As a Romanian, my Hungarian ex-dealer friend moved to Spain to work as a barman. He makes more money working legally in a bar there than he did selling illegal drugs here. You know it's a shithole when even illegal jobs pay shit.
lol, I remember last year a dealer talking to his customer at a table next to me in the pub I go sometimes to. The customer was like "since when has weed become so expensive, are you trying to rip me off?" The dealer in response just shrugged his shoulders and was like "Inflation". I nearly died trying to hold in my laughter, it was like watching a comedy skit in real life.
@@boomerix It is more expensive to produce it man. Prices of everything went sky high as you might have noticed, including shit it takes to make it so nice.
Being from zimbabwe, I can relate to the corruption and no infrastructure investment. When I visited the balkans, I felt almost like I was back home in seeing some of the roads in serbia.
@scarletrebel1996 It has been Zimbabwe more than a thousand years and it will persist as such. If you would like to change that, please take a flight over and make your argument and I'm certain the military will make their counter argument.
Hey neighbor. I wasn't eavesdropping or anything, but i couldn't but notice the continuous gunshots happening over there. You are welcome to come to Montenegro, where there aren't many gunshots but you get all the other aspects of the latin vibes. The good food, the warm people, the street fights and the lovely corruption and practically non-existent infrastructure ❤
As a Romanian, I swear to God you hit the nail on the head. Even with the grannies on the bench (babele de pe banca) which we like to call "rural CCTV". Those ladies know more than the government about their little town.
how to be a balkaner in the EU: step 1 go and make money, step 2: come back and flex that money, step 3: make sure to tell anyone close to you that there is no money in the west and that they should just stay where they are and not leave , step 4: toilet cleaning job secured 😎
It’s genuinely baffling here in Western Europe to see so many balkaner living in shitty apartments or shacks in the countryside, while at the same time they all drive Audis and Bmws to flex when they visit their home countries.
@@dayros2023 yep, a friend of mine cam back from the UK last summer with his gf (as a vacation) and I went out with them, and she was saying she was genuinely shocked how many premium german cars (especially BMW, most of them with over 200k km) there were in Romania. I swear the romanian "people's car" is a 2012 BMW 3 series with 250k km :))
Remind me of my home where the average Vietnamese will complain about how corrupted the traffic police is, while simultaneously handing him a bribe to not get a ticket for running the red light at 60kph on a moped heavily intoxicated with no helmet.
True. Same with many other things too. People wish the police will always accept the money when they violate a law instead while complain how corrupt it is the whole afternoon (I can't take a nap).
Funny story, When i was 15 , 2 of my friends stole the diesel fuel in the machinery that were making our roads in my village near Sibiu because they needed drinking money. The village was small and the police knew all of us who usually caused problems, so they took me down to the police station for interrogations:))) I knew that my friends stole the fuel but snitches get stiches and i told the police that i don't know who stole the fuel because on that night when the robbery was made, i was drinking with my uncle in the basement. So for this matter the police asked me what do i want to choose between the rubber stick and the newspaper. At this moment i knew that they gonna beat the shit out of me so obviously i choose the newspaper so they rolled the rubber stick in the news paper and they beat the shit out of me:))) i could't lean my back to the chair for one week after that. but i didn't snitch Edit: I also think that they beat me because i am the only hungarian in a romanian village:)))
😂🤣 classic, but the beating, cmon, whoever got lifted got it for free, i`m from Bucharest and got lifted several times from parks during night and from football matches, sometimes they start right after they put you in the car and didn't even got the chance to see your ID...it's training for them
Off course Mexico ain't got war crimes you need a war that isn't gang war to qualify , when was the last time Mexico even had a war web Texas gained independence or last war with the USA 🤔
@@MJ-uk6lu not necessarily, for example , I bet you can find mass graves all over the Balkans which were the product of war crimes, cuz you know they were at war. In Mexico, you find mass graves everywhere too, buuuuut because we were not at war, they are just considered crimes against humanity.
The guy tearing the asphalt in Banja Luka is Stanivuković, the current city Major. He is from the opposition-side of the current ruling political party and he has been a thorn in their eye for the past year and a half, exposing their lies. Fun guy. Greetings from Banja Luka.
Surprised you didn't mention the doctors that basically extort you 30 minutes before surgery or that ER waiting rooms are full of gipsiеs who are there because their 482nd degree cousin got a splinter in her toe, so now the whole family came to visit. Anyways, love from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
> or that ER waiting rooms are full of gipsiеs who are there because their 482nd degree cousin got a splinter in her toe, so now the whole family came to visit. Sounds just like Romania. And if security tries to do their job the doctors with their filled pockets accuse them that 'they act as if the hospital was their mum's place'.
Him: Explaining about the Metro in Belgrade be expected to be finished in 2023. Me from Thessaloniki who was told to expect the Metro in my city to be finished since 2000: "Amateur". Edit: The plans were originally constructed since 1986. Finally, the Metro is Thessaloniki has been finished this year.
Oh, I m from Yoghurt land (to the north of you). There is a highway which was supposed to be finished during communist times. Still even the half is not complete and if it gets finished during my lifetime, so will consider myself a lucky man
@@JmMateo933 and you can blame the Muscovite Parastie and their colonial empire in the east of Germany and Poland along with whatever Natural feature marks Eastern Europe
A guy called Janos with a Serbian map on the wall, a bottle of rakija/palinka/țuică on the table (actually, it's not țuică because it's not in a recycled PET bottle), flaunting 100 RON bills and being ironic to everyone. This is Balkanik AF. Instantly subscribed! 🍺🍺 Greetings from Romania to all the Balkan brothers!
Being a hungarian in Slovakia, the funniest thing is hearing those slovaks slander hungarians who dont even realise that their name is hungarian. Like I bet it's not so hard to figure out that a name like your László is hungarian.
As a Bulgarian enjoying the European Union since 2006 or 2008 the funds from the EU magically disappear when they reach Varna. But the mayor hasn't gotten off the white horse since before that. And the citizens get only subpar roads, repairs, or new taxes. But let's not forget the new and improved black sea hotels owned by the city council.
That sounds like pretty corrupt behavior. The EU should have some Super Council that audits how every grant euro was expensed & replace all corrupt officials with better ones. Only fair, right?
@@LeonSKennedy7777that violates bulgarian sovernty + those corrupt officials are all pro EU and US GERB party members which is the most degenerate pro USA and corrupt party in the country and almost all provinces have a mayor from GERB and whats funny is that western media writes them off as right wing or conservative
As a Czech citizen, I can tell you, that some things are same here. Our former prime minister was basicaly an oligarch with a sh*t ton of money to spend on his campaign and he stole a few milion dollars (tens of mlions of czk) through government subsidies frauds. He was never sentenced. Our current minister of justice was involved in many crimes like asset stripping or cortuption and is often called "don Pablo". In therms of infrastructure - we are still (re)building our most important highway - after 40 years, hifh speed railways were promised a few years ago and they have not started to build them. And schools were and still are f*cked, but it is getting better. However, unlike the Balkans we have one of the best health care systems in Europe.
Yeah, Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary is basically a mix between western Europe and Balkans in terms of wealth, mentality and its problems :D
about the Czech healthcare system... I'm a Romanian living in Plzen. My son got strep throat and he did not receive ANY treatment whatsoever from his pediatrician. 3 months later my son started to feel chest pain. We changed the pediatrician and the new one finally tested him. Kaboom! he had massive strep infection and it was going to his heart. He didn't show any fever, but because there is an ongoing EPIDEMIC OF STREPTOCCOCAL INFECTIONS in Czech, the former pediatrician should have tested him. Finally we got antibiotics shots, sadly some of them had to be done at the hospital because it was weekend. The nurses were racist idiots for the most part and could not even make an injection without turning his butt blue. Let me tell you, the Czech healthcare system is a shit. In Romania I can bribe, I can also choose a private office and pay my way back to health. But in your communist Czechia you do not have real private offices and everything is a 'who knows who' system. I complained about this to your honorable ministry and I got a response from them eventually. A softy response, a bla bla to make me feel better. You do not do swab tests in schools, you do not clean schools properly, everything is a mess, you don't have antibiotics, you don't have pediatricians, you don't have dentists... But you have ugly, insane nurses. That you have. You know what, this summer, now in a few days, I am going back to Romania. I so feel like staying there and never coming back to Plzen. My husband is Czech. I have a house here. But otherwise I so don't care anymore. Sorry for being so blunt.
Well, in terms of schools your PISA scores are great, Bulgarian scores are pathetic. This means your high school system actually does some things right.
As someone from Russia, let me tell you that it's not just the Balkans facing these problems. All Slavic countries share similar issues. War crimes? Tell me about it
What fascinates me (apart from the hilarious and yet legit video) is the fact that you have the exact same sofa pillow (the one at your left) as in my grandma's house in a semi-abandoned mountain village in Bulgaria.
Correction about the Belgrade metro, it has been planned for probably 100 years now, not since 2003. Edit: First mention of Belgrade metro was in 1923. The idea turns 100 this year with absolutely no progress being made.
3:28 Same in Thessaloniki. The plans where introduced in the 90s. It was approved in 2003. It was postponed like 50 billion times from then. Not they are saying half of it will be done in 2024, when they announced the full metro will be done in 2020-2021. In Greece the Thessaloniki Metro is a running meme.
What Janoš didn't say was that 2003 was only the *latest* iteration of metro planning. There was a big plan made in 1978, and the first plans date from the 1930s. Anyways the main reason that the metro that was supposed to be open by 2021 was not done is because the new (and current) government that came to power in 2012 decided to throw the almost completely done project into the dustbin and redraw the metro map from scratch in order to server their new corrupt real estate mega-developments (first and foremost Belgrade Waterfront). The 1978 plan was thrashed because Yugoslavia went bankrupt in 1982 so there was no money to spend $2 billion USD on a huge metro system (which, if built, would've been amazing), and the 1930s plans were stopped by WW2. Anyways this story is repeated for an untold amount of infrastructure projects. For example a major clogged up freeway junction and overpass in Belgrade - a true traffic nightmare - is a "temporary" solution from the early 1980s that was supposed to be there just for a few years until the proper junction was built. If in Serbia they tell you that something is "temporary", you can bet your house it's gonna be there for the next 50 years at least.
As a born and raised romanian i might as well give my 2 cents on this All of what you said, completely and utterly true. One small comment i have to make about the grandmas, the other place they get all of their info from is church. God forbid you mess up in church once and the whole town will know about it in 1-3 business days and your parents will hear about it before you even get back home. And smth about the schools, whatever small amount of funding they get is always spent on the most useless shit ever. A few years ago my current hs held a student vote for weather to renovate the bathrooms or get a fancy mural on the school. Safe to say we still have to shit into glorified holes that they call toilets and wash our hands with water thats 20% rust.
It's an accurate description of the situation here in Hungary too. I myself have bribed police officers to make unmistakable references to the fact that this can be done in other ways. All this before Christmas, I suppose they had to find the money for presents from somewhere. The way we say it here is that 'the trouble with corruption is that you get left out'. In bureaucracy, you have so many chances that you can now do a lot of things online. During the closures, I was able to get a new ID card without even leaving the apartment.
Timisoara, the European Capital of Culture, my father was hospitalised for a hearth tumour the doc asked what profession was and after asked 15k euros ensuring that everything will go fine. My father is dead now.
My deepest condolences on your loss. *takes out random knife blade from the sleeve* Alright, where’s the stupid miserable idiot thief guy who did this? *Don’t know.* *thinks for a moment* Let’s make this thing a little more clearer. What’s his ethnic background?
Oh yeah. Having to stand guard at the morgue so no random funerary parlor POACHES my dad's corpse and asks me for a ton of money was fun. Imagine if I didn't know anybody that worked for a funerary parlor to warn me before hand.
My father needed a Stent heart implant after a heart attack. I was in a political party for 6 years to "Pay off" the "Favor" because i finished poly sci. I hated every moment there but would still do it again.
My best friend worked at the popular winery at Belgrade for years. One day, shelf made out of glass bursted and glass fell on her, she was unconscious for couple of minutes. Her boss refused to drive her to the hospital, asked her if she can finish her shift and demanded that she pays for repair. That’s all you have to know about working in Balkans.
It's better to cry in a Mercedes than in a Yugo-Zastava. You have first world problems. Part of the Berlin airport isn't finished. We in the Balkans need to build the airport to even start complaining about the airport. And in the process, watch out the politicians don't steal all the money for the airport. Then, supervise the construction company doesn't steal the money and the building materials. Then, if the airport is finished, we have to watch it crumbling at unusual speed because the construction company stole the building material, and the regional government doesn't maintain it because of lack of funds. We have Balkan problems. I wish we have some of your German problems. 😂
@@tylerdurden9161 Well I am from Slovakia and I was surprised when I´ve heard German people to complain about their trains or even this Berlin Airport. We in Slovakia werent able to connect our two greatest cities with highway in 30 years, but we were able to feed many politicians with the funds. Also, about trains, during previous government (2016-2020) Railway company staff had to buy components with their own money once they did not see more trains to start burning. That were rich years, I even have t-shirt which was popular on the theme of burning trains. Yea, eastern and Balkan Europe problems, baby :D
Again I thank you, брате, for accurately describing the Balkan Republic of Brazil. The (mis)use of public funds, the politicians and their luxury holidays, the public projects and constructions that are delivered precisely in currentDate.plusYears(10); . Anyway, slava brazilija
shout out to Hungarian Hussars, who trained from early teenage years so they could've participate in Austria's foreign wars, thereby escaping the Balkans.
Fun fact: Some of them made it all the way to Mexico, where they were promptly dispatched by Juárez's forces using American weapons that were found somehow abandoned on the Mexican border. Ain't nobody likes the Hungarians (and the feeling is mutual)
As a Serb American coming here for visiting my grandma every summer really opens my eyes about how much stuff we really take for granted as for example the only running water in my grandmas apartment is the toilet and the bathtub
Lmao America literally doesn't have free health care 😂😂😂. Literally every balkan country has better health care system. So no thanks. You probably have white privilege tought.
As a hungarian, I always thought about Hungary as a Balkans peripheral country, and this thinking held up for a while. Until a certain wide politician started to re-balkanize our great country, which definitely is better than every other country in the Balkans. All I have to say, MER A GYURCSÁNY JOBB VÓT???
In school we was told Romania and Hungary are not part of the Balkan peninsula but some define the region in cultural and historical terms and others geographically, though there are even different interpretations among historians and among geographers.
As a German living in rural Bulgaria for 8 years now, I have experienced all these things, and have to some degree become balkanized, because имам човек. For the most part, I still have not succeeded in wrapping my head around this enigma that is the Balkan way of life, though. My motto is: the less involvement with the bureaucracy, the better. Even the fabled Austrians bureaucrats could learn from the Balkans (or perhaps some of it rubbed off in years past?) I get along great with the баби around me (there are three, I am surrounded, but have no need for a security system). Много проздрави на Сърбия!
Same in Macedonia. You're gonna love it here. I'm loving it. I'm loving that I fix computers for 400$ and have to deal with braindead customers who haven't touched a computer before.
@@andypre1667 It's not a problem. There are a lot of Macedonians who have bought cars from Bulgaria, and drive here with Bulgarian lisence plates. Our relations maybe heated at the moment, but I don't think you'll have problems here, I hope.
The worst thing about the Balkans is having to protect your wallet at all times both on an individual level from Romanians and on a governmental level from all the corruption
There is a joke something like this: 3 pilots are very proud that they can easily identify their home airports. They are flying over the US. The american reaches out of the plane: - This is the Kennedy Airport in NY. -How do you know? - I just touched the top of the Statue of Liberty! The French reaches out of the plane next. -Oh, we are in Paris, Orly! -How do you know? - I just touched the top of the Eiffel tower! The Romanian reaches out of the plane next. - We are in Bucharest now. -How do you know? - My watch just got stolen.
Am I from the Balkans? No. Do I have family heritage from the Balkans? Also no. Do I love this handsome man? Yes, so I shall keep coming back, to learn about the most based peninsula.
the bureaucracy part resonates so much with me. getting a resident's card in hungary was a nearly weeklong ordeal of getting shuttled around from government building to government building. great video, janos
Bro i'm from the balkans and i love how accurate every single thing this guy says is. But when are u gonna do a vid on balkan families? That would be funny as shit
You were on point the whole time but the “balkan karen” description was just perfection 😂 I was trying to get a paper in Albania last year and the curly headed lady told me I was missing a stamp after 3 hours of waiting.
>Corruption >Public Service going to shit >No probable cause to search you >Taxes & 20% VAT >Dark Souls level of bureaucraty >assholes >Laughs in French
There is a difference though , somehow other cities are dragged kicking and screaming into development , while Serbia ask itself where metro in the capital , Romania ask itself in 2 cities of which one is the capital. The zoning laws are so outdated they just develope apartment buildings so they don't have to develop a decent roud to exit the neighborhood
When I was at summer school in Novi Sad, the other students (from all around the world) were looking at me weird when I always took my ID with me. They didn't belived that in Hungary we can be stopped for no reason. I didn't got stopped at NS tho, but it was in 2016. It was also weird for them, that I "thanked" the drivers who stopped at the ped-cross. Here you can be killed on the road for like everything.
As far as I know, legally police cannot ask for your ID for no reason in Hungary. Whether they'll pull out an excuse from their bottom is another question..
János , so you have a hungarian name , you live in serbia and you use romanian money. Thats freaking epic. Balkan brother , good luck for surviving and fight the corruption (impossible)
@@moon_fake dude, I was wondering what's the matter with his name because I saw him using two names. At one point I thought that the channel is run by two people with similar voices 😂
@@BonVoyage861 Culturally yes, we're closer to Spain and Portugal. But the economic mediocrity and having neighbors hate each other with a passion (even though we're all the same) is a big part of Latin America, like the Balkans
In Kavala Greece, Greece, the southern most province of Balkanistan, they decided to build a wider road in order to facilitate the needs of the new hospital. It took them 8 years to complete 800m of road, they created a bike road that no one ever used because its just 300m of bike road in the middle of nowhere without any connection whatsoever, and the road now is so narrow that when you are driving with the car you are in danger of bumping to the pavements. The new hospital i mentioned above had his own fair share of issues. Namely, they built it, and then they realized that there was no way to connect it to the sewage network of the city. A similar story with our new public swimming pool :P Ah and did I mention that we have a destroyed bridge in the middle of the city for the past 6 years and they still haven't decided whose responsibility it is to fix it? In Thessaloniki they started building the metro who knows when. It was supposed to be delivered in 2012, since there were several extensions, they inaugurated it a couple of times, but it's still a work in progress :P
Westerners police don't got shit on us when it comes to police brutality. My buddy was 16 and driving his scooter without a license, stupid move, but whatever. He sees the Interventionist police signaling him to stop . These guys do heavy violent and drug crimes and they usually break legs first and ask questions later. Being 16 and without a license my friend decided to try and run away. He was caught, got his ribs broken and it turned out, the police where looking for another guy, with the same colored shirt and scooter who roobed a store. Every time I tell this story I do it as a joke and laugh, everyone who hears it laugh, cus when you live in such a bizarrely violent and shit contry what else can you do
Here in Germany we actually have the same problem with construction projects and planned achievements, which is something one might not expect. One example, (by far not the worst, just google Stuttgart 21) is the main train station in my city (Augsburg), which has been under construction for at least 7 years. Another one was the adaptation of the highly dysfunctional German train system (again, might come as a surprise) to the Swiss model, whatever the hell that means. They had planned to implement the changes by 2030, but then noticed they needed a little more time and pushed it back to 2070, so they basically called it off without calling it off. I guess that's one less thing I'll have to get used to when I move to Serbia in September hahaha
I visited Germany during New Year's as someone from Tennessee ( U.S.A ) I was shocked to see your main roads. I thought you couldn't beat us on that shity regard but it turned out our roads have less patches 😂. Apparently government abusing tax payer money is a common virus all over the globe. Cheers mate
@@theunknownfragment5473having grown up in Germany I can say that things used to be way better but for some reason the Germans decided to have things get way worse.
@@dovhakiinguerra3018 Idk for others but I know for Croatia that many Croats went to live in South America long ago so now hundreds of thousands of people and even the current Chilean president are all of Croatian descent
I go for holiday to the Balkans and I am coming back ever since. Feel at home there, don’t know that’s a good or bad sign. After watching this.. But the food is good and the people are awesome!
The only valid criticism of the Balkans is 1) bureaucracy and 2) people are not enterprising/innovative in the commercial sense. Everything else you mentioned can also be seen in the West, you just don't focus on it because "it's not your country" so you don't care enough to pay attention. There is just as much corruption in the West, but it's more sophisticated and elevated whereas in the Balkans it's direct and visible so you naturally think there is more of it. I live in the UK and pretty much everything here is complete shit. The only things worth staying here for are banking and tech sectors; if you are experienced and highly skilled you can make a lot of money in these two industries, otherwise renting a room in a shared house as a mature adult is your reality. The so called West used to be a nice play to live but it got corrupt by American Corporatism in the last 30 or so years. Nowadays people come here to make money and return to where they came from, usually after they have children or when they get enough experience to start a business back home. This isn't the 90s anymore, the technology that is easily accessible has transformed societies and turned most of the world in a decent place to live especially if you are a little bit resourceful. The only thing keeping the Balkans stagnant is that people are generally bad leaders but good workers. They need to learn from the Westerners and become more daring in the context of innovation of entrepreneurship and start businesses to move the economy, not just look to get a job. We all live in a globalised world, there are no technical obstacles it's just a mental barrier that needs overcoming. Everything else is "the grass is greener" type comparison. You might get better household name services and Apple stores everywhere, but then again your wife might get acid thrown in her face just for fun and your daughter will learn sex from a 55y old man dressed as a woman. So it's all swings and roundabouts.
My dad (who is half greek), his best friend (who is serbian) and my godfather (also serbian) always get into political discussions when they drink. Come to think of it, my dad argues with pretty much all balkaners when he's drunk 😂
Ah man, thanks for a great laugh! I remembered the stuff we pulled off at school (it was a British private school in Lebanon)... The guys got into a massive brawl over politics once, beat the sh*t out of the PE teacher when he tried to break them up, had the headmaster barricade himself in his office, and trashed half the cafeteria. The headmaster had to call in the military police from the MoD next door to get things back under control.
as someone who grew up in romania (bucharest), i feel like 90% of this video is so accurate when it comes to 2000s and early 2010s romania, but maybe only about 10% accurate for what the country is like in 2023. crazy how being in the EU can change things so much
Well, he has mentioned more than once it applies to anywhere but the capital and the second biggest city. It's typical for citizens of mentioned places to have no idea about the rest of their country.
@@abnerdoon4902 you're so right! i'm croatian and always surprised when i speak to a mexican friend of mine and realize how similar some parts of our cultures are.
@@JmMateo933 specifically the way people communicate with each other. being direct, expressive (loud?), playful rivalry with people of neighboring countries, stricter parents - stuff like that. edit: sometimes it's weirdly specific things too, like how both in southern mexico and southern croatia both accent/dialect groups tend to elongate words as opposed to the northern parts.
As a romanian the words ''Romania casa mea'' sounded so familiar i hear everyday my neighbour (i am living in a small town) saying that and then swearing and blasphemy the country because its like living in africa but you have water and elctricity
Interesting choice of cover picture. Was it intentional? Dean Norris from Breaking Bad was couple of days ago in Hungary with his sons visiting the grave of his hungarian grandparents. One of his sons has a turul tattoo on his back. :)
The most western edge of eastern Europe, from where it then extends all the way to Latin America. Apparently south east Asia is also the Balkans of the far east. Truly a global culture.
@@JoseRoby123 SEA is about as opposite to Eastern Europe as it gets lmao. Totally different people. It's like Subn Saharan Africa to Western Europe. Just polar opposite people.
Omg you are so right about the balkan people who work terrible jobs in the west for a year, just so they can come back home for a week and pretend they are ballers. A few years ago my ex gf had a friend who was working as a driver for Amazon UK, he was working terrible hours (basically 10-12 hours/day for 6 days a week) for not a lot of money, he had saved up most of the money for years (by living like animals, 10 people in a 3 room apartment) just so he could buy an slightly used (and very cool) Mercedes CLS, and obviously driving it for days from the UK to Romania, just so he could "flex" for a few days and act like he's doing great. The salary wasn't that impressive, I was basically earning the same in Romania, which at that point had a way lower cost of living (what he paid in rent living with 2 other people in a room I was paying as a mortgage for a 3 room apartment in Bucharest), he basically said he has no vacations (other than the 2 weeks he spends for his "holiday" back in Romania), yet I could see he was feeling himself, as a "boss" driving a Mercedes CLS, while I was driving a Ford Mondeo like a peasant. At that point I had already visited like 20 countries (and he hadn't visited any), I could afford a city break every other month, plus a longer vacation in Greece every year, yet he still felt he is superior and is doing better than me. I was telling my gf that with the money he had spent on that car he could have started a small business in Romania, or basically buy a 2 room apartment in cash in a large city (except for Bucuresti and Cluj) and get paid in rent, but instead he bought a car which now (like 5 years later) is probably worth half what he paid for.
That made me feel extremely good about every romanian person I know in Spain leaving to go back to Romania because " if it is going to be the same at least I will be with family"
I"m a street musician from Slovenia playing since 1991 and till now i was playing in 17 European countries! i must tell you that i never get harassment from police playing in the streets of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia,Bosnia,Serbia, Poland) but i had a lot of problems with cops playing in West Europe! Just saying..
I live in Romania for 36 years, and I've only been stopped by the police like, 3 times? (as a pedestrian. 3 more while driving). And Sibiu is like, the 15th largest town here.
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I have question what is the background song at 0:13
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Love from Ungarn!
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As a Romanian, my Hungarian ex-dealer friend moved to Spain to work as a barman. He makes more money working legally in a bar there than he did selling illegal drugs here.
You know it's a shithole when even illegal jobs pay shit.
Oof
lol, I remember last year a dealer talking to his customer at a table next to me in the pub I go sometimes to.
The customer was like "since when has weed become so expensive, are you trying to rip me off?"
The dealer in response just shrugged his shoulders and was like "Inflation".
I nearly died trying to hold in my laughter, it was like watching a comedy skit in real life.
@@boomerix It is more expensive to produce it man. Prices of everything went sky high as you might have noticed, including shit it takes to make it so nice.
Wtf ppl can't afford to buy drugs now. 😢 Rău am mai ajuns 😂😂
hey, at least weed is still 45-50 lei (you pay more by going to Mcdonalds though)
Being from zimbabwe, I can relate to the corruption and no infrastructure investment. When I visited the balkans, I felt almost like I was back home in seeing some of the roads in serbia.
And it’s not much better for your neighbour to the south.
You spelled Rhodesia wrong
how the hell did you afford travel to Serbia :'D
my income is so poor I cannot even travel to other side of balkan, what else to other continent
@scarletrebel1996 It has been Zimbabwe more than a thousand years and it will persist as such.
If you would like to change that, please take a flight over and make your argument and I'm certain the military will make their counter argument.
Rip
As a mexican, I have always thought of the balkans as the latin america of Europe; it's the worse but most fun part of the continent 💞
Bigger chances of getting robbed and killed are in western europe than in the balkans
That is sadly accurate lol.
You nailed it. I had a gf from Guatemala and told her the Balkans is like Latin America.
alexa play relja - latino evropa
Yep both latins and balkans! Proud romanians!
As a Brazilian I am surprised to discover we actually live in the balkans, we learn something new every day...
brazil is an honorary balkan nation
Hey neighbor. I wasn't eavesdropping or anything, but i couldn't but notice the continuous gunshots happening over there. You are welcome to come to Montenegro, where there aren't many gunshots but you get all the other aspects of the latin vibes. The good food, the warm people, the street fights and the lovely corruption and practically non-existent infrastructure ❤
Balkan still need to learn with Brazil
Ukraine is also part of the Balkans family
literal
As a Romanian, I swear to God you hit the nail on the head. Even with the grannies on the bench (babele de pe banca) which we like to call "rural CCTV". Those ladies know more than the government about their little town.
😂😂😂
Romania has the most disgusting people from all Balcan nations, sadly I studied there for 4 years!
Nam văzut un adevăr mai mare decand diriga mia zis sa mutăm toată școala în Italia
@@cosminungureanu2497 si ati reusit?
Nice un caz dar macar nus in București
how to be a balkaner in the EU: step 1 go and make money, step 2: come back and flex that money, step 3: make sure to tell anyone close to you that there is no money in the west and that they should just stay where they are and not leave , step 4: toilet cleaning job secured 😎
Lmao
It’s genuinely baffling here in Western Europe to see so many balkaner living in shitty apartments or shacks in the countryside, while at the same time they all drive Audis and Bmws to flex when they visit their home countries.
@@dayros2023 It's all about priorities who cares about your daily living conditions when you can do burnouts in your 4th hand BMW.
@@silotx LOL
@@dayros2023 yep, a friend of mine cam back from the UK last summer with his gf (as a vacation) and I went out with them, and she was saying she was genuinely shocked how many premium german cars (especially BMW, most of them with over 200k km) there were in Romania. I swear the romanian "people's car" is a 2012 BMW 3 series with 250k km :))
Always a good day when my favourite war criminal posts. As a greek i have to say there is nothing bad about the Balkans other than turks of course
True
Also a Greek here,I agree one hundred %
I agree as swed. No one likes mongols
Don't forget the gyppos 😊
Greetings from Macedonia
As an Albanian I can confirm this is a certified balkan hood classic
As a serbian i can confirm too
As a Mann mee too
@@Average_Crack_Addictas a Serb i confirm that you are a traitor to the motherland and that neither of your opinions are valid.
As a ¼ albanian ¼ montenegrin and ½ macedonian I can confirm.
As a Romanian I can confirm Albanians are chads.
Remind me of my home where the average Vietnamese will complain about how corrupted the traffic police is, while simultaneously handing him a bribe to not get a ticket for running the red light at 60kph on a moped heavily intoxicated with no helmet.
Such an underrated comment
True. Same with many other things too. People wish the police will always accept the money when they violate a law instead while complain how corrupt it is the whole afternoon (I can't take a nap).
Funny story,
When i was 15 , 2 of my friends stole the diesel fuel in the machinery that were making our roads in my village near Sibiu because they needed drinking money.
The village was small and the police knew all of us who usually caused problems, so they took me down to the police station for interrogations:)))
I knew that my friends stole the fuel but snitches get stiches and i told the police that i don't know who stole the fuel because on that night when the robbery was made, i was drinking with my uncle in the basement. So for this matter the police asked me what do i want to choose between the rubber stick and the newspaper.
At this moment i knew that they gonna beat the shit out of me so obviously i choose the newspaper so they rolled the rubber stick in the news paper and they beat the shit out of me:))) i could't lean my back to the chair for one week after that. but i didn't snitch
Edit: I also think that they beat me because i am the only hungarian in a romanian village:)))
😂🤣 classic, but the beating, cmon, whoever got lifted got it for free, i`m from Bucharest and got lifted several times from parks during night and from football matches, sometimes they start right after they put you in the car and didn't even got the chance to see your ID...it's training for them
@@alakntvr7179 oh, sweet memories from duba de jandarmi, or not so sweet😂😂
@@kararamesplaylists9294 exactly, the duba😂, sweet teenagehood memories for sure😂
Honestly deserved for being hungarian.
Ardeal moment
This is almost identical to living in living in Mexico. Only difference is that we commit crimes against humanity not war crimes.
No, no; we have the lock on those, too. Ask the Hague.
Off course Mexico ain't got war crimes you need a war that isn't gang war to qualify , when was the last time Mexico even had a war web Texas gained independence or last war with the USA 🤔
Isn't that the same basically?
@@MJ-uk6lu not necessarily, for example , I bet you can find mass graves all over the Balkans which were the product of war crimes, cuz you know they were at war. In Mexico, you find mass graves everywhere too, buuuuut because we were not at war, they are just considered crimes against humanity.
Americans help with war crimes and corruption in Balkans, basically amateurs on their own, nothing to be proud of
Ask warthunder to make a yugoalavia tech tree
They had m53/59 Praga but it use Czechoslovakian flag
And make it split into croatian and serbian sub trees after the tanks from the 90s :troll:
They will and it's very close
Source?
@@manofarmageddon just put in an albanian flag as a neutral ground
The guy tearing the asphalt in Banja Luka is Stanivuković, the current city Major. He is from the opposition-side of the current ruling political party and he has been a thorn in their eye for the past year and a half, exposing their lies. Fun guy. Greetings from Banja Luka.
zar nije i on sad s dodikom
I'm sure Milorad will fix everything once he sees that video, right? RIGHT??
@@maximk9964 well, he will fix it... with another war in Bosnia if he decides to split apart.
Surprised you didn't mention the doctors that basically extort you 30 minutes before surgery or that ER waiting rooms are full of gipsiеs who are there because their 482nd degree cousin got a splinter in her toe, so now the whole family came to visit.
Anyways, love from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
> or that ER waiting rooms are full of gipsiеs who are there because their 482nd degree cousin got a splinter in her toe, so now the whole family came to visit.
Sounds just like Romania. And if security tries to do their job the doctors with their filled pockets accuse them that 'they act as if the hospital was their mum's place'.
The ER thing is so on point for Bulgaria too ahahahah
*because they all want a share of the morphine.
Saw them lunatics shooting smack mixed with mephedrone over there.
And half of their cousins are drugged and start beef with the personel until the ambulance heavy guys come in to make peace.
But the doctor is never in, you sit bleeding for 5hours cuz he is in surgery alone in the shift or fucking the nurse...noone knows
Even Roman ruins have more structural integrity than some schools or hospitals in Hungary...
Him: Explaining about the Metro in Belgrade be expected to be finished in 2023.
Me from Thessaloniki who was told to expect the Metro in my city to be finished since 2000: "Amateur".
Edit: The plans were originally constructed since 1986. Finally, the Metro is Thessaloniki has been finished this year.
Actually the planes for metro ok Belgrade exist since 1970 or even 1960s. Yeah you are the amateurs.
malakas experience
Oh, I m from Yoghurt land (to the north of you). There is a highway which was supposed to be finished during communist times. Still even the half is not complete and if it gets finished during my lifetime, so will consider myself a lucky man
Good news Thess metro will run in 2024
12:22 In Romania, if you fart in a village, the next day the rumor will be that you shat yourself.
As a romanian I can confirm
I'm from Poland, it's literally the same, Slavic countries is just living in Europe but on hard mode
Most Slavic countries are still way more developed than many other countries in the world
Russia is ultra hardcore then ☠️
@@Vlad_-_-_ Ukraine works too ☠️
@@JmMateo933 and you can blame the Muscovite Parastie and their colonial empire in the east of Germany and Poland along with whatever Natural feature marks Eastern Europe
@@Polska_Edits we dont talk about that to
A guy called Janos with a Serbian map on the wall, a bottle of rakija/palinka/țuică on the table (actually, it's not țuică because it's not in a recycled PET bottle), flaunting 100 RON bills and being ironic to everyone. This is Balkanik AF. Instantly subscribed! 🍺🍺 Greetings from Romania to all the Balkan brothers!
Being a hungarian in Slovakia, the funniest thing is hearing those slovaks slander hungarians who dont even realise that their name is hungarian. Like I bet it's not so hard to figure out that a name like your László is hungarian.
And Laszlo is Vladislav, a Slavic name.
As a Bulgarian enjoying the European Union since 2006 or 2008 the funds from the EU magically disappear when they reach Varna. But the mayor hasn't gotten off the white horse since before that. And the citizens get only subpar roads, repairs, or new taxes. But let's not forget the new and improved black sea hotels owned by the city council.
Idk about Bulgaria but EU greatly benefited Croatia
That sounds like pretty corrupt behavior. The EU should have some Super Council that audits how every grant euro was expensed & replace all corrupt officials with better ones. Only fair, right?
Dude. In Hungary they went spoosh so fast even the EU realized it can't go on like this and stopped sending the money XD
@@JmMateo933I agree, every summer thousands of young Macedonians go to Croatia to work in hotels etc. on the Jadransko More!
@@LeonSKennedy7777that violates bulgarian sovernty + those corrupt officials are all pro EU and US GERB party members which is the most degenerate pro USA and corrupt party in the country and almost all provinces have a mayor from GERB and whats funny is that western media writes them off as right wing or conservative
As a Czech citizen, I can tell you, that some things are same here. Our former prime minister was basicaly an oligarch with a sh*t ton of money to spend on his campaign and he stole a few milion dollars (tens of mlions of czk) through government subsidies frauds. He was never sentenced. Our current minister of justice was involved in many crimes like asset stripping or cortuption and is often called "don Pablo". In therms of infrastructure - we are still (re)building our most important highway - after 40 years, hifh speed railways were promised a few years ago and they have not started to build them. And schools were and still are f*cked, but it is getting better. However, unlike the Balkans we have one of the best health care systems in Europe.
Yeah, Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary is basically a mix between western Europe and Balkans in terms of wealth, mentality and its problems :D
Sounds more like a Visegrád thing tbh..
about the Czech healthcare system... I'm a Romanian living in Plzen. My son got strep throat and he did not receive ANY treatment whatsoever from his pediatrician. 3 months later my son started to feel chest pain. We changed the pediatrician and the new one finally tested him. Kaboom! he had massive strep infection and it was going to his heart. He didn't show any fever, but because there is an ongoing EPIDEMIC OF STREPTOCCOCAL INFECTIONS in Czech, the former pediatrician should have tested him. Finally we got antibiotics shots, sadly some of them had to be done at the hospital because it was weekend. The nurses were racist idiots for the most part and could not even make an injection without turning his butt blue. Let me tell you, the Czech healthcare system is a shit. In Romania I can bribe, I can also choose a private office and pay my way back to health. But in your communist Czechia you do not have real private offices and everything is a 'who knows who' system. I complained about this to your honorable ministry and I got a response from them eventually. A softy response, a bla bla to make me feel better. You do not do swab tests in schools, you do not clean schools properly, everything is a mess, you don't have antibiotics, you don't have pediatricians, you don't have dentists... But you have ugly, insane nurses. That you have. You know what, this summer, now in a few days, I am going back to Romania. I so feel like staying there and never coming back to Plzen. My husband is Czech. I have a house here. But otherwise I so don't care anymore. Sorry for being so blunt.
Everytime i hear anything about any eastern european or balkan country, it’s just like here in Bulgaria, but with a different name.
Love from Bulgaria
Well, in terms of schools your PISA scores are great, Bulgarian scores are pathetic. This means your high school system actually does some things right.
As someone from Russia, let me tell you that it's not just the Balkans facing these problems. All Slavic countries share similar issues.
War crimes? Tell me about it
Points for honesty. Russia and Serbia need anger management therapy.
Yeah, war crimes and corruption is unique to eastern europe. ......I am being ironic.
not all Balkan countries are Slavic though
@@robertwright4280 yep, you're right
@@Mrtvi_Niste lol, i feel sorry for ya
I moved to Romania about a year ago. This is pretty dead on. There's a sink hole on my street and someone finally just put a tree in it.
What fascinates me (apart from the hilarious and yet legit video) is the fact that you have the exact same sofa pillow (the one at your left) as in my grandma's house in a semi-abandoned mountain village in Bulgaria.
Correction about the Belgrade metro, it has been planned for probably 100 years now, not since 2003.
Edit: First mention of Belgrade metro was in 1923. The idea turns 100 this year with absolutely no progress being made.
💀
Oh wow, that's quite more then the metro in Bratislava (1989)
As a Bulgarian, it physically hurt me when I saw the KFC food prices at 8:56
Fast food must taste better outside of america. It tastes like hot garbage here, and if you’re smart, you avoid it like the plague.
@@Hajde_budalla
It tastes the same in Europe. We also avoid it like the plague
@@Hajde_budalla Tastes the same here. I also avoid it like the plague because of the price. I can eat better for cheaper somewhere else..
Don’t eat that crap.
@@FoxyBoxery No need to avoid it usually 90% can't afford the so called fast food
3:28 Same in Thessaloniki. The plans where introduced in the 90s. It was approved in 2003. It was postponed like 50 billion times from then. Not they are saying half of it will be done in 2024, when they announced the full metro will be done in 2020-2021. In Greece the Thessaloniki Metro is a running meme.
Should call it a crawling meme at the rate they're going.
What Janoš didn't say was that 2003 was only the *latest* iteration of metro planning. There was a big plan made in 1978, and the first plans date from the 1930s. Anyways the main reason that the metro that was supposed to be open by 2021 was not done is because the new (and current) government that came to power in 2012 decided to throw the almost completely done project into the dustbin and redraw the metro map from scratch in order to server their new corrupt real estate mega-developments (first and foremost Belgrade Waterfront). The 1978 plan was thrashed because Yugoslavia went bankrupt in 1982 so there was no money to spend $2 billion USD on a huge metro system (which, if built, would've been amazing), and the 1930s plans were stopped by WW2. Anyways this story is repeated for an untold amount of infrastructure projects. For example a major clogged up freeway junction and overpass in Belgrade - a true traffic nightmare - is a "temporary" solution from the early 1980s that was supposed to be there just for a few years until the proper junction was built. If in Serbia they tell you that something is "temporary", you can bet your house it's gonna be there for the next 50 years at least.
As a born and raised romanian i might as well give my 2 cents on this
All of what you said, completely and utterly true. One small comment i have to make about the grandmas, the other place they get all of their info from is church. God forbid you mess up in church once and the whole town will know about it in 1-3 business days and your parents will hear about it before you even get back home.
And smth about the schools, whatever small amount of funding they get is always spent on the most useless shit ever. A few years ago my current hs held a student vote for weather to renovate the bathrooms or get a fancy mural on the school. Safe to say we still have to shit into glorified holes that they call toilets and wash our hands with water thats 20% rust.
On the bright side - you have a fancy mural to look at
SRI was and still is built on grandmas (babushka's) that survey every single aspect of your life (even in Bucharest).
It's an accurate description of the situation here in Hungary too.
I myself have bribed police officers to make unmistakable references to the fact that this can be done in other ways. All this before Christmas, I suppose they had to find the money for presents from somewhere.
The way we say it here is that 'the trouble with corruption is that you get left out'.
In bureaucracy, you have so many chances that you can now do a lot of things online. During the closures, I was able to get a new ID card without even leaving the apartment.
The phrase "Beyond Western comprehension" is quite funny.
Greetings from Romania, Balkan and East European brothers!
Your videos make my day, Yanosh. Thank you! (Hope I spelled your name right)
Close enough hahaha
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope how do we write it correctly?
@@Bunicutaintelectuala János, probably......
János, you know? The Mongolian name
@@LivingIronicallyinEuropenow I don't get if it's Ianoș, János or anything else, what are you? 😭🙏
Timisoara, the European Capital of Culture, my father was hospitalised for a hearth tumour the doc asked what profession was and after asked 15k euros ensuring that everything will go fine. My father is dead now.
Ah yes, the bastion of civilization in Romania, Timișoara
My deepest condolences on your loss.
*takes out random knife blade from the sleeve*
Alright, where’s the stupid miserable idiot thief guy who did this?
*Don’t know.*
*thinks for a moment*
Let’s make this thing a little more clearer. What’s his ethnic background?
Oh yeah. Having to stand guard at the morgue so no random funerary parlor POACHES my dad's corpse and asks me for a ton of money was fun. Imagine if I didn't know anybody that worked for a funerary parlor to warn me before hand.
My father needed a Stent heart implant after a heart attack.
I was in a political party for 6 years to "Pay off" the "Favor" because i finished poly sci.
I hated every moment there but would still do it again.
Ntz ntz, you didn't pay...
My best friend worked at the popular winery at Belgrade for years. One day, shelf made out of glass bursted and glass fell on her, she was unconscious for couple of minutes. Her boss refused to drive her to the hospital, asked her if she can finish her shift and demanded that she pays for repair. That’s all you have to know about working in Balkans.
As a german I can feel a little of the pain. Regarding building stuff that never gets finished on schedule: have you heard about the Berlin airport? 💀
It's better to cry in a Mercedes than in a Yugo-Zastava. You have first world problems. Part of the Berlin airport isn't finished. We in the Balkans need to build the airport to even start complaining about the airport. And in the process, watch out the politicians don't steal all the money for the airport. Then, supervise the construction company doesn't steal the money and the building materials. Then, if the airport is finished, we have to watch it crumbling at unusual speed because the construction company stole the building material, and the regional government doesn't maintain it because of lack of funds. We have Balkan problems. I wish we have some of your German problems. 😂
@@tylerdurden9161 Well I am from Slovakia and I was surprised when I´ve heard German people to complain about their trains or even this Berlin Airport. We in Slovakia werent able to connect our two greatest cities with highway in 30 years, but we were able to feed many politicians with the funds.
Also, about trains, during previous government (2016-2020) Railway company staff had to buy components with their own money once they did not see more trains to start burning. That were rich years, I even have t-shirt which was popular on the theme of burning trains.
Yea, eastern and Balkan Europe problems, baby :D
5:00 putting war thunder after corruption fits perfectly.
Again I thank you, брате, for accurately describing the Balkan Republic of Brazil. The (mis)use of public funds, the politicians and their luxury holidays, the public projects and constructions that are delivered precisely in currentDate.plusYears(10); . Anyway, slava brazilija
Hahaha the Balkan republic of Brazil. 🤦♂️
"Smell of the Caribbean, they say the Balkans are Latino Europe" - a popular song (Relja - Latino Evropa) from a few years ago
shout out to Hungarian Hussars, who trained from early teenage years so they could've participate in Austria's foreign wars, thereby escaping the Balkans.
Fun fact: Some of them made it all the way to Mexico, where they were promptly dispatched by Juárez's forces using American weapons that were found somehow abandoned on the Mexican border. Ain't nobody likes the Hungarians (and the feeling is mutual)
Mercenary's is gonna Merc.
Shout-out to the battle of Caransebes. Based gypsy peddlers
That's because according to the law, Maria Theresa is the only woman you are allowed to simp for.
@@boomerix according to hungarian law, she was our king (a bit of gender bending because this loophole allowed her to be crowned in hungary too)
As a Serb American coming here for visiting my grandma every summer really opens my eyes about how much stuff we really take for granted as for example the only running water in my grandmas apartment is the toilet and the bathtub
So your family lives in the US and i guess makes money.
But you leave your grandparents to die in squalor?
Best family 100%
@@VojislavMoranic you don't know their situation don't judge
@@VojislavMoranicleave America. You Serbian hate America right?
Lmao America literally doesn't have free health care 😂😂😂. Literally every balkan country has better health care system. So no thanks. You probably have white privilege tought.
@@VojislavMoranicid live in serbia over the US without a 2nd thought
As a Greek, this is exactly how things are here, especially the Fallout monsters in small villages.
Much love from Romania, you described the balkans perfectly, keep up the good work
8:56 Unironically the most expensive restaurant in the balkans
you're not wrong
Fr
And the food absolutely sucks, they give burgers the size of peanuts
Fr
The worst thing about Balkans is that they have the POTENTIAL to be truly great.
A big one at that
As a hungarian, I always thought about Hungary as a Balkans peripheral country, and this thinking held up for a while.
Until a certain wide politician started to re-balkanize our great country, which definitely is better than every other country in the Balkans.
All I have to say, MER A GYURCSÁNY JOBB VÓT???
We don't have good politicans here :D Or in the EU :,D
In school we was told Romania and Hungary are not part of the Balkan peninsula but some define the region in cultural and historical terms and others geographically, though there are even different interpretations among historians and among geographers.
@@beadsman13that is true, but "the way of life" in Hungary is similar in too many aspect...
Emögött a komment mögött Gyurcsányt érzem talán maga Sorosbérenc? 😭😭😂
I bought some balkan folk music CD and half of it was frigging kurdish and moldovian. If they get to be on that cd hungary can call themselves balkan
As a German living in rural Bulgaria for 8 years now, I have experienced all these things, and have to some degree become balkanized, because имам човек. For the most part, I still have not succeeded in wrapping my head around this enigma that is the Balkan way of life, though. My motto is: the less involvement with the bureaucracy, the better. Even the fabled Austrians bureaucrats could learn from the Balkans (or perhaps some of it rubbed off in years past?) I get along great with the баби around me (there are three, I am surrounded, but have no need for a security system). Много проздрави на Сърбия!
Коя част на България?
Same in Macedonia. You're gonna love it here. I'm loving it. I'm loving that I fix computers for 400$ and have to deal with braindead customers who haven't touched a computer before.
@@yoanawramow8809 дунавската равнина, великотърновско
@@DacLMK I was told by Bulgarians not to enter Macedonia with my BG-registered car. I will try anyway someday.
@@andypre1667 It's not a problem. There are a lot of Macedonians who have bought cars from Bulgaria, and drive here with Bulgarian lisence plates.
Our relations maybe heated at the moment, but I don't think you'll have problems here, I hope.
As someone from the western balkans (Portugal) I can confirm this is accurate
lol a western balkan country. Its similar to croatia I think
Honorary Balkan 🥂
Went to portugal this summer and had a blast, it's a beautiful country. It does have balkan vibes, so I felt right at home in some places lol
Wow, that's very, very Western ! 😂
The western balkans is italy, no competition
The worst thing about the Balkans is having to protect your wallet at all times both on an individual level from Romanians and on a governmental level from all the corruption
i know where you live watch you walls i am romanian...
i am Romanian too, and i confirm, i want your wallet. I can't help but simp for your thicc wallet.
Bro i am romania and im afraid fot my wallet too
man, your wallet for some reason just walked in
not sure what you did to it
btw I'm Romanian
There is a joke something like this:
3 pilots are very proud that they can easily identify their home airports. They are flying over the US. The american reaches out of the plane:
- This is the Kennedy Airport in NY.
-How do you know?
- I just touched the top of the Statue of Liberty!
The French reaches out of the plane next.
-Oh, we are in Paris, Orly!
-How do you know?
- I just touched the top of the Eiffel tower!
The Romanian reaches out of the plane next.
- We are in Bucharest now.
-How do you know?
- My watch just got stolen.
Am I from the Balkans? No. Do I have family heritage from the Balkans? Also no. Do I love this handsome man? Yes, so I shall keep coming back, to learn about the most based peninsula.
the bureaucracy part resonates so much with me. getting a resident's card in hungary was a nearly weeklong ordeal of getting shuttled around from government building to government building. great video, janos
After watching this video, I've realized that I've been living in balkans even before moving to balkans. I am from Kazakhstan
I see what you did there: ued a 100 RON (Romanian Leu) bill and said 20 euro.
For those that don't get it: 20 Euro is roughly 100 RON.
I’m pretty sure he put the Hungarians at the end just so Romanians could 100% agree
Everyone hates Hungarians, especially other Hungarians. It's not a Romanian exclusive thing :p
hey, of all the currencies he could've had in the beginning, it was a romanian bill too!
Adevarat! :)))
Well he is a serb and romania is Serbia's only friend and vice versa haha
@@beyond6storm he moved to Romania some time ago, that's why he used it
Bro i'm from the balkans and i love how accurate every single thing this guy says is. But when are u gonna do a vid on balkan families? That would be funny as shit
Serbia be like:
"you westerners always say shit like 'iM StRaiGhT bUT 20 bUckS is 20 BuCks'.
IN SERBIA WE DON'T DO THAT SHIT.
...
5 bucks."
You were on point the whole time but the “balkan karen” description was just perfection 😂 I was trying to get a paper in Albania last year and the curly headed lady told me I was missing a stamp after 3 hours of waiting.
Balkaren?
>Corruption
>Public Service going to shit
>No probable cause to search you
>Taxes & 20% VAT
>Dark Souls level of bureaucraty
>assholes
>Laughs in French
You just described Romania. Amazing how we all are so similar here in the Balkans. Or is depressing. Depends I guess.
Amazingly depressing😂
Ain't no such thing as depression in the Balkans. We call it alcohol deficiency, and luckily the treatment is readily available
@@tybofborg well lack of alcohol is depressing so there you go
There is a difference though , somehow other cities are dragged kicking and screaming into development , while Serbia ask itself where metro in the capital , Romania ask itself in 2 cities of which one is the capital.
The zoning laws are so outdated they just develope apartment buildings so they don't have to develop a decent roud to exit the neighborhood
@@tybofborg except in turkey, where alchol is taxed to hell and back.
Janos has officially lost it
I'm glad that your channel and content evolved so much. Hard work pay's off at some point. Cheers from Romania!
As a hungarian I can confirm WE LOVE TAXES SO MUCH!
Meanwhile Germans and Austrians literally always vote for higher taxes which often ends in nepotism and just wasting tac payer money.
27% on basic foods let's gooo
When I was at summer school in Novi Sad, the other students (from all around the world) were looking at me weird when I always took my ID with me. They didn't belived that in Hungary we can be stopped for no reason. I didn't got stopped at NS tho, but it was in 2016. It was also weird for them, that I "thanked" the drivers who stopped at the ped-cross. Here you can be killed on the road for like everything.
As a resident of Novi Sad, what can I tell you, normal behaviour tho shit can suck as well.
@@d0dge407 So are you sad in Novi Sad?
As far as I know, legally police cannot ask for your ID for no reason in Hungary. Whether they'll pull out an excuse from their bottom is another question..
can confirm, i was killed on the road twice this week
@@nicklibby3784 Not really, during the summer its a vibe here, love it. During the winter, unless it snows I wanna die.
8:22 As a romanian I can state that we do not use guns in Craiova (due to probably not having the money to buy some), we only use big ol' chef knives.
hey what's name of the song?
@@MrTom911pl No idea, sounds Hungarian.
János , so you have a hungarian name , you live in serbia and you use romanian money. Thats freaking epic. Balkan brother , good luck for surviving and fight the corruption (impossible)
Hahaha he used to address himself as Nik, sort of Nikola I guess considering he's American-Serb
@@moon_fake dude, I was wondering what's the matter with his name because I saw him using two names. At one point I thought that the channel is run by two people with similar voices 😂
Growing up in Greece in the '90s, your words COULDN'T BE MORE ACCURATE
I'm from South America. It's amazing how much we have in common
Aside from economic mediocrity you have more in common with Spain and Portugal, and generally Western Europe in general.
@@BonVoyage861 Culturally yes, we're closer to Spain and Portugal. But the economic mediocrity and having neighbors hate each other with a passion (even though we're all the same) is a big part of Latin America, like the Balkans
This channel keeps me alive every single day of my life
Nailed it like the romans! Also love the Craiova joke! You should come visit sometimes! Keep up with the great videos! Sa traiesti, vere!
You are doing a million dollar job, keep it up
can't wait for next part
In Kavala Greece, Greece, the southern most province of Balkanistan, they decided to build a wider road in order to facilitate the needs of the new hospital. It took them 8 years to complete 800m of road, they created a bike road that no one ever used because its just 300m of bike road in the middle of nowhere without any connection whatsoever, and the road now is so narrow that when you are driving with the car you are in danger of bumping to the pavements.
The new hospital i mentioned above had his own fair share of issues. Namely, they built it, and then they realized that there was no way to connect it to the sewage network of the city.
A similar story with our new public swimming pool :P
Ah and did I mention that we have a destroyed bridge in the middle of the city for the past 6 years and they still haven't decided whose responsibility it is to fix it?
In Thessaloniki they started building the metro who knows when. It was supposed to be delivered in 2012, since there were several extensions, they inaugurated it a couple of times, but it's still a work in progress :P
Westerners police don't got shit on us when it comes to police brutality. My buddy was 16 and driving his scooter without a license, stupid move, but whatever. He sees the Interventionist police signaling him to stop . These guys do heavy violent and drug crimes and they usually break legs first and ask questions later. Being 16 and without a license my friend decided to try and run away. He was caught, got his ribs broken and it turned out, the police where looking for another guy, with the same colored shirt and scooter who roobed a store. Every time I tell this story I do it as a joke and laugh, everyone who hears it laugh, cus when you live in such a bizarrely violent and shit contry what else can you do
Tbh Russia replaced the Balkans as the most unstable and miserable place in Europe
This, this, this
It was always worse than balkans
always was
@@Yominication lol this
yugoslavia was way more developed then ussr because tito was less retarded and stalian and lenin
As a lifelong resident of Serbia, I have never heard a bad word about Hungarians or Jews. Other groups though...
Is there any Jews left in Serbia? In Macedonia we had 30 000 Jews before WW2! Now we have about 200!
@@bigozimak Yep!
Disgusting serb. I despise you. You will never be nothing more than an imbecile and no more than a failed human.
My girlfriend loves Serbia and wants to move there. I need help. I need to stop her 💀
Here in Germany we actually have the same problem with construction projects and planned achievements, which is something one might not expect. One example, (by far not the worst, just google Stuttgart 21) is the main train station in my city (Augsburg), which has been under construction for at least 7 years.
Another one was the adaptation of the highly dysfunctional German train system (again, might come as a surprise) to the Swiss model, whatever the hell that means. They had planned to implement the changes by 2030, but then noticed they needed a little more time and pushed it back to 2070, so they basically called it off without calling it off.
I guess that's one less thing I'll have to get used to when I move to Serbia in September hahaha
I visited Germany during New Year's as someone from Tennessee ( U.S.A ) I was shocked to see your main roads. I thought you couldn't beat us on that shity regard but it turned out our roads have less patches 😂. Apparently government abusing tax payer money is a common virus all over the globe. Cheers mate
@@theunknownfragment5473but we have the autobahn tho 😊
@@theunknownfragment5473having grown up in Germany I can say that things used to be way better but for some reason the Germans decided to have things get way worse.
Wait, balkans are just latin america in europe?
Blessings from peru
Maybe cause many people from the Balkans actually migrated over to South America 🗿
@@JmMateo933 wait really? Wich countries and in wich south american countries?
it's all post-communist bullshit
@@dovhakiinguerra3018 Idk for others but I know for Croatia that many Croats went to live in South America long ago so now hundreds of thousands of people and even the current Chilean president are all of Croatian descent
@@dovhakiinguerra3018croats in southern Chile are the most prominent
I go for holiday to the Balkans and I am coming back ever since. Feel at home there, don’t know that’s a good or bad sign. After watching this.. But the food is good and the people are awesome!
I agree.
Living in the Balkans destroys your potential and youth.
honestly corruption is so common politicians dont even hide it. its more like a badge of honour for them
Yeah, we are so corrupt that corrupt politicians from all över The world coud learn from us
The only valid criticism of the Balkans is 1) bureaucracy and 2) people are not enterprising/innovative in the commercial sense. Everything else you mentioned can also be seen in the West, you just don't focus on it because "it's not your country" so you don't care enough to pay attention. There is just as much corruption in the West, but it's more sophisticated and elevated whereas in the Balkans it's direct and visible so you naturally think there is more of it. I live in the UK and pretty much everything here is complete shit. The only things worth staying here for are banking and tech sectors; if you are experienced and highly skilled you can make a lot of money in these two industries, otherwise renting a room in a shared house as a mature adult is your reality. The so called West used to be a nice play to live but it got corrupt by American Corporatism in the last 30 or so years. Nowadays people come here to make money and return to where they came from, usually after they have children or when they get enough experience to start a business back home. This isn't the 90s anymore, the technology that is easily accessible has transformed societies and turned most of the world in a decent place to live especially if you are a little bit resourceful. The only thing keeping the Balkans stagnant is that people are generally bad leaders but good workers. They need to learn from the Westerners and become more daring in the context of innovation of entrepreneurship and start businesses to move the economy, not just look to get a job. We all live in a globalised world, there are no technical obstacles it's just a mental barrier that needs overcoming. Everything else is "the grass is greener" type comparison. You might get better household name services and Apple stores everywhere, but then again your wife might get acid thrown in her face just for fun and your daughter will learn sex from a 55y old man dressed as a woman. So it's all swings and roundabouts.
My dad (who is half greek), his best friend (who is serbian) and my godfather (also serbian) always get into political discussions when they drink. Come to think of it, my dad argues with pretty much all balkaners when he's drunk 😂
My dad and the males in my family did it without raki. Believe me, its not the alcohol that makes everyone do it. It’s just the Balkan in us.
You can leave the Balkans,but the Balkans will never leave you.Cheers!
"How is life in the balkan or hungary?"
Me:YES
"... and ESPECIALLY the Hungarians." Spot On 🤣
Ah man, thanks for a great laugh! I remembered the stuff we pulled off at school (it was a British private school in Lebanon)... The guys got into a massive brawl over politics once, beat the sh*t out of the PE teacher when he tried to break them up, had the headmaster barricade himself in his office, and trashed half the cafeteria.
The headmaster had to call in the military police from the MoD next door to get things back under control.
as someone who grew up in romania (bucharest), i feel like 90% of this video is so accurate when it comes to 2000s and early 2010s romania, but maybe only about 10% accurate for what the country is like in 2023. crazy how being in the EU can change things so much
send some of that EU money to Moldova as well, you greedy fvcks !
you're lucky as hell,transylvania (except Cluj) ain't getting that treatment anytime soon
Well, he has mentioned more than once it applies to anywhere but the capital and the second biggest city. It's typical for citizens of mentioned places to have no idea about the rest of their country.
i really hope someone makes something like this channel but for latin america. greetings from mexico
Latin America, the Balkans and South East Asia share the same vibe.
@@abnerdoon4902 you're so right! i'm croatian and always surprised when i speak to a mexican friend of mine and realize how similar some parts of our cultures are.
As a brazilian, i support this
@@xioxialt How is it any similar at all 💀
@@JmMateo933 specifically the way people communicate with each other. being direct, expressive (loud?), playful rivalry with people of neighboring countries, stricter parents - stuff like that.
edit: sometimes it's weirdly specific things too, like how both in southern mexico and southern croatia both accent/dialect groups tend to elongate words as opposed to the northern parts.
My man casually tossing 100 lei and pretend we didn't see that.. we are already in the search of your wallet Janos.
I got it. Piece of cake.
As a romanian the words ''Romania casa mea'' sounded so familiar i hear everyday my neighbour (i am living in a small town) saying that and then swearing and blasphemy the country because its like living in africa but you have water and elctricity
Btw you grow so much since the first video to now, may the force be with you always!
Dual citizen here. Lived for 3 years with my ex in Krusevac, Serbia. Depression got real far too fast. Belgrade was a breath of fresh air!!!!
Interesting choice of cover picture. Was it intentional? Dean Norris from Breaking Bad was couple of days ago in Hungary with his sons visiting the grave of his hungarian grandparents. One of his sons has a turul tattoo on his back. :)
Bro, i am starting to think that the portugal is balkan meme is actually true, we have so much in common💀
The most western edge of eastern Europe, from where it then extends all the way to Latin America.
Apparently south east Asia is also the Balkans of the far east. Truly a global culture.
@@boomerix Damn, where are you from Laos, Vietnam, cambodia, thailand, myanmar?
@@JoseRoby123 Hungary
At least you aren't sun deprived and don't live in chrushiovka
@@JoseRoby123 SEA is about as opposite to Eastern Europe as it gets lmao. Totally different people. It's like Subn Saharan Africa to Western Europe. Just polar opposite people.
The thing is if you grow up in the balkans you can survive everywhere ,
I agree.We already got used to every shit you can imagine...
Omg you are so right about the balkan people who work terrible jobs in the west for a year, just so they can come back home for a week and pretend they are ballers.
A few years ago my ex gf had a friend who was working as a driver for Amazon UK, he was working terrible hours (basically 10-12 hours/day for 6 days a week) for not a lot of money, he had saved up most of the money for years (by living like animals, 10 people in a 3 room apartment) just so he could buy an slightly used (and very cool) Mercedes CLS, and obviously driving it for days from the UK to Romania, just so he could "flex" for a few days and act like he's doing great.
The salary wasn't that impressive, I was basically earning the same in Romania, which at that point had a way lower cost of living (what he paid in rent living with 2 other people in a room I was paying as a mortgage for a 3 room apartment in Bucharest), he basically said he has no vacations (other than the 2 weeks he spends for his "holiday" back in Romania), yet I could see he was feeling himself, as a "boss" driving a Mercedes CLS, while I was driving a Ford Mondeo like a peasant.
At that point I had already visited like 20 countries (and he hadn't visited any), I could afford a city break every other month, plus a longer vacation in Greece every year, yet he still felt he is superior and is doing better than me.
I was telling my gf that with the money he had spent on that car he could have started a small business in Romania, or basically buy a 2 room apartment in cash in a large city (except for Bucuresti and Cluj) and get paid in rent, but instead he bought a car which now (like 5 years later) is probably worth half what he paid for.
Yeah, that is a sad sad mentality...
Materialism, Communism's last holdover on the Balkan psyche.
Thanks for the story
As a Bulgarian I am aware of the incredible history every Balkan nation has, and still I can't be proud because of history only.
*Sees the man with the "Kosovo" flag behind him*
*Instantly has twitter war flashbacks upon me remembering who that is*
That made me feel extremely good about every romanian person I know in Spain leaving to go back to Romania because " if it is going to be the same at least I will be with family"
I"m a street musician from Slovenia playing since 1991 and till now i was playing in 17 European countries! i must tell you that i never get harassment from police playing in the streets of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia,Bosnia,Serbia, Poland) but i had a lot of problems with cops playing in West Europe! Just saying..
I live in Romania for 36 years, and I've only been stopped by the police like, 3 times? (as a pedestrian. 3 more while driving). And Sibiu is like, the 15th largest town here.
This is the only man that is able to make the sponsor part fun to watch