Subotica Serbia 🇷🇸 - I Had High Expectations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Quick stop in Subotica, Serbia on my way back from Romania to Hungary. After what I have read about this city, my expectations were extremely high. My actual experience was a bit sobering. When you are in the region, you should definitely stop by and spend a few hours there, but for most people, it is probably not a place to spend multiple days.
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People forget that Serbia had no money for 25 years following the wars and sanctions. I was back in Serbia last month for the first time in 11 years and what a lot of changes there are. It must be the fastest developing country in Europe, everywhere seems to be having a makeover and there are building projects and road improvements wherever you go. I have absolute faith that anything that needs to be done in Subotica will be eventually.
All these building sites, roads, train tracks, stations and literally everything that is spent on lands in the pocket of the politicians, and we, our kids, our grandkids and theirs will pay this to the chinese for houndreds of years. Sorry but I rather live in a not so modern country instead of selling my soul and future of my family to the chinese.
From your video I can see that your expectations of Subotica were really high. Well my friend, you stayed there for a few hours and in a typically ignorant manner presented a town without any previous research. Well, I had really high expectation of Bavaria too, because everyone was talking how good it was, I have to admit - you have the best paid PR there. I stayed in Bavaria not for a few hours but for two years and I regret every second of it. Franken is the most primitive, rude and non interesting part of West Europe I have ever experienced.
The point of my video is not to provide something like a comprehensive travel guide. It is obviously about my subjective impressions visiting this town for the first time, not very well prepared and only for a few hours. I still think it could be helpful for viewers who plan to visit Subotica because they typically are in the same situation.
By the way, I agree that Bavaria is overrated. On the other hand, I am a huge fan of Franken, especially Bamberg, Bayreuth and the Fränkische Schweiz region. People there can be a bit "special". They are normally really friendly but have a very direct way that is easily misinterpreted as rudeness.
Did I mention that I was born in Franken? 😊
@@frankexplores4794 Frank, based on your utmost ignorance, I figured immediately that you are from Franken, that is so transparent to foreigners who spent some time there. On the other hand, the only thing I like about Bamberg are the Bamberger Symphoniker, whose Musicians, paradoxally, mostly do not originate even from Germany 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing your point of view. I appreciate it.
May I ask one question: What made you stay in Franken for two years?
@@frankexplores4794 Lets turn the question around. Why do you think that I was using your social welfare for two years in Franken? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can read what (most) of the people from Franken think.
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Didn’t work in my case. But don‘t worry. I have only spent the very first years of my life there. So maybe it didn‘t have a huge influence on my personality.
I think what makes Subotica special for Serbians is that it’s close to Hungary and reflects that in its character. However, for Hungarians, it’s so similar to your average small city there, that it’s not so special - as you said. Thanks!
Serbia and Hungary best friend.
Добрый день ! А вам нравиться жить в Суботице?
Я бы вышла замуж за американца который хочет жить со мной в Суботице. Мне 57 лет.
shopping in the second hand store for reasons I do not quite understand :)) was my favourite part
👍🌟👍
I loved the video, is subotica a good city to live in?, did you hear more people speaking hungarian or serbian? Tks
Having been there for only a few hours, I habve no idea if it is a good city to live in. Regarding language, I mostly heard Serbian, some people, maybe 20%, speaking Hungarian in the streets. However I read that the Hungarian speaking population is almost 30%. Personally, my favourite city in the whole region, Szeged, is only a few kilometers away and I could definitely imagine to live there. (In Szeged, that is.)
Hi, Why do you ask? I was born and raised here, If I can, I will gladly help you. I'm Hungarian and I think more people speak Serbian than Hungarian. Here live people who are originally from Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, A little less Slovaks, Romanians, etc. 🙂
@@frankexplores4794
thanks for the answer, interesting my grandmother and great-grandmother came from Subotica, of Hungarian descent, I'm thinking of going to live in serbia for a while because it's a serbian-Hungarian city, but szeged burns in my heart.
@@valeri620 Hi Valeri Tks so much .
I've been thinking about the city of Zenta, as I mentioned my Hungarian ancestors came from Subotica, but I'm not sure if I'm going to a city like Zenta, subotica or Szeged. I speak basic Hungarian I would like to develop myself more living in these places. I am Argentine with Serbian-Hungarian citizenship
@@vida_rafael That depends of course on you. I would recommend you then, to first try to spend time in the mentioned places and then decide. I hope that you have an income and that you are not dependent on work, which you might be doing there . Szeged is nicer and cleaner and the people are a little bit different than in Vojvodina. Everything has its good and bad sides.
Thank you for visiting.Please dont come again.Thank you.
One of the things I was curious about when starting my TH-cam channel was what it is like to have haters. Thanks for bringing me forward on my path of answering this question.
But could you be more precise and tell me why I should not come again. I believe that even stupid people like myself are able to learn, at least a little bit.
People in your country are unwelcoming I see?
Frank you have poor info
That's correct. I visited this town with minimal preparation and started exploring, hoping to get surprised. I think that many travellers are like that and that's why I think the video might be interesting to some.
Which of my statements sounded especially uninformed to you?
Subotica is city of primarly croatian history and than serbian.Hungaryans got their way there by force. From earlyest point of history of subotica (after it was reconquerd by hasburg monarchy from ottoman empire) when it became baroque town and not just military fort all the way till ww2 it was settled by croats 65%+ and not any croats but croats from dalmatia who came and founded modern subotica.
The buildngs are in bad shape because they dont belong to anyone. Only the rooms/apartments inside are owned by people. Thats why no one is interested in investing money for the facades. Or the apartment owners cant decide on how to restore it. There also are no such things as Hausverwaltung or Hausmeister. So there's also no one to take care of the buildings. The government takes care of the historical buildings, but that's, of course, it. So it really hasnt anything to do with the country's GDP.
Interesting. Thanks.
@@frankexplores4794 same in Budapest
Actually not true, by law in Serbia anything outside apartments in residential buildings is a joint ownership of all tenants and their responsibility. And all residential buildings by law must have building manager who is chosen by all tenants. Things improved a lot in that matter in the last 4-5 years since new law and regulations were put in place, since before those new regulations it was pure anarchy in anything regarding maintenance, investments and renovations of residential buildings since everyone just acted its responsibility of the state (old communist ways, proved devastating in many ways). Law now is basically copied from EU regulations.
thanks I will be retiring there soon.from Australia@@carick235
Total wrong
I'll be there next week, thanks!
Szabadka! I was there just 2 months ago.
It's Subotica. Stabatdka is in Israel.
@@STASHYNSKYI I have said "SZabadka
To clarify this: Szabadka is the hungarinan name of this town that has 30% Hungarian speaking population. Subotica is the Serbian name. There have been other names in History, like the weird German name "Maria Thheresiapolis" which is actually Greek for "Town of Maria Theresia".
@@frankexplores4794 My feeling was rather 40%, but I can't be objective after only 20 hours on the place.
@@AmnesiaGm1 As a person that has lived in Subotica his whole life, I feel like hungarians are like 5-10% of the population from how rarely hungarian is heard on the streets these days
Before WWI Subotica(Szabadka) was the third largest city of Hungary after Budapest and Szeged.
Yes and forth in lands of st stephan