Are you happy in Croatia?

I am happy because I am finally living in the kind of property I always wanted. I moved from England to Scotland in 1997 and what I wanted was a small farmhouse with farm buildings and a bit of land.   My budget for such a property at the time was quite limited so I would probably have had to buy a ruin and initially live in a caravan on the site. I ended up buying a fishermans cottage on the seafront as it was very cheap and seemed like a good investment. The plan was to modernise that one, sell it at a profit and thereby have more cash to buy my farmhouse. This backfired though. when I sold the coastal house I then found that all the farmhouses I was interested in had already been sold within a period of  a few weeks, despite many of them having previously been on the market for a few years. The only place I could get was a very small country cottage on a very busy main road.

My house in Croatia is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for when i moved to Scotland. It is also in the right sort of location, with very little traffic and very few neighbours but not totally isolated. Most of the people I meet are cheerful and friendly and quite a few speak some English. Living costs are much lower than in UK, mainly due to lower taxation (UK Council tax is probably the highest in the world).