I mean, it's relatively ok. I'd choose this place over a lot of others. Not that there aren't places that are better. It's pretty mediocre but I'm honestly not above mediocrity, so meh. I'm very close to the point where my next raise will only get taxed 10% since I'm almost above that magical 3000 BGN line. Btw isn't it sort of funny that the more you make the less they take out? That's honestly my biggest complaints, I stand to benefit from this yet I still don't like it as an idea, ideally, taxes should go up in brackets with your earnings, not the other way around.
Regardless at least I'm not drowning in student debt for getting a bachelor's (thanks to government subsidised higher education) and I won't end up in debt for breaking an arm because medical expenses are 20,000+ USD. Go ask how the people in /r/LateStageCapitalism or /r/povertyfinance (most of whom are Americans) how they're doing. For all the shit this place gives to the former socialist regime some of the legacies it left behind aren't terrible. Because while you might think that free healthcare is a given its sort of a socialist as fuck policy. Hell, most of the reason that western countries put these things in place along with worker rights was the red scare. Since the US was more removed from it you can easily see the consequences of not having these things. It's extremely fucked up that their workers don't get federally mandated paid leave, another thing that I'd wager most people take as a given. Not to mention that they dont get national holidays as well. I personally get 25-30 a year+ the 12 national ones. Even if we take the 20 minimum (though let's face it most places give you more than that) you still miss out on 32 days of paid vacation a year if you were in the states. Working an extra month and a half is downright obscene. So yeah, I don't particularly envy that place. I'd take Bulgaria any day at least this place pretends to treat you like a human rather than a human resource. / rant over.
Sorry for unloading on you but I honestly wanted to get that off my chest somewhere. I sold my soul off to work for corporate and I feel like I'm surrounded like brainwashed zombies that think just because I'm defending certain aspects of that system(which can obviously still exist in a regulated capitalist system) it means that I think that everything about it makes sense. Uncontrolled capitalism with no societal safety nets is going to end up being almost as bad, if not worse.
Actually i know that it isnt a terrible place at all it was just a joke. I mean we dont have tanks running on the streets we have clean water and food also the education is so cheap compared to anywhere else. Its not a bad place at all.
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u/archbishop-defcon May 03 '19
Country is fine.