3 ms·

It's like California but with Roman emperor's palaces and Habsburg vacation homes strewn around the shoreline. Happy to see this trend and hope it continues.

davidw 3y ago
We went to Pula on vacation years ago and it really is a fascinating mix of a bunch of different things. There's a large Roman arena, the city center looks like it could be anywhere in northern Italy that was under Venice, there are Hapsburg buildings and then construction from the communist part of their history... it's really an impressive mix.
- RadixDLT 3y ago
  Pula lol
  - davidw 3y ago
    You ok dude?
ajsnigrutin 3y ago
It's also a mix of half a country (...well, the shoreline) being a tourist trap during summer and basically empty and dead during winter. The inner parts are mostly based around socialist infrastructure and more boring.
jq-r 3y ago
As a citizen I hope not. In the last 10-15 years the whole coast and islands got overbuilt with local and foreign owned buildings. The construction prices multiplied because of the difference in buying power. Why would a construction company work for a local investor for X amount of money if they can work for a German investor for multiples of X? So a lot of young people emigrated as they got priced out of everything, while in "exchange" we got a bunch of rich, retired Germans and Austrians living in their newly build houses next to the sea for 3 months in a year (if that). Imagine living in Florida all your life and a bunch of very rich people from different country start buying properties and rising prices all over. How would you feel about that? Its even worse because the local goverments usually incentivise this kind of "behaviour" with huge investments in tourism while completely neglecting their local population speeding up the whole process.
- foobarian 3y ago
  It's very ironic that that pattern is what we had before the communist takeover. The current times are a tough spot for the country. The communist-era manufacturing infrastructure was not sustainable in current times of consolidation and specialization, so as much as we hated to see Torpedo go and with 3rd May struggling, tourism so far was the best plan B. But what if tech could become plan C that doesn't have the seasonality problems, and helps the local citizens? I really hope so.

davidw 3y ago

We went to Pula on vacation years ago and it really is a fascinating mix of a bunch of different things. There's a large Roman arena, the city center looks like it could be anywhere in northern Italy that was under Venice, there are Hapsburg buildings and then construction from the communist part of their history... it's really an impressive mix.

RadixDLT 3y ago
Pula lol
- davidw 3y ago
  You ok dude?

ajsnigrutin 3y ago

It's also a mix of half a country (...well, the shoreline) being a tourist trap during summer and basically empty and dead during winter. The inner parts are mostly based around socialist infrastructure and more boring.

jq-r 3y ago

As a citizen I hope not. In the last 10-15 years the whole coast and islands got overbuilt with local and foreign owned buildings. The construction prices multiplied because of the difference in buying power. Why would a construction company work for a local investor for X amount of money if they can work for a German investor for multiples of X? So a lot of young people emigrated as they got priced out of everything, while in "exchange" we got a bunch of rich, retired Germans and Austrians living in their newly build houses next to the sea for 3 months in a year (if that). Imagine living in Florida all your life and a bunch of very rich people from different country start buying properties and rising prices all over. How would you feel about that? Its even worse because the local goverments usually incentivise this kind of "behaviour" with huge investments in tourism while completely neglecting their local population speeding up the whole process.

foobarian 3y ago
It's very ironic that that pattern is what we had before the communist takeover. The current times are a tough spot for the country. The communist-era manufacturing infrastructure was not sustainable in current times of consolidation and specialization, so as much as we hated to see Torpedo go and with 3rd May struggling, tourism so far was the best plan B. But what if tech could become plan C that doesn't have the seasonality problems, and helps the local citizens? I really hope so.