Balkanize as a verb just means to break up into several smaller states, often but not always based off common culture/language/religion, similar to what happened to both Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Yugoslavia.
Oh, I could go in details, but I don't currently have time, so I'll be short: politics, corruption, air polution, environment polution, inflation, salaries, prices, comodities... there's a lot more. Feel free to ask about any of these in particular, I'll answer a bit later in the evening 😉.
Not good. We used to have great weed, hell, hemp grows on streets here, the weather is perfect for that, but then they killed the cannabis plant industry (as an industrial plant, ropes, clothes, stuff like that) and everything went downhill from there. We only have imported now... unless you grow your own that is... just don't brag about it.
Meeh, could be better... colder I mean. It's like 10°C right now. I like it colder, but people here usually like it warmer, like 20°C above, to about 30, then they start bitching about how hot it is.
Two, my native and English, though I do understand Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian perfectly as well. I do speak them, but not as good as English.
My grandpareents... IDK, probably 3 I guess... tops. Slovenian, Serbian, Macedonian. My granma from my mother's side also knew a little Turkish and was quite fluent in German (she was in a labour camp during WWII). My kid is little, like 4, he speaks Macedonian and some English (words only, not sentences).