Gramsci
Well-Known Member
I was there for a month in June this year as my son was christened there. I hate the city centre these days, locals have been systematically driven out over the last 10-15 years or so, it's not a place for them anymore. And all the new fancy designer shops in the city centre and shopping centres on the outskirts that have been built in the last decade or so seem to be completely empty most of the time, it's like a ghost town those places. And the prices of food and energy out there is extortionate - far dearer than here in the UK and that's before taking into account the wage differentials. The whole place feels like it's on the verge of some massive financial & political implosion, but i've been saying that for years and years and nothing.
The Lithuainians Ive met here is UK have a very low opinion of the political class in Lithuania.
Lithuanian government is good at PR abroad. Making itself seem to appear to be pro European progressive country. But from what Ive heard its not much different from other ex Soviet Republics. That is the political class have enriched themselves and control the economy for there benefit not the general public.