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Eastern European countries are surprisingly nice actually. Those are safe, free, have access to good food and anyone who is living in those is living because th

by mrtksn 1y ago

Eastern European countries are surprisingly nice actually. Those are safe, free, have access to good food and anyone who is living in those is living because they choose to. The only ones that complain are those who want to have the cake and eat it too. In general, the life in those countries is quite relaxed just as the working conditions. You may see thing like working hours are long but those working hours are not comparable to the working hours in Germany or France for example. Mortgage default rates or inability to pay the bills is also not that bad. Those who actually have trouble can seek better lives in the western Europe and many do and for quite many the good life is actually in Eastern Europe even if they would complain often. It's not like those countries lack some resource or something making them poor, it's their expectations. In fact, Eastern Europe has quite a favorable geography with nice climate, access to water and plenty of sunshine. It's such a nice location that those countries receive considerable amount of tourists. For those who are more ambitious, Eastern Europe offers everything they need - including powerful passports that let them go to the rich parts of the world hassle free.

FirmwareBurner 1y ago
That nice, but I'm not sure what does it have to do with the point I was trying to make? Did I say anywhere Eastern Europe sucks? My point was that Eastern Europe is now prosperous precisely because after the fall of communism it prioritized getting wealthy and making money first, which is what my parent was scoffing at, which led me to believe he must be form a country who's prosperity was built much earlier in the distant past and he forgot what life without economic prosperity looks like, but Greeks or Eastern Europeans still remember. His attitude felt incredibly hypocritical. Prosperity comes from wealth. You can have a lack of prosperity even with wealth, but you can't have prosperity without wealth.

by mrtksn 1y ago

FirmwareBurner 1y ago

That nice, but I'm not sure what does it have to do with the point I was trying to make? Did I say anywhere Eastern Europe sucks? My point was that Eastern Europe is now prosperous precisely because after the fall of communism it prioritized getting wealthy and making money first, which is what my parent was scoffing at, which led me to believe he must be form a country who's prosperity was built much earlier in the distant past and he forgot what life without economic prosperity looks like, but Greeks or Eastern Europeans still remember. His attitude felt incredibly hypocritical. Prosperity comes from wealth. You can have a lack of prosperity even with wealth, but you can't have prosperity without wealth.