We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Location location!

Properties that twenty years ago were inhabited by collectivised Bulgarian peasants can now be purchased by anyone, thanks to the magic of the Internet.

Ideal for, erm, renovators!

5 comments to Location location!

  • Saw quite a few “fixer-uppers” there. Nothing a fat insurance policy and some good ol’ “Brooklyn lightning” wouldn’t cure.

  • What, no Ikea in Ruse or Popovo? Won’t be long.

  • Exguru

    And properties in the Notting Hill Gate area of London, which you couldn’t give away 40 years ago, are now changing hands for hundreds of thousands and millions of pounds.

  • Julian Taylor

    Well Notting Hill had the advantage of a BBC comedy writer who manipulated Working Title into making a movie specifically so that he could drive up the value of some houses he and his wife had purchased in W11, so much so that even trendy Davey Cameron bought one (more fool him).

  • I like how that creepy face on the poster goes with this building..ha!