If you come from US to Macedonia it must be a big shock!
In general all the eastern European countries are poor.
If you look at the map Austria is northern of ex-yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Macedonia)
I have only been in Slovenia and Croatia and theses countries aren't that poor anymore.
Seraph has travelled alot of countries, like I have seen on his homepage. He also has been to vienna
So we could have had a mini-meet if I had had my SVX earlier
greetings from Austria