Actually I have a funny story regarding this situation. One time my baba was peeling potatoes but threw away the knife with the garbage in one of the big dumpsters outside and then she realized that and well.. had to go to the dumpster to pull out the garbage and go through it to retrieve it. When she is trying to reach for the bag inside the dumpster a man talking on his cell passes right by her, look at her and says: "Kolejke (that's a word we use to adress a female coworker) that's my area, find your own!" and my baba was like "?!?!?" and the guy just kinda shoved her aside and started going through the dumpster!!!! In the end she retrieved the knife. The point of this is that Sofia is basically divided into small regions that belong to certain "homeless" and a lot of those beggars are not poor at all, in fact they make more money begging than most of us. My mother asked one guy on the street how much he honestly makes... His answer? Anywhere from 500-2000 leva EVERY DAY!