[johnny_reilly]

I've just come back from my first trip to Croatia, and this rings true. It's a beautiful place but the prices are high! To quote one of the taxi drivers I chatted to "all the prices have gone up, but is okay; wages have stayed same" - deadpan

[silisili]

In fairness, you could make the same glum joke in most if not all of the developed world over the last 5 years.

[rafaelmn]

Depends on what you are looking at - but yes. Wages also rose considerably, below inflation, but still I think thats the same story as everywhere else.

I think the main difference is that (in my opinion) Croatia used to be unbeatable for the price/quality of life ratio, nowadays it's probably slightly overpriced, but depends on what you value.

[willvarfar]

Is the cost of living inflation relative to income fuelling the current shift to the right in Croatian politics? This was on the international news yesterday: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz60nyp3714o

[Aeglaecia]

if you want to travel down this conversational path you should probably choose a better example than people going to a rock concert of the country's biggest rock star , regarding the given example there are a few cans of worms to unpack that would result in massive deviation from the question at hand

[rafaelmn]

Not really - there is no right shift, Croatia is very catholic and right leaning since the civil war. But at the same time the I would say it's mostly performative and not really that extreme as painted in the article.

[hopelite]

It is something that is not well understood about the Euro, it is a deal with the devil, with all the hallmarks of looking like a wonderful idea where wishes and imagination blind one to the details and the tricks one opens oneself up to. It immensely benefits the ruling class and the upper class, and even foreigners at the expense of the working and middle class and the indigenous.

It was also that way for the Germans who are accused of having benefited at the expense of others, when that was really more an effect of national scale, not all Germans individually. The Euro has had an odd distorting and perverting effect all across Europe; but it has always generally been excellent for the ruling and upper class that have gained access to an overflowing trough of other people’s money at the EU.

The Euro has been a kind of wealth transfer mechanism to the ruling, upper, and even foreign classes, just as it has been a tool to restore the aristocracy just as it had in the USA; the aristocracy gets the money, the people get the inflation and debt that fuels the fraud.

We shall see if it all goes off the rails and the people establish legitimate democratic rule, or if the authoritarian aristocracy can fully entrench itself again.

[yread]

FWIW Warsaw or Prague also got ridiculously expensive (esp. housing) without a Euro

[FirmwareBurner]

You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till they join the Euro. Housing is gonna get even more expensive. But hey at least imported knickknacks are gonna get cheaper.