[igravious]

topic: Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?

> I would recommend against a country using the Euro.

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

Dude, 17 out 27 EU member states use the € with Latvia joining 1 Jan 2014 and Lithuania 1 Jan 2015. Population of Eurozone: 330 million. Good luck coming to Europe and avoiding the Eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

Some of these places are really really cheap to live in and work in, and life on the ground varies drastically _within_ countries as well, especially bigger countries like Germany - witness Munich versus Berlin. Yours is the most bizarre advice I've heard in a long long while.

For the interested check out the variation in GDP per capita by region:

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

Goes from ~ €80,000 to ~ €7,000

[k-mcgrady]

>> "Good luck coming to Europe and avoiding the Eurozone" >> "Dude, 17 out 27 EU member states use the €"

10 countries don't use it. That still leaves you with quite a lot of choice. And as I said I was just speaking from personal experience that goods Euro using countries tend to be more expensive. This probably doesn't apply to every one of those countries but it has in every one I've visited.

[igravious]

> 10 countries don't use it.

As of January 1st 2015 that'll be down to 8 as I said so you'd be recommending avoiding those as well.

Look. There is no sense in recommending that people avoid the _entire_ Eurozone just because the places that _you_ visited in the Eurozone tend to be more expensive than where you are from (N.I., which to be fair ain't even that inexpensive.) Makes no sense I tells ya.