"And how much is the room?"

[Djamila]

Well, if you speak Bosnian, a room (sobe) is 6 Euro. If you speak English, it's 8 Euro. Germans can afford to pay 12 and Italians, well, they can give 16.

Go Sarajevo. lol

[Bishka]

Originally Posted by Djamila

Well, if you speak Bosnian, a room (sobe) is 6 Euro. If you speak English, it's 8 Euro. Germans can afford to pay 12 and Italians, well, they can give 16.

Go Sarajevo. lol

Interesting.

[Djamila]

Also available is...

[Djamila]

[PureX]

Originally Posted by Djamila

Well, if you speak Bosnian, a room (sobe) is 6 Euro. If you speak English, it's 8 Euro. Germans can afford to pay 12 and Italians, well, they can give 16.

Go Sarajevo. lol

That would be illegal here in the U.S.

[Djamila]

Here it's very common, Pure X. You would pay, for example, five or six times as much for the same house on the Croatian coast that I would. And I, in turn, would have to pay at least double what a Croatian would be charged. Now it's starting to change simply because home-sellers refuse to sell to locals, and why not - when they can make so much more selling to British and German retirees.

It's just a societal reflex to the influx of tourists here. When tourists buy summer homes in the former Yugoslavia, the cost of living in that area increases dramatically. It can even lead to the complete destruction of whole communities. Take Sveti Stefan, for example. One hotel was opened on the island, and within a few years all of its residents were forced to move simply because they could not longer afford to live there. Now it's a world-class hotel for clueless Western tourists. And one of these years, some one is going to unload an AK 47 in the lobby and everyone will say: We never saw it coming.



But the signs are obvious enough. So businesses here tend to offer local prices, and tourist prices, just to make sure that people can still afford everything they need. There are restaurants in Sarajevo, for example, which charge people a percentage of their weekly income to eat there. So no two people pay the same price for the same meal.

[michel]

You do see the same kind of thing happen in the "Real" Spain, but at least they are discreet about it..........

I's almost worth learning to speak the language..........well, at least enough to say "I'd lika a room for 14 nights"