For those who might be interested. :smile: My motto is that knowing the right information helps in making the right decisions. And mine is to offer. :cool:
For the beginning, an amazing motion time-lapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKXSgXNl8w
Impressions of an European I suppose, I don't know why was he paying in dollars, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpwIlB8Yr98
Charles Cather is an American who has moved to Serbia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f1f0ih-sk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ko26LfVYho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhDrqfni2Gc
And a cute Aussie couple for the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3mEiNOtFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_c4gRps6kY
Cliff notes: Is it good or bad?
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on February 25, 2018, 08:00:56 AM
Cliff notes: Is it good or bad?
They're white, it must be evil. :biggrin:
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on February 25, 2018, 08:00:56 AM
Cliff notes: Is it good or bad?
It depends on each individual.
I keep it simple: is it generally safe enough to visit or live? I hope they don't become "invaded" to the point where they become a lost cause.
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on February 25, 2018, 08:26:32 AM
I keep it simple: is it generally safe enough to visit or live? I hope they don't become "invaded" to the point where they become a lost cause.
Well, in short, safe enough to visit or live. You are absolutely safe on the streets anytime day or night, because there is no street crime and you can't get robbed on the street, but you can get pickpocketed usually by some Gypsy if you are in a crowd of people and you are not situationally aware, you must always know where your wallet and cell phone are.
Now, a bit longer version. If you are a foreign tourist and you show respect, you will be treated like a god or a king, because there is a tradition of hospitality, especially towards foreigners, and there is a traditional belief that a guest is God in disguise who came to test us. Speaking of Belgrade, April is considered the most beautiful month, especially during the week when all the trees are in bloom and get those white and pink flowers with the sweet scents everywhere around. Summer is very hot. Nowadays, there is practically no fall, because you switch from summer shirts and shorts to winter coats. But we have had very nice and temperate and beautiful falls some 20-30 years ago. Winters can be either temperate with little snow, or very cold with lots of snowing, it depends on the year, but we have extremely cold and strong winds during winter. Young people usually speak English good enough, and they are willing to socialise with you and show you around. There are tons of history and stories to tell. Tasty food, cheap drinks, cheap accommodation. (And also cheap whores, if a wealthy foreigner is into buying gifts.)
Now, to live, it gets even more complicated. It is a real nightmare to start and run a private business, because you must be paying racket to the politicians in power, otherwise they will figure out how to not allow you to register your private business, or how to shut it down. The juridical system is totally corrupted, and if you are in the court, you can't expect a just verdict, or even your case to be solved at all, people are suing each other for years and decades with no verdict in sight, and to sue the government sounds like a bad joke. But if you are a native speaker of some foreign language, you can easily get some job which requires perfectly spoken foreign language. If you wish to permanently settle and become a Serb, it is acceptable if you racially belong to any range of white or brown, and even some yellowish could be fine, but if you are fully yellow or black, then it would sound just like a good joke. There are good and bad neighborhoods, so you would have to figure out a good one which fits you. We tend to be good to foreigners, but bad to our own neighbors. We also tend to believe that we are a caring and generous and Heavenly people and that Jesus himself is a Serb, while in reality we are very selfish individualists, and most people will more sincerely believe in yoga or in some kind of magical spell rather than in Christ. We are not poor, and we have never been a third world country, we are just broke at the moment, only because our corrupted politicians are stealing billions of Euros per year from the people and transferring them into their foreign bank acounts, otherwise the country itself could become extremely rich if allowed. But not being much wealthy can also save us from Muslim migrants, thousands of them are in transit over Serbia every day, but none of them wants to remain here, because they are heading towards rich EU countries. A robber always searches for the richest house to rob. Our corrupted government is already accepting all Gypsies expelled from the EU, and they have agreed with the EU to accept several hundred thousand of illegal immigrants, but I am not sure that plan can be accomplished in reality. Anyways, our population is declining like in every Western European country because of the low birth rate, and we will become a minority in our own country in the next 50 years, if things are not changed for the better.
And now, a cherry on top. :smile: If you can enjoy such a wedding, then you are truly one of us. :laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC_4zVBaXA
Quote from: milos on February 28, 2018, 03:18:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPC_4zVBaXA
Nice angle on the still pic to admire da bewbs.
Lol, just a random disoriented American wandering in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Serbia on the border with Romania, spectating the waves on the Beautiful Grey Danube, and walking to see a Medieval fortress.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYglsLy2Yk
Quote from: milos on April 08, 2018, 01:53:02 PM
Lol, just a random disoriented American wandering in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Serbia on the border with Romania, spectating the waves on the Beautiful Grey Danube, and walking to see a Medieval fortress.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Love his spirit!
Lol. :wub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbOpxpg_o1g
Pretty cool! I'd love to visit one day.
Quote from: Solar on October 10, 2020, 11:43:50 AM
Pretty cool! I'd love to visit one day.
Great, maybe this guy can inspire you even more. :thumbup: He's so realistic. I am amazed how foreigners can have such positive impressions, but as he stated, for the locals, who are earning around 350-400 USD per month in average, it is more tough to make it through the month, but for an American earning, say, 2000-3000 USD per month, it is a Paradise. I miss the Belgrade downtown streets he was filming on, I used to live near, some 5 minutes of walk from the center of the city, but now I live in a suburb, and it sucks, I need an hour of bus drive just to get there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3oUxx4hDg4
Quote from: milos on October 12, 2020, 03:44:36 AM
Great, maybe this guy can inspire you even more. :thumbup: He's so realistic. I am amazed how foreigners can have such positive impressions, but as he stated, for the locals, who are earning around 350-400 USD per month in average, it is more tough to make it through the month, but for an American earning, say, 2000-3000 USD per month, it is a Paradise. I miss the Belgrade downtown streets he was filming on, I used to live near, some 5 minutes of walk from the center of the city, but now I live in a suburb, and it sucks, I need an hour of bus drive just to get there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3oUxx4hDg4
Very weird, looks very much like Sacramento, only less crowded.
I have zero interest in cities, my interest lies in the culture and ancient history of an area. Cities are not where the real people live. :wink:
Quote from: Solar on October 12, 2020, 05:07:15 AM
Very weird, looks very much like Sacramento, only less crowded.
I have zero interest in cities, my interest lies in the culture and ancient history of an area. Cities are not where the real people live. :wink:
Well, it is my place of birth and my neighborhood, when I come there, the streets have special unique scent, and when I remember details from my childhood I get that warm feeling and become true me once again. There is also lot of ancient history in Belgrade, a city which is at least 6,000 years old. I love wilderness for a couple of weeks, and then I get bored and depressive. :smile: But you are right, real people live in the countryside. That is why the communists have forced people to move from villages to cities in order to spoil them. At first they needed rifles and forced industrialization, and in the last stage, parents were sending their children from villages to cities so that their children didn't need to work hard.
This is my Cetinjska Street where I was born and spent most of my life. There was an old brewery from mid 19th century right across the street, I remember the smell of hops down the street when I was going to school, but unfortunately in 2006 someone decided it should no longer work, so it was transformed into a hipster café area owned by criminals where human garbage come to get drunk and play loud music and make noise every night, so that my sister who still lives across the street and other neighbors can't sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l79sksG0x1o
Here, you've got a Wild West town in Western Serbia, and a French café in the middle of nowhere. It is funny how the people in the comments don't believe this lady she's French, because she speaks English with a Serbian accent. :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWenoiAzZNc
And if you seek for ancient history, then Lepenski Vir in Eastern Serbia is probably the oldest you can get in Europe, if we exclude some pyramids in Eastern Serbia and Bosnia. The pity is that the original location was flooded because of the hydro plant on the Danube River, and the town was moved a bit upwards, also large part of that Golubac Fortress lies under water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXI8E84i6PE
Sorry if I am being annoying, but I wanted to share the atmosphere and some info for you to know what is happening here. Yesterday, we had a second protest against "Covid" terror and the "pandemic" measures, against wearing masks and vaccination. Only around thousand people attended the protest, but it was a rainy day and so it was expected in a way, but more than 100,000 watched it live on internet, so in reality it is like more than 100,000 people were there. At the end, there was a traditional kolo dance once again, and also a dance to a song someone recorded which became a hit instantly, about a woman who doesn't trust in "Covid" and "Corona" and "world medicine", who believes viruses can't harm her, and doesn't want to receive a vaccine, but she is receiving something else, she had a close contact, and now she's walking twins. :lol: Marxist media are exploding, calling us lunatics, claiming that all of us will be "infected" in two weeks. :lol: I don't know, the previous protest was two weeks ago, so... :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zv6TA-nrdU
As my physics teacher used to say, Belgrade is the greatest village in Yugoslavia. :thumbsup:
A typical American girl Nwando :cool:, who lives in Serbia for a very long time now, talks about the languages in the Balkans. :lol: I must admit she's adorable, although every time I think of that, I imagine myself having black babies with her, and it's a nightmare every time :lol:, but she would make an amazing friend that's for sure, I love her spirit. :blush:
A Russian Youtuber living in Belgrade interviews an American who lives in Serbia for 10 years.
Is Serbia historically Soviet? Their speech sounds "Russian".
Jebiga!
I've seen his videos before, and the one thing I've always taken issue with is, his view point that the US is only a conglomeration of big cities. I highly doubt he visited the far North or the great plains.
Serbia is probably closer to small town America, laid back, friendly and welcoming.
For some weird reason, the Germans come to my area more than anyone else, and the one clash they have with us is, they can't grasp the idea of people building their own homes, walls, garages. I was told they think we're stealing trade jobs form people.
Typical socialist thinking.
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on July 03, 2024, 10:22:28 AMIs Serbia historically Soviet? Their speech sounds "Russian".
Jebiga!
Ha ha, it is Slavic language family, but not Soviet. :smile:
Quote from: Solar on July 03, 2024, 01:46:26 PMI've seen his videos before, and the one thing I've always taken issue with is, his view point that the US is only a conglomeration of big cities. I highly doubt he visited the far North or the great plains.
Serbia is probably closer to small town America, laid back, friendly and welcoming.
For some weird reason, the Germans come to my area more than anyone else, and the one clash they have with us is, they can't grasp the idea of people building their own homes, walls, garages. I was told they think we're stealing trade jobs form people.
Typical socialist thinking.
It is a way of thinking typical for peoples who traditionally respect the state and the law too much, like Germans and Russians do, so they are also more prone to dictatorship. On the other side, there are peoples who are more anarchist in their nature, like Serbs or Americans.
There is a famous example of some Serbs living in Germany. They went on camping in the woods with their German friends. So the Serbs decided to make a campfire. And the Germans went like: "Are you crazy?! It is forbidden to make a campfire in the woods!" And the Serbs were like: "So what? Nobody can see us." But the Germans decided to leave and not break the law.
Quote from: milos on July 09, 2024, 01:27:22 PMIt is a way of thinking typical for peoples who traditionally respect the state and the law too much, like Germans and Russians do, so they are also more prone to dictatorship. On the other side, there are peoples who are more anarchist in their nature, like Serbs or Americans.
There is a famous example of some Serbs living in Germany. They went on camping in the woods with their German friends. So the Serbs decided to make a campfire. And the Germans went like: "Are you crazy?! It is forbidden to make a campfire in the woods!" And the Serbs were like: "So what? Nobody can see us." But the Germans decided to leave and not break the law.
:bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl
Perfect example of German mentality, Vee mus follow ze rooles!
We have laws here as well, but it takes one to educate themselves rather than follow blindly.
Every summer media over blows our fire danger, every year the state put out the notice, that "All Fires Are Banned"
Problem is, the state can't make such rules according to our Constitution, when it comes to feeding oneself, that if you have a pot on a fire, you are not breaking the law.
Some people blindly follow whatever the media tells them, as if majority sets the rules.
You know, kind of how the left here claims we're a democracy. when we're anything but.
Quote from: Solar on July 10, 2024, 06:03:36 AM:bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl
Perfect example of German mentality, Vee mus follow ze rooles!
We have laws here as well, but it takes one to educate themselves rather than follow blindly.
Every summer media over blows our fire danger, every year the state put out the notice, that "All Fires Are Banned"
Problem is, the state can't make such rules according to our Constitution, when it comes to feeding oneself, that if you have a pot on a fire, you are not breaking the law.
Just a pot? :smile: You are being too modest. :cool:
Better a pork or a lamb. :thumbup: Like in this example from Switzerland. :lol: To illustrate what I mean. :lol: :lol: :lol:
The poor lamb got extinguished by a nasty German. :lol: :lol: :lol: How is this not a crime. :lol:
The man roasting the lamb is from former Yugoslavia, most likely a Serb, since the woman calls him Dejan which is a common Serbian name.
Quote from: Solar on July 10, 2024, 06:03:36 AMPerfect example of German mentality, Vee mus follow ze rooles!
Does this sum it up?
Reminds me of the times where we were visiting a family in Germany: I was walking aroung in that small town and there seemed like there was an unnecessary crosswalk light from a side street, even though there is hardly any traffic coming from that side street. So, I used my skills of being properly raised, I looked both ways/all directions and walked across. Someone complained to me about it.
Back in the day, everybody seemed to duck under the barrier of this dead end street, and cross a railroad track to get to that side of town.
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on July 11, 2024, 12:09:27 PMDoes this sum it up?
Reminds me of the times where we were visiting a family in Germany: I was walking aroung in that small town and there seemed like there was an unnecessary crosswalk light from a side street, even though there is hardly any traffic coming from that side street. So, I used my skills of being properly raised, I looked both ways/all directions and walked across. Someone complained to me about it.
Back in the day, everybody seemed to duck under the barrier of this dead end street, and cross a railroad track to get to that side of town.
:bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl :bigl
That nails it exactly! Mind numbed robots is what they are! They are culturally dead!
Charles Cather, the most famous "American spy" in Serbia, talks about his honorary citizenship, and how the Serbians changed his political views from Liberal to Conservative. He's also now a baptized Orthodox Christian.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1150753456213108
Hey Milos this was interesting. 3/4/25 Toy
Quote from: Solars Toy on March 07, 2025, 12:53:31 PMhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1150753456213108
Hey Milos this was interesting. 3/4/25 Toy
Well, there are protests going on against the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for months now. This was kind of part of the show. I am against Vučić, but I also don't support the protesters, it is proven that their leaders are guided and funded by Soros and Rockefeller. Basically, President Vučić works for the British, and the Russians want to take over with their puppet. It is all a farce, and all we were getting so far is the next President has always been worse than his predecessor.
When it was agreed that Vučić must go, now everyone, the Russians, the British, the Americans, have turned against him, so he is for surely doomed. There is the final protest scheduled in Belgrade for March 15th, what a coincidence exactly on the ancient Roman holiday of Ides of March, when Caesar was assasinated and removed from the office. A proof that foreign agencies are leading the protests and setting symbolical dates.
And those members of parliament are just pigs, the worst of worse scum are being selected as dummies to be raising their hands when something needs to be voted on.
Quote from: milos on March 08, 2025, 01:21:42 AMWell, there are protests going on against the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for months now. This was kind of part of the show. I am against Vučić, but I also don't support the protesters, it is proven that their leaders are guided and funded by Soros and Rockefeller. Basically, President Vučić works for the British, and the Russians want to take over with their puppet. It is all a farce, and all we were getting so far is the next President has always been worse than his predecessor.
When it was agreed that Vučić must go, now everyone, the Russians, the British, the Americans, have turned against him, so he is for surely doomed. There is the final protest scheduled in Belgrade for March 15th, what a coincidence exactly on the ancient Roman holiday of Ides of March, when Caesar was assassinated and removed from the office. A proof that foreign agencies are leading the protests and setting symbolical dates.
And those members of parliament are just pigs, the worst of worse scum are being selected as dummies to be raising their hands when something needs to be voted on.
That is interesting. Thanks for the insight. Toy
Quote from: milos on March 08, 2025, 01:21:42 AMWell, there are protests going on against the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for months now. This was kind of part of the show. I am against Vučić, but I also don't support the protesters, it is proven that their leaders are guided and funded by Soros and Rockefeller. Basically, President Vučić works for the British, and the Russians want to take over with their puppet. It is all a farce, and all we were getting so far is the next President has always been worse than his predecessor.
Pretty much all leftist "protesters" (a.k.a. rioters) are funded by Soros and the like.
Are you replacing a RINO with an all out leftist?
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on March 09, 2025, 08:35:43 AMPretty much all leftist "protesters" (a.k.a. rioters) are funded by Soros and the like.
Are you replacing a RINO with an all out leftist?
It could be said like that, because the current President is a fake nationalist/covert leftist, and the leaders of the protests are green/environmentalists, that means Marxists.
It should be live on CNN.
In America, fifty people gather, and they call it a protest. :smile: In Serbia, few hundred thousand people gather, and they achieve nothing. :lol:
Fortunately, a day before the protest, a group of people who were plotting to incite a civil war were secretly recorded and exposed to the public. Half of them were immediately arrested, and the other half fled to Croatia.
But still, there is this Soros' red hand in the protest, so that is not good.
(https://www.sd.rs/sites/default/files/styles/news_full_desktop/public/2025-01/soros.jpg)
Soros speaks at the Albanian NGO "Mjaft!" ("Enough!") conference.
Soros vs. Trump in Serbia?
Protesters against Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić gathered on March 24th, the anniversary of NATO bombing, to also protest against Trump hotel which was agreed to be built on the place of the former Yugoslav Army General Staff.
It looks a bit as a finger in the eye, since America bombed the General Staff in 1999, and now wants to build a hotel on the same place. But, if we look deeper, Trump and Republicans didn't bomb us, but Clinton and Democrats. And maybe even more important fact is that it was a Communist Yugoslav General Staff which was doing harm to Serbian people and Serbia since Tito's Communists were brought into power in 1944.
Ask a Serbian: "Do you support Trump?" :lol:
Word is that you guys are bringing back the Yugo. Any info?
Quote from: Sick Of Silence on May 31, 2025, 04:03:08 PMWord is that you guys are bringing back the Yugo. Any info?
Yeah, I saw that news few months ago, but I was sceptic. There is a model of the new Yugo design. The prototype should be delivered in 2027. The idea remains the same, it should be an affordable people's car. Since they plan it to cost 20,000 EUR, I am not sure how affordable will it actually be, with the average monthly salary around 800 EUR. But hey, we can always export it to the USA. :cool: If President Trump allows. :lol: :lol: :lol:
(https://autoblog.rs/gallery/108/250507-yugo%201.jpg)
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Quote from: milos on June 01, 2025, 12:19:36 PMYeah, I saw that news few months ago, but I was sceptic. There is a model of the new Yugo design. The prototype should be delivered in 2027. The idea remains the same, it should be an affordable people's car. Since they plan it to cost 20,000 EUR, I am not sure how affordable will it actually be, with the average monthly salary around 800 EUR. But hey, we can always export it to the USA. :cool: If President Trump allows. :lol: :lol: :lol:
(https://autoblog.rs/gallery/108/250507-yugo%201.jpg)
(https://autoblog.rs/gallery/108/250517-yugo%202222.jpg)
20,000 EUR? That's hardly affordable anywhere.
$22,897.44
This UK royal family security left London for a Serbian villageOnly if we could know how to market Ancient Roman vineyards from 3rd century AD. Not a country actually famous for Ancient Roman culture and tradition, when it should be.