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Swap Bulgarian Apartment for Car on Adverts

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  • #2
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    Nice apt dude. Why you selling?


  • #3
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Waiting for enviable "Swap for anything in my ads?"


  • #4
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭dmc17


    It's almost too good to be true...


  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Swop 4 a iphone unloked wit broken scren?


  • #6
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'd rather keep my car, at least the ground that it is sitting on is mine.


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  • #7
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    It's in Bulgaria. What's not to love?


  • #8
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    It's in Bulgaria. What's not to love?

    I've been to Bulgaria. There's nothing to love about it.


  • #9
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Fine looking apartment in a beautiful country.


  • #10
    Deathwish4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    I'd have swapped if it was in the other Garia, Hungaria.


  • #11
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    I've been to Bulgaria. There's nothing to love about it.

    Ah now, in fairness sunny Beach is deadly. Literally.


    Never would return.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    I've been to Bulgaria. There's nothing to love about it.
    I was last there while the iron curtain rusted away, interesting times, the food was awful!


  • #13
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Ill swap ye a load of gnomes


  • #14
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    Swop 4 a iphone unloked wit broken scren?

    Y scren brokeded?


  • #15
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    I've been to Bulgaria. There's nothing to love about it.

    Yeah, I kinda meant that. "Friendly locals.." Hmm.


  • #16
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was last there while the iron curtain rusted away, interesting times, the food was awful!

    The food is still awful. Ughh, couldn't eat anything except pancakes and McDonalds. The country wasn't even civilised enough to have a Burger King.

    The horror.


  • #17
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Ah now, in fairness sunny Beach is deadly. Literally.


    Never would return.

    "I kill you, you sunny beach.."


  • #18
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Yeah, I kinda meant that. "Friendly locals.." Hmm.

    Having to spend a stinky to use the jacks is what'll always remain with me.


  • #19
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    The food is still awful. Ughh, couldn't eat anything except pancakes and McDonalds. The country wasn't even civilised enough to have a Burger King.

    The horror.

    I thought the one Burger King near every McDonalds rule was enshrined in international law.


  • #20
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    kowloon wrote: »
    I thought the one Burger King near every McDonalds rule was enshrined in international law.

    So did I. I was without BK deliciousness until I finally got to Vienna, days later.

    Never forget.


  • #21
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    So did I. I was without BK deliciousness until I finally got to Vienna , days later.

    Never forget.

    THAT MEANS NOTHING TO ME....


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  • #22
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Banjo String wrote: »
    THAT MEANS NOTHING TO ME....

    Vienna>Bulgaria. Basically. Ooooh..Vienna...


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    The food is still awful. Ughh, couldn't eat anything except pancakes and McDonalds. The country wasn't even civilised enough to have a Burger King.

    The horror.
    The only decent restaurants we found were the ones reserved for the "Politburo", we had friends! ;), anywhere else, :eek:


  • #24
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Banjo String wrote: »
    THAT MEANS NOTHING TO ME....
    You know every time someone makes that pun whilst I'm listening to Friday night music I groan so much it makes me sob.

    You could almost say I'm dancing with tears in my eyes.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Having to spend a stinky to use the jacks is what'll always remain with me.
    At least you didn't have to lev-el with them. ;)


  • #26
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    kowloon wrote: »
    Y scren brokeded?

    Jst fel of a roof,its alri tho cos it dint bonce 2 much. Only brok a lil bit. No timewaisters.


  • #27
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I've heard bad things about the Sunny Beach resort


  • #28
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    No sun? Shortage of beach?


  • #29
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Yeah what exactly us the problem with it?


  • #30
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Do u evr be in Dublin bud?

    I wil take d apt off ur hands if u can deliver it 2 me in Dub


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  • #31
    kupus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Yeah what exactly us the problem with it?

    Its full of bulgarians. duh.


  • #32
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    I've heard bad things about the Sunny Beach resort

    Bulgarias equivalent of Bray


  • #33
    Lawlesz
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Lawlesz


    Lived in Bulgaria myself, although over the other side. Been to Sunny Beach tho... Jesus...

    Strange country in general, unbelievable corruption, you hear all about it but seeing it first hand is kind of disturbing.

    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.

    Beautiful country though, if scenary/skiing/hiking/biking etc is your thing.


  • #34
    Lalealea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭Lalealea


    Lawlesz wrote: »
    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.


    This happened to a friend of mine in meath. Except the house was in meath.


  • #35
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Sunny beach is renowned throughout Europe (even in the rest of Bulgaria) for being an unremitting shithole. Bulgaria outside of that is lovely though, great food (lots of Greek and Turkish influence in the cuisine combined with good old fashioned slavic heartiness), some lovely cheap beer and decent wine, some of the most beautiful mountains in Europe, very friendly people, nice quiet beaches with lots of sun and warm water down near the Turkish border (the opposite end to Sunny Beach). All the same you'd have to be nuts to go dealing in Bulgarian property on adverts.ie. There are plenty of legitimate real estate agents and I know plenty of people, Bulgarians and immigrants alike who've bought or built houses there but the story a previous poster mentioned about people buying apartments that turned out not to exist is by no means a one off. There are whole villages and suburbs that don't exist near Sunny Beach and the main ski resort town of Bansko.


  • #36
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #37
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭cerastes


    Deathwish4 wrote: »
    I'd have swapped if it was in the other Garia, Hungaria.

    I tried to work its neighbour into that joke, it doesnt work as well.
    Wonder what its like outside the apartment block? or is it the Bulgarian equivalent to a ghost town or leitrim?
    No buses and one wheel barrow a day to the next burg but a horse and cart every week?

    Doesnt look very wheelchair accessible either, steps everywhere, even in the pool.


  • #38
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #39
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭cerastes


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    The neighbours? Romania? or the locals? or is it the local mafia?


  • #40
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    cerastes wrote: »
    The neighbours? Romania? or the locals? or is it the local mafia?

    Probably a bunch of 18 year olds from Dublin or Newcastle for most of the Summer puking in the streets and falling drunk off of balconies.


  • #41
    cerastes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭cerastes


    I'm beginning to see a correlation between Bulgaria and Ireland


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  • #42
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Lawlesz wrote: »
    Strange country in general, unbelievable corruption, you hear all about it but seeing it first hand is kind of disturbing.

    Have heard some horror stories too, from people handing over money for apartments and finding out the guy who 'sold' them it didn't even own it. Happened me when buying a car.

    This is the main issue. The apt/property managers there can be the incredibly corrupt and will wrap you around there finger with all sorts of extra charges and restrictions, mostly illegal, but what can you do - nothing. A friend has to pay a 4 figure sum just to get the water turned on and trying to sell the apt is still going on after 3 years.


  • #43
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,796 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Anyone know the cost of a typical apartment there compared to the cost of a high end car the seller is looking for?

    Bulgaria sounds like a kip.


  • #44
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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