What are the pros and cons of each? I’ve seen slow paced (non hustle) countries being romanticized , but personally I struggle in such places.

What are your thoughts? Where are you now and is it slow/fast paced? What do you like there?

  • thesog@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I worked at a hostel.

    I don’t know anything about film related jobs in Croatia so I can’t comment about that.

    Overall I think it’s a good place to raise a kid since it’s incredibly safe and kids are given much more freedom by parents than is typical in the US. The lack of job prospects is a legitimate worry and the country has been hit by two brain drains (the civil war and joining the Schengen zone). I assume your daughter is also a dual citizen so she’d be able to move to the US or anywhere in the EU for work so she’d have a lot of good options. I guess the big question (it’s also the one my wife and I are asking ourselves a lot as her parents live in Croatia) is are you okay raising a kid knowing they likely will have to leave their home country to go abroad for work.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah that’s a good point. Will she be able to make that leap? Same can be said for keeping her in Los Angeles.

      I’m late 40’s . Not unwilling to to change careers but could be too late. What about jobs in Croatia for dual citizens?

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        10 months ago

        The only dual citizen job I can think of would be for the US Embassy in Zagreb or the State Department (not sure what kind of presence they have in Croatia). Frankly though I wouldn’t move to Croatia to live in Zagreb. The coast and the mountains are the beauty of the country not the “big city”.