Public buses begin to break down, you start to see some clunkers brought back to service.
Shopping malls get less maintenance, supermarkets start turning off the air conditioning.
You start seeing some new products with clear packaging, almost as if they were packaged in a small room with no access to industrial packaging.
Generally that kind of stuff, not very surprising. The ketchup was surprising, wasn’t expecting to see an item from my childhood.
Turkey has some strong advantages over Bulgaria(there’s no change in the how economy works, it was just mismanaged), so it’s not that bad in the terms of impact on daily life but it’s still interesting to recognize patterns.
The most unfortunate one is the rise of organized crime. Bulgaria was a center of international crime rings throughout the 90’s. Turkey is currently in the same spot. There were many murders of mob bosses, just like in 90’s Bulgaria the organized crime leaders kill each other.
The impact of the organized crimes on daily life is that some sectors are taken over by gangs and some people who used to be nobodies become very rich and they show it. In response to that, the youngsters lose fate in education and they try to pursue similar path to become rich.
In the recent few months the new interior minister is conducting police raids on gangs, so maybe things can change.
mrtksn|2 years ago
Shopping malls get less maintenance, supermarkets start turning off the air conditioning.
You start seeing some new products with clear packaging, almost as if they were packaged in a small room with no access to industrial packaging.
Generally that kind of stuff, not very surprising. The ketchup was surprising, wasn’t expecting to see an item from my childhood.
Turkey has some strong advantages over Bulgaria(there’s no change in the how economy works, it was just mismanaged), so it’s not that bad in the terms of impact on daily life but it’s still interesting to recognize patterns.
The most unfortunate one is the rise of organized crime. Bulgaria was a center of international crime rings throughout the 90’s. Turkey is currently in the same spot. There were many murders of mob bosses, just like in 90’s Bulgaria the organized crime leaders kill each other.
The impact of the organized crimes on daily life is that some sectors are taken over by gangs and some people who used to be nobodies become very rich and they show it. In response to that, the youngsters lose fate in education and they try to pursue similar path to become rich.
In the recent few months the new interior minister is conducting police raids on gangs, so maybe things can change.