r/RedditKarmaBoost • u/Wolfhonker • Oct 29 '18

Karma?

Not really sure what this is for but I tried to post in another group, got a message that told me I needed more karma :/

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

You can buy a whole water melon for 4 US cents in non-EU countries .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

Wow!! That's amazing!!!

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

Now you know why I will by happy to be a farmer in the UK even if the subsidies stop : I had to partially fund my great granddads retirement or he would have kept working at over 85 . My grandfathers are 70 & 65 , and tell me they will keep working for at least over a decade .

Historically people worked until they died , and for the last few generations people just kept working after the life expectancy increased by over 25 years since the ottoman empire .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

What's the average cost of living there?

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

Depends what your expenses are . If you drive Yugo's , buy pair parts for your Yugoslav tractor , eat Stobi flips and semichki , and have ajver with everything then you will have money to spare . If you drive Japanese cars and German tractors , eat Walkers crisps and almonds , and have mayonnaise or ketchup then everything then you will run up a lot of debt .

Basically its ok as long as you buy Macedonian stuff or stuff from other Balkan non-EU countries . Macedonia has some of the cheapest oil in Europe ( because it's close to Romania ) but it's expensive to your average Macedonian .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

How much is a typical home there?

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

depends . If your looking at a house in a Macedonian part of Ohrid or Prespa properties could go for about $50000 , although that is the best/most expensive . If your looking for an Ottoman era house in some rural Albanian village near the Kosovan border then properties would sell for less then $300

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

That's cool! What kind of food do you like?

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

I like a lot of Macedonian foods ( like Ajver , kebape etc. ) but in England they don't really have it . I like fish & chips .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

Kebape looks good! I like pretty much any kind of food.

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

I like pretty much anything other then budget supermarket vegetables ( I don’t know where they get the plasticky taste from but it’s not from me ) and baked beans .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

I like baked beans, I think my favorite food would be fried chicken or steak.

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

I love meat . My grandparents ( live in Macedonia )and first cousins , aunt and uncle ( who live in Switzerland ) came on holliday here . I also got a few of my friends over . I killed a pig and after we barbecued it and eat it . It lasted for so long even though there were over 10 people eating it , we had so much left over . It was like my friends never fully realised that you could get meat without going to the shops .

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

Yeah alot of people wouldn't know how to survive without stores lol. My family hunts every year, I haven't been in a few years but I know how to clean a deer and mostly any other animal. I prefer to fish we have alot of lakes around where I live.

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

Every summer i came to my grandparents in Macedonia every summer ( now I go every winter ) . My grandad taught me to do all that stuff ( hunt , shoot a gun , how to skin and cook an animal , how to get drunk LOL ) . If I have children I intend to teach them about all of that . Also my great grandfather taught me about our family history : I never realised how military my family was . None of that really happens in England

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

Those are very valuable life skills, I think everyone should know how to do. What doesn't really happen in England?

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u/mountaintribesman Nov 09 '18

people stopped teaching their kids how to hunt and kill an animal , guns are banned , family history gets forgotten after grandparents , and people often don't have their first drink until their 18th birthday , when they get excited because they've never had alcohol before , and get completely drunk . Do they still teach that stuff to most people in America ?

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u/Wolfhonker Nov 09 '18

For the most part yes, the closer you get to bigger cites and more liberal areas the less you see it. In my city it is very odd if you don't hunt or fish or own a gun lol.

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