She sold everything and went to Germany: We are not interested, here we are finally priced and we are no longer in fear

It is becoming more and more obvious that people from Croatia do not only move because of a bad economic situation, but also because of false patriotism, hypocrisy, moral decline, destruction of culture and language, and the entire "state of the nation" that has worsened since the war here after the advent of democracy. it will be much much worse

Croatia has never been divided this way before, and people are divided into Ustasha and Partisans, while the people are digging for containers. The people are called jugo-communists only if it mentions that something was better in Yugoslavia. People are running away from reality, and the nation's crisis is at historical levels. Highly educated Rijeka in its forties decided to leave everything in Croatia and pack the jackets. She and her husband sold the flat, handed out the breaks and moved to the West German province of North Rhine-Westphalia with their children.

And that, he says, was the best possible decision in life. He adds that she is only one in a series of people who leave Croatia daily and have a better future coming to Germany. He decided to give the interview anonymously because he is not yet sufficiently determined to be publicly expelled, but decided to divide his experience so that the people still in vogue gave a clear picture of what they are waiting for in Germany. Provided they are ready to work."I am only very disappointed, angry and angry at everything that happened to me in Croatia and that we as family worked harder and less and less money.

We bought an apartment on a 30-year loan with huge interest and with a regular job and husband and I worked every afternoon to provide a decent life. But it did not go. We could stay in Croatia and continue to live and, until the end of our life, be dissatisfied, not afford either to ourselves or to children, nothing but a negative one, "she told us immediately at the beginning of Rijeka, revealing the reasons that led them to leave the country.

They sold everything and moved out a year and a half ago

They moved from Croatia a year and a half ago. They did not have jobs in Germany, they say, they simply went there, found the apartment and lived for two months from the savings. Then they both found jobs they are very satisfied with. He says that an impossible mission is to find a job in Germany from Croatia.Meanwhile, since they moved there, she and her husband helped many families to come to Germany. All in a row are educated people, professors, computer scientists, kinesiologists, engineers.

"They are all people like us who invested in ourselves in Croatia, who already had work experience. Some even career, but they also made a click and sold everything and gave up in solid firms. Now we are all working mainly and we are happy because we finally came to our own. So I'm not talking about people with SSS, craftsmen, who come and seek cleaning jobs, restaurants, but people with work experience, pedagogues, teachers. On average, the 40-year-old, I mature people who know what they want.

In our province there are plenty of Rijeka and Zagreb. In Dusseldorf, you have a bunch of families who did the same and raised their children in Germany, meaning they went to school, learned their language, integrated themselves. in Cologne we have a lot of families are IT experts, female doctors, anesthesiologists, financiers, clean brain drain. We all worked in Croatia somewhere, we were not the problem of society, either of us had either given us additional instructions or had some additional jobs and we were not hungry, but we simply did not see the meaning, "she says.

"Germans appreciate their workers"

Now in Germany all together gather together and talk about the situation in Croatia. They laugh together, mourn, and although tortured and nostalgic, they do not worry more about how this month repay the loan war and pay electricity."The truth is, I missed the air for days, I was missing the smells of the sea, I missed the taste of our mayonnaise. Every little bit caught me in my heart, but we all survived, we endured. We are still adapting, but now we've produced.

When I go to the store, I do not worry about how much I will spend , you have no idea what kind of relief. As educated people, we are respected here. From the very beginning, I felt the admiration of the Germans after the nostrification of my diplomas because very few people are studying here.

I'm currently in training in my profession. They just wondered if I was willing to perfect German knowledge in their field. And I got a solution for a while and that's worth € 15,750, which is paid to me by Germany, "Rijeka tells us.

"In Croatia we have been disoriented and we are still in fear"

She's still in shock because of the various benefits she has at work.Since she had very few absentee training, she got a laptop from a college where she was improving. It's nice, she adds, when someone respects you. He points out that the Germans will not let you go down when they see potential in you.But there is one big thing that is tormented by all highly educated people who have come from Croatia.

"We are so excited and unhappy in our homeland that our fears are being followed here and we keep thinking that it is a fraud in sight, and when it falls to the unconscious and you do not believe this is happening. Only positive things. True, you have to do it, but when you see that you are agile, there is no boundary for you. Can you believe that I am paying for travel expenses (I go with my car) and the difference between the hours for keeping my baby when he is not in kindergarten to reserve someone.So take care of everything. Just for everything to allow you to work on yourself and learn. In Croatia, I hired a horse, and none of it, "she says.

She also cites her colleague who moved to Düsseldorf, where she was educated as a professor of physical culture. She finished DIF in Zagreb.

All of them, they say, share the same opinion. The home is where they feed and respect her. That's the best thing she did in her life.

"We do not care for the patronage"

"And something else, you do not even know how many of my stories there are here. It is a sea of newcomers, every day someone gets new.Everything that is being written and what is displayed are those buses that drive people are true. Come to Dortmund at the station in the morning and all the way to our people, and I can say that the intellectual elite is slowly gathering, people who will know and experience this country, not Croatia than Germany, and Germany is happy about it.Perhaps Croatia is also happy that the educated people leave her because they think we will send money down or build a house. But we do not care more about people than people in the 1970s. We are interested in normal life, respect, to live our way. In short, we enjoy life pleasantly. We are no longer interested in paternity, "says .

She also found out what their living expenses were there, since there are often skepticism comments which, they say, are barely surviving there. To begin with, they chose this province where apartments are more favorable, for example, than in Bavaria.

For an apartment they pay 690 euros with included directives. For other expenses that include kindergarten, mobile phones, internet, and car insurance paid on their monthly basis, another 190 euros are payable. So for a total of 880 euros, plus more food, which is much cheaper than us, because the tax on it is only 7 percent.

The cost of living and how much they remain

She and his wife earn a total of 4,000 euros plus one more work a part-time job for 450 euros. Everything is kept at a minimum of 3000 euros each month.

However, he says, the services are more expensive than in Croatia, so you will cut the curtain as a dry gold. The hairdressers are also abnormally expensive. But they do not have to pay them because they earn a decent salary. That is why no craftsman is missing in Germany. It is not her problem to pay for the service when she earns well.

For comparison, it was good in Croatia to think what it would buy. The food was bought on a variety of cards.

"I do not feel the problem here to go buy a full cart. And we do not live like a cloakroom, we have a nice big apartment, a terrace, a new facade with insulation, central heating. We've edited it very well. That's what I'm telling you because we lived in Rijeka where there is no gas, where the burr rains and rain falls more than in London. I do not remember being warmed like this here. So we all brought it to the level to live better than in Croatia.

I'm sorry we did so in Croatia. It's my country, my homeland, my children are born there, but I just see that we can only go to Germany in advance, while paying for another apartment in Croatia for the loan we paid and what then? Retired? We worked there as worms, and we did not have anything in return " , he finished his story of Rijeka, which, literally, found happiness in Germany. Just like many others from Croatia.

• 29 May, 2018
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