About
A small editorial collection
about a quiet idea.
People considering rural life in Bulgaria are not buying square metres.
They are buying a way of living. Existing portals treat the question as a
spreadsheet problem. This site is the editorial counter-model.
What this is
back2village is a curated guide to a small number of
Bulgarian villages — written by hand, illustrated with license-clear
photography, and grounded in practical detail: what life looks like in
February, where the nearest hospital actually is, what's hard about each
place. We link to listings on imot.bg when we find houses worth a second
look; we do not broker.
The site is small and slow on purpose. One long-form piece every two to
three weeks. A new village every month or so. A monthly letter to people
who want to follow along.
Who's behind it
A solo editor based in a Bulgarian city, writing about villages he
didn't grow up in but kept finding himself drawn back to. The project is
explicitly not a business — it's an editorial experiment to see whether
an honest, slow, curated guide to village life is something people
actually want.
If we sell something one day (a buying-house PDF, a paid newsletter), it
will be because enough people read what we publish for free and asked
for more. Until then, it's free, ad-free, and made by hand.