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hagwonnewbie
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 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: Europe: cheapest country to live in |
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| WHat is the least expensive place to live in Europe? How about western Europe? How would you compare the cost of housing between Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Austria? |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Try Prague |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldova is way cheap. Prague is uptown. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Europe: cheapest country to live in |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
| WHat is the least expensive place to live in Europe? How about western Europe? How would you compare the cost of housing between Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Austria? |
I've lived in Spain, Austria and Hungary.
Austria was expensive. Beautiful country though.
Spain can be if you are in Barcelona, Madrid, etc. If you are elsewhere, it won't be. I lived in a small town in Spain not too far from Valencia.
Hungary was cheap, but it was about 10 years ago since I lived there, so who knows anymore. Budapest is probably coming closer to Western European prices, while everything outside of Budapest is probably quite cheap I'd imagine. |
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Woland
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheapest? Try Albania or Bosnia. |
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LL Moonmanhead
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| Try Macedonia. It's extremely cheap and the people are geniunely kind and welcoming. Most expensive house in Macedonia went for a little over $500k not so long ago. $25k would get you a nice place in the capital. |
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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| whoa....what language do they speak in Moldova? What about Macedonia? |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
| whoa....what language do they speak in Moldova? What about Macedonia? |
Macedonia they speak Macedonian, similar to Bulgarian. Its a slavic language.
Moldovians speak Romanian. (Latin-based language). |
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demaratus
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Location: Searching for a heart of gold, and I'm gettin' old
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
| whoa....what language do they speak in Moldova? What about Macedonia? |
Macedonia they speak Macedonian, similar to Bulgarian. Its a slavic language.
Moldovians speak Romanian. (Latin-based language). |
Most Moldovans speak Russian and many also speak Ukrainian too. |
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nick_shawyer
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| definatly stick to eastern block if your looking for cheap, plus it is better there in my opinion - krakow would be a good place to live. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Try Hungary. Especially Budapest. Cheap standard of living, beautiful women. Excellent bars. Amazing spas. It's all there. Very close vicinity to rest of eastern europe so travelling no problem.
On the flip side, forget Sweden and Norway, they'll burn a hole in your pocket. |
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mrsquirrel
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Prices are going up a lot in the new EU.
Lithuania and Romania are still cheap to live in.
Lithuania still has a Chernobyl style reactor that you can tour. |
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Tony_Balony
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
Try Hungary. Especially Budapest. Cheap standard of living, beautiful women. Excellent bars. Amazing spas. It's all there. Very close vicinity to rest of eastern europe so travelling no problem.
On the flip side, forget Sweden and Norway, they'll burn a hole in your pocket. |
I stayed in Budapest for a summer.
Biggest frustration with Hungary is that Hungarian is the most difficult and most isolated European language there is, meaning that few if any foreigners pick up much Hungarian, and few if any Hungarian pick up anything non-Hungarian.
#2 annoyance with Budapest - at least during the summer, its absolutely overrun by western europeans, meaning you are just another cog in the wheel of hordes of foreigners walking around in a very touristic city.
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If I were to cloose a place in Eastern Europe, I'd probably go with Ukraine (at least Russian/Ukrainian language is more or less a world language) or Romania (a latin language in eastern europe). |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: |
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Granted summer in Budapest is busy, but if you don't hang around the tourist road there aren't that many tourists who venture away from it. You can probably blame ryanair for the influx of tourists.
You must have been to the spas, Tiger Beer? Brill, what a day out. 50 different kinds of water under one roof. You feel like you've drowned in a nice way.
Language wise I would disagree, every language is doable, I was there for a year and picked up a fair whack of Hungarian. As soon as you get over the shock of a foreign language and get down the nitty gritty they're not so hard to pick up. Hungarian is linked with Finnish. BUt I doubt Russian is any easier to pick up. |
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