Dutch man wants to live OFF-GRID in Bulgaria. Should he do it? 

Wow, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it

Yes it's a lot tougher than it looks, I don't want to put in all this hardship.

Around Plovdiv is probably your best bet, I like the village of Hrabrino a lot. There will also be schools nearby. Bratsigovo or Peshtera or Krichim might be interesting too.

Thnx. We like to grow our own vegatables etc.how is the climate and soil in that area.and hopefully clear sky.because we live now verry close to Schiphol airport and i m done with that toxics and noise..

@Lennart Van Zon air quality in the Plovdiv Valley is very bad too. Most towns have poor air, you need to be very remote for clean and crisp air.

@@LeondeLeeuw oké thnx. And what do you think about the area kostenets? Close to borovets. We like to ski.

@Lennart Van Zon it's pretty nice, you can find a place on the southern slopes of the Sredna gora and have sun almost the whole day. Don't go live on the northern side of the Rila slopes because you won't have much sun and will be colder.

In that respect you can go off grid in Australia just as easily, it's a huge country and over the past 2 years, not everywhere was equally harsh. Same goes for the EU.

@@LeondeLeeuw yes, thats true....

Pleven is not that great of a place. Historically very significant, don't get me wrong. It is way hotter in summer and way colder in winter due to the winds over the Danube plains. The city has very poor urban planning and also doesn't have the slight Southern feeling that a city like Sliven has. The people are quite cold and it's just not that much fun. Sliven is shielded by the mountains so has milder winters and also has good soil for growing cherries, apricots and nuts. You're a bit farther away from everything and definitely there will be some villages in the Pleven area that are better than some villages in the Sliven area. But generally I get the impression that villages in the Pleven area are doing really poorly, and feel very very desolate.