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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 multi
by 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 agoIt'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.