Bulgarian the were MACEDONIAN 🇲🇰

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   @manfred-z1o 8か月 ago

   Hi Olga, this is a great content! Please make a video about health insurance coverage and cost for chronic illness in Bulgaria❤

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   @michelcecere5734 8か月 ago

   Bulgaria is a good country if you look globaly :

   -Easy to become real estate owner (compare to 85% of the OECD countries)
   -Low taxes, easy business with Europe
   -Low salary ? yes and no (remote work, call center). Also if you create a company, you will be competitive.
   -Also, prices are cheap.
   -Not too much wokes, migration and insecurity problems (for the moment but with the UE ….)
   -Not to many regulation, easy to deal with administration compare to many countries

   What other country in Europe could you provide better ? Yes maybe on some points yes, in Italy you can find cheap real estate, yes you can get better salary in Nederlands (but what about the real estate and taxes ?), yes there are countries with lower taxes like Dubai or Andorra (but does those countries want you to come ?)

   ….

   I won't writer a statement, but sincerely Bulgaria is a good compromise for the average medium class people. You could find better but it will not offer a such good mix of advantage.

   An ancient expat in Bulgaria, 2 years.

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   @michelcecere5734 8か月 ago

   Прожил в Софя 2 года – хорошо ратио цена жить работа свобода безопосность

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   @sunny_california2073 8か月 ago

   Thanks Olga for sharing your experience about living in Bulgaria, looking forward to your next video.

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   @pavlinpetkov8984 8か月 ago

   If you work remotely Plovdiv is a better choice than Sofia. You will get used to the heat. This is how it should be during the summer. The only reason why people prefer Sofia is the better salaries.

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   @Salimnais8282 8か月 ago

   The best video I've watched in 2025 so far thank you so much. 🎉

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    @rumno_tepruno 8か月 ago

    Not olbania. Arbania.

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    @KristianYordanov 8か月 ago

    Добро пожаловать в Софии! Надеюсь что здесь будете чувствовать себе комфортно и желаю удачи! 🍀
    Вы уже научили мужа читать на кириллице? Этот навык здесь точно пригодится. 😃
    Болгар и россиян, часто и без переводчика понимают друг друга, языковой барьер специално Вас вряд ли пугает. Если желание есть и болгарский освоите быстро. Я например в гимназии учил русский язык по один учебный час в неделе и это мне хватило чтобы общаться свободно.

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    @ashvoj 8か月 ago

    Another great video. Thank you!

    I'm curious about 2 things:
    1- why Sofia and not Varna or Burgas (besides the infrastructure)?
    2- why Bulgaria and not Romania? 😁

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    @rhr5557 8か月 ago

    ❤thanks for detailed info

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    @BOVanguard 8か月 ago

    Wow such a title . Very untruthful. Lots of people are actually moving in . Why are you moving if you have this attitude?!

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    @nadyadobreva9904 8か月 ago

    Everybody is leaving!? Who told you this. This is rather offensive. BULGARIANS LEAVE for Europe to work, travel and study. They invest in Bg and come back. ❤

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    @mitkodimitrov8396 8か月 ago

    actualy,verry good video.Yes this summer was brutal hot,hottest i have seen in 50 years.Come spring ,or autumn here.Healt and happynes,from Plovdiv 🙂

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    @ivogalabov1973 8か月 ago

    Bulgaria is a great place to live!
    Привет красавице!

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    @alexracoon4513 8か月 ago

    Compared to South East Asia prices are a robbery

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    @Vladimir-jc9xx 8か月 ago

    Great overview! Also important to know for US, Canada, Germany, Israel and other western pensioners that Bulgaria does not tax any types of pensions (Social Security, 401K, company's and government pensions and VA benefits) and there is a double-taxation treaty with US in place to handle other types of foreign earned income. Completely agree with recommendations of choosing place to live in Bulgaria for different categories of expats. If you are retirees look at Bulgarian riviera (Varna and Burgas, specifically, if you like combination of a mild Mediterranean climate, beautiful beaches and natural hot water mineral springs or healing mud – look at Varna's suburb called Saints Constantine and Helena, or at Burgas' suburb called Pomorie). For the best healthcare options and convenient direct flights look at Sofia, for the best skiing look at Bansko, for cultural experience look at Plovdiv or Veliko Tarnovo. All those cities are very safe and have plenty of expats

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    @yuriystefanov4069 8か月 ago

    2022 was the year in which the number of emigrants from Bulgaria equaled the number of repatriates + immigrants. Bulgarians are gradually but steadily returning to Bulgaria.

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    @denideniiis 8か月 ago

    most people, not "everyone". everyone is leaving Ukraine or North Korea ( ok they can't but…), the whole stoic pseudo-greek nihilism of bulgaria and the typical bulgarian mood "suspiaha ia taia durjava" (they destroyed the country) was a thing 10 or 20 years ago, these days i find it very difficult to find a place that tempts me. Maybe Italy or even less: Japan. Everything else? No.

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    @MichaelKarma1 8か月 ago

    I moved here from UK 11 years ago and raise a family here I think it is one of greatest countries in the world and my wife is from china and she feels the same. Bulgarian do not realise though so many problems in UK.

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    @МартинДимитров-с3г 8か月 ago

    The reason is not the money, stay move and you will see the reason for leaving. Bulgaria is not Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna…

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    @user-vx9pm8we1b 8か月 ago

    Olga, learn to pronounce Sofia correctly – sOfia, the stress is on the first vowel.

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    @BryanMills-l7k 8か月 ago

    Thank you for the well done put together info.🧳🇧🇬👍

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    @glynmillsom378 8か月 ago

    Great video, very imformative

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    @atlantidaunderground 8か月 ago

    actually times are changing. More and more Bulgarians are leaving the west and returning to Bulgaria lol

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    @butthead5551 8か月 ago

    rude and disrespectful title. There are still 6.5 mln people in the country and 99% are not wiling to leave it.

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    @MrStarTraveler 8か月 ago

    The reality is that we're below 6 million even now. The figure that circulates around is 5.5 million. In 2024 the government stopped the service which was calculating the annual birth/death rates and was determining by how much people the nation is shrinking. Presumably because the number was staggering, and is a direct consequence of their ineptitude and downright criminal policies.

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    @sbkpilot1 8か月 ago

    I'm spending a month in Sofia this summer, I had to choose between Sofia and Bucharest and chose Sofia mainly because of the green spaces and the Vitosha mountains nearby. As you mentioned, I also found according to my research that the summers are much milder in Sofia compared to some other places in Europe which are sweltering.

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    @noisynoisy2404 8か月 ago

    What rude and misleading title! Why did you move to this country if you have such negative attitude??

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    @josepfgrant9093 8か月 ago

    I personally found Sofia compare to other Europian cities extremely ugly with terrible infrastructure. Roads everywhere filled with potholes, disscusting soviet brutalist architecture etc. Worth to visit but living there must be a hell. But if someone is living off high western EU income working remotaly, this person must feel like a KING in Bulgaria. Unfortunatelly, it's not the local people.

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    @Levan_travels 8か月 ago

    I've been to Sofia, but honestly I was disappointed, didn't like it, grey city, grumpy people, polluted… not a big fan.