The days are hard everywhere. I understand fully why that man had to do that...
To survive now is even expensive, so going for less expensive stuffs is an ideal now 🤷♂️.
And NO, personally, I don't get shy on that, life is difficult.
Same situation in Nigeria. We have a lot of things in comon, the difference here is the name and skin colour.
The difference is actually in the numerical ratios, attitudes and mentality. It is very important to mention, when we talk about the minimum wage, what are the prices of basic products, of rents, electricity and heating, of course, the price of a liter of gasoline. Very often people from Western Europe cannot understand exactly this when they accidentally find out that many prices in Bulgaria are like theirs, a little lower or higher. This seems normal, but in fact the minimum wage is much lower, as an example - more than 4 times lower than in Germany.
Then you have to take into account people's attitudes and their way of life, their traditions and consumption, how they arrange their lives. Bulgarians are taught to arrange their lives in such a way that they always survive, no matter what. It is a complex skill, incomprehensible to many other peoples. 🤭 I see it's the same with Nigerians, so that's not in the 'differences' column.🙃