Shell Shock

@SylwiaToka43618 @eurofounder What else to do in this economy?

@eurofounder It’s actually 100% true: The majority of European men will never grow up, get married, or have kids.

Young 46 year old European arriving on university campus to start his fourth master's degree

Spanish woman to die by euthanasia after long legal battle with father bbc.in/4c4GZaV

@kosa64 That is what I fear it will happen in Croatia too, we don't need the same mindset that ruined the West to come to us.

I’m seeing more and more reports about British citizens wanting to move to Poland. It’s a dangerous trend—they’ve already ruined their own country, and they could do the same to ours next.

@ArcanaFidei Sad ste svi skočili da se brinete, brinite se za svoje duše.

I am sorry, but all this noise, trials, debates, interviews, justifications for the right to erase yourself? Because you suffered? Yes, it is awful what happened to you, and this may sound cruel, but so what? I mean, are you really sure you want to face your Creator with this argument: my suffering is greater than the value of the life You gave me? I think you don´t stand a chance with that amount of pride....

@Kendric46415280 @nic_amadio Kad smo turski zulum i imperijalizam ostalih carstava preživjeli, ne smijemo to pustiti.

@nic_amadio Well we don't want left leaning lunatics and non - Europeans, TBH they are burden to any native white nation they come (usa, cad, Eu, Russia, aus). Others are welcome although hopefully not in very large numbers which won't happen anyway

2 types of Croats I’ve seen so far 🇭🇷👇 1. The online hater “Don’t move here!” “We hate businesses” “You’re making prices too high” 2. The friendly host Takes time to serve you best and explain you all they know whether it’s in a restaurant, cafe, museum etc. Free drinks, free shots, gifts you a bottle of olive oil. There’s this wine bar owner in Zagreb that invited me more times over the past few days than some of my best friends in the past few years 😂 I don’t know if it was just him, but it seems to me that Croats are actually quite generous if you’re respectful and friendly. Found few other such people (just with less crazy gifts 😄) in other endeavours in Zagreb.

@nic_amadio Oh come on, it was never a competition. But I think as a Croatian, I have to be honest, Serbia and Bosnia may even be better with food than Croatia. Macedonia is also amazing.

Balkan food 10 - Swiss food 3 ⚽️

Iznajmljuje se hodnik u Splitu, cijena 300€ + režije. Pa sve vam *ebem pohlepno. 🤡

Croatian women in Bosnia and Herzegovina displaying traditional tattoos known as sicanje or bocanje. These pagan designs were worn by Balkan Slavs to avoid forced conversion to Islam, 1930-1940... Sicanje tattoos were used by Catholic women to identify themselves as Catholics and thus save themselves from forced marriages, abduction into the harem, and rape during the Ottoman period. This method of tattooing in our country arose during the Ottoman occupation of medieval Bosnia and continued to be practiced extensively until the end of the Second World War. After the end of the Second World War, sicanje slowly disappeared into oblivion, but in certain areas, it can still be found. During Ottoman times, anyone who was marked in this way would be prevented from converting to another religion, that is, to Islam. However, this was not always the case. According to the traditions collected by Croatian ethnologist Ćiro Truhelka, there is evidence that some Catholic women who were tattooed, but who still converted to Islam so they could marry the man they loved. According to one of the articles in the Glasnik magazine, published by the BiH National Museum, Truhelka and Dr. Leopold Glück were the first to talk about “common” tattooing, as it was called then. Marking religious, ethnic, or any other affiliation with tattoos was common at that time, but much more so among Catholics than any other peoples. “When we were little girls, Mare’s aunt used to do it. That’s how it was in the old days, that’s what our people did to show that they were Croats during the Turkish occupation,” explained Marta, also a resident of Rumbok. The girls who decided to get sicanje tattoos mostly did so between the ages of 10 and 15. Those I spoke to told me that they had done it at the age of 15. “When I was little, this [tattoo] was done by your late relative,” Marta tells Mare, laughing. A question that really intrigued me was whether men also tattooed each other. The answer I received was “rarely,” to which Mare added, “It was so nice for us and us women wanted to do it.” They confirmed that while “almost every girl had tattoos,” it was rare for men. Later in the conversation, Marta mentioned that her late brother had tattoos similar to hers. Truhelka’s sources confirm that tattooing was more frequent among women. Both hands were tattooed, but according to Truhelka, the left hand was slightly more tattooed. Sometimes women had so many tattoos on their hands that the color of the hand wasn’t visible. Women tattooed their arms, above and below the elbow, as well as their hands. Chests were also tattooed along the sternum. Sometimes you could also see some simple design on the forehead. Truhelka says that in that period, it was mostly women from Central Bosnia who were tattooed, especially in the cities of Sarajevo, Visoko, Travnik, Fojnica, Prozor/Rama, Bugojno, and the Banja Luka area. The custom was slightly less common in Olovo, Vareš, Vijaci, and in the Neretvica river valley. When men decided to get tattooed, they would get a simple design above their right elbow or a cross on their index finger. The men also used to get tattoos under their armpits or behind their ears. They even got designs from stećaks or traditional tombstones. © Matija Krivošić #archaeohistories

Switzerland has voted to cancel the shutdown of 3 nuclear reactors. A bright future for any country is where energy is cheap and plentiful, and ideally clean. Makes other costs go down. High labor cost + low energy cost can mean thriving for wage earners and business owners

@shavil0mi @nic_amadio @grok I know a few Kurds and Turks who have grown up in Germany, but bought real estate in Croatia.

@shell_shock102 @nic_amadio @grok I would say Croatia being in EU and recently now in Schengen means it has a lagging change Hopefully they are lucky and missed the refugee waves, but they already have attractive prices and climate and won't miss internal migration, 2nd gen Turks, Syrians etc who want sea

interesting 🇭🇷

@nic_amadio @grok @shavil0mi

wow. poor people. also filipinos and nepalese are among the most chill. @grok is it easy for non-eu to move to croatia? how many have moved in past few years and is the way forward (based on the above sentiments stats in the convo screenshot in above comment) to limit the inflow to avoid further escalation? will it become policy?

@nic_amadio @grok @shavil0mi

It won't matter: 25% of GDP being tourism means that unless majority of people want to become poor it'll never become policy. At worst it can become street-level harassment towards tourists/expats like it sometimes happens in Spain, which will only mean the fanatics in Croatia will risk legal repercussion and potentially a reduction of tourists/expats (who'll pivot to albania/greece/italy etc).

@nic_amadio @grok @shavil0mi there are people in Croatia who will support total exclusion of everyone different.

@nic_amadio @grok @shavil0mi Nick keep in mind the last thing is changing, fast. I am not sure it will end up so peacefully. I see more and more Croatian accounts on X saying any migration expect the diaspora or at least other Europeans is not wanted. Are they only larping, some probably, but

@nic_amadio @thealepalombo How do you see Georgia, Armenia and countries like Kazakhstan? For me it's just the proximity of Russia and them wanting to keep them in their sphere of influence... But I saw how some of them are developing.

@thealepalombo Nah. It’s a tax hell. A temporary PIT-only reduction ain’t gonna change that. Not worth it for what you get also: considering level of safety infra etc. can be worth it for freelancer making under 85k eur in revenue (at 20-30% total tax) if they like the country.

Move to Italy. Get a 50–60% tax exemption on your income for five years. You don't need to retire to benefit: this is for professionals, founders, and remote workers. For many, it's even more advantageous than Portugal's IFICI regime. You could pay as little as 9% effective tax. The exemption applies to both employees and freelancers, up to €600K per year. You do need a university degree or equivalent qualification to access it. To qualify, you must not have been tax resident in Italy for the past three years and must stay at least four (or repay the benefit). If you have a child, the exemption rises to 60%. Example: earn $85K with one child, you'd pay about $5–6K in tax and keep $79–80K. Keep in mind: employees also pay social security contributions, typically 20%+ on gross income. This isn't a pure tax play. It's decent, not extraordinary, but still competitive for the lifestyle you get. Or you can choose the €300K flat tax regime for up to 15 years. Four of my friends moved to Italy in the last six months. Some of our investors are choosing the flat tax. You can also retire in small villages in the South and pay 7% flat on all foreign income for 10 years. Capital gains, dividends, pensions, rental income. All of it. These regimes exist today and won't necessarily exist tomorrow. Better a year early than a single day late.

@nic_amadio A young man got in an incident with Turkish immigrants in Montenegro. After that, they torched a few Turkish businesses in Montenegro saying that they don't want them there anymore.

@nic_amadio It annoyed me that I had to use English at some points in my own country, it's important to preserve our culture. But I don't think for remote workers it would be, the workers that are coming are a whole other thing. But we watched closely what happened when in Montenegro.

Been reading a bit on history of Yugoslavia and watched some documentaries. I knew a bit of the region's history, but not so much. Mostly just from watching some Kusturica movies or 'memes'/anecdotes about Tito. After looking at it more carefully: the end of Yugoslavia was definitely very scary and tough. And super recent too. Very violent, very big hatred. "tremendous hatred" trump would say. Had a girl from Kosovo in my primary school in Italy, who I guess had to escape the war and then moved with her family to Italy, trying to integrate etc. Tough. I feel like nowadays, if one is considering moving to Croatia, this 'war-type stuff' isn't too much of a concern. Croatia is in NATO, there's already many "stabilizing troops" in the region, most countries want to enter EU. There's some 'unresolved' things like the multiethnicity and strange governance of Bosnia, the mixed feelings of Serbians towards the West, the nearby Russian influence in Hungary and Slovakia (and Serbia (and Bosnia)), the status of things in Kosovo. I think some flare-ups in the region are actually likely, over a long enough period of time. But, for someone living in Croatia, with a few plan B options (i.e. possibility to relocate if shit goes down), I don't think it should be a road blocker. Thing is also that nowhere in Europe is perfectly "stable", right now and in the coming decade(s). Croatia, with its decent/good taxes, great Mediterranean lifestyle and weather, chill culture, not-so-crazy cost of living, great real estate opportunities and growing economy... Remains a solid option. I don't think the "Balkan beefs clock" changes the picture too much. One thing that might be annoying would be learning Croatian to better integrate, especially if/when having kids, and then having to leave and "waste" that language in case shit goes down. But I guess Croatia being a beautiful piece of land, you'll always have the change to go back and enjoy the place speaking the local language. Also you probably don't need to become a super pro at Croatian and might be fine to just learn some basics. Thoughts?

@nic_amadio I hope so, we never recovered demographically from the last war.

@shell_shock102 Serbian friend of mine says in his opinion nothings gonna happen and it’s just Vucic trying to scare grandmas so they vote for him again. Honestly I don’t know. I guess the next one or two years are gonna show a bit more of what’s happening

I deep dived Croatia even more and honestly I’m fairly positive about it. Gonna visit and see how it is “on the ground”. On paper it does look quite solid. Never say never but from what I’ve seen so far it’s a place I’d consider moving to. Looking forward to network with locals! Lmk if you live there and/or know some good accountants, lawyers, realtors etc.