so bulgarians,how is life with euro ?
Posted by Balphaallthetime@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 187 comments
got any better or everything got more expensive?
Posted by Balphaallthetime@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 187 comments
got any better or everything got more expensive?
eba4ev@reddit
If you are smart enough and shop carefully from the big supermarkets and not the local district shops, then you inflation is around 5-10% max.
Everyone sayin that the prices went from 1bgn to 1euro is either lying or is stupid to pay these prices. There are a lot of businesses trying increase their prices with 50-60%, but there are normal prices as well.
Malphxo@reddit
If you check actual stats from the citizens (not government reported bullshit) you will see that inflation has skyrocketed while salaries are lagging behind hard.
My barber went from 35 bgn to 20 eur. Groceries have gone up. Every private business takes advantage of price rounding , but not with a few cents- with more than 0,5-1€. Restaurants took crazy advantage of the adoption as well.
Before i get obliterated by downvotes - not saying euro by itself is the issue, BUT it sure did give people an incentive to inflate the price while offering 0 added value.
This happened in countries with less national debt, significantly better economies, and it lastet for years. Not sure how people thought it was not gonna happen here. I am fortunate to earn enough for this not to be a huge deal, but I sure do feel it, its inevitable.
You cant vote with your wallet against all businesses, because there are stuff you just need. I wont boycott my local barber and drive 2-3 kilometers just to save 3-4€ from the price rounding, I wont stop shopping or visiting my favorite places to spend quality time with my family, but I sure do it with extra attention now.
Not only private businesses- some government institutions took advantage of tgis wave, and raises prices on document re-issuing services, parking, and a few other minor areas.
Going into a fun direction, wheter you like to hear it or not- euro adoption gave businesses the chance to inflate their service cost, and there is no other way to say it. Trump might have also fucked us in the worst moment, but thats far from the main driving force behind the current inflation
zoranss7512@reddit
20€ for a haircut 💈 💇? That's what I pay in 🇺🇸. Tuesdays hair cut is $15 plus $7 tip.
Malphxo@reddit
That is the most basic male haircut btw. Includes a buzz cut and beard trim. If you want a fade or something fancy, we are entering 35-40 eur category
eba4ev@reddit
You probably go to the most expensive barber in Sofia. I live in one of the more expensive neighbourhoods and go to the best barber there and pay less than 20 euro for beard trim and haircut.
And you for tou other comments, I think you either lie or you are stupid to pay 1bgn=1euro price. In the most of the big supermarkets there is little to no price increase from the last year. The big inflation happened 2-3 years ago.
Malphxo@reddit
If someone wants to argue, i keep a track record of all my spendings. I can attach monthly screenshots of the same stuff costing progressively more. Substantially more.
Then i can call 50 random people from my phone contacts that i have not interacted with for years, and ask them how the past 2-3 months gave been treating them financially. I hear people starting a second job , more now than ever before.
I saw another person in the tread saying 1bgn= 1eur now and this is as accurate as it gets.
Disclaimer again: i fully acknowledge that euro as a currency is not the culprit here. We have been pegged to the eur for a solid amount of years. Its the business owners taking advantage of price psychology (amounts feeling small) and price rounding
fatstackinbenj@reddit
I remember 2-3 years ago going to this small store in my village and it felt almost like that 1bgn=1euro thing. Like I would buy some yogurt, 2-3 croissants and some razors for shaving and I'd already be spending like around 10bgn more or less. Ever since then I've swirched buying groceries and even my small shopping to the bigger store chains. And I would generally save on money. Now in 2026 I feel the same way no matter where I go.
For example I just bought a bottle of bleach, and some cream cheese and i paid 8 euro for this. It genuinely feels like a rip off.
Ok-Buy5600@reddit
Well, the propaganda about double prices, became true mostly.
People spend more, because they can't calculate properly or don't do it sometimes.
This is not true, I buy mostly from flea markets and and i save lots of money. Two day ago i bough strawberries for 2€/kilo on the womans market in Sofia, compared to 5-7€ everywhere else.
Those were Bulgarian, big and juicy ones.
ExoticAd7546@reddit
Your groceries utilities etc are 1 to 1 with euro? Let's be real this is far from the truth. Of course some services have tried to round up (usually not 1 to 1) but most of the salary doesn't really go there.
Malphxo@reddit
I said its accurate, not that it applies to every expense. Mainly in private businesses like local grocery stores(not the biggest chains, but some decent increase there as well, can attach Lidl and DM history of purchases)
You are right about most of the salary not mainly going for inflated services, but its a crippling amount of a few hundred € per month that just vanish with no added value. When that compounds with the fuel increases,because of wild international events, its getting even funnier
ExoticAd7546@reddit
The fuel increases and many other factors also compound in the increase of the prices of groceries. Electricity and water prices which are regulated were also increased 10%+ by the last shitty government. There are anecdotal examplea of some groceries increasing of course for a variety of reasons. 90% of the things I am buying personally are the same price - meat, eggs, yoghurt water bread etc.
GeneratedUsername5@reddit
But then what did stop them from doing the same thing without euro?
No_Preparation_453@reddit
Same with croatia
clonehunterz@reddit
same happened in germany in the 2000's
LITERALLY the exact, same, thing and nobody can stop it as soon as the currency changes, no matter the other things around it.
Everyone with a business will use this as an excuse to up the cost and pricing, besides your employer 😄
paulstelian97@reddit
Yeah the recent events in Romania probably delayed by themselves the EUR by a year or two on their own.
clonehunterz@reddit
easily, and i was already not even thinking about it before 2030.
maybe in a decade from now xD
Malphxo@reddit
Thats what im saying. More stable countries had the same issues, and YET AGAIN people in BG thought we chillin, its gonna be different this time. Even now, daily i see people saying all of the price hikes have nothing to do with adopting the euro. Its insane
CrazyNegotiation1934@reddit
Just not want to admit that they destroyed their own country
clonehunterz@reddit
yeah i get you, ultimately you dont have to force it upon them, they will pay regardless of them believing it or not.
inflation is a silent killer and nobody can stop it, protect yourself, invest, live a happy life and because chances are that the other people will never realize what happened until they die, while actively moaning about cost of living blablala.
its a race you wont win, so dont play it 😃
Ur-Than@reddit
So basically the same thing that happened in France when we got the euro.
Bread went from one franc to one euro, while one euro was/is 7 francs...
Diven_the@reddit
Welcome to EUro. Same thing happened to Greece, forget the previous prices they are never comming back :/
Now it's time for the corrupted officials to share the EU funding with "their" people. So yeah, for the common people it's a big nono. For those who will take advantage of the funding, it's gonna be great.
Cinderpath@reddit
This is exactly what happened in Italy when they switched!
Business_Signal2425@reddit
Your describing exactly what happenend years/decades ago for western europe. Unbelievable how they scammed us!
Ivanzxdsa@reddit
The inflation in Romania is bigger than in Bulgaria and they don’t have the euro
yimanya@reddit
This is me having Vietnam flashbacks from 24 years ago. Good luck seeing everything rounded to the euro/50 cents.
ZinbaluPrime@reddit
We were using the Euro before, just with different banknotes.
It's mostly a few cents up AND down for rounding purposes like this:
if something was 2BGN converts to 1.02EUR, a lot of places rounded down to 1EUR
if something was 2.30BGN converts to 1.18EUR, a lot of places rounded up to 1.20EUR
Anything else has nothing to do with the euro.
LibertyChecked28@reddit
ZinbaluPrime@reddit
Average Radev enjoyer.
No_Hair_6557@reddit
I’m certain it has to do with the psychology of it tho. Just like with prices being set to .99 so it looks cheaper.
The bulgarian business will see their new price in euro going to 5.11 let’s say from 12 bgn. And they’ll immediately be like, okay that (number) looks too low (to my primitive human brain), let’s bump it up a bit, shall we? 5.50 it is then, easy.
ZinbaluPrime@reddit
Yes this is also very possible, but I haven't noticed it with the major retailers in my region.
abandonedtulpa@reddit
Things have gotten more expensive, but that has nothing to do with the euro. Shit was getting expensive long before the euro too.
tinmanjk@reddit
how do u know that it has NOTHING to do with the euro? like NOTHING?!?
ExoticAd7546@reddit
If there was some initial rounding on services it is long over by now. But any price increase in the minds of some people is still because of the euro idk for how long. It is pointless to argue because neither you or me can say how much of initial rounding was because of the euro
CluelessExxpat@reddit
Adapting Euro means you lose access to monetary policies. If economy heats up for whatever reason, you can't cool it down via monetary tightening.
I have not followed Bulgaria's economy at all so I don't know how it is doing relative to peers or EU average in inflation, growth, wealth equality, income equality etc.
ExoticAd7546@reddit
Well this has been discussed thousands of times but Bulgarian lev waa pegged to euro so we couldn't conduct monetary policies, print it etc so there is no difference in that regard. Generally economy has been on a steady growth path above EU average for some time even with the lev pegged.
LibertyChecked28@reddit
ExoticAd7546@reddit
Yeah so? We can also leave the EU or/and the eurozone if that makes you sleep better at night. Doesn't mean we had monetary freedom with the peg.
CluelessExxpat@reddit
Oh? Does that mean you are still using Bulgarian lev but currency’s value fixed relative to the Euro at a set exchange rate?
Did not know that. That would be good news though. If everything comes crashing down, central bank internvetion as a last resort is still possible.
ExoticAd7546@reddit
This is how it was before adopting it this year, now it is strictly Euro. I meant before that we couldn't devalue the lev or have any monetary policy either way but we were still having the negatives about not having the euro - exchange fees, higher borrowing costs, no saying in anything as we weren't on the ECB board etc
Promethevz@reddit
It's very simple, did anything happen on 31st of December and 1st of January?
Does life become more expensive every year - yes.
Do we have non-Eurozone countries with higher inflation - yes.
So what did the Euro change, really?
hihimorius@reddit
This is an opinion, not a fact.
Niko7LOL@reddit
This is a fact lol.
Bulgaria was using the Euro before adopting the Euro. Simple economics.
Moist-Material-5309@reddit
Great
Zwimy@reddit
Well, whichever retard made the decision to have the 50 and 10 notes almost the same color, should get fucking fired. I hope they have to wipe at least 10 times every time they take a shit.
BWC_Python@reddit
their prices are much lower than ours.... everybody was expecting a catastrophe after embracing euro...but things are far better tahn expected and far better than in Romania. gas is 1.5 in Bulgaria,even 1.42 in some places. in Ro we are hitting the 1.90-2 eur for 95 gas liter. Everything is cheaper in Bulgaria, even things produced in Ro and imported there
m4rkon156@reddit
It's crazy cuz Romania is much much cheaper than Hungary. Then how cheap Bulgaria is?
rintzscar@reddit
Bulgaria was using the euro before switching to the euro. Nothing really changed. People who thought something major will happen don't understand simple Economics.
Due-Meaning-6760@reddit
It's crazy how many friends thought prices will go up all of a sudden because of euro.
rintzscar@reddit
They're going up, but not because of the euro. They're going up because wage growth is insane in Bulgaria - average salary goes up by 12 to 15% per year for the last 4 years. Prices are certain to go up because of that. The currency itself hasn't really changed for Bulgaria.
reverber@reddit
Are the wages actually increasing, or just being reported more accurately? I can see a bit of both.
rintzscar@reddit
They're increasing A LOT. Purchasing power has been going up by so much that even with the higher prices, restaurants are full, theatres, cinemas, operas, night clubs are constantly sold out. There was an absurd housing boom too (some will call it a bubble). And banks are so full of money they're wondering what to do with it.
The problem is that productivity is not going up at the same rate, so at some point Bulgaria will become an expensive non-productive market, unless measures are taken.
Quizok@reddit
Where are wages increasing A LOT? I got a 50 eur increase in January. That ain't a lot, ain't nowhere near enough to cover all the increase in prices. And I'm not even a wasteful person, rarely go out, rarely buy stuff, etc.
rintzscar@reddit
Everywhere in the country. The growth of the average monthly salary was 14% in 2024 and 12% in 2025. That's 3-4 times higher than the annual inflation.
https://www.pariteni.bg/novini/rabota/srednata-brutna-godishna-zaplata-u-nas-skochi-s-blizo-14-prez-izminalata-godina-252125
https://www.znamcenite.bg/blog/sravnenie-zaplati-2024-2025/
If your wage is not going up, switch jobs.
MinaretofJam@reddit
It’s not unknown. The Aussies and Brits both had to pass legislation before decimalisation to make sure shopkeepers didn’t up their prices while people were confused about the changes. Happened in a couple of countries before Euro change over
vldrvldrm@reddit
Лъжец и нагльо
rintzscar@reddit
България ще се оправи само когато необразовани кухи лейки като теб един по един измрат - я щото не се ваксинирате, я щото пушите, я щото пиете, я щото сте дебели и т.н.
А останалите ще си оправим лека-полека държавата.
GrgaPrticRomanul@reddit
Cheap enough so I would travel there for cigarettes and gas when needed.
Radusili@reddit
What even is "much cheaper" here? Except for rent cause yeah that one is tough in Budapest
m4rkon156@reddit
food prices are crazy as well here. I can confirm that food prices aren't more expensive in Austria than here. We had crazy inflation, the biggest in Europe.
HedgehogOdd8295@reddit
Unfortunately, Romania is the absolute leader when it comes to inflation in EU
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-16042026-ap
Vast_Programmer1383@reddit
Because we are very efficient.
elbanzii@reddit
lol
Vast_Programmer1383@reddit
Put the fries in the bag elbanzi
elbanzii@reddit
do explain brother, what does it mean
PlamenIB@reddit
There are some things cheaper in RO. Some foods like chocolate for example is less expensive. Clothes in general as well.
basshunter551@reddit
The question is are the salaries smaller than in Bulgaria, and if the answer is no then no - it’s not better than in Romania.
ExoticAd7546@reddit
Pretty much the same but net salaries in BG are generally a bit higher than Romania due to a bit lower taxes and social contributions.
ipidov@reddit
Bro, stop it... You're going against the narrative of my dear countryman...
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
That... What? Why are you looking at gas prices for the Euro effect. We had the cheapest gas prices before and now we have one of the fastest rising prices. That is due to the sanctions on Russia, our inability to have balls and fight for derogations and due to the war on Iran. The Euro does not have much to do with the gas prices. Also we are running on borrowed time with the gas. If nothing changes by the end of this year, we'll all be in shape and driving bicycles.
cleaner007@reddit
We have similar comparations to N.Macedonia, everything produced in Serbia is somehow cheaper there
GrogmarktheRag@reddit
Try Greece, gas here is 2.05-2.10/liter in most places
shmorke@reddit
NL: Euro95 2.36, Diesel 2.27
NL #1 all you other EU suck it!
-grenzgaenger-@reddit
So your fuel prices are ∼20% higher than in GR or RO, but your median income is ∼3.5 times higher? Ok.
shmorke@reddit
1 highest fuel prices baby. All you other countries go sakkkkk itttt
West_Possible_7969@reddit
Bulgaria has kept the minimum allowed gas tax of €0,36 per litre and Greece has one of the highest at 0,65 to 0,70, with Finland, Italy & Netherlands being the most expensive at 0,72, 0,73 & 0,82 respectively. And the 24% VAT is the 6th most high. Source.
kuhinjski@reddit
Try that with serbian wages m8
SignificantMeet8747@reddit
the only thing that's cheap here is gas
everything else is higher compared to Western Europe, it's kinda insane
Radusili@reddit
Tbh comparing them with us who are the lowest of the low now seems unfair to the Bulgarians :))
colola8@reddit
I’m not Bulgarian, Leva was technically euro. It had a fixed exchange rate like Bosnian Mark. so the change should not be as drastic as in Croatia.
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
Yes, but we had the freedom to do whatever we want with our currency in case of need. We could devaluate it or detach it from the Euro. Also we had all of our reserves for ourselves. Also we had to keep fiscal discipline and not borrow, which made us number 1 in the EU in debt to GDP and with quite low of an inflation. We got all of the benefits of the Euro, we got to keep the benefits of our currency, and we got none of the negatives of the Euro. Now we lost all of the benefits of having our own currency, and we feel the negatives of having the Euro big time. Accepting the Euro was one of the biggest mistakes Bulgaria ever did.
colola8@reddit
No , Bulgaria couldn’t do what ever it wants with their currency. Just before the fixed exchange rate introduced in 97 you had hyperinflation of 600% even more. The whole economy was collapsing. There is a reason why it was there dont go around the point. If Bulgaria printed how much it wanted the whole economy would had collapsed.
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
Correct, which is why we adopted the fiscal board. But it did its job, we stabilized. It was our choice to keep it or not. And yes, we could have done whatever we wanted with out currency, if we unpegged from the Euro and had taken down the board. I am now saying we should have, on the contrary - at this point riding that wave was the perfect sweet spot. But theoretically, we could have.
LibertyChecked28@reddit
Only except that hyperinflation was caused by kompromat who got bribed with billions to brick our country durring the transition period.
Niko7LOL@reddit
That's not how economics work my guy....
Populism? Yes it works that way. Economics? Nah
That's also not how politics work.
Bruh
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
Yeah, nice breakdown. Your argument is: "This isn't how it works." Refuses to elaborate how things work. Nice.
phobug@reddit
I think I'll be able to negotiate a higher raise this year from my US company. Soo yes got better. And I know I'm part of the problem but don't worry I go out of my way to spend in the EU, got to keep the money flowing.
SignificantMeet8747@reddit
Did it get more expensive? Yes
Does it have anything to do with adopting the euro? No
Fuck Trump? Yes
tinmanjk@reddit
Does it have anything to do with adopting the euro? No
loooooooool
Impossible_Fruit4977@reddit
Exactly, a lot of greedy shop and restaurant owners took advantage of the currency change.
GeneratedUsername5@reddit
But how does it even makes sense? Simply because the currency has changed, it doesn't mean people will have more money and you will be able to sell more. Are they hoping to sell to imaginary customers?
Impossible_Fruit4977@reddit
We had increasing prices even before the euro, but the currency switch made it much easier because it's all an illusion. 10 euro sounds the same as 10 bulgarian lev (but obv it's not).
GeneratedUsername5@reddit
I mean, who cares how does it sound, unless businesses expect the 10 eur will materialize out of thin air in the customers pockets.
tinmanjk@reddit
so it has SOMETHING to do with the Euro
Impossible_Fruit4977@reddit
Exactly, that’s what I meant.
BasedBalkaner@reddit
Romania has literally the highest inflation rate in europe by far and we do not use euros
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snubb@reddit
Why would the currency matter at all?
icankillpenguins@reddit
It's a known fact that before Euro Bulgarian lev was a pinnacle of economic stability, it all started going down with pegging the Lev to the German Mark and later to Euro and eventually adopting the Euro.
fbass@reddit
No thank you, even Melania doesn’t want to fuck him
meh_its_better@reddit
Prices: x2, Salaries /2... Not great 😃
toiletwisdom@reddit
Price doubled and tripled.
Fk thus sht
LibertyChecked28@reddit
And thats the same tv which argues that average monthly expenses + taxes ware among the ranges of <200 BGN.
zatkobratko@reddit
Why the hell did Bulgaria change to the Euro?
LibertyChecked28@reddit
Ursulla did a single phone call with our pm, and we complied without asking questions, or being questioned by the rest of Europe in return.
Whenever you want to believe that Bulgaria accepting the Euro was meant to alleviate pressure from France who issued bankruptcy a mere month before the issue of the change to Euro got conveniently brought up from the outside its up to you.
Balphaallthetime@reddit (OP)
i feel sorry for you brothers
we got ass fucked back in the day
now is your turn im afraid
LibertyChecked28@reddit
Everyone who has accepted the Euro past the 2000s got fucked by it, every single country without an exception.
But would you know it, the EU zealots will keep on obnoxiously p!$$sing and $h!tting themselves in trying to somehow justify it since for them this is a matter of sacrilegious importance: ″+300% price spike and borderline poverty for 60% of the population are good acShually″
No-District2404@reddit
Guys, do you pay 20€ for a basic hair cut? I thought that Greece was expensive, here average price is around 10 and if you are dedicated you could find lower until 7-8
Gemascus01@reddit
I’ve told Bulgarians they will regret it and most of them did xD
So did we nobody asked or wanted the Euro the PM just puted the euro without asking the people if they want it, later on was a petittion against euro but they ignored it
Dismal-Attitude-5439@reddit
Everything is more gay
Sand_Dan_Stockta@reddit
Bulgayria
GreatshotCNC@reddit
Bulge area
Radusili@reddit
That's how I'll call any Bulgarian I ever meet from now on, and I will always show this comment when they look at me sideways
GreatshotCNC@reddit
I think I may have been the first one to call it "Bulge area" on the internet at least. As far back as 10 years ago I don't recall anyone calling it that
AlexNachtigall247@reddit
Great reminder that you people are real philosophers.
GreatshotCNC@reddit
We certainly try.
No-Contribution-6150@reddit
On the internet, yes.
I said it a week ago tho
havales1@reddit
Hope you're free on Saturday, there's gonna be parades all over Greece for your achievement
GreatshotCNC@reddit
I want a bust with my mug on it built right across the Bulgarian embassy
Inevitable_Play4344@reddit
got em
Unable-Stay-6478@reddit
👆🏻👌🏻🤌🏻
OkoMushrooom@reddit
We need more gay Bulgarians.
Colden1272@reddit
Брат ми ... единствената причина да си сложил македонското знаме е защото...
Дядо ти е бил БЪЛГАРИН Тъй че недей много да знаеш
OkoMushrooom@reddit
Yes I am Bulgarian, but we still need more gay Bulgarians.
AdFinancial5954@reddit
You have plenty of them, but ins disguise.
OkoMushrooom@reddit
Are you flirting with me 🥰
Turbulent_Shirt_1625@reddit
With you everything is more gay.
External-Row-2950@reddit
PainOk1877@reddit
haha the best answer.
Legitimate-Figure-X@reddit
If you had money before, you have it now too. No big deal.
Pink-Wolf@reddit
A lot of opportunists have raised the prices because they can get away with it as the government isnt doing it's job properly
Inevitable-Theory901@reddit
Food has become very expensive. And electricity is 2x more expensive than a year ago
ExoticAd7546@reddit
Electricity prices are regulated and were increased like 10% by the last government. My bill is not double and none of the people I know have a double bill.
v-s-g@reddit
Haters will say this is fake. But it’s true.
Uat_Da_Fak@reddit
He's not lying. My buddy lives in that mushroom tower by the spaceport.
Euphoric-Couple-4517@reddit
How did you get to my Manastirski Livadi back yard, guards!1!
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
Bulgarian Euro-cucks will bend backwards and circle-jerk themselves to the bitter end, explaining how yes, everything is more expensive, but it's human nature and the alignment of the stars, but won't fucking admit the simple truth - the Eurozone did, is and will make everything way too expensive until we reach an average Eurozone price levels (if not surpass them), but wages won't catch up. We'll just import more Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Nepali and Indian people, but not fucking raise wages across the board. Our inflation is high and will get higher. Our debt to GDP is already going worse. We have gotten rid of part of our reserves and have handed over control over our currency abroad. Not that we had any significant production to start with in order to devaluate our currency for. The only thing our economy is doing is the dirty and shitty production and service work for bigger EU economies. The Mecca of bullshit economy. Casino, pawnshop, fast credit. All of our people's wealth is in the ballooning (with no real coverage or reason) real-estate market. Anyway. It's good with the Euro, don't listen to the fucking sceptics. If you get the chance - accept the Euro.
skydveller@reddit
That’s why I hope Bosnia never joins the EU.
alecpu@reddit
Only sane answer here. We are becoming like Greece in a few years and going bankrupt, so the EU will have to save us
pdonchev@reddit
There is very high inflation of basic goods and services that is not in the books. But there was very high inflation of basic goods and services that is nit in the books for the past several years, since the COVID money printing, so I don't think most of it is because of the euro. It would have happened anyway. It would have happened even if we were not pegged to the euro /dm for the past 30 years.
The euro just rounded up some small prices - a big relative increase but small impact on overall budget. For example a mineral water in a club went form 2.5/3 BGN to 2 EUR.
And we are going to get more of that. Because of the fucking orange moron and his war in Iran, not because of our currency, whatever it is.
ExoticAd7546@reddit
The fuel increases and many other factors also compound in the increase of the prices of groceries. Electricity and water prices which are regulated were also increased 10%+ by the last shitty government. There are anecdotal examplea of some groceries increasing of course for a variety of reasons. 90% of the things I am buying personally are the same price - meat, eggs, yoghurt water bread etc.
Nightowl-Builder@reddit
I heard there were 30% price increases. But we had 30% price increases in Romania too, must also be because Euro adoption 🤣
vldrvldrm@reddit
И робите обясняват на чуждИнцитИ колко им е хубаво със всичко 4х по-скъпо. Ей това е да си ппдб пудел
Odd-Organization-740@reddit
Prices are higher, but to be honest they've been skyrocketing since like 2022.
rand_919529@reddit
Using the same money when I spend my time in Greece (and in EU) is quite convenient. If you have this option just move to euro.
f1zo@reddit
Uncontrollable inflation! 1 kg of tomatoes are 6 euros now. Everything is double the price then before ! EU is a scam !!
markolosole@reddit
Go and ask this at r/bulgatia, where any criticism towards EU policies and its policies is deissed as Russian propaganda and trolling.
Vegetable_Emotion278@reddit
Sashpeto@reddit
Alot of things started raising prices since September but in general prices went up by a lot .
30-40% on average but there are things that went up even more.
Basic breakfast pastry that was going up with 0.05€ twice a year and was about 1.50€ last autumn right now is 2.40. Almost everything else in that category went up by at least 40% .
Grocery is just nightmare. Fruit and vegetables is up 30 to over 100% .
Surprisingly meat is quite tame and for the most part just went up by 10-20% .
Fish however also randomly became super expensive , with stuff like the cheap mackerel doubling in price as well .
Coffe is up a ton but that's worlwwide.
Restaurant prices feel like you are going to eat in center of Paris . With a soup starting at 5€ and a basic salad at 10€ .
Salaries however barely moved ...
With food being that expensive there isn't much time to worry about other things but utilities are up a bit and renting on a single salary is becoming impossible too ...
lilalindenau@reddit
I'm sure everything is more expensive.
As is the case everywhere no matter Euro country or not. Or is there any place in Europe (or the world) where people say: "Oh everything has become so cheap, remarkable!" ??
Easy_Letterhead_8453@reddit
'bout the same. Bit pricier for some stuff because of chip shortage and higher gas prices.
Got a new hobby though - hunting down all the coin variations 😉
Vidolov@reddit
Matty359@reddit
I felt scammed when Portugal got euro in 2002. Everything got expensive because of greedy bastards. I could buy a lot of stuff with 200$, almost nothing with 1€.
NovaStar83@reddit
We go tonhokidays and weeks in Italy for a cheaper life 😆
Impossible_Fruit4977@reddit
Everything is double the price…
0091dit@reddit
I would say a lot of the prices have doubled. Because of the exchange rate (1 eur = 1.95583 BGN) what used to cost 10 leva is now 10 euro. Not everything but fruit/veggies/reataurant/ services such as hairdressing, changing tyres etc. - prices are going wild and people feel like they have half the salary they had before.
dark0mania@reddit
Everything is more expensive due to "speculation". Midwits will tell you that it's not because of the Euro - however they fail to understand second order effects
tamzhebuduiya@reddit
Good, salaries started to rise. Lidl rised to 1325€ starting salary + 100€ vouchers for first year.
hihimorius@reddit
Cherries - 40 euro/kg in Bulgaria, 3 euro/kg in Portugal
Dazzling-Session-181@reddit
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. It's expensive.
bender__futurama@reddit
Fuck.. I forgot to exchange levi I have.. I have like 100 in cash and something in coins.. deadline was June?
v-s-g@reddit
You can still exchange them but need to go in the Bulgarian National Bank.
bender__futurama@reddit
Any deadline there? Maybe to plan some trip to Sofia. Some weekend.
Sea-Temporary-6995@reddit
They are required to accept levs forever so no deadline
Ar4iii@reddit
You can exchange in certain places indefinitely.
TinyAsianMachine@reddit
Bulgaria felt a lot more expensive with euro then it did before. But there were a few years between my visits, maybe its general CoL increases.
Self-Bitter@reddit
Well inflation is global since covid, don't attribute that in euro or Bulgaria.
TinyAsianMachine@reddit
It's not the inflation. I'm judging the prices relative to other places nto to itself 6 years ago, that would be daft.
The difference in wages between the country I live in and BG has gotten a lot smaller in the past few years. So the purchasing power I have in BG is also a lot smaller.
Random3014@reddit
There is about 2x increase in prices from 2019-2026. There has been an increase since the start of the year but IMO it is not that much compared to the cumulative increase in the last several years
gorgonchi@reddit
Same shit, different coins
scales_and_fangs@reddit
Just as it was before. Easier to travel, though.
One-Yam8731@reddit
Good for the most to be honest.
Range-Normal@reddit
1 lev is almost is 1 euro now, though I wouldnt specifically blame the euro for that, it just gave the needed push to raise the prices on everything..
CtrlAltDesolate@reddit
Prices have been creeping above inflation before the euro, (our rent went up 50% the past 2 years) and trump made things worse.
Not great but also price issues in Sofia are nothing to do with the euro, regardless of what the sceptics have to say.
The main issue with salaries are nowhere near what you see in other countries. So the prices are balancing out with what you see elsewhere, while inflation and stagnant wages kicks everyone in the ass.
Hairy-Chemical3467@reddit
Every time I open the front door it's like God is smiling at me. White doves are flying in flocks and the parks are lined in velvet. Oh and it's fucking expensive...
Preskomesko12345@reddit
I mean it is more expensive..but salaries are also increasing - unfortunately not everywhere, so Sofia life is quite different than the smaller cities, only Varna and Plovdiv is with the same prizes as in Sofia. Tbh it is fine, if you pay normal rent and have a salary of 2K EUR is fine, but obviously this is not the majority..
Vault-123@reddit
2k euro is like top 5% (according to LLM). Top 5% is more than fine in most part of the countries around the world.
Slow-Hawk4652@reddit
cant spell eurocents well, my tongue is snaking in my mouth...but appart from this all good. same numbers, different symbols.
Efficient-Magician63@reddit
Things got more expensive but it's hard to judge how much is due to the euro. It certainly has helped, there was definitely speculation because that's how it is - human nature. But at the same time there has been lots of other inflationary actions within and outside of the control of our governments, so it's very difficult to say what contributed the most.
At the moment life for an everyday Bulgarian has not changed for the better as we were promised. Maybe businesses are having it easier, I think those are the guys most happy about the euro chnage, but for everyday Bulgarian it's kind of whatever. I guess the bug pending question is how much new loan our new government will take - I think this was one of the biggest criticism against the euro that it allows corrupted government to take bigger loans....
But there is still money laundering and corruption and cash payments. We were told euro would help with those stuff but it's not going to.
If the EU gets stronger rather than weaker and gets its things together, I think we are going to see lots of positives, so we hope for that.
But if the EU gets weaker, we would be in a very bad position.
So we pray for strong EU!
Lazy_Following3564@reddit
Not only we have converted Lev to Euro, but the prices too... sadly what was 1 leva is now 1 euro
ValtenBG@reddit
Everything is more expensive
johny335i@reddit
I'm not totally sure, but if anything smaller numbers on prices feel cheaper 🤣
Like currently diesel is like 1.65€, and if it was 3.30BGN for such a long period of time, people would have been on the streets already protesting. And I barely hear someone complaining it's expensive.
abandonedtulpa@reddit
Sounds like you’re living in a bubble, but at least it’s a good bubble.
Mental-Book4148@reddit
We will see, it's too early to say for sure. General inflation is coming from 3 ways, higher prices of oil on the world markets, the massive loan taken from the former GERB lead government which was pumped in the economy and that affects the prices, and pure speculation by most businesses that took advantage of the noise and just transformed their prices form lev to euro slowly so nobody noticed. So yeah just the perfect storm pretty much if you ask me, but this will pass as well and in 5 years we won't even remember and will start seeing the benefits more clearly. If nothing really major happens of course ( like WW3 for example). Good thing is that there seems to be a public consensus that the inflation issue needs to be handled and we need to get the countries finances more in like and lower the deficit. The debate here is how exactly to do that. That are my 2 cents.
Sea-Temporary-6995@reddit
Everything is getting more expensive but the same happens in pretty much every other country :/
Working and middle class are getting fucked everywhere
PrivilegedMaleScum@reddit
Government let prices rise because they failed to control the businesses which through speculation artificially raised the prices. Everything is at least a little bit more expensive than before. Now the new government is beginning to stabilize them. Otherwise it's the same as before but you don't change your cash when you travel. Nothing too crazy, all of the fearmongering was bullshit Russian propaganda.
rintzscar@reddit
It's great.
Vast_Programmer1383@reddit
Good
Acrobatic_Quiet_3706@reddit
I think its nevermind with pro russian government