This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Reporter Andrew Anderson is from the UK, but today he lives in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. Andrew moved to Bulgaria because that's where his wife

Victoria grew up. I came for a summer to try it out and I just fell in love with it. The city was charmingly

chaotic with a thriving art scene. They stayed through one summer, then a second.

And after two years in Sofia, Andrew and Victoria put down roots.

They decided to save money by moving out of their centrally located rental

and into a little apartment owned by Victoria's family.

I was kind of a bit worried about it because Vicky had told me that it's really small and

really crappy and really dingy and I shouldn't have any expectations that I'm going to enjoy it and maybe

we won't even move there because maybe it's going to be too much for me and I won't be able to cope with it.

The apartment was in an old communist built neighborhood called Slavia in an area called Krasnocello.

Which literally translates this beautiful village.

I can confirm it is not a beautiful village anymore.

Now it's kind of maybe what you would have in mind if you were thinking of

stereotypical Eastern Europe lots of tower blocks lots of kiosks and things like that

around. The first time Andrew went to see the apartment he had trouble even finding it.

To get there he had to walk through a maze of overgrown paths in unmarked buildings.

When he finally managed to find the right building, he still had to climb seven flights of stairs.

But inside his new apartment, it was all worth it.

When I got to the apartment and looked out the window, it was like, what a beautiful view, and

once you're looking down on the

neighborhood suddenly it looks totally different because from the ground level it's

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