u/smellslikeweed1

My question is particularly about whether you think Bulgaria is as poor as Bulgarians think it is, as Bulgarians ourselves we probably have a bias and skewed perceptions of our home country. What are some stuff you think Bulgarians don't realise or don't see in Bulgaria that you see as a foreigner living here (it'd be good if in this case you could also give an example or comparison with your country or other places you've lived in). I have foreign coworkers who come from less developed and poorer countries and they seem to like Bulgaria so I'm always surprised by it since we as Bulgarians usually always only see the negatives and are very hateful towards the country and other Bulgarians. I think in general we're just a very hateful nation, and the average person holds a lot of pity and anger and is oftentimes miserable in some ways. But surprisingly many foreigners don't see the country in the same way we do.

I'm from Bulgaria and I've been trying to collect a coin from every country minting eurocoins and I've never found a coin from Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican and Monaco. I believe I once saw a coin from Malta but I didn't collect it and never saw another one again. So for now I've collected coins from 17 out of 21 EZ countries and 17 out of 25 total issuing countries. Are these the hardest countries to find coins from if you're in Bulgaria? It does make sense though since these countries have a low population, are small, joined the EZ/started issuing eurocoins later on than the first EZ countries and are far from Bulgaria (since I don't travel much and don't go to very touristic places), so I guess they would also have smaller number of minted coins as a whole than coins from countries which are found more common like Germany (because of the high number of coins minted) and would be hard to come across due to geographic distance than a country like Greece for example which is found very often due to the proximity. (And in my personal case because I travel there very often).

I work at a hotel in Europe and we have masseurs from Indonesia at the hotel. But I also studied a bachelor's degree in the UK and at uni I had an Indonesian friend. And the two types of Indonesians are very different obviously. My uni friend comes from a rich family, she was very educated, spoke great English, much better than me, even though for me as an European it'd be easier to learn English than her as a native speaker of a non-european language, she would often travel, she was half Japanese. While my Indonesian coworkers at my hotel job seem to be from a much lower social class, they're from Bali, most of them. And don't seem well educated, they speak very poor English and are obviously struggling financially. While my uni friend was from Jakarta and I believe she probably went to a private school. After uni I saw she got some white collar job at a hotel also since she studied hospitality management similar to my degree. Could you give me an insight on the social classes in the country and the different types of people that emigrate from the country regarding the social class and what's their occupation and life like abroad depending on the social class they come from in Indonesia. Since the life my Indonesian friend had at uni in the UK seems much different than the life these Indonesians at my hotel have. Also their lives in Indonesia seem very different from each other, too. Also the Indonesians at my hotel seem to be very traditional conservative and somewhat boring compared to my uni friend. They also have a lot of children, follow some Balinese traditions for their weddings and the birth of their children and stuff. While my uni friend was more European, western like culturally and in her manners behaviours mentality everything really.