Does the corruption really matter that much to you if you have money to blow and travel every other month:)? I'm not saying I'm gonna make loads of money, just comparing what 40k buys you in australia Vs montenegro.
It probably doesn't matter unless you get somehow directly affected but here is a short list of things I found difficult to be around during a 3 month stay in Croatia in 2013:
- incredibly reckless driving anywhere you go
- loads of racist/sexist remarks in casual conversations that everyone thinks are funny
- a lot of poverty all around you that you can do very little about
- next to no public transport outside of Zagreb (less of an issue when you drive, I don't so I am handicapped)
- speaking of handicaps there is a lot of stigma and absolutely no support for special needs kids/adults and while I am not in any way personally affected by that having seen the kind of stuff done in Sweden I started feeling really bad about the way this is in Croatia and since I can't really do much about it it bothers me to think about it and especially to witness it
- random people giving you advice you never asked for that are terribly ignorant or just plain wtf (like telling you you need to tie a red string around your kid's wrist to ward off demons and stuff like that)
- a lot of ostentatious displays of wealth among people who often acquired it in very dubious ways and rather common admiration for those individuals among the more common folk
- a high level of distrust of other people (everyone is bad and out to get you, always assume the worse of people)
- utter lack of any kind of customer service mentality anywhere mostly also because most customer service staff is working for 200-300€ max and struggling to make ends meet
- difficult and expensive to buy any kind of less common food in a given region, like fish in continental Croatia
- a lot of animal abuse everywhere
- incredibly low standard trains and buses
- in general a lot of negativity, people love to complain and whine
- it's completely legal and rather mainstream by now to openly support fascism
I lived in Vienna 2010-2012, Stockholm 2013-2015 and in Luxembourg ever since so obviously I got used to a much different experience of day to day life and this is now getting more and more difficult every time I visit.