What is daily life like in Belgrade?

[Khadeejah_al-Jahani]

Belgrade looks like a beautiful city with lots of history and culture. Does it also have lots in the way of cafes, shops, groceries, that sort of thing? Things that you need to live well day-to-day.

[Dusan_Aleksic]

Lot's of shops, cafes etc. I was just thinking that the other day. How there is a grocery shop every 100m or so in my neighborhood. Everything is provided for people living in Belgrade. As in we have lot's of different kind of things to buy in those shops but there are some missing. For example there are no Reese's or some other US brand of sweets. Or there is no EVGA computer equipment to be bought anywhere in Serbia for whatever reason etc. So the locals are not missing anything but you might But whatever it is you might find an alternative ...if there is something you might miss at all.

Checkout these two store chains (there is one of these not war away from where you might find yourself ):
https://shop.maxi.rs/
http://online.idea.rs/#!/home - use top level nav bar to switch categories

As for the regular shops there are those as well. We also have to big shopping malls:
http://www.usceshoppingcenter.com/en/home
http://www.deltacity.rs/home.html

Stores found in these two shopping malls can be found elswhere around the city as well. Most are in city center.

Also Ikea is supposed to open some time next year as well.

[Ivan_Radisavcevic]

Dusan covered all about grocery stores and markets and things like that so I am just going to something about cafes, bars, clubs and things like that.

Basically in the city center which is about 1-1.5 km Circe on every corner you will find at least one cafe, somewhere around it you are going to find restaurant, across of it is bar and so on… There is literally hundreds cafes, bars, restaurants and clubs all over the city. 50 meters circle around my building has 4 cafes, 1 bar, 2 restaurants, 5 fast foods, 3 corner shops, 2 supermarkets, 2 grocery stores, 3 Pharmacists and I am not exactly in the City center, I am on the edge of it. The closer you go to the Central City square density of all that is getting bigger and bigger.

Just for night life Belgrade has 4 special districts Savamala with approximately 15 clubs, Skadarlija or Bohemian quarter with 20-30 bars, cafes and taverns, Cetinjska street with 10-15 bars and clubs, then there are Clubs bay the river, at least 15 of them + the night clubs located outside of those districts.
And just want one more thing, everything is insanely cheap compared to the prices to almost any European city.

Taxi, for a couple euros you can go where ever you want, for a 30 Euros you can buy groceries for one week, drinks in the clubs are from 1-2.5 EUR…

There is a lot of things that you can do in Belgrade and you want be needing to much money to do that, it’s something like Europe best buy.

[Nenad_Cvetkovic]

IT infrastructure is fairly developed.
You can buy pre-paid SIM card for a few euros. If you need more you can sign contract with some of the telecom providers. Currently we have three operators: https://www.mts.rs/ , https://www.telenor.rs/en/consumer/ and http://www.vipmobile.rs/home.8.html

When you rent a flat there are basically two options, ADSL or Cable internet connection. The speed goes up 150 Mb/s for some cable operators. I have personally used ASDL for years and it was really good.

WiFi in cafes is always free, you should just ask for password. Even if it is not written that they have Wifi, you should ask for password.

There are few co-working places around the city. Just google them. The price is around 150 EUR/month. For that price you usually get your own place, internet connection, and some refreshments.

If you want to rent a car, you need "International driving license".

ATMs are all around the city. The most popular bank cards are Visa and Master Card, but you can pay in shops with American Express or Dinners on some places.

All prices in the shops are in Serbian dinar (RSD). When you want to exchange money do that in Exchange offices. They have better prices than banks. Serbian law for exchanging foreign currency is pretty strict and you should expect the price which is advertised. Sometimes you can get even better price for foreign currency if you are exchanging larger amounts (500 EUR +).

Younger people usually speak English, but unfortunately on many places they don't. It is especially irritating when they don't speak English in restaurants.

Serbian restaurants are not good place for vegetarians. Although, there are few vegetarian restaurants, majority of them are only for people who eat meet.

Restaurants usually serve traditional Serbian food, which means lot's of meat in different shapes. There are Italian restaurants which are pretty popular, but there isn't too many Asian or Indian restaurants.

This is my small contribution to this topic.