I don't know how it is about that in Europe. During the past years only fast wireless internet has been a big topic and extension of it, the LTE standard. It's never been a big topic here anyway as Europe is pretty populous and they put everything in net on land. I only expect it costs a pretty penny 'cause it's not a standard package at your telephone service. That this may be more present in Russia I'd assume 'cause you've got to spread the net over half a continent with areas which are partly pretty unpopulated.
Flats in the big cities directly are also getting more and more expensive here. That's due to the sell-out of the public housing sector to private investors, which refurbish the flats and then rent them for twice the price or more which nobody of the previous residents of the apartment complexes can afford. In the big cities you can find the places of education, so there is no way around them (also vocational school when you do an apprenticeship), in the bigger cities the entertainment and life takes place (as said, all is being cut and abandoned in the villages), jobs is a thing I'd say it varies if they're there or not.
Living in a rural area here is just useful for only one thing: Hiding from the world and live in peace (so much peace, at times you've already got to run away from it again). Planting and breeding your own food supply - the last time you could sell that stuff yourself that easily, that was as the GDR still was. This state relied and covered its food supply in a good amount by local and also small production in private gardens. These days - it's not forbidden, but to distribute own produced food, you've got to have a license first, then it needs periodic controls by the local health authority; after that then comes every hook that has to do with the selling process. Marketing you've got to do yourself, then all kinds of differing taxes have to be paid to the state from your revenue (revenue tax, added value tax). In practice it is: If you want to make any buck with it, you've got to sell masses, otherwise it's a business with no profit for you. Rather you carry money still to that side business of yours. All thanks to West German laws and EU regulations... Ukrainians must know what one's talking about at this; I read it somewhere before the big agrement ot the EU association that they still had it that they could produce food privately and sell it openly without any obstacles. People did it to add a little extra to the monthly salary or pension (among others it was partly even needed). Now with the EU association it's not possible anymore. EU and its regulations and so on.
Practically it's a way of securing the business of the big players in the field, so nobody can bite a small bit out of their big cake. I don't know when West Germany started with such politics, at least I don't know it differently from them, so long it's already on. Repeat: Sine the end of the GDR, forget about only selling a single egg or cherry... Quite a bunch of people these days have problems with fruit trees in their gardens still left from those times. The fruit you don't eat all by yourself (because of the masses of fruits), but selling you can't just do as you please. Often enough, there's only the option of giving amounts of it as a present to people you know. No money involved, no business - no trouble. Don't know if that is also legally set this way, at least this way you don't get into trouble because you run a food business that's not registered and controlled. If you grow as much as you eat yourself and act as a self-supplyer, then there's no the big problem.
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Date: 29 June 2017 12:11 pm (UTC)I only expect it costs a pretty penny 'cause it's not a standard package at your telephone service.
That this may be more present in Russia I'd assume 'cause you've got to spread the net over half a continent with areas which are partly pretty unpopulated.
Flats in the big cities directly are also getting more and more expensive here. That's due to the sell-out of the public housing sector to private investors, which refurbish the flats and then rent them for twice the price or more which nobody of the previous residents of the apartment complexes can afford.
In the big cities you can find the places of education, so there is no way around them (also vocational school when you do an apprenticeship), in the bigger cities the entertainment and life takes place (as said, all is being cut and abandoned in the villages), jobs is a thing I'd say it varies if they're there or not.
Living in a rural area here is just useful for only one thing: Hiding from the world and live in peace (so much peace, at times you've already got to run away from it again).
Planting and breeding your own food supply - the last time you could sell that stuff yourself that easily, that was as the GDR still was. This state relied and covered its food supply in a good amount by local and also small production in private gardens.
These days - it's not forbidden, but to distribute own produced food, you've got to have a license first, then it needs periodic controls by the local health authority; after that then comes every hook that has to do with the selling process. Marketing you've got to do yourself, then all kinds of differing taxes have to be paid to the state from your revenue (revenue tax, added value tax).
In practice it is: If you want to make any buck with it, you've got to sell masses, otherwise it's a business with no profit for you. Rather you carry money still to that side business of yours.
All thanks to West German laws and EU regulations...
Ukrainians must know what one's talking about at this; I read it somewhere before the big agrement ot the EU association that they still had it that they could produce food privately and sell it openly without any obstacles. People did it to add a little extra to the monthly salary or pension (among others it was partly even needed).
Now with the EU association it's not possible anymore. EU and its regulations and so on.
Practically it's a way of securing the business of the big players in the field, so nobody can bite a small bit out of their big cake.
I don't know when West Germany started with such politics, at least I don't know it differently from them, so long it's already on.
Repeat: Sine the end of the GDR, forget about only selling a single egg or cherry...
Quite a bunch of people these days have problems with fruit trees in their gardens still left from those times. The fruit you don't eat all by yourself (because of the masses of fruits), but selling you can't just do as you please. Often enough, there's only the option of giving amounts of it as a present to people you know. No money involved, no business - no trouble. Don't know if that is also legally set this way, at least this way you don't get into trouble because you run a food business that's not registered and controlled.
If you grow as much as you eat yourself and act as a self-supplyer, then there's no the big problem.