Is Slovakia the most underrated european country?

[Blondie]

I am here since 2018 and i dont remember any thread about Slovakia. I have been to this country many times and i can say its absolutely beautiful. Slovakia has everything: big mountains, great forests, medieval castles, old fashioned but charming medieval cities, and Bratislava has very rich cultural life. It seems even european forget this country.

[BrandenburgGaming]

I could see it, slovakia often gets overshadowed by its neighbors. I wanna say in a way people think of czechia as being the "better" half, like they have a similar image of slovakia in their mind but most people only know places in czechia so they go there instead.

For me its the next place i plan to visit, i wanna see what my great grandmother and everyone before her lived like and a great grandfather of mine even died in slovakia, ive got hopes that maybe i can find out something more about him at his grave, if it can even be identified.

[renaissance12]

I would never have associated Slovakia with a mountain.. At most I associated it with some small and insignificant hill..

[Blondie]

I would never have associated Slovakia with a mountain.. At most I associated it with some small and insignificant hill..

Just travel to Slovakia

[Scarface F]

Just travel to Slovakia

It's hard to read mental diarrhea from that idiot.

[Katarzyna]

Slovak men are super hot. It’s one of my destinations for sex tourism

[Scarface F]

Slovak men are super hot. It’s one of my destinations for sex tourism

lol! I never met one but they look handsome

[Scarface F]

Despite living in Hungary unfortunately I never visited Slovakia. My father traveled it extensively in 1960s as a young boy, when he lived with Czech family every summer. Since it was one country, they traveled to Slovakia often. He is really fond of Slovaks and Slovakia and prefers them to Czechs (although he say Czechia is more comfortable for living). In his view Slovaks are quite similar people to us.

Slovakia has amazing castles and very beautiful towns, on average nicer than Hungary, since during Ottoman times it was "upper Hungary" and speared of Ottoman devastation. Mongols didn't sack much of Slovakia either as far as I know, so it has more preserved cultural and historical heritage compared to Hungary that was much more devastated by various wars trough history.

I do have a childhood friend living in Bratislava for years. She lives there with her Asian husband. Honestly, she has many bad things to say about Slovakia despite she is full of praise for Bratislava job market and opportunities, economic growth that is much greater than anywhere in Croatia. Closeness of Vienna really helps and lot of foreign investors came to Slovakia that developed nicely. Bratislava real estate costs a fortune though. What she complained about are Slovaks, in her view quite grumpy and "gray" people, lot more closed than Croats are. She described them as having "very eastern Euro post-Soviet mentality" (SVK was never part of USSR though). And she said rest of country outside Bratislava lags behind in development and infrastructure compared to Croatia. Interestingly, she clicked with Hungarian minority from Slovakia and described them as different to Slovaks and quite more friendly and open.

Her Asian boyfriend was attacked by skinheads in Bratislava two times, it never happened to him in Croatia.

Nature and mountains are fantastic and overall it's a gem of a country. I agree Slovakia is very underrated, but so is every country from where we don't have single members (except Maestro, although he isn't Slovak, and Karol who doesn't live in SVK). I would like more threads about Slovaks and Slovakia in here and would like to visit it.

Linguistically Slovak is very easy to understand to a Croat and they are considered "central Slavic" language thus can well connect to both east, south and other west Slavs. Genetically Slovaks are among most Slavic ethnic groups overall, and that is rarely recognized or mentioned.

We have small Slovak minority in Croatia and they assimilated to Croats due to closeness of culture and faith. Slovakia even had president with Croatian origin. Some of us fled there during Turkish incursions and equally well assimilated. Ethnic Slovak Juraj Haulik played crucial role in Croatian history, becoming first Archbishop of Zagreb and completing separation of Croatian catholic church from Hungarian domination, and later being a cardinal and ban of Croatia two times.

[PeterSlavic]

Slovak men are super hot. It’s one of my destinations for sex tourism

I love sex too and Slovakia too, like you!

[Dandelion]

They remind me of Flemish people, whereas Czech remind me of Dutch people. Slovaks have been kind of an underdog in history and only recently know self-governance. They are however smart and capable people.