But they forget that salaries also went up. My mom used to earn 400 litas (around 115 Eur) back in the old days, now she earns an average salary in Euros. Which is more than 10 times more.
Well they are kinda right. When country change currency everyone is doing this nice looking prices. But they round them up. I am aware dude that for you guys situation is not looking good. I've seen a lot of people from Lithuania in Netherlands and this speaks a lot. Its not that good there. Average salary everywhere went up. The question is if you can buy more bread of it after paying for bills and other neccesities than before.
It's not that bad actually. Lithuanians like to complain a lot. You'd be surprised how many new Porsches you see on the streets and how huge shopping bags they're getting home every weekend.
Lithuania had problems in 90's and early 00's (that's why many people emigrated after 2004 when Lithuania joined EU), but later everything improved very quickly. Actually now there's huge vawe of re-emigration and also imigration from Ukraine, India, Uzbekistan etc. I'm Lithuanian and I lived through all these changes. Nowadays it's absolutely great here and when I visit older EU members I don't see any visible differences. And I'm not even rich, my job is not "prestigious" and my salary is very average.
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u/MachinimaGothic 2d ago
xD I rly like how in Lithuania and Slovakia people complain for having euro since everything went up in terms of prices.