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When you move to another country, you don’t just change your address — you change your entire world.
Slovenia isn’t far from Serbia, but the lifestyle, mentality, and everyday life felt like another universe when I arrived.

Let me tell you everything.

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😮 1. Cultural Shock: The Things I Didn’t Expect

☕ The silence

Slovenians are quiet.
On buses.
In shops.
Even at work.

In Serbia, people talk loudly, sing, argue, laugh — life is noise.
In Slovenia, life is organized and peaceful.
At first, I thought they were angry or cold.
Later, I understood: they just like peace.

🕒 Everything is on time

If work starts at 7:00, it starts at 7:00.
Not 7:15 with a cigarette.
Not 7:20 with “traffic bro”.
This was a shock for me — in a good way.

🏡 Clean streets

Slovenian cities are incredibly clean.
Garbage bins everywhere.
People respect public spaces.
Even small towns look perfect.

👮‍♂️ Rules actually matter

You can’t just “park anywhere”.
You can’t “figure something out with the police”.
Slovenia is a system — and it works.

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👷‍♂️ 2. Working With Slovenians & Foreigners

I worked with all kinds of people:

• Slovenians
• Bosnians
• Croatians
• Albanians
• Macedonians
• Ukrainians
• Filipinos

Slovenians at work

They are organized, calm, and precise.
They don’t rush, they don’t panic, they don’t scream.
But they also don’t like mistakes — not even small ones.

Foreign workers

Foreigners stick together.
Everyone helps each other.
Everyone knows what it feels like to start from zero in a new country.

Sometimes, a foreigner will help you more than someone who speaks your language.

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🇷🇸 vs 🇸🇮 3. Differences Between Serbia and Slovenia

💰 Salaries

Slovenia wins.
Even basic jobs pay much more than in Serbia.

📉 Prices

Slovenia loses.
Food, rent, taxes — everything is higher.

🧠 Mentality

Slovenia: calm, patient, organized
Serbia: emotional, loud, spontaneous

🏥 Healthcare

Slovenia’s system is slow, but stable.
Serbia’s is fast sometimes, but unpredictable.

🥩 Food

Serbian food = taste
Slovenian food = health
Big difference.

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😳 4. What Surprised Me the Most

• How many foreigners live here
• How safe the country is
• How expensive rent is
• How polite people are
• How much nature Slovenia has — mountains everywhere
• How small the country is but how big it feels

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💔 5. The Hardest Moments

🏠 Finding a place to live

Landlords often choose Slovenians first.
Foreigners wait longer and pay more.

📄 Paperwork

Residence permits, health cards, contracts…
It never ends.

😓 Loneliness

Your family is in Serbia.
Your life is here.
Sometimes, the silence becomes heavy.

💬 The language

Slovenian looks easy — until you try to speak it.

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🚀 6. My Plans for the Future

I don’t know what tomorrow brings, but I have plans:

• Become fully independent
• Continue building skills in construction and installation
• Save enough for my own apartment
• Build a stable future here
• Maybe one day open my own small company
• Maybe move to another city — Ljubljana, Maribor, or even abroad

I came to Slovenia with a suitcase and a chance.
Today, I have a job, a life, and a path forward.

And this is only the beginning of my story.

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