ENGLISH MAN IN ZAGREB
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Re: CROATIA IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE
« Reply #6 on Oct 29, 2004, 9:29am »
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I am not alsdoubles, although I greatly admire his work, especially his discussions regarding soup.
The basic problem with this country is mismanagement; years of communism have been replaced by years of corruption.
;DI work in Zagreb and I get paid by local standards a very good salary, this salary is however significantly lower than the salary I earned in England; in addition most things are far more expensive here.
Something doesn’t quite up.
Croatia’s is best described as two tier system; the rich and the poor.
The middle class if present is hiding in a cave; I am perhaps fortunate that my connections are amongst the rich. Zagreb is a sham; people drive beautiful foreign cars with loans from foreign (thief’s) banks and wear beautiful clothes; the same people cannot afford to decorate the apartment and can barely afford to feed their families.
Then we have Slavonia; I had the immense displeasure of spending time in Beli Manastir; otherwise know as the land that god forgot.
The poor people in this area have suffered greatly, and they’re standard of living is deplorable
Of course the Croatian people are offended when you mention the suffering their countrymen who live only 3 hours away suffer daily.
Why doesn’t the government really invest in tourism; stop this short sighted nonsensical paving of the cracks.
So what if foreigners invest in the coast; it will promote the Country and trust me ; Croatia’s reputation abroad needs to improve.
Every country has skeletons in their closest however few countries skeletons have as few cobwebs as Croatia.
The only chance this country has is to join the EU and have foreigners run the country because the Croatian people do not know how to manage an economy.
As an example of the rudeness of the people of Zagreb; I live very close to a hospital and yesterday as I was about to leave my house a man in his 40’s aligned with Borak style moustache parked his car outside my car so I could not move. I asked him in my broken Croatian to move his car as I was leaving and he could take my parking place.
He said he would only be ten minutes and I can wait; what the hell is wrong with you people? Clearly this ‘gentleman’ picked the wrong person to bully.
Lets just say his car was moved very quickly.
As a side note; a ic Slovenian cop attempted to arrest me last week in Croatia; he stood in ipercoop and watched me take pictures of ovens for my new kitchen; as soon as I took a picture of a Gorenje oven ( a Slovenian product) he flashed his badge and called me a spy.
To cut a long story short; he wanted to arrest me; in the end I took his picture, called him several names and an article should be appearing in a Croatian newspaper soon.
The greatest problem facing Croatia is apathy; everybody already thinks this is heaven with that attitude plus the laziness of many the country will not progress.
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Note he works for a company...... now he owns one!
This is getting better and better by the minute!!!!