Thanks to @markowe for linking to the survey on Twitter
A new survey [in Serbian] conducted by the Tourist Organisation of Belgrade and the Belgrade Statistical office has shed light on what Belgrade’s 7,000 foreign residents think is good and bad about the city. Here’s a quick rundown of the results:
Likes
- Kalemegdan
- the Danube and Sava riverbanks
- Skadarlija
- Ada Ciganlija
- Kosutnjak
- the selection of restaurants
- traditional Serbian food
Dislikes
- traffic jams
- behaviour on public transport
- dirty streets
- air pollution
- aggressive drivers
- smoking in public places
The survey also reveals that
- 82% of foreign residents think Belgraders are hospitible
- 82% feel safe in Belgrade
- 47% have never been on an organised city tour
- 60% remain in Belgrade at the weekend
- 62% have a higher education
- 62% have lived in Belgrade for over one year
- most foreign residents are from Central or Northern Europe
- and 50% can speak and understand Serbian
I will write a follow-up post about my likes and dislikes of living in Belgrade as a foreigner in the next few days.
What do you like or dislike about Belgrade as a tourist or a foreign resident? As a native Belgrader, what do you like or dislike? Let us know by leaving a comment.
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on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
Seems to me that foreign residents have very similar likes and dislikes to locals.
Nothing here strikes me as odd.
on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Over at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors’ Club we are maintaining two lists:
Crap things about Belgrade – http://www.belgradefvc.com/wik.....t_Belgrade
Good things about Belgrade – http://www.belgradefvc.com/wik.....t_Belgrade
on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
@Viktor,
Yeah, the results were pretty much what could have been expected!
@Jonathan,
Thanks for the links. I clicked – but I decided not to read them so as not to influence my own likes and dislikes which I’ll write up in a separate post soon.
on Apr 4th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Agree with Viktor! I’m going to check out Jonathan’s links!
on Apr 9th, 2009 at 2:06 am
[...] in Belgrade, like Fabien cerisier that feel about the same about safety in the city of Belgrade. Balkanfile is pointing to a new survey based on interviews with more than 450 foreigners living in Belgrade. [...]
on May 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
any updates coming ?
on Jul 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
After 3.5 years in Belgrade…
Good:
People
Cafes, Bars, Splavs
Parks
Rivers
Fish soup
Innat
Bad:
Dog crap and litter
Idiots who park big cars stupidly – and with immunity
Pointless bureaucracy
Retail monopolies
Macho men (see parking)
Not enough swimming pools
Innat (everthing else could be easily fixed.)
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