Do I regret moving to Belarus?

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  • Опубліковано 27 тра 2023
  • I discuss your questions about my decision to move to #minsk #belarus . I also give some timely advice on what to do if you are thinking about upping sticks and beginning life as an #expat

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  • @IrishPartizan
    @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +8

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  • @johnflynn4923
    @johnflynn4923 Рік тому +5

    Nice one Niall and lots of good tips and considerations for those thinking of making the leap but haven't yet done so. Zero regrets having done it myself.

  • @marlajacques6947
    @marlajacques6947 Рік тому +8

    Thanks, that was very inspiring and I really needed this today

  • @johnbhoy8813
    @johnbhoy8813 Рік тому +2

    Good to see you back Niall!

  • @AbdulAli-ku9he
    @AbdulAli-ku9he Рік тому +3

    Another great Vlog, thank you mate.

  • @rjames3981
    @rjames3981 Рік тому +2

    Good to see you back 👌

  • @nodarkthings
    @nodarkthings Рік тому +5

    Wonderful video as always

  • @MrPancakeRepairman
    @MrPancakeRepairman Рік тому +2

    Always good to hear your views Irish. I’ve been to Japan many times (25+) as the Mrs is from there. Eventually we will spend time - hopefully 6 months here, 6 months there. Nice if you can do it I suppose. Central Tokyo isn’t for me, but last trip back in December, we found a lovely fishing village on the coast where I could happily spend the winter and Spring. We aren’t getting any younger and you can do this at any age, I’m 47. I expect we will aim for our early 50s. Proper planning essential like you say.
    I would love to hear how you ended up choosing Bulgaria instead of France. Surely you didn’t just get on the wrong bus at Victoria Coach station?! 😀😳

  • @georgehill5348
    @georgehill5348 Рік тому +7

    Good to see you interacting with some locals..more of that. Maybe a social experiment to see how the people really aren't good at small talk!

  • @leeblankenship4838
    @leeblankenship4838 Рік тому +3

    Lol, I was in Dublin and around Cork for a week and I never saw the sunshine once, Belarus looks awesome.

  • @Ettoredipugnar
    @Ettoredipugnar Рік тому +1

    Great video Niall!

  • @johnbhoy8813
    @johnbhoy8813 Рік тому +1

    Weather looks nice over there, Very warm in Belfast here.

  • @PapaCarlow
    @PapaCarlow Рік тому

    The weather has been so gorgeous for last week here in Dublin too and I mean the proper sunshine like

  • @jelena526
    @jelena526 Рік тому +6

    There is no jobs in Ireland, no medical care ( 4 weeks waiting list for an appointment with horrendous toothache), no public transport in towns and villages, cold houses and sky rocket cost of leaving brrrrr ...

  • @ericgoingoverseas5064
    @ericgoingoverseas5064 Рік тому +2

    Loved Vitebsk from the first time I visited.
    In my retirement I hope to live there.
    Just remains to be seen.

  • @Henry_Jones
    @Henry_Jones Рік тому

    Good to get a new vid! Thx! Being from Ireland did you have any 1st hand experience with the troubles? A vid on that would be good.

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому

      I don't plan on one but thanks for the suggestion.

  • @craigb7460
    @craigb7460 Рік тому +1

    Hi Niall , another great video ! Wife and I are currently in Gluboke but be in Minsk for 3 nights from tonight if you up for a beer ? We currently living in Bulgaria but considering moving here be great to hear your thoughts over a pint.

  • @fatalmokrane
    @fatalmokrane 5 місяців тому

    good for you bro, enjoy.

  • @belarusss13
    @belarusss13 Рік тому +3

    Had a chance to move to Minsk in 2005 regret it to this day it wouldn’t have made richer but my life would have definitely been more fulfilling. Great video by the way not as good as food o clock but still good .

    • @samdobie6748
      @samdobie6748 11 місяців тому

      You're probably much better off where you are...

  • @gomel47
    @gomel47 Рік тому +13

    Very inspiring. I'm one of those people who has been wanting to make that move and come back to Belarus. But unfortunately the wife refuses and my son is in America, and he's not going anywhere. How tragic.

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +3

      Hope to see you this summer Denis.

    • @gomel47
      @gomel47 Рік тому +11

      @@IrishPartizan You will indeed! I've ordered the tickets. Nothing in America could make me want to stay here. The country has degraded just like Ireland and most counties in the West.

    • @Anna87880
      @Anna87880 Рік тому +3

      @@gomel47 У тебя есть возможность поменять страну и жену одновременно😂

    • @MCKevin289
      @MCKevin289 Рік тому +1

      @@Anna87880
      Maybe she doesn’t want to live in a dictatorship that’s supporting an ideologically fascist invasion of one of its neighbors.

    • @apjpisared
      @apjpisared Рік тому +7

      Gee I wonder why your wife doesn't want to live full time in a dictatorship?

  • @AnthonyJosh
    @AnthonyJosh Рік тому +3

    If I visit Minsk, would you give me a tour?

  • @Wildcat220
    @Wildcat220 Рік тому

    Good and informative video. I hope you had that beer.

  • @armindofontana5107
    @armindofontana5107 Рік тому +1

    If they don't like small talk, how do you start/have conversations with strangers?

  • @robmic8125
    @robmic8125 Рік тому

    Positive thinking.

  • @Irina-rb4og
    @Irina-rb4og Рік тому +1

    Green ish video ❤I guess I miss how and when you settled down in Belarus.

  • @ADAMSIXTIES
    @ADAMSIXTIES Рік тому +4

    Thoughts and prayers for sasha. Hope he recovers from his bout with pukinitis

    • @MCrue2
      @MCrue2 Рік тому

      Haha, good one :D

  • @hminchella7423
    @hminchella7423 Рік тому

    Thank you and spokóynoy Nóci

  • @shutup2751
    @shutup2751 Рік тому +15

    Even belarus has an underground metro system, maybe dublin will have one in the next century 😂

    • @maryrosed8475
      @maryrosed8475 Рік тому

      You think? I wonder

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +12

      The Dublin Metro was first planned in 1975. 48 years later and still no metro except two glorified tram lines. The Minsk Metro was first planned in 1969. They began building it in June 1977 with the first stage completed in 1984. Since then two lines have been built with the third line currently being expanded. It seems that Belarusian planners leave their Irish counterparts in the dirt.

    • @maryrosed8475
      @maryrosed8475 Рік тому +5

      @@IrishPartizan I totally agree. Very short of car parking at Dublin Airport. Yet no Metro. We are becoming a 3rd World Country! It is awful.

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 Рік тому +2

      @@IrishPartizan there's not even a rail link to dublin airport, only major airport that i know of without a rail link in europe

    • @Pablo_Ramirez
      @Pablo_Ramirez Рік тому +2

      ​@@IrishPartizan In a rich country like Ireland the average working people live like they are poor, in a poor country like Belarus the average working people live like they are rich.

  • @josephhudson8829
    @josephhudson8829 Рік тому +2

    Beautiful country Partizan

  • @TheFairestMan
    @TheFairestMan Рік тому

    Hello there hope everything is good stay lucky

  • @faussepiste2115
    @faussepiste2115 Рік тому

    where would you relocate if you need to leave belarus, except ireland ?

  • @aidasmatulaitis5175
    @aidasmatulaitis5175 Рік тому

    Great video 👍

  • @tnickknight
    @tnickknight Рік тому +13

    Move abroad, Sure. I moved to Poland in the 90s. Move to a dictatorship engaged in war. No chance, and I know Minsk is a nice city

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +20

      "Move to a dictatorship engaged in war". You mean the kleptocratic regime based in DC?

    • @greycliffnative
      @greycliffnative Рік тому +9

      @@IrishPartizan The term 'kleptocratic' term is used for Russia all over the world. Belarus, currently occupied by Kremlin state mafia, is a part of this system.

    • @tnickknight
      @tnickknight Рік тому +8

      @@greycliffnative when the people of Belarus toss the dictator, they won't be to happy with foreign traitors

    • @cehaem2
      @cehaem2 Рік тому +1

      @@greycliffnative You might have not realised it yet, but the US and their friends are NOT "the" world.

  • @allsloppynojoe4011
    @allsloppynojoe4011 Рік тому +1

    Lovely area

  • @fordwrc2006
    @fordwrc2006 Рік тому +3

    What’s happened with the Belarus premier league? I see Bobruisk, Shakhtyor and Energetik-BGU had quite large points deductions.

    • @Win-xl7no
      @Win-xl7no Рік тому +1

      @fordwrc2006 match fixing

    • @fordwrc2006
      @fordwrc2006 Рік тому

      @@Win-xl7no Cheers 😎👍🏼

  • @Goodamnl1294
    @Goodamnl1294 Рік тому

    Hey man, forgive my username my little brother change it as a joke. I really like your video and I have kind of a similar question that has been on my mind a lot I have been thinking of going on a hitchhiking trip in the USA and later overseas but I don’t like traveling alone and I’ve been trying to find a nice girlfriend to travel with. You say opportunities don’t come very often and so I’m just wondering if you could give me some advice.

  • @georgehill5348
    @georgehill5348 Рік тому +2

    I'm a Brit with residency permit in Lithuania. I'm not sure if this grants me free movement to Belarus i.e. for a few days. Tried looking it up but seems like a grey area!

  • @chuckwhitson654
    @chuckwhitson654 Рік тому +1

    Every man, no matter his motherland, loves his dog. And real men in my opinion, must love Jesus Christ, be repented and forgiving at heart and humble, yet strong

  • @olegalkhimovich4804
    @olegalkhimovich4804 Рік тому +4

    I'm always getting upset thinking of my friends that moved from Belarus, Minsk to Poland and other countries in last 2-3 years, but your videos from Park Druzby Narodow are so motivating and positive, that i'm starting to think about moving somewhere else). And thank you for seeing beauty of Minsk city - it's pleasure to hear good words about my native city.
    PS. BTW, i totally recommend you to exlore Slepyanka water system, especially near Mendeleyeva and Filimonova street. Me and my wife can be your guides, if you interested).

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +1

      Thanks Oleg. I have already been there cycling on the tracks.

    • @stevemcgowen
      @stevemcgowen Рік тому +1

      Most people want to live in a country which is free and has human rights, not a dictatorship...

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +8

      @@stevemcgowen Most people want to live in a country that safe, isn't overrun by migrants, not governed by a toxic, leftist woke ideology, has two defined genders, doesn't force people to take an untested vaccine, doesn’t impose lockdowns on a whole society and is clean where public services actually work.

    • @olegalkhimovich4804
      @olegalkhimovich4804 Рік тому +1

      @@IrishPartizan OMG, your so BASED)

    • @pudosch
      @pudosch Рік тому

      That is exactly how I am thinking about. Moved to Paraguay in December but Belarus would be neither bad. I even speak Russian at B1 level...

  • @Anna87880
    @Anna87880 Рік тому

    Hello Niel, can you remind name of this movie about war which you recommended last time😊Thanks

  • @josandoy
    @josandoy Рік тому +1

    If people in Dublin are more friendly than people in Belarus, Dubliners must be the most friendly people in the world!

  • @jkjsjgojaiaukahksjla5649
    @jkjsjgojaiaukahksjla5649 Рік тому

    As a person whos been goind to belarus for 13 years by now, i can tell you that yes belarus is interesting...but in no way it is an opportunity for making more money and business. Unless you go there with already a big capital in hand.its a nice experience learing russian, new culture, meeting girls..., and thats it.Regarding starting a small business and growing, its very hard. Investing in real estate there is not bad, but again you got to have the capital in hand already.i might be wrong, but this is my own opinion.
    Good luck.

    • @andreyverenich9111
      @andreyverenich9111 6 місяців тому

      What is you came with like 50k?

    • @dominatorarbitrage7639
      @dominatorarbitrage7639 5 місяців тому

      The competition is also quite low and if you are talented enterpreneur you might build a nice business by just outcompeting the locals. But otherwise the country is poor, yeah.

  • @dikvandersar6267
    @dikvandersar6267 Рік тому +4

    I admire and like hearing you. Dont try to copy the style bald, your films have more level.

  • @allsloppynojoe4011
    @allsloppynojoe4011 Рік тому +2

    God bless you all on this Sunday. In Jesus name amen 🙏

  • @WinterExplains
    @WinterExplains 8 місяців тому

    video starts 2:40

  • @marionmaier8152
    @marionmaier8152 Рік тому

    I want to be young.... LG from Sunny and hot Germany

  • @gw2031
    @gw2031 9 місяців тому

    Hi mate can you help,,,,how much is 36,772,983.11 Belarusian rubles in GBP ? Many thanks George

  • @chuckwhitson654
    @chuckwhitson654 Рік тому

    I have long wanted to come stay in a rural Russian or Belarusian village

    • @vestland3877
      @vestland3877 11 місяців тому

      Just go! Stop the excuses.

  • @user-wq3qf7jg9i
    @user-wq3qf7jg9i 8 місяців тому

    Is there work for oil workers in Belarus 👍

    • @dominatorarbitrage7639
      @dominatorarbitrage7639 5 місяців тому

      Don't think so. You better work remote or work for a multinational with an interest in Belarus.
      Belarus is a very nice place to live, but only if you have income from outside. Local salaries are really low.

  • @abeltofscotch4120
    @abeltofscotch4120 Рік тому

    Would you ever consider moving home to Waterford? The place is on the up, lots of jobs here now compared to when you left probably, I moved abroad for a few years and while I agree it changes you in a good way I got so homesick and fed up I had to come back. Best decision I ever made was to come home I think but everyone is different I suppose!

  • @Eric-zb6nx
    @Eric-zb6nx Рік тому

    Can you still travel to Brest grodno area 15 day visa free?

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +1

      Yes you can!

    • @Eric-zb6nx
      @Eric-zb6nx Рік тому

      @@IrishPartizan can you still cross at polish border into that area?

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому

      @@Eric-zb6nx Yes you can but prepare to queue.

  • @globalmapping5034
    @globalmapping5034 Рік тому

    Nice Yugoslav Airforce shirt ;)

  • @benja4516
    @benja4516 Рік тому

    Will you get a pension in Belarus?
    Or do you invest somehow?

    • @dmitrikhmelevski9214
      @dmitrikhmelevski9214 Рік тому +1

      Yes. As any state pension in any country - it will be enough to survive, providing you have a place to live.
      The best pension invest strategy is to have more children and grow them into good people who would support you in your old age and keep yourself healthy, rather then rely on the state.

    • @apjpisared
      @apjpisared Рік тому

      They have a policy in Belarus of canceling foreign workers' visas after they reach their 60s. Again, Niall is in for a rude awakening...he better hope despite his pro dictatorship views that Belarus gets freedom, joins the EU and at least a minimal pension safety net and social system similar to Poland's and Czech Republic's, or he'll be a poor old man in Ireland again.

    • @cehaem2
      @cehaem2 Рік тому +3

      @@apjpisared Funny, because in BY you don't see people on pension rummage through trash which is still not an uncommon sight in Poland.

    • @dmitrikhmelevski9214
      @dmitrikhmelevski9214 Рік тому

      @@apjpisared May be they have, may be they have not. Can not imagine anyone in their 60s on working visas in Belarus, actually, but this is not the point. Seeing how pension age is being moved closer to 70 and beyond everywhere, including "democratic" states too, I do not have much hope there will be any decent state pension anywhere soon, regardless how "tyrannical" or not a state is. So The good big family is the only right purpose in life and a pension strategy for a young healthy man and woman now.

    • @emulation2369
      @emulation2369 Місяць тому

      ​@@apjpisaredlol, please keep EU away as far away from us as you can, keep it to yourself 😁

  • @marcomanto1350
    @marcomanto1350 Рік тому

    Do you get thre same average salary of a Belarussian worker? Coz it seems full of people living abroad where they make 4-5-6...times more that the average person and they say: well life here is great

  • @hornslane
    @hornslane Рік тому

    Great video, we would love to come to Minsk, to visit my sister in law, but virtually impossible, at the moment!!

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому

      You will need a tourist visa to do the land border crossing from Poland and Lithuania.

  • @hitrends7351
    @hitrends7351 Рік тому

    Why does this park have this name? And this Bangalor square adjasing...

    • @MinskGuide
      @MinskGuide Рік тому +1

      Named after the city of Bangalore with which Minsk is a "brother" city - Soviet tradition.

    • @hitrends7351
      @hitrends7351 Рік тому +1

      @@MinskGuide There's Minsk square in Bangalore. It's agreed to do so during the visit of Indira Gandhi and Leonid Brezhnev to Minsk in 1976. They planted first trees into this park.

  • @cryptopelgrim4751
    @cryptopelgrim4751 Рік тому

    Intersting to hear you studied at the US universicity in Blagovgrad. I agree that moving abroad is worth it. Not so sure about belarus though... But that's me personally.

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +1

      It doesn't have to be Belarus. It can be anywhere. There are over 200 countries and territories to choose from. Just pick the best place that you think would suit you.

  • @ShortVersion1
    @ShortVersion1 Рік тому

    Are there beautiful ladies? No ragrets! I tell single friends to move to Barcelona. Oh well!

  • @TheREALJWMGaming
    @TheREALJWMGaming Рік тому +3

    Political stance on Belarus, Lukaschenko and the whole living next door to UE - RU war where Belarus is allied to RU?

    • @davidjernigan7576
      @davidjernigan7576 Рік тому

      That and what happens due to Lukaschenko's health issues?

    • @imFruzzy
      @imFruzzy Рік тому

      @@davidjernigan7576 The same thing that happened every time Kim Jong Un was declared dead

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +6

      You are correct Jim, I loathe the NATO war mongering imperialists. Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine.

    • @TheREALJWMGaming
      @TheREALJWMGaming Рік тому

      @@IrishPartizan So its safe to say you're pro Russia on this matter huh...?

    • @greycliffnative
      @greycliffnative Рік тому +1

      @@IrishPartizan Do you support Russian imperialism and colonialism? Do you cooperate with them for money, any other benefits or because you just believe in it? If you cooperate with them, you can be prosecuted for supporting war criminals. Do not come back home. This is my advise. Stay with them or move to another, much safer place for you, like the Northern Korea.

  • @29goodvibes
    @29goodvibes Рік тому +2

    each to their own...i could NEVER live and sustain a family in a poor place like belarus or east europe...the way i do in the UK...here i bought a house i have a nice car and basically EVERYthing i need....i am from east europe and i was hungry a lot of times back in my childhood...for ppl like you is ok teaching english to them and getting a good salary...but ask anyone on basic salary in belarus and they will say they would love to get away from that hellhole...

  • @MCrue2
    @MCrue2 Рік тому +1

    I feel sorry for you, bro. But we all choose our own path.

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +5

      Don't feel sorry for me. Feel sorry for yourself.

    • @gomel47
      @gomel47 Рік тому +3

      ​@@IrishPartizan That's right Niall!

    • @gomel47
      @gomel47 Рік тому +3

      @@IrishPartizan This is clearly a troll who sows negativity to lower others and elevate himself.

  • @nederpiet
    @nederpiet Рік тому

    Lukashenko has followed your advice, he and his family have left the potato farm and flew to Turkey, last night.

  • @stevemcgowen
    @stevemcgowen Рік тому +2

    Why haven't you joined Wagner yet?

  • @mourdebars
    @mourdebars Рік тому

    Well, we follow your life cause you evidently stopped doing trips around Belarus unconnected to your lifetime :)

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +2

      I will get back to provincial trips in July. Work commitments.

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому

      @NostaIgia That too but I might not get enough time to do it all.

    • @apjpisared
      @apjpisared Рік тому

      @@IrishPartizan A lot easier to sit on your hole and promote Russian propaganda than get the finger out and do actual worthwhile work for your channel, eh?

  • @tarag0n
    @tarag0n Рік тому

    Moving abroad is good, but moving from Ireland to exUssr countries is just downshifting.

  • @helluvastart
    @helluvastart Рік тому

    he must love Slavic women , Bulgarian, Belarussian, Russian... I love Irish women. Redhead women.

  • @Sawpalmeto65
    @Sawpalmeto65 Рік тому +2

    i will be in Belarus by end of August. Looking forward to visit my wife.

  • @oleksandrhrehul1595
    @oleksandrhrehul1595 Рік тому

    беларуську мову вже вивчив?

    • @some_name
      @some_name Рік тому +1

      he doesn't know it exists

    • @yauhenm.8185
      @yauhenm.8185 Рік тому +2

      это не обязательно, в Беларуси хорошо понимают и русский, и украинский, и польский :)

    • @user-fl9sw3dh7p
      @user-fl9sw3dh7p Рік тому +1

      Зачем? о_0

  • @IvanIvanov-px9vj
    @IvanIvanov-px9vj Рік тому

    I saw Russian bloggers who said how nice and developt Ireland has become economicly and this Irish promoting moving to Belarus? What the hell

    • @IrishPartizan
      @IrishPartizan  Рік тому +1

      1) They don't live there.
      2) If you paid attention to my video or previous ones (which I don't think you did), I stressed that young people should move if they have the opportunity to do so. It can be anywhere in the world. Pick a place that suits you best.