28th February 2005, 11:12 PM
Hey I said that you need to look up the stats, not me. I lived there for four years so I'm pretty sure how safe it was. ;) Murders are almost non-existent there, burglaries are for the most part a foreign concept in the places where I lived (near the capital Zagreb, and Opatija), and there's no such thing as home or car security. Not like it exists in the U.S., anyhow. Heck I live in a relatively small college town right now and my car got broken into just five months after I bought it, right in front of my friggin house under a bright lamp post. Craziness. There's far more for me to worry about in this little college town than we ever had to in the places where we lived in Croatia.
Now that's not going to account for the entire country at that time, but you were either poorer than poor or insane to live near certain places in Croatia. Most of the civilian casualties happened before we moved there when the war was especially bad, and even then the main danger was in Bosnia. As long as you stayed away from the eastern-most and southern-most part of the country, you were safer than you'd be in any major U.S. city.
Now that's not going to account for the entire country at that time, but you were either poorer than poor or insane to live near certain places in Croatia. Most of the civilian casualties happened before we moved there when the war was especially bad, and even then the main danger was in Bosnia. As long as you stayed away from the eastern-most and southern-most part of the country, you were safer than you'd be in any major U.S. city.