What exact cities you put as a standard? Vaduz
? Okay, compare it to Sinaya - looks even better
I could easy found in west Europe cities very similiar in architectural, infrastructure plans to cities like Iasi, Varna or even Durres. Speaking that west Europe it's a some gold standard it's just snobizm.
Lol, you really think with some stereotypes.
But yes, when we go away from comparsion of Schengen area with roads and come to health care, education system, domestic services etc we will just come to the situation when all above are at relatively same level between Balcan countries.
*BUT* As already was noted above - because countries like Romania and Bulgaria much cheaper to Slovenia and Croatia, for the regular price at Slovenia you could get much better service in another Balcan countries.
Another problem with Slovenia, because it's a very small country, it's just have a big shortage of high quality specialists. In question of healthcare you could be forced to go to another country if need something specific or at specific level.
Police not ideal nor in one nor in a other countries. Not a problem with calling them, but big question if they will help you.
However, west EU police is not better at all, specially in countries with high docimestic crime level like spain, Italy, UK, France.
PS my general point not with words that balcans it's a 1st world countries. It's just west Europe going to be such thrash in number of things, so even Balcans looks not so bad in comparsion.