Thu 23 May 2013 Our situation as tenants made it imperative to acquire or own accommodation. Finished houses were out of the question, because every single one shown to us by the agents needed Semtex renovation; besides, few Montenegrin houses are finished with all of the construction work completed. Eventually, we found a plot where the owner had started building but ran out of funds, and we had a nice house built there.
Our lawyer had arranged connections to the utilities’
I have lived in Montenegro now for just over two years and there have been discrepancies between the findings from the reconnaissance and my actual experiences as an expat retiree, as follows:
It is extremely difficult to obtain the status of a temporary Montenegrin resident and we expats drive across the Croatian border every three months for lunch and a new border entry stamp. With this method (which is encouraged by the immigration authorities) we remain permanent tourists. This suits
In 1999, my wife and I retired from careers as professional pilots. Shortly afterwards, my mother-in-law (who had lived with us) died suddenly and we were rattling around in our big house in Mid-Wales like peas in a pod. The fact that we are childless facilitated our decision to become expats. Hence we sold our property in Wales and bought a house in Primosten in Croatia. In 2004, we sold our Croatian place and in early 2005 moved to
Retiring to Montenegro – Part Four
There are two more matters that I missed during my reconnaissance in 2004: animal welfare and litter.
With regard to animals, my wife put out the word that she would fund the castration of two pets per month. In two years her offer has only been taken up for two animals, whilst there are cats and dogs breeding happily everywhere. Some individuals solve the animal proliferation problem by e.g. tying live kittens into plastic bags and throwing them into a
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