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As always I'd like to be the little reporter every time I go to Macedonia. I am enjoying life here, it's great to be home, to see people, to see the country, prosetki. I have to say that Macedonia is in my heart, I sit and bitch in London but when I come here I wonder why I ever left.
People here however are not happy. Macedonia is so expensive. The only cheaper things are fags
. Clothes, shoes are more expensive here than London, now sterling being low you can truly feel it. Food in the shops is more expensive than London too.Pampers nappy are 1000 denari for 54, WTF? Medication is also more expensive than London, some the same price. I wonder how people make it, I truly do. I was in Strumica and in the village the highest wage is 14000 denari, the manager's wage. Everyone works in the same factory, a young girl told me she gets paid 5200 wage.I spoke to one young mother who cannot breast feed and she is struggling to buy formula because it is around 700 denari for half the pack I buy in the UK.Oil is 85 denari, same price as the UK, sugar is the same price, flour is cheaper in the UK. People are being squeezed by the day and there will be a new wave of poskapuvanja. Electricity is the same as UK the only difference is if you can't pay your bill in time in the UK they give you extra time while in Macedonia they cut you electricity. I saw three houses in my mala in Kriva Palanka having their electricity switched off. That should be illegal to be honest. On the other side internet prices have gone down, all major mobile phone companies have started giving deals like you would get in the UK, I bit more expensive here but still something. In Gabrovo, Strumicko selo there are no young people, 4 young men are left, everyone went in Stranstvo. Another selo has NO young person.Bulgaira is printing passports like mad, apparently now the waiting time will be just under a year. Cars are still way more expensive than the UK and petrol is about the same. People are unhappy and bitch against the gov, to be honest I would too. I wonder how they make it. As I have said before and I firmly believe this our gov will squeeze people to a point of giving up. Let's hope this doesn't happen. And Prolet spare me the gov statistics, I watch them every day on the news. Funny how our gov has money to spend in adverts about themselves to play on all the VMROvski kanali but now money for road, hospitals. Joke
People here however are not happy. Macedonia is so expensive. The only cheaper things are fags
. Clothes, shoes are more expensive here than London, now sterling being low you can truly feel it. Food in the shops is more expensive than London too.Pampers nappy are 1000 denari for 54, WTF? Medication is also more expensive than London, some the same price. I wonder how people make it, I truly do. I was in Strumica and in the village the highest wage is 14000 denari, the manager's wage. Everyone works in the same factory, a young girl told me she gets paid 5200 wage.I spoke to one young mother who cannot breast feed and she is struggling to buy formula because it is around 700 denari for half the pack I buy in the UK.Oil is 85 denari, same price as the UK, sugar is the same price, flour is cheaper in the UK. People are being squeezed by the day and there will be a new wave of poskapuvanja. Electricity is the same as UK the only difference is if you can't pay your bill in time in the UK they give you extra time while in Macedonia they cut you electricity. I saw three houses in my mala in Kriva Palanka having their electricity switched off. That should be illegal to be honest. On the other side internet prices have gone down, all major mobile phone companies have started giving deals like you would get in the UK, I bit more expensive here but still something. In Gabrovo, Strumicko selo there are no young people, 4 young men are left, everyone went in Stranstvo. Another selo has NO young person.Bulgaira is printing passports like mad, apparently now the waiting time will be just under a year. Cars are still way more expensive than the UK and petrol is about the same. People are unhappy and bitch against the gov, to be honest I would too. I wonder how they make it. As I have said before and I firmly believe this our gov will squeeze people to a point of giving up. Let's hope this doesn't happen. And Prolet spare me the gov statistics, I watch them every day on the news. Funny how our gov has money to spend in adverts about themselves to play on all the VMROvski kanali but now money for road, hospitals. Joke
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