What's it like living in Croatia?

One of the few countries in the entire world where genocide was committed.

That speaks volumes about the country and its people.

They fell into the tourism trap, so the economy is a bit stagnant in the innovation department and their beaches are getting more and more ruined by hotels lined up right next to them just like in Spain. Plus, the coastal parts are getting depopulated rapidly, people are streaming into the capital. It's not a poor country, average by EU standards I'd say.

Can't tell you much about the guys, I've little experience with them. I also live right next door, so I might be too similar to them to be able to characterise them properly. They have that Balkan brashness about them, I guess.

If you are Catholic, it's a fair place to live (80% of Croats are Catholic). If you're not, it's not so fair. Croatia got a good deal when the former Yugoslavia was carved up, with most of the Dalmation Coast remaining within its borders. Split, Dubrovnik, the Dalmation Islands (Hvar, Brac), and lovely national parks.

Croatia has a long history of brutality and butchery, like the rest of Eastern Europe, with Serbs, Jews, gypsies, repeat victims of Croatian barbarity. Then of course there were the various wars between Croats and Bosnians (Muslims) and Croats and Serbs. It might also help to remember that Croatia fought on the side of the Nazis during WWII and participated in the extermination of the Jews, Serbs and gypsies.

White on White crime.

R4 Is that suppose to be "mitigation"?

Middle-class life in the cities is fine, and Dalmatia is exceptionally attractive. But real improvishment exists in some villages, and small-town life can be hard.

Croatia, though, has never come to terms with the cruelties of its past -- including the Ustaše and Operation Storm -- and that continues to be a black cloud over its otherwise sunny skies.

R6 To be fair, there was no reckoning of the WWII atrocities because Tito -- a Serb -- thought it would damage post-War Yugoslav unity. But even today, you'll learn more about the exterminations at the Jasenovac concentration camp on the US Holocaust Museum site than in Croatia.

They like white guys.

Heavily foreskinned

Tito was Croatian, not Serbian.

I don't know why I bother reading these type of threads knowing that Americans know next to nothing about history.

Are Croats as shifty and paranoid as the Serbs?

Yes, it's a mistake to identify Tito as Serb, but that doesn't nullify the point of R7. The Wikipedia page on Jasenovac is enlightening for those who only think of Auschwitz and Dachau when they think of concentration camps.

Violet and I had to leave there suddenly last summer.

How rich are the celebrities in Croatia? Not Hollywood or British rich?

The most important takeaway from the article at R12 is always remember the Christo-fascists and run-of-the-mill fascists are our friends and protectors. They only want to get rid of the trannies, not us regular gays.

It's shite. Don't come here.

In Croatia, they have no women, only mules. They will kill you if you look at their mules.

Germany fought on the side of the NAZIS

R17 What the hell are you blabbering about?

R1 One of the few countries where genocide was committed? Are you even aware that you live in the country that was taken by the natives you exterminared, you stupid queen?

R7 Tito was Croatian, plus the majority of Yugoslav resistence was Croatian. Croatian population was divided in two parts, partisan and fascists. A small Dalmatian island had more partisan soldiers in the most important battle than Serbian capital. Serbians were in quislind Chetniks and joined partisans at the end of the war.

Lousy salaries so lots of Croats are leaving the country for greener pastures. The coastal towns are super pretty but smell like cat's piss. People are xenophobic and super religious. Men have mostly huge peepees and know how to throw a mean fuck.

It's no Montenegro.

Some really wonderful pop and rock come out of Croatia.

Ring Them Bells...

She met a Londoner first but they did not hit it off

'Cause everything she approached, he got bronchial cough

And so she went to Madrid and met a handsome senior

But he like to throw the bull and he was no matador

She also bombed out in Brussells, in Mallorca and Rome

'Till someone said, "Try Dubrovnik, dear, before you go home"

'Cause it's the kind of a town where you'll be likely to fall

And all the tony cognoscenti find the Balkans a ball

i saw an infographic on reddit regarding a survey across europe "how safe do you feel walking alone at night?". Croatia was at the top.

In Croatia all seems to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and all its sad turmoils.

R27 BS. It sucks here.

Where are you from R28?

Yes, R28, but do you have a big cock?

R28 who did you vote for?

I'm planning a trip there at some point. It looks beautiful and everyhing I've been reading says it's perfectly safe. I'm not buying the bullshit here.

Re antifascism, about the most important 8th Corps of Yugoslav partisans:

On 30 November 1944 the 8th Dalmatian Corps, without the military command, had 34,548 soldiers, out of which 25,127 were Croats, 4,806 Serbs, 236 Muslims, 61 Jews, and 4,318 others, mostly Slovenes and Montenegrins.

R31 Možemo!

R30 No!

R29 North. Varazdin.

R34 👍

Croatia is no conchy where peasant girl can grow up to be arsheetekt and fashion icon!

R28 I know how you feel. Seema like criminals guided by the Uber piece of shit have won. I am desperate too. Checking the news all the time to see if the opposition will unite, but it is totally unrealistic.

They really don't like the gays

R40, all the laws in that link in Croatia give LGB people the same right as hets, even if support is spotty among the populace. So I'm not sure what you mean.

*same rights as hets

Breeder freedoms

No, R43, not at all. Freedom from censorship and discrimantion are not "breeder freedoms."

R39 Are you from Croatia?

R20, that poster is so dumb. Genocide was VERY common throughout history.

R40, Croatia is gay friendly compared to the rest of Eastern Europe.

Croatia has a population of 3.8 million, which is akin to Iowa (3.2 million) or Connecticut (3.6 million)

We had about 4.5 million not that long ago. All the young people left for Germany, Ireland, Austria...and they ones left don't reproduce. In a few decades we will cease to exist. And Germany will probably take over our land. It's for the better anyway. We are not capable of running a country

[quote] I'm planning a trip there at some point. It looks beautiful and everyhing I've been reading says it's perfectly safe. I'm not buying the bullshit here.

Serbia is where I would never go. The Serbs are inhuman as we learned from the atrocities they committed in the 1990s. The anti-Croatia comments here have the stink of Serbian sympathizers on them.

The EU, the Dalmatian coast, and Goran Visjnic. What else could anyone ask for.

R51 Haven't heard that name in years. He is despised here. Cheated on his wife, had a baby with his lover, claimed that it wasn't his untill the tests show it is, has no connection to her apart from paying the alimony, I guess.

Who are the closeted gays here. Besides Nizetic? Is Rozga bi or gay? I've heard that both recently deceased Massimo and Bago were bi/gay

R45 Yes, I am from Zagreb.

R53 According to our president it is the guy from your hometown, Habijan.

Seems like he is the Croatian version of DL's Miss Lindzebelle.

R55 What do you mean by according to our president?

R56 when president Milanović outed Habijan, saying: he is gay isn't he?

For other DLers, Habijan is member of right wing homophobic party and minister in government. When he became minister the press published his picture where he was "caught" walking the street with a mysterious brunette, that later turned out to be daughter in law of a senior member of the same party.