Everyone is poor in Bulgaria, even
the German immigrants;
A self-described shaman who
discovered the healing powers of herbs while seeing visions on his
sickbed; a former consultant for IBM who ditched PowerPoint
presentations to drive across Africa and an artist from Luxembourg who
is a qualified plumber.
They are among a group of 22 people newly settled in
the crumbling village of Odrintsi in southeastern Bulgaria where they
live without electricity, but with 230 goats.
If you add the five Bulgarians who were left in the village there are still almost ten times as many goats as people. Because the Bulgarians themselves migrate to richer parts of Europe, abandoning villages like Odrintsi.
Its deserted feel is increasingly common in
Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member state, where the number
of villages with a population below five people has jumped to 268 in
2014 from 184 a decade earlier. Bulgaria's population over the same
period fell to 7.2 million from 7.8 million.
But they're more equal!
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