The Way Back: Brain Drain and Prosperity in the Western Balkans (The Western Balkans will most likely remain an exporter of smart, educated people to the EU for years to come)

And they'll blame the money all the while.

The truth is that people on top of their field and business owners don't care much for homing themselves in sleepy little towns and bland little capitals with inflated land prices, and working underneath local oligarchs and entrenched academic hierarchies whos members never move on and seem to never die. Government policies that focus on putting the country to sleep, securing those positions of power while pandering to foreign multinationals to park a brass-plate or a sweatshop with tax breaks will only make that worse.

Meanwhile Berlin is seeing tech startups and investment, as living cost and lifestyle meet, same apparently with Barcelona.

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