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vily_far
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Jul 04, 2006
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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:52 pm
Post subject: What's the one thing you miss most from home? |
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| If there is one thing which you could bring from back home what would it be? Is there something specific that you truly miss and can't find around? |
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sunset
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Aug 04, 2006
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:42 am
Post subject: Re: What's the one thing you miss most from home? |
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| vily_far wrote: | | If there is one thing which you could bring from back home what would it be? Is there something specific that you truly miss and can't find around? |
Descend roads.
I tried to take them but they didn't fit in my pockets. I wonder what the customs at the airport would have said...
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Doggy
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Aug 31, 2006
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:55 pm
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May be it's too ordinary but I miss friends and relatives -still it's not so hard because we chat everyday. Which often makes me think of the WWW and the way it affects peoples lives... If you were expat before 15 years the situation would be very different and you'd miss much more things from home, I believe.
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BaiGanyo
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Oct 20, 2006
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:35 pm
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| Doggy wrote: | | If you were expat before 15 years the situation would be very different and you'd miss much more things from home, I believe. |
You're right. Fifteen years ago BG was VERY different. There were no supermarkets -- and sometimes there was no food! There were no imported consumer products at all, save for what was bootlegged in. There were also no traveler's checks, no rock music, no cell phones, no English speakers on every corner... Very, very few foreigners. And *NO* real-estate agents!!
What did I miss? Nothing. BG was wonderful. |
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White_Tiger
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Sep 26, 2006
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:42 pm
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The weather but I would be lying 
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Bulgarin111
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Aug 01, 2006
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:17 pm
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nothing 
you should just ask the question the other way around
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Doggy
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Aug 31, 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:59 pm
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Good idea Bulgarin 111 
What is that you do not like in your home country ?
Did it help you to decide to move here?
I would start with the weather
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BaiGanyo
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Oct 20, 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:50 pm
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| Doggy wrote: | | What is that you do not like in your home country ? |
Oh, God...
The violence.
The sense of always being at the center of everything, and not caring about the rest of the world.
The coldness.
The way everyone is always busy, busy, busy.
The feeling like you're being shot out of a cannon.
BG is much slower and farther removed. It's a good place to relax and contemplate the universe around us. There's nothing I like better than a summer night in BG... |
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mira_ro
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Oct 05, 2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:34 pm
Post subject: Re: What's the one thing you miss most from home? |
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| vily_far wrote: | | If there is one thing which you could bring from back home what would it be? Is there something specific that you truly miss and can't find around? |
Well, I miss the city (Sofia). I miss the fact that I can take a taxi home from almost any point in town which costs me 3 lv. I miss my friends and relatives (that should be the thing/persons I miss most)  . I miss the good old lukanka; I miss the pubs, clubs and pizza places full of life and young people.
I don't miss the chaos and dirt on the streets in Sofia and I don't miss the bad roads either. |
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thunderstorm
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Aug 09, 2006
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:26 pm
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I remember that some of my Bulgarian friends who spent some time abroad were mad about small things, like bread for example, when they came back. Or like banichka with yogurt in the morning. Most times it's the small things that count  |
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mimimar
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Jan 29, 2007
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:41 am
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| The thing I miss from home are my parents. Sometimes when I realize that I have my own live and sometimes I even forget to thing about them for days, I feel sad and a little bit quilty. I know it's not the same as if I was abroad because I have my friends here but I still miss many things from my home town Vidin. |
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AncientBG
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Jul 03, 2007
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:07 pm
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| thunderstorm wrote: | | I remember that some of my Bulgarian friends who spent some time abroad were mad about small things, like bread for example, when they came back. Or like banichka with yogurt in the morning. Most times it's the small things that count |
I was abroad for some time and I did miss lots of things - to be honest I found myself missing everything from the BG mountains to the Black Sea and also, the little things - banichka s boza;) I missed the incredible sights of girls and women walking down the main street in Plovdiv. I missed the many cheap pubs there offering excellent food and servicing. All this was a big surprise to me. I had no idea I'd miss everything so much. Now that I'm back but not in Plovdiv any more I'm fine. If I spend more time abroad in the future I'll accentuate on consuming lots of banichki and boza to start with. |
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sunset
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Aug 04, 2006
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:32 am
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I miss
- friendly people (not the always screaming BG kind)
- honest people (not the kind always lying)
- good people (not them always looking for stealing pennies)
- working people (not them lazy sons of b..)
- smart people (or people using their brain)
- capable people (not the claiming to can do everything whilst as dumb as horses end)
- just people (not cavemen)
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Shannow10
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Sep 19, 2006
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:09 am
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I may be approaching this too simplistically, but I miss cheddar cheese. What I don't miss is the fact that there is no sense of community any longer in the UK. Everyone is isolated...we don't know or care about our neighbours. We are suspicious of strangers and there is no longer the concept of 'Customer Service' in the UK. Trying to get anything done is a bureaucratic nightmare,
For example, I had a flat battery recently. Here,on a Sunday evening, I simply drove 5 mins to the next village, knocked on the door of a friendly mechanic whom we've used before, indicated that my battery was flat, left it with him and collected it the next day...cost 5 lev! Try doing that in the UK.
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Dodo
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Jul 24, 2007
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:45 am
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| sunset wrote: | I miss
- friendly people (not the always screaming BG kind)
- honest people (not the kind always lying)
- good people (not them always looking for stealing pennies)
- working people (not them lazy sons of b..)
- smart people (or people using their brain)
- capable people (not the claiming to can do everything whilst as dumb as horses end)
- just people (not cavemen) |
I don't know where you live or who you did meet, but I have a different experience. Yes, there are bad people here, just like in every other country, including Vlaanderen en Wallonië.
Dirk, toon wat meer respect! (a note in Dutch towards Sunset)
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