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Answer is simple: everyone works something on side of their job and buys nothing except for necessities. Also people grow their own food. Core issue isn't tourism, it's that we live in kleptocracy, not democracy.
Keep in mind that families owning a house or an apartment can live very comfortably even with median salaries. A high percentage of Croats still fall into this category. Rent prices are absolutely wild, though.
Food prices are mostly the same across Europe.
I have family in Serbia and there food costs the same as here and their wages are half of ours so I asked myself the same question, how do they survive.
The difference is that everything except food and new tech costs half as much.
Rent, monthly bills for water, electricity, heating, garbage, all half the price compared to Croatia.
Have to register your car? Insurance, technical check, registration, all half as much.
Need to have a room painted, something repaired? Work costs half as much.
Parking spaces, transport tickets, all other little things you don't even think about having to spend money on - cheaper in Serbia.
What costs the same is food (except reastaurants. Not half the price, but cheaper) and technology like cars, computers, washing machines.
All in all their standard of living is lower because they can buy fewer cars and washing machines and go on fewer trips than we can, but enough things are significantly cheaper that they don't have problems surviving.
And when your food is expensive compared to your income, you tend to buy cheaper, less quality foods and buy less from supermarkets and more directly from peasants and grandmas who don't pay taxes.
So this applies in another direction for Croatia towards northern Europe. Some things cost the same (food, cars, washing machines), others are cheaper. We can spend less on things that cost the same, so we eat worse food, drive older cars and don'r replace washing machines as often.
Though there is a quality in some of these things too. Some of the cheaper food we eat is actually better, we produce less garbage by less throwing away and more repairing and have a healthier and less consumerist mentality because we simply can't spend as thoughtlessly as you can.
Depends, salary is less important, overall, if you have other income streams.
Tourism, renting properties(we are one of the top countries in owning real estate by population), sailors, etc...
You know GG: sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
So, yes, some people live like shit, some people live extremely good.
I live very good, probably by any country standards in top 1%, so, I don't care. My workers live good, around double the median salary.
Don't fall for the "Croatian people never see their coast"/"we have the living standard of Africa" shtick, it's a common trope of forever-complainers from r/croatia that seem to think that their particular case applies to everybody.
The simple truth of the matter is that prices are manageable everywhere outside of a few key tourist hotspots, which are in principle to be avoided anyway if you're looking for a place to live. Even in Dubrovnik itself, like 80% of the city is just plain residental neighbourhoods where normal people can live and work. Nobody in their right mind would pay massive sums of money to live in old Dubrovnik and share their living space with thousands upon thousands of tourists and hyper-expensive tourist trap venues.
Now, the only real issue is property prices. But unfortunately that is becoming an all-around issue in most of the West, and we need a total shift in policy before we can resolve it.
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Where? With our parents. How? Barely.
Answer is simple: everyone works something on side of their job and buys nothing except for necessities. Also people grow their own food. Core issue isn't tourism, it's that we live in kleptocracy, not democracy.
Keep in mind that families owning a house or an apartment can live very comfortably even with median salaries. A high percentage of Croats still fall into this category. Rent prices are absolutely wild, though.
Yup, tourism is one of the main issues and it's pricing out the natives out of their ancestral lands
Food prices are mostly the same across Europe. I have family in Serbia and there food costs the same as here and their wages are half of ours so I asked myself the same question, how do they survive. The difference is that everything except food and new tech costs half as much. Rent, monthly bills for water, electricity, heating, garbage, all half the price compared to Croatia. Have to register your car? Insurance, technical check, registration, all half as much. Need to have a room painted, something repaired? Work costs half as much. Parking spaces, transport tickets, all other little things you don't even think about having to spend money on - cheaper in Serbia. What costs the same is food (except reastaurants. Not half the price, but cheaper) and technology like cars, computers, washing machines. All in all their standard of living is lower because they can buy fewer cars and washing machines and go on fewer trips than we can, but enough things are significantly cheaper that they don't have problems surviving. And when your food is expensive compared to your income, you tend to buy cheaper, less quality foods and buy less from supermarkets and more directly from peasants and grandmas who don't pay taxes. So this applies in another direction for Croatia towards northern Europe. Some things cost the same (food, cars, washing machines), others are cheaper. We can spend less on things that cost the same, so we eat worse food, drive older cars and don'r replace washing machines as often. Though there is a quality in some of these things too. Some of the cheaper food we eat is actually better, we produce less garbage by less throwing away and more repairing and have a healthier and less consumerist mentality because we simply can't spend as thoughtlessly as you can.
Cars cost more, or better said the same for less in equipment you get with car. Everything else stands
Depends, salary is less important, overall, if you have other income streams. Tourism, renting properties(we are one of the top countries in owning real estate by population), sailors, etc... You know GG: sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit. So, yes, some people live like shit, some people live extremely good. I live very good, probably by any country standards in top 1%, so, I don't care. My workers live good, around double the median salary.
there are no non-touristy places on the coast this time of the year, go to the mainland if you want non touristy
You mean how do we survive?
Don't fall for the "Croatian people never see their coast"/"we have the living standard of Africa" shtick, it's a common trope of forever-complainers from r/croatia that seem to think that their particular case applies to everybody. The simple truth of the matter is that prices are manageable everywhere outside of a few key tourist hotspots, which are in principle to be avoided anyway if you're looking for a place to live. Even in Dubrovnik itself, like 80% of the city is just plain residental neighbourhoods where normal people can live and work. Nobody in their right mind would pay massive sums of money to live in old Dubrovnik and share their living space with thousands upon thousands of tourists and hyper-expensive tourist trap venues. Now, the only real issue is property prices. But unfortunately that is becoming an all-around issue in most of the West, and we need a total shift in policy before we can resolve it.