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There are several, called variations of "Moving to Bulgaria" - and some channels on YT.聽 Many of them are dreamers but some do actually make the move, and some of them do actually stay.. 馃槑

Don't buy anything until you have seen it. There are people selling properties for a lot more than they are worth. Do your research and find a straight talker you can trust. I bought last year and spent time ripping out, doing it up this year with a view to moving there.

Good luck

@Pumarosa200

We are here at the moment to see whether we will like it. Lots of pros and cons. Found it frustrating not being able to read the menu 馃槀 Google Translate is a great help but I am used to knowing my way around languages. However we have had some laughs with staff in restaurants and using hotel staff to help me learn.

Google Lens is a good app for reading menus - you photograph whatever you want to read and it will do a translation -- less accurate than Google Translate because it needs to do optical character recognition first and gives a literal word-for-word meaning.

@janemulberry

Don't forget to factor in that, although it's not quite as common as it is with Anglophones, there's no shortage of Bulgarians who aren't too hot when it comes to the syntax and spelling of their own language, especially in rural areas - and younger folk here suffer just as much from Shrinking Vocabulary Syndrome as their peers in other countries.

Mr Google isn't always to blame for seemingly weird translations... 馃槑

A few years ago, we took my in-laws for a little holiday in the Kardzhali area and stopped at an "authentic Turkish-Bulgarian restaurant" in the town; luckily, one of the kitchen staff spoke a few words of English, because not a single person working there could speak or understand any Bulgarian and none of us could speak Turkish....they were friendly enough, but the food was pretty abysmal! 馃檮

Sorry you got a bad meal!

Yes, my neighbour's adult grandson who grew up in the city and is near fluent in English told me part of the problem I had would be due to the strong village accent and variants on word use and grammar compared to the Bulgarian taught in courses. Also, there's a big Turkish influence in the region. I had an older local builder there at the time, and the grandson said he could barely understand the old guy!

I can't really use that as an excuse though. Unlike hubby, a natural mimic who is amazing at accents, I just have zero talent for language and my accent when I try to speak Bulgarian is appalling! I've been doing an online lesson daily since I was last there, so I will be interested to see if I understand more of what's being said when I'm back later in the month.

@janemulberry

Most Bulgarian TV stations have web sites, where you can read news reports/gossip etc, and they also stream their broadcasts, both live and on-demand - the latter usually with a Pause facility if you need to look something up. If you watch foreign films with Bulgarian subtitles you'll also sooner or later find yourself greatly amused by the bizarre translations and misunderstood expressions on display.

The newspapers mostly also have websites but there's no shortage of what in the UK we'd call "red tops" (they're "yellow tops" here 馃槑) so don't believe everything you read!

My wife often grumbles about the poor linguistic standard displayed by many of her Bulgarian students but nowadays they're unlikely to get marked down for it unless it's particularly egregious, not like in her day...馃榿