This type of honest, barely filtered content is fire. Love it, thank you.

Super helpful, thanks so much for making this video!

Can I talk to you in private please.

Great videos! I appreciate you and the information you shared. Thanks!

Great vid very honest. I'll have to swing by there it sounds fun. Most men in Muslim influenced countries are seriously possesive and very chauvinistc. It's expected.

Thanks Kevan, really appreciate you making this video. Wondering do you go to the beach? Is there a bus? Is it far? I know Sarande? Is supposed to be the beach place in Albania, but it looked like a building site & access is via Corfu. Thanks again, really appreciate you ✌🏻

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For anyone interested in what he has to say about racism. He starts here 22:13

As a foreign language enthusiast, I love that you share in this video that people should study the grammar of their OWN language before taking on another language. ❤

Great Video. I would like to visit Albania sometime soon. I am a single guy and, as far as I know, the Women are Really Fine.

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Yes they are friendly

tipping ... you'll figure it out? Seriously? fail. How is that at all helpful for someone coming to Albania?

Thank you for being real! Refreshing ❤ thanks for putting yourself out there, especially when you don’t have to. Do you know if it’s acceptable to have a job as online English teacher in Albania? I’d like to live there for a year as a homebase to travel to other areas like Bulgaria Turkey, Greece, Italy. When I was 23 I had a boyfriend from Albania who was a fisherman. I don’t know what happened to him, but his stories were highly entertaining. His dad was the number one boxer for Albania. we would go into antique stores and he would show me kitchen tools. His mother still used in the communist kitchens where she was a cook for the government. He said they could not get the Coca-Cola factory started there because everyone stole the machinery. He said when he was growing up, the government told them that they were the greatest country in the world, and they believe them because they didn’t know any better. He wouldn’t eat broccoli because he said that it was animal fodder, and his dad grew a whole field of it to feed their cows. Artisan bread was getting a start here in the early 90s and he thought it was funny that people paid so much for what he thought was regular every day bread.

Dont forget to say about the millions of rats in New York and the homeless people who live on the streets

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Perfect work my dear ❤😍😍😍👋👏👏👏

Hey Kevin! Always nice to hear from fellow NYers. My husband and I have stayed 2 winters between Tirana and Durres as he’s originally from Albania. We absolutely love it there mainly for its affordability and the weather.

Thanks for the honest review. I plan to visit Albania in the summer. I live in Croatia now, and exploring other places in the region with better residency policies.

This was great. I use to travel live in SE Asia pre-pandemic. I'll be traveling around to random countries starting in August. Getting out of America again for an indeterminate amount of time for obvious reasons.. I'm choosing countries that don't require a visa for Americans. Albania was first alphabetically lol. This got me excited to visit.

People Who PAY A LOT for Rent are CRIMINALS in my Opinion; they Are NOT thinking how They have RUINED for MILLIONS of People Around the WORLD.

Hi Kevan, I enjoyed your video, found it very informative, and am glad to hear you are making progress in Albanian, which I think is a wonderful language. One minor quibble: don't buy into the Albanian nationalist narrative/conspiracy theories (they have been here for 8000 years, there is a plan to promote corruption in the country to force them to move out, etc.). The reality is much more complex. Groups of humans moved to Europe from Africa more than 100,000 years ago and since then there has been a great deal of flux in terms of languages, cultures, populations and so on. Identities have formed, changed, been supplanted and evolved in ways that we cannot imagine. While some populations over, say, the course of the last millennium, may appear to have been relatively stable, they have still undergone tumultuous changes due to invasions, pandemics, environmental changes, and other developments. 8000 years is really a very very long time in historical terms and no-one today knows who was who so long ago. Think about your own ancestors. They were brought to America a few centuries ago - not really such a long time in relative terms - and yet it is very hard to know much about them, what languages they spoke, their religions and so on, especially if we want to know the answers to those questions about them while they were still in Africa. DNA tests are misleading and the records that exist are insufficient to know their personal histories, in most cases. So what were they doing 8000 years ago? No-one has the faintest idea. The ideologies that legitimise modern nation states often seek to reach back into history to trace a story of a 'real' 'ancient', or 'original' people, but this is always bogus to some extent. These narratives contain elements of truth, but the truth is instrumentalised in order to provide a cohesive and simplified narrative. The Albanian language, a treasure-house of influences from a huge range of other languages, provides ample proof of this - after all, about half of its vocabulary is derived from Latin. As for corruption and people leaving the county, that has been common to all of the countries of Eastern Europe (except perhaps for Czechia and Slovenia) since the 1990s - and especially in the case of countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Romania. Is someone trying to drive them out of their countries too? Of course not; there is just a generalised problem of corruption combined with a complex set of economic problems. It's not part of a conspiracy. Consider the Albanian pyramid schemes of 1996-97. Peoples' lives were ruined. No wonder many of them wanted to leave. They formed a recent diaspora who told all their cousins and other relatives to emulate their example and move to the UK or elsewhere, where they could make much more money, so there were/are both 'pull' and 'push' factors. It's a quite normal phenomenon. Anyway, I enjoyed your video very much and wish you all the best in Albania. You seem like a thoughtful, intelligent, and charismatic person.

Perhaps the best "Living in..." video I've ever seen!

Here, Black people often complain about the police. I am Dominican, and we don't usually complain about the police. Could the issues that Black people face be related to allegations of theft? Indians, who also have dark skin, generally have a positive view of the police. I don’t mean to offend, but it seems that other races in America don't view the police as negatively. Here, there are many smash-and-grab incidents. Dominican bodega owners in the Bronx are fearful of Black individuals who steal their goods and feel they can’t defend themselves because they are protected by figures like Alvin Bragg. I have a friend who defended his bodega with his wife; he ended up in jail but was released when the case gained high-profile attention because he is Dominican. Conversely, a white person might end up in jail for defending commuters from a Black individual in the subway. Also, blacks beat up asians all the time. If you talk to Asians in China town NY they tell you they are afraid of blacks too.

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A gay dude in a conservative country, why 😂😂😂?? Also, its not a role of a mom, it’s a role of a “wife”. Stop bringing your disfuncional western ideologies to other countries. It’s exactly why the dating market in the US is trash and all sorts of people are having relationship issues because they are confused about their role

New subscriber here! Second video I’m watching and I love your content

I’m moving there next year

Hello KEVAN, I am interested in moving to Albania, Please can you help guide me?

My family is from Kosovo and we live in Germany (born and raised here), but I‘m thinking about moving to Albania. This was really helpful and very interesting, because even though I‘ve been to Albania many times, it was only for holidays 🫶

You lying u South African, your name is Musa.

Of course in South and Central Asia, homophobia is prevalent but you'll see guys holding hands walking down the street. One of my friends was in Afghanistan and his younger cousin wanted to hold his hand lol

sounds like China 30+ years ago 😂

I'm in Tirana now as a black dude from Netherlands. Om casually walking the streets and I always notice a lot of people staring especially the girls but is it because they are interested or because they despise me? Lol I'm wondering.. some seem friendly though

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Why would you live there whats your job

Is this guy is beta male? Yakkke!!!

I bet you want to get married one of their woman.

What a boring video. It could have been shot in a closet. Really. What a waste.

Are you going to grace their country by bringing in LBGT?

Mr. K., This video is the absolute bomb! Thoughtful and comprehensive impressions and experiences shared by a long-term African-American resident living abroad are invaluable and greatly appreciated. Quick note: the glare from the hanging lightbulb behind you was a bit distracting, but I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Take care, and continue to enjoy yourself, wherever you may be! Thank you very much!

This is excellent Thank you

Thank you for respecting the women and explaining the reality.

Lots of good info, Guy. Good job. Thanks.

Thank you for this! I’m gearing up to leave the USA and head to Albania because the USA is a dumpster fire right now, and I don’t see it getting any better anytime soon.

🇹🇷😀You should try Turkiye (Turkey)..!!!

Good point, visiting a place and making a video about what it's like to live there is YT fluff and garbage. Thank you for making this.

Great video! I laughed out loud at the "zoo of birds and ducks" comment. My wife and I have been living in different countries for the last 17 years. I found all of these comments could be said about many places, but I'm looking forward to spending more time in Albania.

Thanks Kevin. I lived in china and knew a guy from Albania. Awesome guy. He's always talked about how wonderful it was there. It's really on my radar. Cost of living and welcoming to expats.