My mother pension was less than 140bgn in 2020. Now it's way better. My wife's mother pension was 340bgn and her father had even lower pension. Now they can live out of their pensions.
There are nurses that are working for less than 800, that's true, but one of the reasons for that is flawed statistics from enormous gray economy. Which pressures people to agree on very low wages. At the same time my friend is telling me that he cannot find general construction workers for 2000+ eur net. Another friend of mine was installing PV panels in Germany and the difference in Bulgaria and in Germany was something like 200, 300 Euro.
I'm not saying that it's good, but you won't hear Serbian people to complain like that and life is more expensive in Belgrade compared to Sofia, and wages are little lower.
Two months ago I spoke with a guy from Greece, Thessaloniki. He said that his net salary is 800 euro. He has higher education and he grew up in Greece from Bulgarian Greek parents. And people constantly explaining how it's cheaper in Greece. No, it's not. Some things can be cheaper, but life in general is more expensive.