Is Bulgaria Cheap Cost of Living Sofia Bulgaria How Much Does It Cost

We've been in Sofia, Bulgaria for one month now and today we're going to share with you exactly how much it does cost to live here. Hey guys I'm Ross and I'm Bec. We quit our jobs in Australia and rented out our home, started working online and well we've decided that we're going to travel the world full-time. So we go from city to city one month at a time and we try and share as much as we can with you. We love food and all the different things that you can do in these cities so if you haven't checked out our videos check them out. So to share our cost of living for a one month period we have eight categories. We think they're the most important. They're the areas that we spend our money on. So we're staying in an Airbnb and it's an awesome location right in centre of Sofia. There's a lot of buzz happening in this area. We're near the Vitosha Boulevard which is the big shopping street here. Our apartment's really simple. It's spacious. We have separate rooms. We have a big bedroom, a big living area and a nice kitchen. It's an old building but really really good value and all the little amenities that you need as well. Total cost is 974 lev. So on your travels if you want to use Airbnb like we use it whether it's short-term or long-term check out down below. There's a discount for you just waiting. All you have to do is click on the link and make your first booking. You'll get a discount and it helps us on our travels too. Being located right in the centre of the city is awesome for transport because you can catch little trains and trams to any specific spot that you want. But to be honest we just walk everywhere. We use it as a chance to get some exercise and get around the city and Sofia's not that spread out. You can get from one side of the city to the other quite easily on foot. So yeah very often we didn't even have to pay for anything. We just kind of walked from one spot to the other but the trams and trains are very cheap. Our only other cost is the taxi that we got from the airport to our Airbnb. That's about 15 lev. Total cost for transport was 35 lev for the month. Now if you're staying for a short period of time just go out and eat all the traditional foods, the pastries and everything for breakfast and for lunch. It's delicious. We being here for a month had a mix of you know starting a day pretty healthy in our apartment with some cereal or fruit and then we might duck out for something to eat for lunch. Really yummy different foods coming from Greece previously. Yeah it's just a different cuisine. There's a lot of influences that are similar but yeah probably a little bit more heavy if anything than some of the Greek food. Total cost for one month was 316 lev. Dinner. We've all got to eat. We all have to eat and well in case you don't know Beck and I we're really passionate about hunting down all the best local traditional foods that any city has to offer. So we always spend a little bit more here every night. We're trying to get out and find you know and uncover those gems right across the city. So Bulgarian food is meat and vegetables and lots of different variations of that. It is really quite heavy but yummy. Our total cost for the month was 739 lev. Bills is always the best topic. Everyone loves bills. We got a lot of questions on bills. Travel insurance is one of our biggest ones. We protect ourselves but also equipment that we have. A big one guys is a VPN. We use a VPN to help change the location of our computers or our mobile phones so that we can get around geographic restrictions. Things like banking or Netflix or you know just security and privacy as well. So if you're interested in using a VPN check it out below because there is a special discount that you can get with the one that we use. Now Bulgaria is a cheap place to become an alcoholic. For 1 lev 50 maybe up to 2 lev you can get a big pint can of any beer that you want really. Any good European beer from kind of anywhere in Europe. Delicious beer. You can go out to some of the pubs and maybe pay three to four lev for that beer. But yeah off the shelf really really good value on the pint cans. Wines maybe up to 10 lev maybe up to 15 lev if you want a really good bottle. But yeah again really affordable. So we did find ourselves kind of getting into a bit of a rhythm with booze this month and our total cost was 130 lev. The water because we're right near this Bitosha mountain they have natural spring water I guess it is that just comes in and they actually have fountains right across the city where locals are filling up their bottles. The water here is delicious just straight out the tap. So it doesn't cost you anything really. Coffees all very very cheap a couple of lev maybe two 250 lev for a coffee really well done barista made coffee yummy. We quite often though would just buy in from the supermarket the best brand coffee that they do here and we've got a coffee machine in the airbnb that we use and yeah it works out a treat. So total cost 32 lev. So the final category is other. Every every good budget needs an other category. This is like household stuff, health stuff, maybe haircuts and you know other little top up bits. You might buy some clothes or little things like that. It's really cheap here for all of those things. Our total cost was 71 lev. Total cost for the whole month in Sofia a 30-day period was 2559 lev. Now we think that's pretty good. Some people who travel on a budget might do it for less than that. Some might do it for more but we have lived really comfortably here. We haven't gone without anything. Overall it's a bloody good city and I have to say it's such a beautiful city. If you go for a walk such big strong buildings and beautiful architecture right across the city. The people are so lovely. If you're interested in hearing more about Sofia we're going to drop a video on our honest opinion and a bit of a city guide of Sofia. Be sure to check it out and if you haven't already and you like hanging out with us hit all the buttons that you need to. Hit the bell that's the one that you need to hit. We hope you enjoy it and we will see you very soon.