Saying Hi

[Umfriend]

Will you live there and commute or is it buy-to-let? The idea that housing is cheaper in Italy than in Slovenia is weird to me.

[UtwigMU]

Despite being across the border, it's walking distance from new job.

West Slovenia is the better statistical region and has 112% of EU average GDP per capita. Neighboring Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the backwater of Italy far from 1970s boom heights and has only 103% of EU average GDP with slightly declining population. Also until recently Italian real estate tax for non-residency was higher, now they plan to increase it to 1% per year here. It doesn't make as much sense to buy to let in Italy. Also Slovenia has seen a lot of immigration, employment is at all-time high and there is lots of regulation and bureaucracy, so it's hard to build new housing. For example there were floods 2 years ago and the government hasn't managed to build any of the promised houses for the people who lost their homes.

Cup of coffee or lunch is also 30% more expensive in Ljubljana compared to Italian towns across the western border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_regions_by_GDP

[Umfriend]

OK, sounds smart. I've driven through there once when we went from Karinthië to some Italian lake. I can see this make sense indeed.

[Evildead666]

I should probably be back more often.
I do think about here quite a bit, but only get a couple of hours at home after work usually, and thats filled with me trying ti chill out, and be calm enough to get to sleep.

Sorry to hear about your C Tony.
Hope the Chemo is going all right ?

I was 50 last year.
Trying to get some official Docs sorted out, preparing for the inevitable retirement, if/when that comes.
Hopefully will have everything sorted in the Next 12 months.
(Docs sorted, retirement is still a fecking long way away...)
That's the plan, anyway

Hope we can keep this place going.
Is Sasq still hosting/running it ?

[Evildead666]

Docs sorted, retirement is still aloooooong way away.....

side note :
I'm getting "Internal Server" errors when I post, and click on next page, and editing doesn't seem to work either...

[UtwigMU]

Sasq is hosting it on shoestring aws lightsail.

[VJ]

Yes... Also seeing many issues on MURC, making it difficult to browse/post... Perhaps the time to remind that umfriend started a reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MURC

[Evildead666]

MURC looks a lot more popular than the Reddit lol
I just prefer the oldschool vibe of it here.

Job and other stuff has taken a bit of a priority for the last few years.

[Umfriend]

Oh, I agree. It's just that at the time MURC was offline and I wasn't sure it'd return.

[VJ]

I also agree... I've been here for 25 years and I still keep hoping it won't disappear, even though there are not many of us left...