Read through these silly remarks, no reason given why the population is declining?

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they lost 600,000 due to birth rate is very low and you have to remember the minorities in which there is over 1 million turks and others so in reality there is about 6 million bulgarians in bulgaria and turks will be 30% of the population very soon

The old phrase "Lassie come home...... to your local Vietnamese Restaurant" perhaps could be a new marketing campaign?
I'm all for ethnic foods, however when the rural population are expected to pay 50 Leva per cubic metre for cut and split timber, it is of no surprise that they suffer the indignity of shivering through Winter unable to cook a skembe soup never mind order a cross bred terrier hound Curry with Coriander and Lemongrass (Ca-Ry Dog)from a local Vietnamese take away!

The old phrase "Lassie come home...... to your local Vietnamese Restaurant" perhaps could be a new marketing campaign?
I'm all for ethnic foods, however when the rural population are expected to pay 50 Leva per cubic metre for cut and split timber, it is of no surprise that they suffer the indignity of shivering through Winter unable to cook a skembe soup never mind order a cross bred terrier hound Curry with Coriander and Lemongrass (Ca-Ry Dog)from a local Vietnamese take away!

The old phrase "Lassie come home...... to your local Vietnamese Restaurant" perhaps could be a new marketing campaign?
I'm all for ethnic foods, however when the rural population are expected to pay 50 Leva per cubic metre for cut and split timber, it is of no surprise that they suffer the indignity of shivering through Winter unable to cook a skembe soup never mind order a cross bred terrier hound Curry with Coriander and Lemongrass (Ca-Ry Dog)from a local Vietnamese take away!

Concerning the stray dogs, I the government should re-think and encourage the Vietnamese to come back to Bulgaria, there were a lot of dog meat in open markets around Sofia around 1989-1992 because the Vietnamese were helping back then in controlling the spay dogs. Most of this dogs are coming from villages near Sofia because they are no longer cared for by their owners because of hardship or their owners are no more alive.

Watch, I agree with you its about time the Bulgarian people voiced their disgust at the poverty in BG ,How will we all cope with the increase in power bills also the rising cost of food,but on a lighter note the stray dog population will decrease and thats a good thing.

Its so painful to see how ordinary Bulgarians are finding it extremely hard to survive, my friend George from Dobrish, a teacher in English has vow never to return to Bulgaria even though he inherited a villa from his late father. I'm still wishing for that day to come when i will see Bulgarians smiling again just as it was when communism came to an end in 1989. Bulgaria need total reform and educated leaders to rule them, not these men in black, they are too fake. Anyway, winds of change is spreading from north Africa, Bulgarians should start speaking [...]

Read the full comment against bad government.

I will ba happy to finally move to Bulgaria. Leave my dutch manhole for a nice place in Bulgaria. To change your live you have to change.

Why??? Bulgaria, country of great man like Spartak, Orphey, Asparuh, Botev i Levski, why???

mbkirova was it not the reporting in the Sofia Echo that said some Bulgarian people was living in manholes.
You should not be surprised then that readers comment on this issue its called freedom of speech.

Why have you lost people to cold and hunger in your village do you not look after each other.

Cosmos, your comments are always asinine-- please keep them to yourself since you obviously have nothing better to do than complain.
Potholes be damned.

Watch, you are correct. In my village we have lost a number of people this winter-- to cold and hunger.

When I hear about Brits setting up home in BG in makes me laugh to think that they move for a better life.After a couple of months they went back to the UK perhaps the manholes in the UK are cleaner but I bet they miss the street dogs.

I thought it was government policy to move everyone to Sofia and Varna. That is why they spend over 70% of Bulgarian and EU money in those cities, and ignore the rest of the country. Seems to be working well.

I thought it was government policy to move everyone to Sofia and Varna. That is why they spend over 70% of Bulgarian and EU money in those cities, and ignore the rest of the country. Seems to be working well.

Ha, funny boys!
No suprise on the census at all...Taken in to account that villages and farms have been deserted, than bought by poor working class Brits who can't afford to live in the UK and pay their heating bills-and as there no street dogs to kill for fur and meat, they move to Bulgaria!

Kill the street dogs for food and use the fur for keeping warm. But on a serious note it looks like all the Bulgarians are leaving I cant blame them I suppose there are not enough manholes.

You are funny indeed Cosmos, you still kept this in your memory. Not only this, cold and hunger has played a major role, people are dying for not able to heat their houses and not having enough to eat.

They might be hiding inside manholes,send in the police to have a look.