INFLATION
We Think Prices are High in the US? Reporting from Southern Europe…
Hello, friends and readers. Thanks to the internet, I am working from six hours in the future this week, celebrating a very belated Christmas here in Montenegro with our European family. If you follow my work at all, you know I enjoy writing whenever we are here. It’s such a refreshing adventure to see the world and America from a distinctly different point of view. Last year, we spent six weeks here, and I wrote about life and the day-to-day economics of this small post-Yugoslavian country — everything from maternity leave (women get more than a year off), coffee (it always comes with a glass of water), medical tourism (six caps for 100€), and what it was like to live here for a short period.
Oh, not sure where Montenegro is? Neither was I when my love and I first met. It is east of Italy, across the Adriatic — a small nation of only 600,000 people — one of the six states that used to comprise Yugoslavia. It’s a stunning place, the size of Connecticut, where you can go from sea to ski in just two hours. I say “stunning” because I have only ever seen such natural beauty once: in Alaska. The mountains are tall. The coast is beautiful. And the water is crystal clear. Everywhere. Its history is thousands of years old, but it all seems so untouched. To say that I have fallen in love with it is…
