Things I Hate About Living in Serbia
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Description: Since I started making videos on CZcams many have been curious about life in my home country of Serbia, so I've decided to make a video about all the things that annoyed me during my time there.
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Ok
hej srbsko neni take zle its very good and ok
Mostly the government
We serbs do have the best nightclubs
Love your videos!💚
As an Irishman who has not stepped foot east past Berlin, this makes me proud to be a Serb
As an Englishman, you make me proud to be Irish
@@Randomstuffs261 can we get our 6 counties back so?
A proud Englishman you are!
@Randomstuffs261 can we get our 6 counties back so?
@@daithimcnally8212 hahaha, no those counties are mine. The protestants up there are crazy and expensive for the tax payer anyway, you don't want them
I've only ever met one Serbian person in real life and he got arrested for bringing a knife to school lol
Yeap, that sounds just about right... 😂
im a Serbian
@@GdBrba Greetings Serb, I wish you a merry Christmas!
Of course
Slava rodu!
As a brazilian that has no relation to eastern europe and have never left my country, i sure am proud to be balkan
As a brazilian that has also never left my country and have 0 relations with europe except in blood, this makes me proud to be sub-saahrense
tomanocu rapas
Yes, I live in a landfill, but it is a SERBIAN LANDFILL, there is a Serbian flag on it and we dance the Serbian wheel among the garbage. Bravo!!!
LATAM é os balkans das Americas
xD brazil and Balkans seem similar indeed
Where I live in the USA, we have a large Serbian community, based in the Saint Sava Parish. They have a festival every year. I love the food and the festival. I go to the Greek festival and the Serb festivals every year.
Chigago?
From what I know, pyramids were built by ancient slavs who descended from the sky on spaseships, while fleeing from reptiloids coming from Nibiru. Being Russian, it is an important part of out national myth and it is fascinating to see that you Serbian folks have the same thing!
Damn...what communism does to common sense.
But it does explain a lot.
By ancient slavs you mean ancient Serbs?
@@kuzmanstamenic4405by ancient Serbs u mean the original Homo sapiens…Bulgarians 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬
@@baird5682bro thinks he's serious💀
Also tower of babel, this is aryan mythology !!! I suggest looking into serbian mythology and our ancient vedas found in serbia/romania. PERUN VEDAS are one of those. Its the religion of al ancient serbs(slavs).
"As a whole, most of the buildings, infrastructure, and any general public structure is usually in a constant state of decay... graffiti keeps piling up... holes in the road keep popping up"
So what I get from this is that Puerto Rico is Serbia. I have been living in Serbia this whole time
Always have been
Srbija do Portorika!
the whole world is Serbia. god bless the Glorious Empire of Serbia
Eres bienvenido en Serbia, chico, any time you wish to come here and compare notes 😁♥️
@@miovicdina7706 I'd love to go some day! First order of business is to go to visit the Church of St Sava in Belgrade. Divine Liturgy there must be an ethereal experience
Yesterday me and my friends were in Serbia. It was nice, people were nice. We understood each other, speaking our native languages. Thats so amazing. Respect from your eastern neighbour! The only written on a wall sentence I saw was: "Volim te !"
It's sad when the most maintenance some historic buildings and streets get is from people wanting to shoot a movie in the area and not from the governments
You clearly haven’t seen Čačac
That's fucked up indeed
A boy degenarate that uses a anime slut as his avatar have zero credibility to talk about Serbia or any country for that matter. I am happy he wont be coming back to Serbia. We don't need European trash here since those are the ones who brought us wars and neglect. When you are bashed by EU on daily basis and taxed through the nose certain people can't help but let themselves go.
Half of these videos are not even from Serbia.
I mean yeah some of the things he mentioned are true about some buildings being in neglect but not every inch of every city or village is like this and those building are simply abandoned and in a legal loop hole so even govt isnt aware of it nor is willing to invest that is someone elses property.
Then there are legal extortions and here is one example of that.
In my case my father got cancer and passed away, he wasnt able to work and became homeless all his debt is now transferred to me. Some "legal" offices keep sending me their parasitic imaginary bills.
I basically so far paid out more then half a million euros, all his debt, his funeral, all the legal fees including the lawyers etc tons of things and yet I still get new bills to pay that allegedly are parts my fathers debts.
They took everything he had, he been in prison and yet still after his passing now they are after me.
I was digging around and sure enough all these "legal" offices are from EU and not even local govt. So yeah they are extorting us through these so called laws that they come up as they please and even if I win against them I still have to pay so no matter how you look at it I lose money and lose time, every day. It's a miracle I am not homeless by now or d--d too just like many others.
So next to that I ask you how the F some of the people can maintain their homes when these EU nazis are taking away our homes?! Just like they did in WW1 WW2 and in 80s 90s and so on ...
📥We want part two about things he loves about serbia
Yes.
The food. End of the video.
I'd rather see a part two about things he hates about Serbia. There are many more things
@@MyaB1986 Lmao true
@@petemitchell9996Aj mrš!
I'm a Mexican living in Timisoara, Romania. I just visited Belgrade and for me the city looks amazing, at least of course the huge central part of it. It looks much better than Bucharest regarding landscape and maintenance of historical buildings! So this question goes to the Serbs:
How the hell do you afford keeping Belgrade so nice while everything is more expensive than Romania and it seems according to Numbeo that the salaries are a bit lower there?
Really intrigued about this!
P.S: Loved the food and that the people were quite friendly with us!
On the first look, it looks nice. But you just had to take a look a little bit better. Belgrade is falling apart since early 2000s and it was never worse til nowadays
Because Belgrade leeches all the money from the rest of Serbia.
@@igor7195actually it was much worse before 90s since Yugo communist gov invested ZERO money into restoration of any pre-ww2 buildings, they actually were working on demolishing them, so whole city was gray shithole. Since 2000s big percent of old town buildings were restored, situation is not even comparable to pre-90s era. Now every year you have dozen of new buildings with restored look, its improving although it can be on a larger scale and faster.
@@carick235 wtf are you talking about
Hey dude! I remember meeting you, I think! Like 4-5 years ago... You wanted to open a Taco truck?
I was in Serbia couple of months ago... I found this "decaying cities" thing to be very sad.
But the people were very friendly & I wish them peace & happiness.
If you aren’t albanian, that’s probably why they were nice to you
Oh I had friend Serbian and she is angry with me !
She said you are using to much Croatian words .
Ha ha ha
I'm Macedonian !
@@anthonylong9067 Why would albanians go to Srbija?
Well as long as US want war it will be a war unfortunatelly.
@@voskreglavincevska7080 Macedonians = Greeks...so u have nothing to do with Macedonias...
A lot of these apply to Croatia, too. WIth the added hates of mass tourism and the lack of funding for anywhere else but Zagreb and the coast. Hope to see both our countries prosper and flourish :)
Also, Kosovo is Spanish.
Kososvo IS HUNGARIAN
Hungarian area be like: sh&tting without toilet.
But somehow croatia made it into schengen but not romania, and the excuse was "too many immigrants" - ironic seeing as how in 2016-17 the EU was all "welcome all immigrants. What's that hungary and poland you don't wanna take in immigrants here get penalised"
@@xFluing I'm not super familiar with the situation, but a quick google search seems to indicate concerns over corruption and organized crime are the claimed reasons for both Romania and Bulgaria not being admitted to Schengen. None of the sources mentioned immigrants
Kosovo Plus Ultra
As a Bulgarian, all of this can be perfectly applied and said about Bulgaria too
Unfortunately yes..:/ we and Serbia need to elect people who actually cares about the country but no they(Bulgarians and Serbs)vote for stupid leaders.
That's because to some extent, these problems are universal
Except for destroying older buildings, this is a more rare one (though still present among many countries)
@@user-hf6hp9ou3v Doubt from my ignorance, how is the situation in Russia compared to Serbia?
@@segiraldovi Can't say for all the regions, but in St. Petersburg and small towns in Tver region it's just neglect or little care for old soviet commieblocks and a lot of capitalist anthill commieblocks being built to expand the cities. Some roads are fine, some are fucked, so probably worse than EU countries' and probably on par with the US. Overall life in European parts of Russia is pretty much the same as in most of Europe, Asian part is either Mongolian or Balkan living standards (depending on the region) and Moscow for some reason is a bloody capitalist paradise, being one of the best cities in the world (if not the best). Nothing truly remarkable, as with any country, there are a lot of merits and a lot of downsides, just much more disparity and variety due to the vastness and remoteness of some regions.
@@user-hf6hp9ou3v I really appreciate your answer, I am from Colombia (Latin America) and from what I see it is not that different from here (just that the standard of living is probably better there), The main cities Bogota (Capital City) and Medellin (Second Biggest City) They are relatively decent in terms of infrastructure (at least in the parts that are not marginalized) but outside of these you will find that there is very little help from the state, most local governments are very corrupt.
I'm Italian and I have been to Serbia quite a few times (I think 5 or 6), what I love the most over there is the people. A friend of mine and I spent a New Years Eve in Belgrade, we had a table for 2 at a bar, in a matter of minutes we were invited by a group of locals to their table that was just bseide ours and we spent the whole night with them. Most of the times I went there I struck some friendship with someone, and I'm still in touch after years. And that summer trumpet festival in Guca is just amazing.
Do the part about what you love! As a Brit who visited Serbia for the first time recently, I had a fantastic time. Had a tasty pivo and cevapi at the top of Zemun, and watched a storm roll across the city. Fantastic!
I'm Romanian and I sympatize with Serbia. Please make a video about the possitives of living in Serbia
I have a friend in Arad. She says that she is Serbian, although her father is Romanian and her mother is Serbian. Her husband says he is Romanian even though his father is Serbian and his mother is Romanian. When NATO bombed Serbia, Serbian civilian planes were hidden in Romania without anyone in the world knowing. Greetings to the brothers from Romania!
I live in Serbia and I love living in a socialist neighborhood. I feel like living in natire here, surrounded with trees, grass, lot's of banks to sit on and feel like I am living in a park. Yes, the fact that the 60 years old building have never been renowned does make it less aesthetically pleasing but I would never trade this for living in a capitalist built city. Here, I have a lot of place to walk, ride bikes, play basketball and I feel like I am in a resort center. In the summer you will see kids playing on the playgrounds surrounded by trees, their grandpas sitting on the banks, a lot of young people, adolescents and people in their 20s, 30s hanging around and playing sports. It is an idilic scene. The fact that old buildings don't look new doesn't compensate for the good parts not even 10%. Plus, everything is close to me, grocery store is close, I can easily reach any part of the city with a bus.
This is not just my opinion, ask almost anyone who lives here and you will get the same opinion.
When you just take a picture of an old building, without showing the place below it you make it look worse than it actually is. People who try to shit on socialist architecture (i.e. people who dont live in a socialist neighborhood but are brainwashed to believe it is bad) often point to old socialist buildings to show that it is bad. In reality, the space between the buildings is wonderful, it is the best way of doing city design that I have ever seen, far better than US cities, or any capitalist city and even the buildings themsleves were a lot nicer when they were new. Tofay they are 50-80 years old.
@@student99bg I assume you live in New Belgrade.
@@zoranmarjanovic6638 yes
@@student99bg I agree communist buildings have great location, great yards, and the people can enjoy communal activities. Here in Czech where I live now, we have many such buildinfs. They have been renovated and look great, but the kids stopped playing together and neighbours often do not know each other. I like villages in Romania, the little bench in front of the gate, the neighbours talking over the fence, it's perfect.
As a Hungarian I lived 5 years in Belgrade when I was little and I only have good memories from there. Going to revisit my old home next year after not being there for 10 years 😀
We love Orban in Serbia.
@@AkiRa22084 Okay then please take him away to Serbia we hate him
@@AkiRa22084he's corrupt and stupid
Thank you neighbor. These fools are talking about Serbs, but they have never seen two Serbs in their life, nor have they spent two days in Serbia. Serbs and Hungarians are traditional peoples in whose families it is known that the father is a man and the mother is a woman.
People who actually spent childhood here remember it well. I have lived in New Belgrade (socialist built part of Belgrade) my entire life and I love it here.
Serbia deserves a best things about living in Serbia too.
Thats gonna be a tough video, after inflation went wild in 2022, food prices are same here as in German supermarkets, restaurants are still cheaper, its same in the the neighbourhood as well, so "Lets go to eastern Europe for cheap vacation" is a thing of the past im afraid...
@@Dotalol123 Food prices same as here in Austria or Germany, really? You guys also pay like 127€ for 5 things in your basket?
@@JohnnyWalker1077 Depends on the things, but yeah since 2022 5 items in your basket are unironically 30 euros, which is ridiculous because before it was like 15 or less, 50 euros here was a lot of money once upon a time, now thats barely 2 days of groceries... Having 1000 euros today is same as 500 only 3 years ago and im not exaggerating!
@@Dotalol123 I feel you man. Same here with 2000 euros. This used to be a good salary a few years ago and now you can barely live by yourself with this money let alone feed your wife and kids.
@@JohnnyWalker1077 Same here, only with 1000 euros, that was dream salary here, now you can barely pay food and bills... Its unreal how much value did money lose in just couple of years, post covid inflation is destroying us.
as a romanian serbia is a awesome country!
Yes, I live in a landfill, but it is a SERBIAN LANDFILL, there is a Serbian flag on it and we dance the Serbian wheel among the garbage. Bravo!!!
We Serbs love romanians.
Love Serbia from Romania! Salutari din Bucuresti!! ❤
Sitrayaska românia my brother
Hello from Bearland (Brasov)
si eu te iubesc frate, from Serbia, my wife is also Romanian
Salutări frate
🇷🇸🐲🐺🦅🦾🤝🇷🇴🐺🦅🤝💙💙💙
The fact i can agree with all of this is kinda depressing. I love Belgrade but its the best irl apocolyptic city. For my sake and anyone who lives still here, make another with things you liked living here!
Belgrade is the new Detroit! XD
Belgrade is a safe city and serbian people are wonderful.
Fuck you people talking shit..
Jel si srpsko ili strano smeće
My favorite thing about Serbia how peaceful and friendly the country is to its neighbors and minority populations living within it.
You mean how they sent riot police to dismantle the peaceful inhabitants of liberland?
.....not
Damn those guys are real jerks 😅
minorities have more rights in Serbia than Serbs
You mean Malorosija, right? This country has two faces
trust me bro… I just came from belgrade. I stayed 1 night in the waterfront, I went to the crvena zvezda basketball game. Even if I had money to go to dubai, I’d still choose belgrade 😅😅 yiu got the rich part ( waterfront ) and you got the historic city and everything. I’m glad something like this exists in a neighbouring country
Yes, I live in a landfill, but it is a SERBIAN LANDFILL, there is a Serbian flag on it and we dance the Serbian wheel among the garbage. Bravo!!!
@@andrejignacbrummer3883 ?
Spent 2 weeks in Krusevac this summer, and the city looked well maintained and clean. The locals told me that the city developed infrastructure-wise in the last few years, and it was this new mayor that made all the positive changes. At the end of the day, nothing beats Serbian hospitality! 🇷🇸❤
Im from Krusevac, the city has flourished within the last 5-6 or so years, Bratislav Gasic was the mayor responsible for it all, until he became the minister of the police, yet he still invests into the city and for once, Im glad to see the city getting the care and treatment it deserves, especially because of its historic importance as well. I've always loved it and its always gonna be my home, but now I can finally show other people how beautiful it is and not have to base it off sentimental value alone, but they can now see it for themselves and enjoy visiting it
@@ToriLomatori definately worth visiting!
In Romania is the same. When cities have mayors that care about developing the infrastructure , then that city will looked well maintained. Sadly not all the cities from Romania have good mayors. Even in the capital some sectors look bad.
@@milisavmihajlovski5293 you're welcome here again anytime my friend!
@@vaxuvax yeah unfortunately even the neighboring cities have quite the trashy infrastructure even though they're the same size and importance, but the mayors are just bad. However even in my city, there's always these so called corners where its streets with no asphalt, rundown buildings etc. but luckily its not visible to someone who's just touring the city
When they reconstruct a road, and after two weeks they start digging that newly placed asphalt to replace sewer pipes or something else cuz they didn't plan ahead.
Add Romania too for this
in Ukraine they did it after 1-2 years, not that funny too :)
Same in Bulgaria lmao
This video hurt to watch so much because every single one of your points applies so perfectly to Bulgaria as well.
all of these eastern european shitholes are exactly the same. Maybe the number of gypsies vary somewhat.
Balkan unity haha
Hehe, so true. But I think Bulgaria has managed a slightly better job in maintaining some of their historical architecture here and there. For example, I don't think you'll ever find anything remotely close to Plovdiv's old town anywhere in Serbia
Pretty sure thats just the balkans lil bro
@@soupisgood44Well, we kind of have to, Plovdiv is a big cultural tourism sellpoint. I’ve been to Serbia a couple of time and if you dropped me somewhere in Belgrade half asleep I’d definitely believe I’m somewhere in Sofia haha
I never visited Serbia, I have a great respect for our Serbian neighbors. I have to confess we Romanians and Serbians we are so alike :) maybe this is the reason we understand each other so well. When I saw these images, I remembered how Romania was in 2000 until it joined the EU. We still have problems, there is more to work, but now Romania looks better. Much better. Many changed from 2007. PS you said nothing about music and parties, but I believe we Romanians we are truly champions at manele and other retarded music
Music is quite similar, yet also different between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. I visited Romania earlier this year. Some cities like Brasov or Sibiu were very well maintained, noticeably better than what you could find in Serbia. Reminded me of Slovenia or Czechia. On the other hand, Sighisoara was quite derelict outside the historic center and to my surprise Timisoara too. Transylvania is extremely beautiful, both the nature and the cultural heritage. Felt like some magic forest fairytale land.
I'm from Serbia and I love Romanian nature, people, music and you also have great movies.
@@Touchedbynature304 ❤ thank you!
@@florinprisecaru4809 You're welcome☺️
@@visuallettuce3983 true. Transylvania was and is privileged with much money for developed . In Cluj Napoca there is a Baba Novac, or Starina Novak statue. I know he is Serbian National Hero. In Romania he is very respected, he was one of Michael the Great captains. Now, if you can, in the future, it is imperative to visit Moldova. You will be pleasantly surprised. Although Moldova isn't so developed than Transylvania, nevertheless Moldova is a very spiritual place, and Orthodox Monasteries here are truly masterpieces, unique in the world. Food and breath taking landscapes from Bucovina are also awesome. PS we have names in Romanian like Sarbu, meaning Serbian :)
I would also mention the ecological condition, especially in Belgrade and Novi Sad. The level of air pollution in the winter time is just... visible. But anyways, there are a lot of nice things about this country.
When the air pollution is too big, they light up a cigarette to blow away the bad air.
I visited Serbia twice and i love how kind and welcoming are the people plus there’s no perfect country not even the Scandinavian countries, in the end, Serbia is my favorite place I have visited and the people i met there were such an amazing people, dude i love Balkans and i will go there again and again 😍❤️🇷🇸
Selam akeiqum, mahraba brother thank you for your kind words !
Thank you. Only people who actually visited Serbia can speak about it.
COSOVO É SÉRVIA ❤
Kind?? Man I'm Serbian and I can't stand visiting my country because so many primitive, rude and aggressive guys.
Actually, I loved the bureaucracy in Serbia. The rules are mostly clear, and when they are not, you can just come to the person responsible for issuing some paper and ask them.
I also haven't yet discovered anything but friendly attitude and sincere desire to help (if you wanna see some really hostile officials who will take weeks and weeks of your life just out of spite to issue some stupid paper, visit Russia).
In addition to that, in a small town EVERYTHING is nearby. I once needed to get a paper - went to an office at a police station; the officer there gave me a list of documents that I needed to provide and a bill to pay; I went to a post office that was like 100 meters away and paid the bill, then walked a couple kilometers to my home, took the documents and returned; he issued the paper immediately, in under 10 minutes. Took me about an hour in total.
Back in the huge city I used to live before, just visiting the officer for the first time would've taken me several hours. And the whole business would've been concluded in at least a week.
Dunno about digital government, though: never tried using it.
I was surprised how easy it was to open a company. Almost everything can be done electronically now.
This video is just propaganda.
most of the stuff can be done digitally nowadays, gotta say it's gotten quite convenient.
Digital government is mostly shit, you fight just to speak to a real person which, if the problem isn't straight-forward, can be challenging as they try to use generic answers from an AI robot!
@@LandersWorkshop why would you need a real person? I always quickly find everything I need from documents (both digital version and the paper version, you get those within few days after ordering) whether it be paying taxes, car registration, various personal documents, etc. Did you have some particular problems? I guess the UI can be improved here and there...
Because the world is not simplistic and has complexities and variables no machine can necessarily solve.@@Kosac07
Well...There's a reason why I felt as if I'm still in Greece while touring Serbia 😁
Slight correction; Nikola Tesla spent less than 2 days in Serbia in his whole lifetime so it's not really his homeland. Austria-Hungary (present day Croatia) was his homeland.
When I came from Russia, politics and bureaucracy didn't hit me much, because there weren't new problems for us as well. But I was really upset to watch how many beautiful buildings were turned into commie blocks, especially in Novi Sad, and of course the graffiti and trash problem. But I'm really hoping that in the future people will be able to beat most of these problems and preserve the beauty of Serbia.
Those buildings are the remnants of the AHA empire. The Serbian government want to crash them all, to erase the past.
Doubt from my ignorance, how is the situation in Russia compared to Serbia?
The tagging graffiti over beautiful landmarks, and just everything…is so demoralizing to see. Albania solved the problem though. Theres a clip out there of Jordan Peterson explaining it.
@@Hajde_budalla How did Albania solve it?
the situation with bureaucracy and corruption isn't better, but less graffiti in the old city centres, there are many moments f.e. Serbia has more freedom etc., but most of the things from this video you can meet there too@@segiraldovi
I did NOT expect an Astérix reference from a non-French person. I love this freaking scene, in France we also love to call 7 government services in order to have one document. It can sometimes take months to get an appointment to renew a passport or ID. For any meeting, if you're missing ONE document, you can try again.
Je confirme!
Asterix & Obelix are very popular with 90s and older children in Serbia! Also Smurfs! 😊
That exact scene he shows is being used as a meme in Germany too :D It was hugely popular back then
I experienced Serbian bureaucracy at airports, if that counts. One time, at the flight transfer counter, me and another person, with US passports, were kept waiting while the official ladies were trying to "resolve" whatever the issue with our connection flights was. It took about 30 minutes of them essentially just talking about shopping and gossiping (I understand enough Serbian, but they didn't know that). Finally one of the officials asked the other: "what do we do with these people waiting"? The answer: "not our problem, they'll give up eventually and leave."
US passport!!! why the f**k you didn't get the points?!
😂😂😂😂😂
😂wanted to say it was US passport, but then though how we go trough that as well
Romania was the same until the real estate prices exploded, now every square meter of the building is expensive and they started to renovate them... only where there is no value it remained derelict and dilapidated but little by little they are being sold and new owners are transforming them for profit. This building the older they are, the more expensive they get because they are beautiful and good for business. There are still many many old buildings in bad shape but little by little they find a new owners. At least in my city, the buildings in bad condition receive tax hikes from the authorities and when the owners can no longer pay they are forced to sell and in order to lower the taxes they must be renovated
We have been staying in a Block apartment in Novi Beograd for a few weeks. Serbia has so far has some nice surprises such as Zlatibor, Mokra Gora, Subotica, Kikinda that were very cool to see. It's a shame that the blocks are poorly maintained because their urban design is quite good (lots of parks, walkable shops, big apartments etc).
Check out block 30. Yes, it is not maintained greatly but the design is top notch. The best that I have ever seen. I am talking about walkable spaces, playgrounds for kids, basketball and football fields, banks to sit on in nature. It is just wonderful. When it comes to Novi Beograd in general I wouldn't trade living in Novi Beograd for living anywhere else on the planet.
When I was young I felt sorry for kids living in capitalist built part of Belgrade because kids have way less places to play and hang out there
As Albanian I like Serbia and Serbian culture, I wish I can visit Belgrade this year ✨
I feel like bureaucracy is equally crap in every Balkan country. When I was getting my ID card in Montenegro,after waiting for 3 hours in a line,they told me that I have no citizenship of Montenegro,a country I was born in and lived my entire life(up to that point). They told me to go to Bosnia to get a document that I was not registered in Visegrad(my Mother's birthplace)which is impossible to do without ID,luckily I have cousins there so they sent me what I needed. Then,after another 3 hours wait,I was told that I now need to go to Sarajevo to get a document that I was not registered there(my father was born in Sarayevo,but due to being son of an military officer,so they moved around before settling in Montenegro when my father was 3). Also,when I came to be,Sarajevo had a little case of being besieged,so how could someone born in Podgorica be registered in Sarajevo. It took me an entire year to get my ID card...
Bureaucracy is everywhere in the world. Took 35 years to get my ID while the government were giving away IDs for free to the illegal invaders.
Edit: Typo.
Is it me or Belgrade has the best clubs and nightlife, at least in eastern Europe
Yep nightlife is Belgrade is really good, also girls, honestly the city with prettiest girls I've ever been in
Bucharest bro
At the expense of quality of life for the locals...
Hungary has the best
The dirtier the streets, the better the nightlife
“It’s funny - you Irish are so like the Serbs.”
― Rebecca West,
ОБИЧАМ СЪРБИЯ!!!❤❤❤
МНОГО ЛЮБОВ ОТ БЪЛГАРИЯ КЪМ МОИТЕ БРАТЯ СЪРБИ!!!❤❤❤
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Какви братя са те, след като са ни предали много пъти?
@@HeroManNick132cope, mongarian.
@@gregorylaufend2570 Lol, said the German.
from Romania, peace and love for my Serbian bros and sis
Today I learned I’m kinda an autochauvinist. I’m not ashamed of being Hungarian nor am I proud of it and neither do I like living in Hungary
Hungary above all!
You are not autochauvinist. Just in Hungary, it's normal to be a self-hating Hungarian in the left-wing, it's so common that the right wing often call them traitors, anti-Hungarians, etc. But the right wing is not really nationalist either. Rather the point is that all sides hate each other and nobody is nationalist, people can't stick together. In Hungary mainly just the far right is nationalist.
Autochavinism is not a word in hungary, its a state of being.
National pasttime is complaining about stuff - that wouldnt work without self hatred.
Since thats our ntaional sport, the mindset is so universal noone felt the need to make a word to differentiate it from other schools of thought, since noone is aware that such things exist.
@@martonlerant5672 That's why I didn't know it was a word, cause it's just the normal existence
Hungary is a fallen empire, a shade of greatness past. Like Italy or England.
I am originally from Germany but with armenian roots and moved recently to Armenia. I have to say that almost everything that was said in this Video about Serbia is applicable to Armenia too
Armenia feels like a Middle Eastern country who was adopted by Eastern Europe
so you are Armenian, and Armenia is Serbia
@@gokusenboy1 I am half german
@@DieErsteNummerEins you are Armenian-Serbian
@@gokusenboy1 I am Tatar-Italian
My man, if you also talked about horrendous amounts of stray dogs I would've thought you made a video about Romania, also I want part 2
I live in a small town in Romania and for decades the town looked like a s*ithole. 10 yrs ago a new mayor won the election and started to change the face of town. Although the town had 4 floors commie buildings he manage to do amazing things. He remade the streets and the pavement ,he remade street crossing , he rehabilitated thermally the buildings and remade the roof tops and external balconies . Under his management the parks were remade and new buildings were built. He hired people to clean the streets all day long and the town looks amazing...clean , colorful and decent. If its a will ...its a way. I've been to Milan and to be honest the city looked 20x more dirty . Its worth to mention that the mayor its to his 4th mandate . The truth about Eastern Europe its that we didn't has good examples along the history. From who to learn civilization? From Turks? From Russians? And another thing...we, Eastern Europeans, were always in a war . We had fights among us and against big empires. We don't compare with (random example) Germany that had 700 yrs of continuous peace and when they went to war they fought in Eastern Europe ...with us
Totally agree. Most countries had long periods of development and peace while we were busy fighting the Ottomans.
Though with the Russians you could at least learn about cleansiness but not so much about maintanance.
What's your small town called?
@@Mastakilla91 You can check on google maps on Street view. Its called Titu in Dambovita county
Although we had very bad periods from the Turks and Western Europe, many western countries are much dirtier and have more garbage than Serbia and Romania, for example Paris, London, Milan, Rome, etc. although they have beautiful architecture they are terribly dirty. It depends on the laws in the country and punishments for garbage and graffiti, which is not the case here. Russia and Austria are the cleanest countries in Europe in terms of cities, garbage and graffiti. Serbia was much better but all our progress was violently stopped several times, like at the end of the 1400s when we fell under the Ottomans and for years we were a little in the Ottoman a little in the Austrian Empire like their ping pong ball, then in 1914, 1941, 1945 and the last time in 1999. where the attack and sanctions on our country destroyed our infrastructure and economy.
@@amarillorose7810 Correct. I just said what you said...or at least its reside from what I said. Indeed many western cities are dirty but it was not like that in the past. For example Paris was jewel before 1960 when immigration and tourism took off. Now it smell like piss , its dirty and have a lot of ...dark foreigners. Import 3rd world and slowly you start to look like one. I've been to Russia and it does not have the cleanest cities. I also have been to Yugoslavia before the fell of socialism and dem ...I was so jealous, the population was so civilized ,the houses so nice , the cities so clean . Next to Yugoslavia , Romania was 3rd world cesspool. In the past we had a big war or invasion and plunder in average at 80 yrs...that leveled the country to the ground. Only now Romania begin to find its pace . 10 yrs ago we didn't even had an old city center.
This summer I went to Novi sad, on Exit festival. My first time in Srbija, but it was not a culture shock, because I was a few times in Bosna, Cazin :D drugačije sam slovenac, puno ljudi znam iz bivše juge, sa svima imam dobar odnos. Bilo mi je drago u novom sadu, i bas mi se svidjao, ja i koleginica bili smo u centru, tačno preko mosta kad kreneš od petrovardinske tvrdzave.. Ako Bog da, dodjemo i sledeče godine :) love your content, pozdrav iz Slovenije.
Dodjite!❤ Haters gonna hate, a mi cemo se super druziti na Exitu 2024🎉
You started with English, then went to Serbian and then ended with Anglorbian.
Jebote 🤦♂
Slovenci su honorary Srbohrvati
@@Mastakilla91 Yes. Let's hope they take it as an honor, too. 😅
I like to call all of us Yugoslavs, and talk about Yugoslavia as a geographic-cultural area with different nations sharing many similarities, genetic, historical, culture, sports, food, music, etc, in the same sense one would talk about Scandinavia and Scandinavians, without it ever being an actual state.
And yes, Norwegians were with Hitler in WW2 and Swedes with the Allies, and yes the Danes are too close to the Western Europe to be included in the Northern Europe, and yes the Finns speak weird, but one would not be too off to call them all Scandinavian. The same with us, the people (s) from the Triglav mountain peak just under the Austrian Alpes to the Vardar river towards Greece. One wouldn't be terribly wrong to call us Yugoslavian.
You know what I mean?
@@wauliepalnuts6134 bitno da razumiješ :)
living ironically in europe WILL make a video about the things he LOVEDS about living in SERBIA
Gunther Fehlinger WILL SEETHE and Vuvic WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD
Ne znam koliko ljudi te prati iz Srbije ali kad vide ovo, teško tebi.. Svaka ti je na mestu, bravo. Napokon ćeš dobiti subscribe.
Napustio on Srbiju ;)
Aj ne kenjaj, Dušane.
To sto ce se neki retard uvrijedit sta covijek govori o negativnim stranama nase kulture nikog nije briga.
@@wauliepalnuts6134poltron.
As a hungarian, our cities and towns are decaying too. There’s a small village not far from Nyíregyháza called Nagyszállás. There are 3 completely abandoned “ruins” of tobaco dryers (I think that is how you call them). In addition there was a school in the village, now it is completely burried by vegetation and is roamed by gypsies and the homeless.
Loved the video but we need one for the good things too
Also as a person that lives in the blocks I gotta say I agree with everything you said about them
Ej bate, kolko za peticu? XD
Do you know the back song at 7:31?
@@enverhoxha545can’t recognize it at the moment
Hey Man! Love your videos! I don't know if you saw but a news outlet from Romania made an article about you. Just to show the lack of research and the stupidity of some of our outlets, they named the article "Critiques of an *AMERICAN* in love with Romania". I tried posting the article but the comment gets deleted, I guess YT take me as a spammer. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your adoptive city, which is also my birthplace. Keep up the good work brate!
Maybe replace the dots with the brackets
I do want to see a Part 2. Tell us what you think is awesome about Serbia 😊.
The section 'departments' at the airport is awesome.
Everything in this video applies to Romania as well, bureaucracy especially. I've also visited Greece and noticed the same things there. I'm starting to think we all live the exact same lives in the balkans.
Greece is different from the rest of the Balkans...
@@salmarcano4057 Nah I've been there, life really is the same and it has the bad things you find in the rest of the balkans. The only different thing is the coasts. It has the most beautiful coasts in the world, along with Albania, Croatia and Montenegro, but Greece's are slightly nice, but the rest of the balkans makes up for its lack of beautiful coasts with the most beautiful mountains covered in raw nature.
@@BltchErica dude I live there and I can tell you it's quite different from the rest of region..
@@salmarcano4057 Have you been to the rest of the region? 😂 It seems you just don't wanna accept that Greece is like the rest of the Balkans. Everyone in the Balkans wants to believe they are western European. Greece is just as messy as the rest of the balkans, I can assure you, there is decrepit urban infrastructure everywhere, like messed up roads, supporting beams barely bolted into the ground, it's dirty in many places, there are trashy uneducated people in the countryside, public workers are half assed, there are people who will try to squeeze your money in stores, employees have bad service etc. And while I haven't experienced Greece bureaucracy first hand I know that Greece is corrupt and has slow painful bureaucracy because everyone else who lives there says so, and generally when the average worker you meet has this certain attitude of working slow and with spite, it means the people working public bureaucratic jobs are even worse. Trust me I live in Western Europe and Greece and every other balkanic country is nothing compared to the conditions in the West. And Greece isn't what it was in the 90s. Romania is richer than Greece by GDP by ~30% currently and has had a huge decline in corruption, and the bureaucracy is still fairly bad, so Greece likely has it worse if you think logically.
@@BltchErica Well I've been to Bulgaria and friends of me have been to Romania, no one of was felt familiar in other balkan countries...
As for Greece being Western Europe it absolutely is , maybe you should check our recent history. Well no one in balkans wants to be considered Western European where did you found that??
And as for Romania they're GDP is actually higher but when it comes to GDP per capita Greece still perfomes better (imagine saying that india has better economy than Italy only because of GDP) , also you need to know that many Romanians live here like many others balkaners who moved to Greece after the communsm...
In conclusion Greece has very little in common with the rest of region and things such bad roads or burocracy are more like universal...
I was in a long-distance relationship with a guy from Serbia, I got to visit Belgrade and Subotica which was an amazing experience. The food and wine was so delicious and the landscapes were also quite beautiful. Sure, got to see a lot of commie buildings but overall the experience was unforgettable.
On the other hand these blocks are surprisingly comfortable on the inside. When you visit someone living in one, be sure that the place will fell like home. I moved from one long ago, but it always feels like that.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 the Yugoslav commie blocks actually look quite decent in my opinion, it's just that they're often a bit run down on the outside. They often feature a few details that make them interesting in comparison to the Soviet commie blocks, which in turn look very, very mass produced.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Didn't get a chance to step inside of one. I loved the architecture of the shopping district in Subotica. If I ever visit Serbia again, I will step inside of an commie building lol I was just mentioning it since Janos makes fun of the commie buildings in his videos all the time
@@joannagallegos8055 And he is in the right. Due do *certain* events they are indeed run down, after all they were meant to house all the people who lost their house or lived in literal barracks, until proper housing is build (which never came btw). All these building are already above their original lifespan, the fact that they collapse only during gas explosions or other similar violent events is a testament to soviet architects. And they could be renovated (at least in russia) by the people living in them, to fix some of the age issues, like VERY old elevators or exterior concrete look.
I live in Munich. But I have seen worse blocks than any on New Belgrade. Stupidity like having a flat on 5th floor nut youbexit from internal corridor into outside balcony and enter the flat from outside??? Your flat doors are opened to the rain and cold! And flats are full of mold. Yes they are painted outside every 5 years, the elevator is new and maintained... Even inside, youbdo not have extra toilet like in Serbia. Your ceiling is 2,4 meters, 20 cm less than minimum in Serbia. You'd not have place for cloth washing machine. They have communal machine in washing room in basement. I make fun with themm that we were commis but theyvare bigger, cause we never washed dirty pants in the same machine
I have been to Serbia to check out if Serbian are brown like my 2$/hour Albanian model living in Hanoi said, turns out there are more blonde hair blue eyes light skin people in Belgrade than in Tirana. How funny that Albanian and Bosnian make memes like that when they're the brown.
Novi-Sad Serbians (northern part of Serbia) have strong Austro-Hungarian and German bloodlines I think. The south-east is Bulgarian. Belgrade is north-central so that kinda makes sense.
Yeah I read this a lot from Albanians who wanna hate (not that being darker is even an insult). Apparently it’s not basic knowledge that the farther south you go in the world the darker people are. Greeks are darker than North Macedonians who are darker than Serbs who are darker than Hungarians who are darker than Slovakians who are darker than Poles who are darker than Swedes. Maybe he forgot Albania is south of Serbia?🙄
I'm from Panama and you could've made this exact same video but replacing "Serbia" with "Panama" and it would've worked perfectly. 🤝
We, the romanian people, members of your adoptive country Romania, demand that you make a second part about stuff you love about beautifull Serbia.
We will not take NO for an answer.
Stopping! First you are receive a shining reviow of 10 Romania fects brother
@@sidimightbe3246We had a lot about Romania on this channel brother. Now we wish to see about our serbian brothers too. My thirst for knowledge about Serbia is great.
@@Vlad_-_-_ we will be quenching!
I have been to Serbia a few times now and I actually like your commie blocks :-). They're way more imposing than ours in the Czech Republic.
This also, especially the bureaucracy and politics parts, applies to my beloved homecountry, the home of strangely speaking middle-Asians and Gyulyás/Goulasch, also known as Hungary.
im serbian and i went to hungary earlier this year and it was rly nice :))
Home of wonderful pálinka too!
As Bulgaria who haves some distant Serbian relatives i can say Bulgaria and Serbia are just too similar. For example when we are at my grandparents home in Bregovo (Bulgaria) we sometimes love to ride a bicycle to Negotin (Serbia) because it only takes 30 minute to reach it and feels like i never left Bulgaria just because we are that similar.
Сърбите са ни предатели.
I also had that feeling in Bulgaria. Miroslav Ilic everywhere and Srbska skara as best gril in Rila mountains. Just stupid politics, iron curtain... the border places died because of border being closed. We could have much better history regarding Macedonia where both sides were pushing people. I am ashamed that in mine 44 years I have watched only one Bulgarian movie about some guy who traveled by train to Europe in 19th century making fun even on Serbians :) We need more culture exchange. It is shame that we know a lot about Slovenia 500 km from Serbia 3 times smaller nation than our close neighbors
I do want to hear what you love about Sebia! I only spent a day there playing a concert in Novi Sad and loved every second of it. (The fact that I met people within my own subculture might distort the picture quite a bit, but still.)
Yes, we want part 2 plz. Thank you very much for the video :)
I'm german I don't know much about the daily life in serbia. I'd love to have the positive side of this video too.
Also great content as always.
The best thing living in Serbia is also the worst. You get a pass for being a douche but consequently everyone is one lol.
@@bagira1989 touché! XD
I just hate how kids just are normal untill 5th grade then they bring a fucking knife/gun/something that can go boom I can't go to school peacefully
You know what's really ironic? Here in Macedonia we consider we only have five really good friends! That's right, the other five X Yugoslav Republics!
I swear to God half of the city decay footage is just Gary, IN
God bless Serbia for blessing us with so much hilarious nationalism and architecture
Can't believe a big city like Belgrade doesn't have a subway. Transport must be terrible.
Well, the most concerning thing for me air pollution caused by frequent stubble burnings, so if you live in a rural place there is no hope for you. It's heavily affecting my life since I have several chronic respiratory conditions, which only get worse with time. It would be cool if authorities could do something instead of just shrugging. I think the least I deserve as a human being is clean air and not to die of cancer.
I have been living in Serbia since September and I can relate to all you said in your video XD
I loved this!! I hope you’ll make a part 2, would love to get to know the nice things about serbia too!!
Love Serbiaaaaaa 🇷🇴❤️❤️🇷🇸 and Kosovo e Serbia
I’m very impressed by the “menopausal monsters” characterisation! You really nail everything!
A pékségek nagyon jók voltak. Magyarországon a töltelék csak névleges mindenben, aztán Belgrádban meg néztem, hogy: Baszki, amire az van írva, hogy lekváros, az meg van pakolva tényleg lekvárral, és talán nem az a normális, ami itthon van :)
Szegeden van egy Szerb pékség, Csiga pékség. Ott is ilyen, a mákos bukta több mint fele mák :D Még jó hogy szeretem. A lekvársokkal ugyanez. Ha erre jársz próbáld ki, a vasútállomásnál található.
Az arabok példát vehetnének :D
@@atesz567 Nem tudom, miért, de régen volt itt a boltban olyan diós tekercs, ami iszonyat finom volt, a dió édes, jó ízű volt benne, sok volt benne, és még lekvár is volt benne. Jó lenne olyat találni valahol...
Burek.
Gotta be honest, I would have expected this to be a longer video. Especially since your new home, Romania is full of hot Vampire girls, and there are a distinct lack of those in Serbia unfortunately...
Good, seems like our propaganda works!
Maybe we'll have more of those when the average Serb doesn't loose his mind when he encounters anyone who doesn't conform to the "norm". But it seems all goth and vamp girls will leave the country before that ever happens lol
show some examples, what are Vampire girls.
Goths, dark-eyed or green-eyed dark-haired femme-fatales that look svelte and hot.@@Mastakilla91
You nailed it 101% with the bureucrasy. The worst part of it is that verification of a health card is a walk in a park in comparison with some of corners of bureaucrasy hell.
For someone who is Bosnian like me I kinda relate to the issue you mentioned.
Wasted my life living in Bosnia for over 20 years
Missed a bunch of stuff outside of the country and could never see my favourite DJ ever again because he died tragically.
The Culture and Insane food that offer the post-Yugoslav country are amazing
The hate towards each other is what drove me away from it towards Germany.
At least I can earn myself something nice and wont miss out on events that I should have attended long ago.
Yes I would love to see more as well as to criticize the rest for they own fault to learn they mistakes.
The waiting in line shit is a problem.
I went to get out my ID card a while back and the center near my house was crowded,could have easily taken me 3 hours.
Instead i went to the other side of the city,a 45 mins walk to get it,waited for 10 mins only.
Were my legs destroyed? NO.
Was it worth going to the other side of the city? YES.
Well...when its not closed by *some* absolutely unknown reason. At least stick a note damnit!
First and only time I have left Beograd city center I got bit by a dog and had to go to a hospital where no-one spoke English. Otherwise a nice city 🤷
Serbia was not like that .
Young generation are fond of dogs .
They think it is some kind of western life .
But they like only young dogs .
The older ones are left in streets .
I have been to Serbia as a tourist. Great people, very welcoming, with big personality and with a temperament. The hotel we were staying in was four stars, but it should only be two stars. It had subpar accommodation and slow service, as the rest of the establishment we went, and with everybody saying: "Samo polako," except on the party raft where as soon as you made a step away from the assigned table there was a staff sending you back to your table. But I was expecting subpar accommodation and slow service, because this is part of the Balkan experience, the same way that sightseeing is.
Visited Serbia last week. The cold weather made the vibe worse 😂 just need to replace half of the buildings that look abandoned and the roads.
the guy with the hammer is a genius for figuring out how to play it like a gajda
i dunno if romania is serbia 2.0 or serbia is romania 2.0 but these 2 sure have a lot in common
The architecture part of this video is so true, I go to a highschool in Novi Sad which happens to be in the center of the city. Everytime I pass the center I’m always amazed at how beautiful the buildings are and how it’s sad that there are so little of them anywhere else. Coming back to my house which happens to be in the outskirts of the city is the most depressing part of my trip because of how fast the beauty of my surroundings disappear.
I have been to Serbia twice and I love it, cool people.
At least the Music is Rad and Warcrime pilled
When i was in serbia last summer i was in my fathers home in serbia which was intact and in the country side,the other neighbours left to go to the town when they got old so it was just my fathers house.I went into the neighbours house and the walls were falling apart but i got a wooden basket and travel certifacate from croatia so yeah
Edit:its in kriva reka
As a finnish person who hasn't gone south from Helsinki, I'm so proud of being Serbian!
When I and my uncle's family came to Serbia for vacation, my experience was that "the Serbian people love to make fun of and joke about politics, their lives and stories, and other things surrounding their situation." In fact, they love to really drink beers after work, and for me, it was a fun experience in City of Novi Sad. And lastly, Jagoštica is the best mount place to have some peace and beer. With some rural people there, I like their hospitality and they give me some foods and drinks for free, even though I am an Asian foreigner.
As a south american this feels like home
The Balkans, the place that loves to build but is allergic to maintaining.
Also the place that produces more history that it can consume yata yata yata you know the drill.
I am Turkish citizen with Serbian origins, Applied Serbian citizenship through decent 7 years ago and still waiting to be a citizen 😂 🤪
I sure did not expect Asterix & Obelix camel in Living Ironically video
Friendly neighborhood reminder that one year ago today, "Balkan Stereotypes Explained- Yugoslavia" was uploaded
Few years ago, I've pass through Serbia on my merry way to Greece. Stayed a night in Nis... And oh boy ... you perfectly described it... Then again it looked like any cities in Romania in the 90's... Somehow we progressed... God knows how...
LIKE SOMEONE WHO LIVE IN NIS I GOTTA TELL YOU that you are full of shit.
That sweet eu money
@@MyaB1986 yep ; the eu made a big difference for us ; that's why you guys should stay away from russia and fallow us in the eu.
Bureaucracy is the same in Romania and things like buildings crumbling are common in a big part of Romania. If it's better than in Serbia then it's probably not by much.
@@BltchErica Even the he wealthiest countries in Europe have parts like this,I am Romanian and I lived in Western Europe for the last 16 years
Public transport is an utter disaster. Also, not only litter on the streets but air pollution is a big problem, especially in winter time.
I total there aren't a lot of things in Serbia that need to be changed, but of those things that should be, there must be some radical changes to benefit society as a whole.
You know it is a good day when you make homemade Sarmale, and LIiE uploads another video.
@LivingIronicallyinEurope PLEASE make a cooking video on how to make the perfect Romanian Sarmale some day.
Cheers from Belgium ⬛🟨🟥