FOREIGNERS ABOUT SERBIA | Canadian Expat In Belgrade 8K views 2 weeks ago; 44:55 min.

FOREIGNERS ABOUT SERBIA | Canadian Expat In Belgrade 8K views 2 weeks ago; 44:55 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ_2fPfAiis
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Russianvagabond
4.11K subscribers
What foreigners think about living in Serbia? How is life in Belgrade, Serbia as a remote worker? In this video me and my international colleague, Tal, from Support Adventure chat about life in Serbia and, of course, Tal's experience in this country. He has been living here for a while and has a lot of great experiences with Serbia and its people.
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Voyager
2 weeks ago (edited)
Serbia is a country that was demonized for decades in the whole world. Besides Russia and Middle Eastern countries, Serbia is probably a country that has been presented in the darkest light in the American media and Hollywood movies above all. That is why people like foreigners here and are curious about them, because the Serbs are not used to someone liking them, they are used to prejudice and hatred sadly.

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Frost Flower
Frost Flower
2 weeks ago
Why should Serbia join the EU? I hope never. Norway isn't in the EU and they are just fine.

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Kristina Ostrolucanin
Kristina Ostrolucanin
2 weeks ago
You are very nice people, and because of that I need to tell you that Kosovo’s real name is Kosovo and Metohija, second part of the name - Metohija can be translated as land owned by monasteries and churches under the Serbian orthodox Church real estate system since 14th century. Metohija is actually bigger part of Kosovo and Metohija. Western media “somehow” forget this fact.
Kosovo and Metohija is part of Republic of Serbia. 🙂

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UltimusLogos
UltimusLogos
2 weeks ago
Wow that was fast. We wanted interviews with expats, and she immediately delivered! Respect.

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X V X
X V X
2 weeks ago
27:13 Haha, you don't need to "count" anything if you don't eat meat, who told you that? :) I'm from Belgrade and I've been vegan for the last 25 years, and from my experience being vegan in Belgrade isn't difficult or complicated at all. The food I'm interested in is cheap and easily available and I definitely don't count calories, proteins, vitamins or anything else and despite that I'm perfectly healthy. And I'm not weak either, I can do pull-ups and stuff like that, just like a "normal" Serbian guy. :) Yes, there are less meat and cheese substitutes available in the supermarkets comparing to the Western Europe, but this type of food is highly processed, usually not particularly healthy and it's definitely not necessary. I mostly stick to unprocessed foods and buy majority of my food at Zeleni Venac and similar markets and health food stores which you can find at every corner. Overall, I would say that Belgrade is a fairly vegan-friendly city. I think foreigners get a wrong impression that Serbian cuisine is exclusively meat based because they go to restaurants a lot and we don't have many fancy-ass vegan restaurants like Berlin for instance. However, typical Serbian folks very rarely eat at restaurants and if you look at the stats, average meat consumption per capita is way lower in Serbia than in Germany or the USA. Serbian Orthodox Church is pretty strict when it comes to fasting and there are about 200 days during the year where adherents are required to eat exclusively vegan (with the exception of fish), so plant-based food is also a big part of Serbian tradition along with animal-based meals. If you see in a food store that something is labeled as "posno/посно", that basically means it is vegan. And on another note, f*ck the EU. I hope Serbia will never join.

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Dragan Markovic
Dragan Markovic
2 weeks ago
About why are Serbs so welcoming. I think it's a bit complex but I will try to give you some reasons for it, in my opinion of course.
Traditions. Being a good host is deeply rooted in Serbian tradition, from the time we accepted Christianity or even before, it was believed that any guest might be, and now legends vary, St Sava, Jesus, God, Holy Spirit or your dead ancestor so you should treat any guest accordingly, especially if they come to your house. To be a good host is to give your guest all the best you have. As recent as few decades back it was common in villages that people have a guest room which is the best room in the house, with best furniture, ornaments etc. So you even had people sleeping in beds mad of straw who had a guest room with all the best stuff available...
Economy. We are still relatively poor nation and people don't travel as much, so meeting foreigners is good window to the rest of the world.
Recent events. We had a lot bad propaganda against us as people and our country so people here are excited to show that that isn't true.
Patriotism. People often see themselves as representatives of our nation and we think that being good towards foreigners is patriotic thing to do, especially proving western propaganda wrong.

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Wrc
Wrc
2 weeks ago (edited)
I'm also from Canada i would love to move to Serbia but the only thing stopping me is the work situation I'm not a digital nomad and jobs in Serbia are not that good .
Love Serbia 🇷🇸

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Tzar
Tzar
2 weeks ago
Kosovo is Serbia, that's why Serbian people doesn't want to join EU
And why Kosovo is "independent"
It is because of mines full of lithium (battery product) and U.S. have control over it.

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justoneserb
justoneserb
2 weeks ago
All the best to you, our sweet, beautiful Russian sister! 😍❤🇷🇸❤🇷🇺

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BeeboiZam
BeeboiZam
2 weeks ago
CHIANG MAI GANG REPRESENT!!!!!! :D Been to Belgrade and absolutely loved the city and country too!

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Aleksander Zivkovic
Aleksander Zivkovic
2 weeks ago
Your guest is really smart guy 👏🏼

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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
2 weeks ago (edited)
Good video and discussion. If Serbia managed to grow and improve its infrastructure so far without the EU membership, then it should stay away from joining the EU. Serbia should stay diplomatic with the west, but also stay as independent as possible and continue doing business with Russia and China. It was not too far long ago in 1999 that pretty much everyone turned its back on Serbia and Serbs should not forget that. Be nice with its neighbors and everyone, but continue focusing on national interest and its citizens for a better future.

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Shadow L
Shadow L
2 weeks ago
depending how long you stay there, I might one day see you in real life 🙂

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Ярослав Сербскй
Ярослав Сербскй
2 weeks ago
Поздравляю вас 🇷🇺💖🇷🇸

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Johnny D
Johnny D
2 weeks ago
Бањалучки (Бања Лука) ћевапи су много бољи. Био на оба места и лично проверио. :о)

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Aleksander Zivkovic
Aleksander Zivkovic
2 weeks ago
"Kolko košta"

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delija67717
delija67717
2 weeks ago (edited)
Shortly , Serbia is excellent place to live if you have money flow from somewhere else so you don't have to WORK in Serbia . Government of Serbia probably introduce that opportunity to become Serbian citizen by buying real estate property because every year about 65 000 Serbs (mostly young people ) go to some other countries in search for good paying jobs (including myself). Serbia right now is going nicely forward and me as a Serb hoping it will continue that way unless " BIG PLAYERS" in the world decide that it's time for another WAR in the "BALKAN POWDER KEG". Unfortunately many times those big players push Balkan people into senseless wars and we were stupid to do it . Hopefully Serbs and other people in the region finally learn the lesson . Just one question : Would Switzerland or Canada be what they are right now if they had a wars every 50 years like Serbia and they have to start from zero every 50 years ??? Belgrade was destroyed many, many times . 1941 destroyed by Nazis ,1945 by Red Army and Americans to kick out Germans . Cheers from Serb in Canada.

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ЉВ Ј
ЉВ Ј
1 week ago
Interesting conversation, thanks! Avala and Kosmaj are mountains just nominally, without a real mountain feel, more like big hills. There are fantastic mountain hikes, very diverse, just look for mountaineering sites/Facebook pages for very popular day-excursions. Best rule of thumb is to explore and/or join a local who can provide good quality info.

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Marko Matic
Marko Matic
2 weeks ago
Make some serbian invite you to Slava, you will experience best home domestic food and drinks. Every foreigner is delighted with Slava. Thanks for promoting our country good people :)

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B Jankovic
B Jankovic
1 week ago
This guys are so cute. 😍❤


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Kirk Ng
Kirk Ng
2 weeks ago
Very good video.Thanks

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Богдан Весић
Богдан Весић
2 days ago
Привет, добро пожаловать в Сербию.


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Dejan Lazic
Dejan Lazic
2 weeks ago
Nowhere will you experience such kindness and hospitality as in Serbia. Especially if you are Russian, here is love for Russia and everything that is Russian.

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XWolven
XWolven
4 days ago (edited)
Do they happen to have any Goth/Darkwave type clubs still in Belgrade? I know they are much harder to find these days.



sasa anic
sasa anic
1 day ago
Izgleda da ce te u Srbiji ostati duze vreme zbog Pandemije zaglavljeni i naravno trositi pare ovde..Pozdrav za Anu..


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Biswaranjan Nandi
Biswaranjan Nandi
2 weeks ago
I like the conversations. Could gather good knowledge of Serbia and the Serbians.. thanks.

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ЉВ Ј
ЉВ Ј
1 week ago
Zeleni venac is actually the smallest of those markets you mentioned. Bailonieva is bigger, and Kalenic the biggest. Make sure that you go there at weekends when they are richest.


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Petar Majstor
Petar Majstor
1 week ago
Come to Zrenjanin l will show you the city, beautiful architecture here.


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Alain A
Alain A
1 week ago
Met tal in Chiang Mai, great guy. He was already telling about his experiences in Serbia.


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Robert Milaković
Robert Milaković
1 week ago
I didn't know that in Germany you need to make PCR tst in order to go to hair dresser... I always considered those people a little sick...
Nicely said... in Serbia( Balkans) people live in order to live, not in order to work, like in Germany or in "developed world".
Belgrade was not part of Austrian-Hungarian empire ;)
Some economic experts wouldn't agree at all that it would be good for Serbia to enter EU... En contraire... they would say it would be catatrofic for serbian economy...

Yeah, Serbia and balcanic countries are not so multicultural like Amsterdam/ Germany and other "developed world", so foreigners are still considered exotic... and Russians are considered more like brothers than like foreigners...
In Serbia bars opened until 20h only? haha... In Croatia until 22h....:D :D

To add some interesting information, which maybe you didn't know... Sweden, Belarus and Bosnia Herzegovina didn't have at all covid madness restrictions or had minimum of minimum... still, In all european countries people followed orders form the government, except in Italy. Italians massivly opened bars and restaurants evan government didn't allow it... Itlians are most freeedom fighter people in Europe. :) when we talk about covid madness restrictions...
Yeah, on Balkans we don't care so much about rules and discipline...

Belgrade people are well known for putting accent on being relaxed and humor.

I was thinking, maybe if in Serbia salaries are like in Germany, nobody would live in Germany... haha.... I'm just being mean now... I don't know if I succeded to comment on everything I wanted. You said a lot of information.

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Aleks 🌴
Aleks 🌴
2 weeks ago
Good video💪🏻

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Dimitri Kozlovski
Dimitri Kozlovski
2 weeks ago
Привет!

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Sasa Vuckovic
Sasa Vuckovic
2 weeks ago
This guy (before he travels somewhere) has an apartment he can cook (catch him while you can) ;)

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zatara wood
zatara wood
2 weeks ago (edited)
Respect for being vegetarian for a while Tal) Give it another try ... if you like Indian food and can cook then you have tons of options. good shout on the vegan options in Serbia)) & well done for telling Anna that those misconceptions about vegetarianism are false as proven by vegetarian and vegans in modern pro sport for instance) I do understand these ideas coming from Russia though as due to climate meat and dairy is a predominant part of historic diet.


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Blagoje UK
Blagoje UK
2 weeks ago
What are those places ex pats foreigners..names?



Branislav Djuric
Branislav Djuric
2 weeks ago
How many times your guest has been killed in Belgrade? Westerners usually say that.



Frost Flower
Frost Flower
2 weeks ago
25:00 A lot of Serbians are turning towards less meat and grease for health reasons. They are filling their sarmas with meatless products. They make it at home .

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igi pop
igi pop
2 weeks ago
Canadians need to see how USA steal riches in Serbia and to recall how they got aim on Alberta so defend yourself defending Serbia..or they will nick your oil

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bbsantic
bbsantic
2 weeks ago
Ah, new boyfriend. Nice.
(This is a high quality joke which is a result of former comments about Eric being a boyfriend)



zpetar
zpetar
2 weeks ago
For native population that fast change is not always positive experience.

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carick235
carick235
2 weeks ago (edited)
City of Subotica have around 100,000 today, just to correct him saying it has 20k. But he was close to the truth, Subotica at the beginning of 20th century had a larger population than Belgrade, but Belgrade experienced big growth after it became the capital of Yugoslavia in 1918 (from 80k in 1914 to 350k before WW2 started), and Subotica from a major town in big Austro-Hungary empire became border town but it still remained important in Yugo era and now.

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Драган Аврамов
Драган Аврамов
2 weeks ago
Снова голый пупок?

В феврале?

Мда... Мне бы хотелось поговорить с твоими родителями...



Pekar Fliga
Pekar Fliga
2 weeks ago
Hallo meine wunderschöne Russin😘Die Serbische Küche ist sehr gut aber auch fettig sprich das Essen hat viel Kalorien trotzdem nach dem Essen viel Sport das ist mein Tipp 😘😉paka paka


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Богдан Весић
Богдан Весић
2 days ago
Пожалуйста говорите по русски.



suki376
suki376
2 weeks ago
It is such a wrong and inappropriate to see New Belgrade as some communist/socialist/soviet look like city as it have nothing to do with it. "New Belgrade developed on Le Corbusier's principles of the "sun city", which includes many green areas and infrastructure which can easily be upgraded. In general, city developed in the style of urban modern architecture and is considered to be a major representative of that style, along with Brasilia in Brazil, Chandigarh in India and Velenje in Slovenia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Belgrade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

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Miroslav Cerni
Miroslav Cerni
2 weeks ago
in one of the videos you've mentioned you wana know more abouth other Balkan nations. So there is a litle sample of our neighbors Croats. I think that song fits your profile name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7z-t23uhqY


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SveVid
SveVid
2 weeks ago
No offence but Tofu and Tempeh is NOT healthy food



Robert Zander
Robert Zander
2 weeks ago
The question is what cheap means and what you expect from the aera you life. Is the money you get for your work low as well as the costs of living. Vienna is more expensive of course, but i can do a lot of things as well on a high standard and very dependable and with an annual pass you use the public transportation for 1Euro a day and that's definitely cheap for the size of the city.
Serbia was a country behind the Iron curtain and has a different history, so the change to higher European standard is obvious, you can see that in Poland, the Czech Republic and of course in former East Germany. Berlin is the city that is never finished in total and if you could see older pictures and what it looks like now it's very different. But not every part of a city or country will change, that's the kind of identity you have for a lot of places.
A lovely friend lives in the city Olomouc in the Czech Republic, you can see all the different influences as well, modern buildings with a lot of glass, beside of an old train station in a more typical communist style with a red star in front of the building.
And why should somebody like to change the beautiful city centre of Vienna, it's also an important view into the past, it's a cultural treasure. Buildings that offer art in different ways designed hundreds of years ago as one of the oldest cities in the world. Use the things you have and music has a long history in Vienna and offers a lovely feeling with a well educated crowd listening to you. Millions of students from around the world come to Vienna for a reason. A lot of cities in Europe are more diverse than a lot of people would think about. And every country, every region has his pros and cons and it's on us the find the best for living and it's on us how welcomed we are feeling.


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vizeet srivastava
vizeet srivastava
2 weeks ago (edited)
Immigrants always create jobs. It's wrong thinking that immigrants take jobs. This thinking is prevalent in the whole world. Immigrants bring new ideas... they demand food, they demand clothes.. they create market...

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F Robinson
F Robinson
2 days ago
Serbia is not necessarily cheap for Serbs



Georgije Papadopulou
Georgije Papadopulou
2 weeks ago
Kosovo is not a country, respect that if you are staying in Serbia and if you are welcomed. Respect Constitution of Serbia, you should be in jail for saying that but im not a police or goverment.

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jovan jelic
jovan jelic
2 weeks ago
What percentage of Russians are true Russinas and what percentage are askenazic and crypto-askenazic jews?

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Kai B
Kai B
2 weeks ago
Young Lady you are doing everything wrong. You should be socializing and meeting SERBS and not some foreigners from other countries. You should be learning Serbian culture and Serbian language and the best way to do this is to be around Serbs.

You are in Belgrade but you don't have any contacts with the locals and for me that is stupid and doesn't make any sense. Go find some Serbian girls and guys to be friends with. Good Luck!!!

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Thomas Grevdis
Thomas Grevdis
2 weeks ago
You have lost Kosovo forever 😂😂😂 AL XK

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Risbo Lensky
Risbo Lensky
2 weeks ago
Well Azeris regained Naghorno Karabakh and many though they lost it forever . "Forever" doesn't exist baba 🖕 😂

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Коментатор СРБ
Коментатор СРБ
2 weeks ago
We will see who lost it :)

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Thomas Grevdis
Thomas Grevdis
2 weeks ago
@Risbo Lensky How do you think to take it back while The U.S. military base is there ? 😂

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Risbo Lensky
Risbo Lensky
2 weeks ago
@Thomas Grevdis You think that US base will be there forever? Think again. Americans are about to run from Afghanistan after 20 years 😂

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Bearded Elder
Bearded Elder
2 weeks ago (edited)
Sorry but you (your guests too) are completely disconnected in regards to Serbia and its foreign and domestic politics, standards, people, etc. I don't know what locals are feeding you with, but it is pretty useless. I wouldn't even know where to begin regarding everything said in the video. I hope you'll learn if you stay longer. But that would require reading on it and not consuming local media. I wouldn't lean much on locals too and on foreigners who spent time here especially.



wakanda
wakanda
2 weeks ago
Ditto!



Dragan L
Dragan L
2 weeks ago
There is also possibility that you are disconnected although you probably live i Serbia. I guess, you never went out of it, so you compare Serbia with your imaginary world.



Bearded Elder
Bearded Elder
2 weeks ago
@Dragan L There is no such possibility since I invested a lot of my time to inform myself on the topic. And even if I didn't bother at all, I would still know way more than an average foreigner who decided to give it a go in Serbia just a few months ago. Regarding locals, vast majority knows nothing about politics which is confirmed through elections and general position the country is in for the last 20-30 years.