Albania

[NovaKart]

Would you go there and then stay for awhile? Any idea about the positives/negatives? I was offered a job there but the salary is pretty low but it seems interesting and some pictures I've seen of the town look nice.

 

[Silurian]

Be careful of the mafia

 

[NovaKart]

What do you know about it?

 

[madviking]

As much as I hate on the Polish language, Albanian is hardly better.

Albanian and Hungarian shouldn't be languages. TRY READING THAT!

 

[Japanrocks12]

What are you talking about, those are some cool languages!

 

[Kozmos]

Can somewhat make out Albanian but completely lost on Hungarian.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I don't know all that much about Albania, but I did know 2 very hot Albanian girls back in high school. One of them had a huge crush on me, but I was too hopelessly in love with someone else to really consider going out with her. I didn't handle things very well when I rejected her, but she was still a cool girl and we continued to be good friends until she graduated. (I've mentioned this before, and even had a picture of her with her Lamborghini posted for a while but it got deleted.) I didn't know the other one very well, but I believe she was one year older (meaning 2 years older than me) and was the cousin of the first one. They had different last names but looked more alike than most sisters do. It would be hard to tell them apart by seeing only their faces, although the physique of the younger was slim and the older curvaceous.


On the other hand, the ethnic Albanian girl I knew who came with her twin brothers from Kosovo was one of the least physically attractive girls I've ever met.

 

[madviking]

Oh yea. Albania is also responsible for the Belushi brothers. My stock in Albania has now tripled.

 

[Dachs]

In the last thread we had like this:

From a shirt they sell at the US Embassy in Tirana: "Albania - Land of the Concrete Toadstools"

 

[GoodSarmatian]

[Nationalistic prejudice]
Dude, I'm half serbian. I don't want some random guy to slit my throat.
[/Nationalistic prejudice]

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

I find the language to be interesting. Most of what I know about Albania comes from what I have read about Serbian history though honestly.

 

[warpus]

Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

^ Yea, that, and I think they gave us Jim Belushi, so that is another negative.

 

[NovaKart]

Yes I heard it was the poorest European country until Moldova recently beat them to it. I don't know if that includes the Caucasus countries. Maybe Georgia or Armenia are poorer.

 

[Yui108]

^ Yea, that, and I think they gave us Jim Belushi, so that is another negative.

And that other one...

 

[Tee Kay]

Albania is one of the poorest countries in Europe

Meaning that it's actually moderately well-off by world standards.

It's just another country...

 

[Camikaze]

I'd go there. I would avoid the roads as much as possible, due to renowned crazy driving, but apparently it's a pretty nice place apart from that. Living and working there is a different thing altogether, though...

 

[Tee Kay]

If it helps, Wikipedia says Albania has a little higher homicide rate than Turkey, but lower than the United States, Thailand, Indonesia or Argentina.

 

[NovaKart]

I've been reading about the mafia and human trafficking. It seems like it used to be worse than it is now. I think it likely wouldn't affect me much but it's still creepy to think of that going on around me.

 

[Camikaze]

I also heard that the country is drowning in guns from the collapse of communism, and that this has facilitated high organised crime. But I doubt that would really be a problem for living there.