Hey guys, and welcome to Georgia
No - Not this Georgia
This Georgia
Some of you may be today years old when you learned that Georgia is an actual country.
So let me give you a quick rundown Georgia is a country located in the Caucasus region.
Georgia used to be a part of the Soviet Union back in the day and there are many stories I
heard about Georgian men coming to Soviet Russia and doing their outmost just to seduce Soviet women
I have been dreaming of coming here for a long time. Firstly Georgia boasts incredible natural
beauty. Secondly Georgian Cuisine is really really - I mean really good. Third wine, Did you
know that Georgia makes some of the best wine in the world? but most importantly the incredible
warmth and hospitality of its people. I had many stereotypes of mine before coming here
Georgianmen were of course Charming casanovas promising anything and everything at the feet
of women.Georgian women - meek and subservient careful around the dominant Georgian men but
how true were these stereotypes and how did they all change with the new not Soviet generation
I guess I'm really, really confused about how the dating is here.
It doesn't exist - that's the thing. It doesn't exist?? I'm joking!
We don't have such a word like- like dating in Georgia.
If you're really serious with someone you stop
seeing other people. It's not liking USA that you see one boy in the morning and then you change your clothes.
That's not how we do it! Do you go on dates actually like or? Oh they're just they're not like okay tomorrow at 7 p.m
let's go to this restaurant that I booked for you like and you're like oh for things like hey
let's go out so I was assuming like Georgian men like flowers um here wining and dining you -
They're were. Is that is that a thing still or is this older generation keep
in mind that since the older generation speaks virtually no English I will be speaking Russian
for a part of this episode yes first time you will hear me speak my native language
I was sitting in the park when these older gentlemen started speaking
to me. I had no idea what they said but decided to go with it anyways
Even when you're like together, it's not like - uh tomorrow are you free? Yeah me too okay.
Like where, when? Like it doesn't have the name, it doesn't have the name of date or something.
what do you call it?
I'm meeting with my boyfriend I'm meeting my girlfriend it's not like in other countries
where you're like okay so you do want to be my girlfriend ordo you want to be my boyfriend? sometimes it's
like neutral so you just go have coffee yeah like do you think I love you too together
If we stay here - if we stay here the debates will go long ago
it quickly became apparent that the older generation was much more passionate and
romantic than the newer generation. Flowers, wining and dining seem to be a thing of the past
something that the newer generation of Georgians were moving away from but
there still seemed to be a traditional element present in Georgian dating which made me curious
how do Georgia women perceive sex? So you are saying like
um it used to be a thing that like a woman having sex before marriage was taboo and now it's not so
much yeah because women were letting the boys to decide what they wanted to get you know and then
women decided okay also like there was more Europe they traveled they saw that this is not something
that determines if you're a good girl or not it's not liking USA or like Eastern Europe it's more
traditional here and especially like in small cities or villages this doesn't happen so often
because everyone knows each other so like they do the things but also they don't talk like this like
freely yeah they do hey guys I just wanted to stop this video to tell you one cool fact did you know
that Georgia is one of the countries to offer a digital Nomad Visa that means that if you're
a remote worker this is a perfect place to come work from for a full year and also live on quite
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that they have in different parts of the world and back to the video. I decided to meet with
Roy a Lebanese hostel owner who told me he had a lot to share on the topic of Georgian dating
they still have this sort of Village Vibe or thing where everyone knows everyone so for the Georgian
girl to actually go out of the Georgian guy it's kind of nah they don't prefer doing that they
prefer doing it with the Foreigner because this Foreigner doesn't know her friends doesn't know
her family doesn't know her neighborhood nothing. Yeah because they talk here right like exactly
It used to be like when I first moved here it was the place where everyone would check in on
Facebook and like they would make a deal like this is so and so checked in because it was the place
to be. I moved to Georgia in 2017. Initially it was supposed to be three months but then I fell
in love and it became one year and now it's you know so she's Georgian right so yeah have
you felt any kind of culture shocks I suppose some weird dating we actually had a situation where the
grocery store lady who's like 100 meters away at the end of our street from her flat thought it was
her duty and her right to like let the mom know that oh Irma your um daughter might- I think she
has a boyfriend you know and it's just like is she just like a lady working at a store.
And this is why a lot of Georgians don't date Georgians. They avoid dating each other because they both have
their needs but they can't get it from each other because most probably the families know each other
girls on Tinder like they don't want to be seen on Tinder they don't use their photos they they
use like for example a black image or whatever it is so how are you supposed to swipe on that?
um desperate men swipe on anything maybe you have a thing for black images. You know, I'm wild, I'm sexy I like
sexy Angeles and blah blah blah I have abstract stuff but like you can see how I
look like see there we go there's a black thing that we heard about. Later on, Alexandra a Russian
girl living in Tbilisi joined us to chat about her not so positive experiences with Georgia men
When I was in Tbilisi the first time I didn't understand where is- where is my hot,
handsome of course I started to use Tinder first of all they ask three questions: where are you from
with who you're living here alone or with husband or friends - friends... because they need a
place to go to yes they can't bring her yes and uh in which area you live?
They ask so basically - yes! exactly only three questions the way to see proximity like if she's
close enough not to spend money to go there and have sex yes yes that's it and I was honest with
them yes I live here alone yes I have apartment without friends without family so you're perfect then
and then he texted me oh yeah it's nice I can take wine and come to you. For what? Drink wine
I was talking to foreign girls a Russian girl and she was saying how Georgian guys always tried to
ask her if she lives at home alone and if they can go to her place do you think it's because
she's like a foreigner so they're thinking oh it's going to be easy - Georgian boys try a lot
with the Russian girls really because in Georgia it's not easy like we Georgian girls like - you
have to marry them after that I don't mean that Ukrainian girls and Russian girls don't
um not requiring effort but also like you don't have to meet their parents
because you kissed her yesterday like you know do you have to do that with the yeah
Well no, you know like it means something still
they're both right okay so good I never tried I'll buy I'll buy one um
This is very typical look at this man. They're in many videos on Youtube.
so-so
You mentioned before when we talked on Zoom that like women a lot of times that will
use um profiles in order to scam you a lot of women actually try to match with men on Tinder and
they take them to specific places like specific clubs where these women have agreements with these
clubs that they charge you three times and four times what you order it's like yeah I'm local
I will take you to this club and then you end up with like 700 bill for having four drinks
Cheers
that's it I can't do any more I'm done
I only had a shot so this is like a shot and a half
no
what do you want me to say I'm not drinking Cha-Cha no more I'm done, stop
I found a huge contrast when connecting with the locals in Georgia. Older people were eager to talk
friendly and energetic. While the younger crowd seemed a lot more aloof approaching them on the
street was really difficult. They properly ignored me like these guys right here so we're doing a
video just about Georgia and dating in Georgia if you want to just ask a question I mean no
you don't want to no it felt to me like the newer generation did their best to distance themselves
from the traditional values of the past you'll hear these values being referred to as trash
in the next episode keep in mind this is Tbilisi the capital city but even here you will see a lot
of traditional values. However no matter how much the newer generation tries to distance themselves
it is tough to escape the judgment from the society the gossip and the weight of expectations
I still have more questions - were Georgia men as dominant and women as meek as I expected and most
importantly, are Georgians really hospitable or is this simply an out-dated stereotype?