Britons living in Bulgaria. Guide to Bulgaria, Sofia and Varna

Move to Britain? They're All Drunks and Psychos - Buzzle

Move to Britain? They're All Drunks and Psychos Buzzle, CA - Feb 19, 2008 The number of Britons living in Bulgaria has doubled in the past year (some 1152 were given residency in 2005). Lured by some of the cheapest property ...

Move to Britain? They're All Drunks and Psychos - Buzzle
After three years she has had enough - of Britain. Another student, Irina Lichkova, 24, adds: "I spent five months working in Belfast last summer. BMWs are more in evidence than tractors.Bulgarians point out that most of the country's young talent has already left. British pensioners have bought up thousands of flats on the Black Sea coast and in mountainous ski resorts."We are thinking of buying a property here," Bob Newton, 68, in Bulgaria for a two-week holiday with his wife Shirley, 63, said over breakfast at his Sofia hotel. But Bulgaria is experiencing its own wave of migration - from Britain. But on Friday and Saturday night everybody gets drunk. But she dislikes Britain's culture of binge drinking and the fact that her teenage daughter has been bullied at school. But the vigorous tabloid campaign against Bulgarians and Romanians appears to have worked.On Wednesday ministers indicated that the government intends to introduce a work permit system requiring them to prove that they can fill specific skill shortages. Earlier this week the Sun ran a front-page photograph showing what it said was a vast queue of Bulgarians who had "laid siege" to the building. I don't know why."Ms Boeva has spent the past three years living and working in Swansea. I don't like it in Britain much," Ms Boeva, a 37-year-old care assistant, said. I'm going back for a couple of months to collect our things. It's my country," says Rostislav Tsonev, a 20-year-old student at Sofia University. Lured by some of the cheapest property prices in Europe, British families have started new lives here. Of those, most wanted to go to the US, Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany. Others already lived in the UK and were renewing visas. Over the past 16 years nearly 1.5 million Bulgarians have gone to work abroad, mostly to the US and Canada. Pensioners have to survive on �25 a month. She is coming home to Bulgaria."I'm fed up. The Bulgarian government says the total number of migrants going abroad will be more like 10,000 to 15,000.A Gallup poll in February suggested the number of Bulgarians wanting to leave the country has gone down to 7%. The Bulgarians intended to work in the UK when Bulgaria - together with Romania - joined the EU on January 1, the paper suggested.In fact, most of those queuing up yesterday were visiting Britain for a holiday. The government seems to tell ordinary people that foreigners living in the UK are dangerous to British people. The population has shrunk from 9 million to 7.6 million. The prices appear to be so reasonable."The number of Britons living in Bulgaria has doubled in the past year (some 1,152 were given residency in 2005). The trend is now slowing."I want to stay here. Then we'll start a new life in Bulgaria."Ms Boeva was one of around 50 Bulgarians trying to get or renew visas at the embassy yesterday. They have renovated crumbling farmhouses, or dabbled in organic farming. They have sent their children to Bulgarian schools. They're All Drunks and Psychos Where eastern Europeans went - and how the EU is responding� As ministers plan a work permit system, not all Bulgarians are seduced by the UKStanding outside the British embassy in Sofia yesterday, Rozalina Boeva admits she wants a better life. To be honest most of the people I met there were psychos."Last week the foreign minister, Ivaylo Kalfin, said any new migration to Britain was likely to be more of a problem for Bulgaria than for the UK. Unemployment is just under 9%, just above the EU average, and less than that in Germany.In Sofia, an attractive city surrounded by mountains and forests of pines and birch, there is building work everywhere.