Well, let’s start with the political issues. Almost every politician here claims that they’ve never taken a cent from the state, when in fact, they have bluntly stolen, and in some cases, they don’t even hide it. This goes regardless of left and right wingers, they’re all the same, just different flavors of the same thing. What’s worse, they have the courts in their pockets, so their cases never even make it to trial… or if they do, they’re given a slap on the wrist, nothing more. Corruption rules here. You don’t ask “when can I schedule an MRI scan” because you’ll probably be dead by the time your number comes up, you ask “how much do you want to schedule my MRI in the next week”.
Next, we analyze the people. There were truly intelligent people here, people that you could make interesting conversations with for hour Unfortunatelly, one of two things happened to them. They either died or moved abroad. Basically the only ones left now are the party cock suckers, cuz they get to be on roll to get a state job (you practically can’t get fired from state employment here, you’d have to burn down the office building or something like that to get fired). As you probably presume, these people are not very bright and mostly care about the basic animal needs: eat, sleep, get fucked once in a while, have kids, raise the kids, make small talk with your neighbours, etc. While there is nothing wrong with being like that (many people are), the problem is, there can never be enough critical mass to actually start doing something about the oligarh politicians and try and overthrow them. Plus an oposition is not really an oposition if you’re basically the same as the other guy, just with a somewhat different mind set (I say it’s dark gray, you say it’s blackish). So, it’s a perpetual problem that has no solution.
Basically, most of the other problems just boil down to bad leadership and 30+ years of it. Not everyone on the Balkans has those problems. Take Slovenia for example, it’s doing great 👍. But, while the rest of us down south were under the Ottoman empire for 5 centuries, Slovenia was under Austro-Hungary. It’s just not the same… we were blinded during the renesans, Slovenia had front row seats. I’m not saying nothing is our own fault, it most definitely is, but I’m just trying to give a little perspective of why things turned out so different for Slovenia and (mostly) Croatia.
I’m in the group that escaped. Never been happier. Almost everyone who are still in the balkans are those “party animals”, but there are few who just can’t leave. Maybe because of bussiness, maybe because of money. But I feel bad for them all.
Interested
Well, let’s start with the political issues. Almost every politician here claims that they’ve never taken a cent from the state, when in fact, they have bluntly stolen, and in some cases, they don’t even hide it. This goes regardless of left and right wingers, they’re all the same, just different flavors of the same thing. What’s worse, they have the courts in their pockets, so their cases never even make it to trial… or if they do, they’re given a slap on the wrist, nothing more. Corruption rules here. You don’t ask “when can I schedule an MRI scan” because you’ll probably be dead by the time your number comes up, you ask “how much do you want to schedule my MRI in the next week”.
Next, we analyze the people. There were truly intelligent people here, people that you could make interesting conversations with for hour Unfortunatelly, one of two things happened to them. They either died or moved abroad. Basically the only ones left now are the party cock suckers, cuz they get to be on roll to get a state job (you practically can’t get fired from state employment here, you’d have to burn down the office building or something like that to get fired). As you probably presume, these people are not very bright and mostly care about the basic animal needs: eat, sleep, get fucked once in a while, have kids, raise the kids, make small talk with your neighbours, etc. While there is nothing wrong with being like that (many people are), the problem is, there can never be enough critical mass to actually start doing something about the oligarh politicians and try and overthrow them. Plus an oposition is not really an oposition if you’re basically the same as the other guy, just with a somewhat different mind set (I say it’s dark gray, you say it’s blackish). So, it’s a perpetual problem that has no solution.
Basically, most of the other problems just boil down to bad leadership and 30+ years of it. Not everyone on the Balkans has those problems. Take Slovenia for example, it’s doing great 👍. But, while the rest of us down south were under the Ottoman empire for 5 centuries, Slovenia was under Austro-Hungary. It’s just not the same… we were blinded during the renesans, Slovenia had front row seats. I’m not saying nothing is our own fault, it most definitely is, but I’m just trying to give a little perspective of why things turned out so different for Slovenia and (mostly) Croatia.
I’m in the group that escaped. Never been happier. Almost everyone who are still in the balkans are those “party animals”, but there are few who just can’t leave. Maybe because of bussiness, maybe because of money. But I feel bad for them all.
I can’t leave 😔. Life decisions that I regret to this day.
But, things are what they are, might as well make the best of it, right 🤷.