As an American living in Albania, everyone from here is trying to leave. I don’t get it. More than 96% of people here own their homes. Not have mortgages, own. The cost of living is basically nothing, even when accounting for local wages. I’m like why would you want to move to the US or UK? Do you want to work 16 hours a day so you can eat and have shelter? Do you have some desire to have work be the only thing you can do? It’s baffling.
As somebody from a poor EU country with good weather - Portugal - if Albania is anything like here, it’s a great place to live as long as your income is at the level of somewhere else.
The problem is to live in such a place with the level of salary of such a place.
The cost of living is basically nothing, even when accounting for local wages.
You sure about that? Maybe you’re just making a lot of money (as would be expected if you’re an American living in Albania)? That aside the problem that makes people become economic immigrants is lack of opportunity; from a quick Google unemployment was 10% in 2022 and PPP GDP per capita is 83th globally and below the world average. People from first world countries tend to not quite grasp that fact. Albania also apparently has big corruption problems that it needs to resolve before it can get EU membership, so while it seems a good faith effort is being made there are reasons one would want to leave. You’ll probably get more specific examples if you ask one of the locals.
Maybe you’re just making a lot of money (as would be expected in you’re an American living in Albania)?
No no, the cost of living is nothing. A quick google search shows the average cost of living is only around $945 a month!!
Please, just don’t go figure out what their average pay is. I promise that doesn’t factor into this equation, and it’s totally more than half of their cost of living lol
As an American living in Albania, everyone from here is trying to leave. I don’t get it. More than 96% of people here own their homes. Not have mortgages, own. The cost of living is basically nothing, even when accounting for local wages. I’m like why would you want to move to the US or UK? Do you want to work 16 hours a day so you can eat and have shelter? Do you have some desire to have work be the only thing you can do? It’s baffling.
As somebody from a poor EU country with good weather - Portugal - if Albania is anything like here, it’s a great place to live as long as your income is at the level of somewhere else.
The problem is to live in such a place with the level of salary of such a place.
You sure about that? Maybe you’re just making a lot of money (as would be expected if you’re an American living in Albania)? That aside the problem that makes people become economic immigrants is lack of opportunity; from a quick Google unemployment was 10% in 2022 and PPP GDP per capita is 83th globally and below the world average. People from first world countries tend to not quite grasp that fact. Albania also apparently has big corruption problems that it needs to resolve before it can get EU membership, so while it seems a good faith effort is being made there are reasons one would want to leave. You’ll probably get more specific examples if you ask one of the locals.
No no, the cost of living is nothing. A quick google search shows the average cost of living is only around $945 a month!!
Please, just don’t go figure out what their average pay is. I promise that doesn’t factor into this equation, and it’s totally more than half of their cost of living lol