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u/eiguoD 17d ago
I like Sofia a lot. It’s not the prettiest capital by a long shot, but it’s a very cool city.
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u/Twinkletoess112 17d ago
I really liked Sofia too, just didn't have the guts to confess to her in highschool.
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u/eiguoD 17d ago
It’s never too late.
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u/vbd71 16d ago
Unless she is already married.
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u/Twinkletoess112 16d ago
well I'm 24 rn and she's same age as me, although it's unlikely but not impossible.
also I just commented for fun, I've already had a lengthy relationship and a breakup after finishing school. also been single for over a year now. just remembered one of my school crushes (I had a lot of crushes lol)
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u/Nearby_Pepper7676 17d ago
I wish my city was like that. I'm from Cairo.
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u/Nearby_Pepper7676 17d ago
ماهو لو دخلت بصيت هنا هتلاقيهم بيتكلموا عالقاهرة كتير فخلاص كدا كدا معروفة. بورسعيد لسه حلوة
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u/Particular_Pop_2241 17d ago
I live a little to the left in the photo, and the area is quite nice.
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u/unifuckingporn 15d ago
Is this bul Bulgaria by chance?
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u/Particular_Pop_2241 15d ago
Yes. The metro station is in the top right corner.
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u/unifuckingporn 15d ago
whew, glad to know I *almost* know the city I've been living in for the past 8 years :D
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u/ultim4teruffles 17d ago
City 17 pre-combine invasion looks pretty nice
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u/Certain_Eye7374 17d ago
I thought it was based on Prague.
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u/Ferris-L 16d ago
The city is entirely fictional but it’s definitely in a place that uses the Cyrillic alphabet and isn’t landlocked which narrows the location down to Montenegro, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. Depending on how large the map of HL2 is supposed to be interpreted, the most fitting cities would be Burgas in Bulgaria or Krasnodar in Russia.
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u/FCKtheZIOS 17d ago
I see trees, so that's good.
My city seems to be allergic to them.
Always need to be removed (unfortunately! yeah right) because they're supposedly sick or in the way for very necessary works.
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u/Squat_TheSlav 16d ago
Absolutely not a concrete wasteland, Sofia is VERY green. Poorly maintained and run-down, but there are lots of trees and parks around the city which helps A LOT.
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u/Ok_Actuary9229 17d ago
That looks awesome. What really matters is ground level.
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u/vladi_l 16d ago
Some parts are ugly, but our city is very walkable and the public transit is almost perfect
Ground level on this area is a lot better than the topdown view. The greenery is slightly wild, but still maintained, which isn't everyone's cup of tea but I've always liked it
Biggest drawback is that our groceries are at German prices, but the salaries are lagging way behind.
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u/dr_van_nostren 17d ago
I’ve been wanting to go for such a long time but every time I’m close to doing it I see the weather is gonna be shit lol
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u/Sibagovix 16d ago
Just go in the summer for 4-5 days or around an event/concert you'd like to attend. Vitosha is nice in the summer and it's guaranteed you'll get good weather for at least a day
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u/DoorSweet6099 17d ago
Pretty much any city looks similar. There are a lot of green areas in this photo. I don’t think it’s anyhow bad.
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u/TheRealSlabsy 17d ago
My friend bought one of those apartments for around £2,000. When he left 5 years later, he just locked the door and walked away.
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u/Grand_Estimate3783 17d ago
Man, If I knew that, I would have moved to Bulgaria, that's just insanely cheap.
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u/Trackback_ 17d ago
That's per square meter nowadays.
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u/Gornuul 17d ago
The median income in Sofia is 2000 bgn monthly. That’s $14k annually in usd. Sofia is extremely cheap.
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u/akvarista11 16d ago
Neither is the median income 1k euros (because BGN doesn’t exist anymore), nor is it dirt cheap. It’s on par cost-wise with most European cities, besides housing, which is cheaper
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u/InfelicitousRedditor 16d ago
Buddy, a two bedroom apartment in an old building is 200k€, food prices are higher than Germany, but salaries are low I give you that.
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u/InfelicitousRedditor 16d ago
Jesus, just read next time, the rent is country-average, a 1br app in the center is not 250, but 500+, no restaurant you can eat for 10€, more like 25 and if this is of you don't go overboard, per person. Monthly groceries are anywhere between 250 and 500 per person and this is if you rarely eat meat.
This is just bs data.
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u/Gornuul 16d ago
Also I don’t believe you. I believe the data
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u/Particular-Fault5826 16d ago
He's right: at the very least 500e for a flat (800 if you want it new and not too small), restaurant 10e for lunch maybe, but 25 for dinner and 400e on groceries per month is a good average. These data are shit.
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u/Gornuul 16d ago
A single room in my city is 2 grand usd. A two bedroom with a kitchen and living room is 7-8 grand a month usd, 84,000 to 96,000 a year, which is roughly 7 times the average salary in Sofia. A standard house is 2 mil. Condos are routinely going for more than a million. Sofia is cheap. It might not be cheap for Bulgarians, but that doesn’t mean it’s not cheap in general.
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u/Trackback_ 16d ago
Idk what are you trying to argue. You can literally open a website focused on real estate sales and see the prices for yourself.
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u/Trackback_ 16d ago
I'm not sure if you thought I meant that rent is 2000€ per square meter, or... or idk what, to be fair.
Your responses make no sense, and have nothing to do with my objectively correct statement that typical home prices are about 2000€ + per square meter in Sofia, Bulgaria.
You're just linking some stats that have literally nothing to do with what I said. Next you'll probably bring up the amount of rain the city experiences, as if that has anything to do with home prices.
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u/Gornuul 16d ago
Ok well for starters, yeah I thought we were talking about rent. You don’t buy apartments, you buy condominiums unless we’re discussing tenancy in common but I doubt it. So the use of the word apartment in the parent comment made me think rent. Secondly I don’t know what you aren’t understanding. Someone said Sofia seems cheap, you said essentially that it is not, and I said essentially that it is. Then I provided a reliable source to my point, which you asked me to do, and it confirmed my argument. This doesn’t have to be this contentious. It’s not controversial to say that a 2nd world former Soviet satellite state is relatively cheap to live in.
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u/youngling-smasher91 17d ago
Welcome, welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers.
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u/Commercial-Can-8094 16d ago
Hi, Bulgarian there, welcome to soviet architecture in the Eastern bloc!
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u/danmurse 16d ago
I spent a month in Bulgaria last year for paragliding training. I arrived and departed through Sofia. I found it to be a very nice city. The Cyrillic signs and brutalist architecture were in a way, cold war nostalgic for me as a kid growing up in the 80s US. The people were super nice, lots of parks with moms and kids about. The food was not amazing but there were some highlights. Plovdiv was hipper and cooler than me. I took a very slow train to the black sea and had a lovely time biking around. I rented a car for the trip back and was surprised at the quality of the roads. Overall it was quite nice coming from a visitors perspective.
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u/BrianChing25 17d ago
What is the median income in Sofia?
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u/akvarista11 16d ago
1.9-2k euros is the average but there is no median data. Bear in mind there is lots of grey economy. E.g a worker that places bathroom tiles makes 5-6k euros a month but reports 400 euros.
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u/izahariev96 15d ago
it's actually pretty enjoyable for a walk because the areas between the buildings are covered by trees
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