Presenting: coliving-balkans.com
I built an independent guide to coliving across the Balkans — who runs each place, what it costs, and who it actually suits.
Late September 2026
Younger, cheaper and more scattered than the Mediterranean’s coliving scene. And nobody covering it independently.
Southeast Europe’s coliving scene is growing quickly across a region fragmented by borders, languages, currencies and visa regimes. On top of that, people arrive carrying outdated assumptions about the region itself. So the site has to offer a fairer picture of the place before it can help anyone choose within it.
What I’m building into it:
- Space profiles across roughly a dozen countries, from Croatia and Slovenia down to Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and northern Greece.
- Town and country pages, including the parts nobody puts in the brochure — the coastal town that dies in November, the border crossing that eats half a day.
- Guides for practical questions, which here means several answers depending on which side of a border you’re standing on.
- Advocacy pieces — opinionated, reviewed as they age, and retired with an explanation when they stop holding.
- Visa and residency context for a region that is part EU, part not, part Schengen, part not.
No rankings, no paid placements, no pretending to be comprehensive.
A note on the name: “the Balkans” is a contested label, and some of the countries inside it would rather not be. The site says so, instead of quietly imposing the term and hoping nobody minds.
It’s live, starting small: the Black Sea coast around Burgas is the first region covered.