Tolni in another thread you wrote that you have Roma neighbours.
Can you write more about this Roma neighbourhood? Is it nice?
How many Roma are there in Bulgaria, and in which regions are largest numbers?
Well. I do have a Roma neighbours. They're perhaps on the better side: they're not recent settlers, or to be exact, they've settled legally. In other places, where the katuns have settled less-than-legally, when some major had the genius idea of having eternal voting base from him by blackmailing them by promising them homes.. well.. less so. Think no water or electricity access.
The Roma are, as surprising as it might truly be, every-damn-where. Like, you can't say there's there, there and there - there's always a small or large minority of them, be it a large city or a small poor village in the Northwest. I guess they're analogous to the Jews in Medieval times. But, the largest katuns might be located near Sofia or Plovdiv, where essentially it's a part of the city.
What's all the fuss about Sunny Beach?
Well, if we could use a very loose and strung out analogy, they could be relatively easily compared to that city that got salted by God, except that they probably haven't invented currency systems or better and cheaper alcohol, and also I doubt they had any shitfaced tourists going around in their streets.
They used to be nomadic and riding horse carriages all the time in the past.
Later Communist governments constructed stationary blocks of flats for them.
Not all the stationary blocks of flats were made for the gypsies. All I know is that there's about two quarters in Sofia and Plovdiv that could be described like that.
The rest were build due to the massive immigration from the villages to the larger cities, since pre-1944, the urban population was something like 15%. In 1989, it was about 85%.
So last day here in Bulgaria, Sinemoretz. Nice place overall. Nothing to say about the hotel and stuff (the vacation itself), except that alcohol was indeed terrible, but luckily enough stores nearby and your prices are insane! Beer costs less than coke?!
(BTW 0,5l coke plus coffee for 1,70 leva (about 0,90), that was nice compared to Finland, where same would cost you about 3 - 3,50 if not more.)
Beer costs less than Coke, but only if you buy actual Coke and Pepsi, as they're ridiculously overpriced. There's local variants that are cheaper and, I guess, might be of lower quality.
Liked the black sea, nice little villages you have here on the coast. Reminds me a lot of rural Russia in villages and urban Russia in cities, but... nicer, warmer and overall cuter... and cleaner.
Still can't quite figure the average Bulgarian look. Some of you look slavic, some Greek and with very few Turkish looking. Maybe a mix of slavic and greek look? ...
To be fair, it's really hard to figure out the average Bulgarian look on the seaside. Too many peoples have settled it in the past - be it Greek colonists, Turks, Slavs or Bulgars. You gotta go hiking in the mountains or go into the wonderfully unexciting Danube Ravine in order to really feel what a Bulgarian is.
Tried to figure out your music preferences... Listened to some radio, watched a TV channel called "16x9"? It was like watching / listening to Eurovision non stop. Overall my impression is slavic pop with middle eastern elements.
Not sure what else to say at the moment.
In essence, you just got upon a local (to Bulgaria, hopefully) peculiarity: we have tons of channels for music. Most of them are either for chalga/pop. It's literally impossible to find a channel for rock/metal music, which exists, but unfortunately for the most part is solely in Bulgarian.
With all that behind you, would you visit Bulgaria again?
means nope and 
means yup with Bulgarians?
