witty_user_name's comments

By the way your article would suggest that car theft is a significantly larger problem in Romania than BG.

From https://movafaq.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/romanian-cars-bulga...

> In 2012 (the last year for which data are available) vehicle thefts in Bulgaria rose to 0.4 per 1,000 people in the population ... For Romania, the number is 1.6 per 1000 people

As a westerner living here the stand out issue was the utterly random placement of industry.

All of the factories were placed to provide employment. When capitalism took over the ridiculous placement of them (far from raw goods & far from distribution) meant they all failed and died.

Bulgaria could never be considered a true capitalist country anyway. There is still no rule of law and the mafia choke every last stotinki from the state and the EU.

I've lived here for a couple of years and traveled most of the country. I've never seen anything like you describe.

There are enough challenges for this little country without the need to fabricate more of them.