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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.

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.

As a Brazilian I am surprised to discover we actually live in the balkans, we learn something new every day...

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.

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 💞

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

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:)))

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.

As an Albanian I can confirm this is a certified balkan hood classic

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 😎

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 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

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.

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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.

Even Roman ruins have more structural integrity than some schools or hospitals in Hungary...

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.

This is almost identical to living in living in Mexico. Only difference is that we commit crimes against humanity not war crimes.

I'm from Poland, it's literally the same, Slavic countries is just living in Europe but on hard mode

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.

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.

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.

12:22 In Romania, if you fart in a village, the next day the rumor will be that you shat yourself.

As someone from the western balkans (Portugal) I can confirm this is accurate

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!

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.

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

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.

As a Greek, this is exactly how things are here, especially the Fallout monsters in small villages.

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.

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.

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.

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!

As a Bulgarian, it physically hurt me when I saw the KFC food prices at 8:56

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.

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? 💀

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

Greetings from Romania, Balkan and East European brothers! Your videos make my day, Yanosh. Thank you! (Hope I spelled your name right)

The phrase "Beyond Western comprehension" is quite funny.

I'm glad that your channel and content evolved so much. Hard work pay's off at some point. Cheers from Romania!

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.

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.

Much love from Romania, you described the balkans perfectly, keep up the good work

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???

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

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.

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

After watching this video, I've realized that I've been living in balkans even before moving to balkans. I am from Kazakhstan

You are doing a million dollar job, keep it up can't wait for next part

5:00 putting war thunder after corruption fits perfectly.

You just described Romania. Amazing how we all are so similar here in the Balkans. Or is depressing. Depends I guess.

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.

As a hungarian I can confirm WE LOVE TAXES SO MUCH!

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.

8:56 Unironically the most expensive restaurant in the balkans

Btw you grow so much since the first video to now, may the force be with you always!

I just shared your channel with someone who is a huge deal on the internet because you are such a model of a great channel.

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.

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

Growing up in Greece in the '90s, your words COULDN'T BE MORE ACCURATE

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

The worst thing about Balkans is that they have the POTENTIAL to be truly great.

Great vid again bro,sending regards from Romania,keep up the good work!!

This is the only man that is able to make the sponsor part fun to watch

Janos has officially lost 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

You have a lively and very personal style! Good stuff!

I'm from South America. It's amazing how much we have in common

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.

Nailed it like the romans! Also love the Craiova joke! You should come visit sometimes! Keep up with the great videos! Sa traiesti, vere!

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.

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. :)

This channel keeps me alive every single day of my life

I’m pretty sure he put the Hungarians at the end just so Romanians could 100% agree

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!!!!

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.

>Corruption >Public Service going to shit >No probable cause to search you >Taxes & 20% VAT >Dark Souls level of bureaucraty >assholes >Laughs in French

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 worked with friends from Serbia and their stories were eye-opening

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.

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)

As a lifelong resident of Serbia, I have never heard a bad word about Hungarians or Jews. Other groups though...

When you talked about metros i got ptsd from living in Thessaloniki. We have been waiting for the metro to be built for i don't even knowhow long

From Quebec, Balkan is pretty similar to here. their a bridge near my town that make 6 years and never finished it, some of the constrution vehicles are at the same places for a year lol.

I see János has improved his Editing Skills❤😂

i really hope someone makes something like this channel but for latin america. greetings from mexico

03:44 I'm from Burgas (city in Bulgaria) and we had one Sports Hall that was expected to be finished in 2015: THE FINISHED IT MARCH THIS YEAR

3:19 yeah can confirm. Here in Bucharest, Ceausescu built like 5 metro stations in like 2 years and then the one that goes through my district took them 18 years to build

This is a gem.

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 😂

János, as another János, you delivered again. Every single thing is true in Slovakia too. Keep em coming

Bro... I am from Romania and I approve this message. Also the random memes apearing on screen are fire. I am at work and cannot hold my laugh :))

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

I agree. Living in the Balkans destroys your potential and youth.

Man, I just want to say I adore your work 😂

This is so accurate it's painful I wish we had nicer things

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"

Damn, I'm always amazed how identical life in Serbia and Bulgaria is. Had a friend in high school that got caught with like half a gram of weed and he spent the next 2 days in a cell at the police station, he never told anyone what they did to him but that guy was never the same since this little accident😂.

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

honestly corruption is so common politicians dont even hide it. its more like a badge of honour for them