Croatia Introduces Digital Nomad Visas

[d08]

Of course, to live comfortably in Budapest, first, you'd need to buy a place but of course, you can rent but a $1000/month you would be a very tight budget, $2000 and you can have a car maybe and $3000 you are comfortable. If you live in a smaller town where there is no expat community you will be shunned and met with quiet hostility and envy. My friend made a mistake to move back to a small town near Budapest. She is a Swiss/Hungarian who lived in Geneva for 40 years. She regretted not buying an Apartment in Budapest.
The other thing is the language barrier. I lived in Luxembourg for a short time and while everybody speaks English, not knowing French/German was a major problem, thus I came back to California before my contract expired.

I can't speak about Hungary but that's not the case in Estonia. Plenty of foreigners in very rural places and English is widely spoken. Perhaps it would be different if you move into a poor town and start showboating. That wouldn't fly in any country.
People in French speaking countries are very much against English so I wouldn't live in Luxembourg, French-speaking Belgium or obviously France.

 

[TimtheEnchanter]

its free if you have national health insurance

Yes, but as an expat can you get the national health insurance and what quality will it be? In Hungary for example you must pay into the system for one-year! The quality is very bad per my Swiss friend when compared to Swiss care. Croatia could be similar!
I understand the attraction if you are a younger person without family ties. My daughter is in the US and I would only be an expat if I must for health reasons (plus my wife is 10-years younger and still working.)

 

[Pekelo]

Now tell me how much would it cost to 5-days in ICU?

If you have insurance, what is 60 Euros per month, nothing.

Holy fuck dude, I obviously meant the dead rate by infections and yes it is 1/12 of the US's in Croatia. If you are in the endangered category your life is much safer in Europe.

45 per million compared to 560.

 

[Pekelo]

The idiocy increases....

Of course, to live comfortably in Budapest, first, you'd need to buy a place but of course,

1. Check the thread title, CROATIA, not Hungary.
2. You never heard of RENTING???

There is just so much stupidity I can take, so on Ignore.

 

[d08]

Yes, but as an expat can you get the national health insurance and what quality will it be? In Hungary for example you must pay into the system for one-year! The quality is very bad per my Swiss friend when compared to Swiss care. Croatia could be similar!
I understand the attraction if you are a younger person without family ties. My daughter is in the US and I would only be an expat if I must for health reasons (plus my wife is 10-years younger and still working.)

Quality varies from country to country but generally it's okay. The queues could potentially be very long though.

You can't even go to Europe before you get paid health insurance beforehand from most countries. So what's stopping you from buying a private insurance for 1 year? Last I checked it was fairly cheap, especially when coming from US.

Sounds like you're making an issue out of nothing.

On the flipside, healthcare is one reason why I don't want to go to the US. Break your leg without insurance? "so it's going to be $10k". And many think that's normal...

 

[Sig]

Yes, but as an expat can you get the national health insurance and what quality will it be? In Hungary for example you must pay into the system for one-year! The quality is very bad per my Swiss friend when compared to Swiss care. Croatia could be similar!
I understand the attraction if you are a younger person without family ties. My daughter is in the US and I would only be an expat if I must for health reasons (plus my wife is 10-years younger and still working.)

I don't know, what quality is it in the U.S.? Have you ever been to San Luis, just across the border from Yuma in Mexico. City of about 200,000 people almost exclusively devoted to providing medical and dental care to U.S. seniors, all of whom looked to be very eligible for medicare. So whatever combination of cost/rationing/standard of care we have for medicare recipients in the U.S. is such that tens of thousands vote with their feet to go to what appears to me to be very sketchy clinics in a second world country. And that's just the one version I've been to, I understand they're up and down the border.

Do you have any information to suggest that Croatia, which from my experience both there and Mexico seems far more advanced and first-world, on par with the rest of Europe, is worse than Mexico? If not, then you'll probably be better off there than in the place where seniors head to Mexico for care, don't you think? And one wonders why you're comparing Hungarian care levels to Swiss care levels when you're stuck with the whole "U.S. which a whole lot of seniors believe is worse than Mexico" system and we're talking about Croatia. Shouldn't that be your point of comparison? It's not a case of moving to Hungary or staying in Switzerland, we're having a conversation about living in Croatia as an expat or the U.S. as a medicare recipient. So completely different that it's baffling why you'd bring the other up?

And yes, as I indicated you can back-pay for a year and you're into the national healthcare system.

 

[maxima120]

He just hates all Eastern Europeans cos he is now "merican" yeah baby!

 

[maxima120]

Could someone better explain what taxes one should pay in Croatia as this "digital nomad visa" holder, while trading on US exchanges?

 

[virtusa]

Could someone better explain what taxes one should pay in Croatia as this "digital nomad visa" holder, while trading on US exchanges?

https://www.porezna-uprava.hr/en/EN_porezni_sustav/Pages/income_tax.aspx

You go in notime to the 40% rate.

Be sure to check if there is a double tax treaty between Croatia and USA.

 

[Sig]

Could someone better explain what taxes one should pay in Croatia as this "digital nomad visa" holder, while trading on US exchanges?

If you're a U.S. citizen you pay at least the same as you would in the U.S. no matter where you are in the world. You would get a credit back up to your U.S. obligation on any Croatian taxes you paid. Croatian income tax is less than U.S. so you'd probably end up paying some to them and the rest to the U.S. capital gains is a bit of a mess because they have different definitions, like a 2 year holding period for long-term vs 1 for the U.S. VAT is the thing that really gets you if you're not used to it.