There are some satellite offices already in the cities that you mention. Those are usually from some big shipping/offshore/maritime companies which can afford i

There are some satellite offices already in the cities that you mention. Those are usually from some big shipping/offshore/maritime companies which can afford it. Those offices attract locally skilled and/or certified workers, foreign being very rare in my experience as the salaries are pretty low. Higher than the average in the city, but not by much. As the sibling comment said, they taxes are enormous, public services openly hostile to everyone, and public medical services (which you pay a lot anyway) are arguably worse then 40 years ago. The coast is beautiful in places, the islands are even more so. But there is a difference between living there and visiting. I would even argue that the cities you mention are much worse to live in than say Croatia's capital Zagreb. The cities are very hot during summer, and just miserable outside of it. I would even argue that most of the coast/islands are like that, small towns are empty and dead outside of the summer season, and too crowded during one. Personally, I would rather live in an alive place, and visit Croatia's islands now and then, then in a place which springs to life two months a year.