Croatia (soon to enter EU):
I get a feeling that people are boiling inside, but cant articulate what is actually bothering them.
when waiting in hospital halls, or in bank, I sometimes comment something out loud, with irony,
those who respond seem to get it, feel that everything is wrong, politics, religion, economy, financial inequality, there is simply no vision for future,
like we are all waiting for something to happen...
cars and real estate sales are dropping like a rock, but prices of those items are not
food cost, utility bills and gas ever slowly rising
when I start to explain, or point to the roots of problems, nobody wants to listen,
like some kind of paranoia of being paranoid
fear for deposits in banks is low, or at least very well hidden, or people have nothing to fear for
we were excessively bombarded with new pope news, (compared to neighbor states),
every now and then, we get some emotional news blast to keep us all together in these hard times and all that sht...
a few smaller banks dropped dead, but most of money was not stolen, as far as I heard ...