Which side are we on?

It is our proximity to the Croatian border which has benefitted us most of all; the same shops across the border have better ranges, more up-to-date, and we get a decent tax rebate when we pass through customs, but spending half a day searching big, homogenous shopping centres for little bits of plumbing's niceties/soldering flux that doesn't spoil your water supply/adhesives that are taken for granted elsewhere, yet cost double what we are used to in France, for example, (where our dream place is totally unaffordable) makes me wonder why Slovenia fails to learn by peering at its neighbours, and why, when their workers earn nothing, and supplement with cash deals on the side, the price of a roof of insulation costs more and offers last century's technology, when a six week search yields finally a newtech supply of custom moulded foam, which we are just getting to install, now I've come to terms with the abysmal supply of rafters I was forced to accept, and have worked into the structure with only the usual trauma, and a lot of help from my partner's new colleagues, who, fourteen months into our search for suitable employment for her, have achieved the 'What Colour is my Parachute' optimum, of allowing her to work in just the right environment with just the right people.

We love this country; it has been the battles with supposedly friendly people that has rattled us so. How has this thing evolved? Try www.insightnewstv.com/d77/ for maybe a side of this place none of us could anticipate.