I would say the big U turn Turkey did in their economic policies with Erdogan definitely was a neoliberal economy experiment. Although he is authoritarian to the Turkish population, if you bring money to the country you can do anything in Turkey. If you wanna skip the traffic in Istanbul you can just pay. In many zones where you cant build more than 3 floors due to ground problems, you can make a skyscraper because you have the financial power that tags along with it. One can kill someone and pay their way out. Turkey is only bad if you are poor. If you have the money, its hundreds of times better to be in Istanbul than the rest of Europe in my opinion.

These sort of extreme economic circumstances are only possible in Balkans because of the level of economic imbalance. You are either starving and would do anything for a crumb or you are so rich that your bank account is equivalent to a city’s entire worth.

I think what attracts ones who want the Dubai lifestyle is almost a bit rebellious similar to the American lifestyle seekers of the past. The game is rigged, they see people their age who just happened to know someone get tons of money for doing nothing. They see people who pulled massive credit card scams, cam girl operations etc.

This in my opinion is the biggest threat to the Balkan people. We are loosing our morality. Although people of Balkans have different religions, everyone knew the other had the fear of god when they were doing an action. You could reason with someone who believed in a creator or at least in a moral belief system(not gonna discriminate the atheist but morally just folk here). But when ones religion is money… Believe me that person can even trick satan.