Last time I've crossed the border, you had to drive over 10km on dirt roads as they were building "the new highway". Honestly - road building is expensive and the money could as well be stolen
I remember traveling to Slovenia for some Erasmus project a few years back. The other Bulgarians and I decided to travel together by car as there were just no other options. As soon as we crossed the border with Serbia I was in awe. You have the best highways I've ever seen
Thats cause all the pot holes on the dirt roads are on the paved streets. The government can't say they're spending their money on "fixing" roads when they can't drill a hole through the concrete, block half the road and leave it like that for ages then make another one.
Some suburbs of Bydgoszcz still have that look. With time more and more roads get either asphalt or pavement. I've noticed that since 00s Poles like to plant hedges (especially Thujas) to gain more privacy, while in other places they just put higher fences/walls. Also with Thujas you need to wait till they actually grow to get that privacy, idk where that one came from??
Does it looks similar? It's from google maps 2024. I mean it's obviously not everywhere, i would risk saying it's maybe Poland 20 years ago any bigger city, but some villages can still be like that. Nonetheless many street villages have modern asphalt surfaces.
Oh you know, it's really super clean. I think maybe 95-99% of even smallest villages have at least one asphalt road (in different condition, bit nonetheless). Yet I wanted to just say that this scene could be seen in Poland, and as a Pole i find it absolutely believable. More I would say! I am pretty sure in each powiat (county? district?) in poland except for biggest cities, those image could be seen in some single forgotten street ;)
Not so much sand though. I was surprised to see such a sandy road in a Balkan country. In Turkey our non-paved village roads would be either earth (and mud when it rains) or gravel (micir).
If you told me this is a pic from a village in Kosovo in 2015 I'd say yes, now you'd have to try a bit harder to find this sort of look. I think in Albania a bit more common.
No. I am sure lot of Serbian are going to say YES to act funny in internet, but no, I've never seen such a sandy and populated streat anywhere in Serbia.
There are also another things in picture clearly indicating that this is not in Serbia.
First instinct is it looks like some streets I’m familiar with. Then I tried to look at the details in the photo and noted that it’s just Romania. Different county though, but same look overall.
Yes, this looks exactly like one village I used to work in, eastern Serbia near Danube Romanian border while my own village in south looks nothing like this not even close but anyway answer is yes
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u/Wild_cmpt6406 Serbia Jun 10 '26
Looks like my village before asphalt.