Cost of Living in Belgrade

The cost of things listed here isn't correct with the post from Petar on August 21 2025. I've lived in Belgrade my entire life stop telling lies

Average salary of 112.000 is not realistic.
It is about 80.000

Serbia wasn't anything from the very beginning many years ago until the u s military decided to give it a remodel job by bombing it. But from what I read here it sounds like Serbia needs a complete remodel permanently from the u s military. Smoldering ashes is the recipe needed obviously.

Serbia is the biggest scam for foreigners. There, foreigners have nothing to do because the prices are extremely high. We can understand the high prices in countries and cities where big business takes place, but this is completely unfounded. Serbia is dead for business, except for corrupt activities and for those who sell drugs. The government in Serbia deals with false statistics and promises to foreigners. Actually, it all boils down to foreign lending, price increases and stealing money from citizens. Capital does not enter, but domestic money only circulates between citizens. A false image of prosperity thanks to foreign loans. The government behaves like a drug addict who sells everything for the sake of instant gratification. Soon there will be a collapse of the economy. The mafia, in conjunction with the authorities, is working to further undermine the standards and safety of citizens.

The average salary is between 350 and 450 eur. Quoting 700 or more is simply cringey.

Nightlife of this city is incredible, especially in weekends.

Average salary in Belgrade is not right referance,workers get way less than managers and the real average is 85.000 dinars so it is around 700 euros.

God Bless Serbia and its people,
i recommend Budva for vacation,
carrentals travel and foodwine tours:-)

PRices for renting apartmants are NOT accurate.I rent 37 m2 apartmant 18 km from center with frequent bus lines to city center for 130 euro a month without utility bill.Utility bills are 50 euros max.180 euro is 37m2 an apartment with utility bills 1 bedroom,kitchen,toilet ,in many cases and balcony too.

Living outside Belgrade in some near villages will cost you 150 euros for a house with land fully furnished 20 km far from city but with good bus lines especially village under Avala mountain with great view and much cleaner air and less frequent trafic than in city centre.

Overall prices for renting apartmants here are 3x more expensive than in reality.

@Anonymous on Aug 24, 2022 on taxes in Serbia>

here is a very helpful site to get pretty accurate tax information on countries worldwide: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com
For Serbia check here: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/serbia/individual/taxes-on-personal-income

As you mentioned after spending 183 days in Serbia you are considered resident thus taxable on your worldwide income (see residency section of the above mentioned report). Also I did not find any mention of a tax exclusion or special deductions for incomes out of retirement plans for that country (Serbia) in the report.

Getting trustable information before making such important decisions resp. moves is key. Keeping up to date with such information is key also as things can change (sometimes quickly as it happened in Malaysia with the MM2H program). Double checking information even if trusted is not a bad idea either.

Overpriced real estates for a city without metro, bad cleaning services, bad traffic, bad air quality, half baked city center... Clubing is also overrated in my opinion, there are a lot of night clubs (kafanas), but they all are the same. If you see one, you've seen them all.

Pretty accurate. Life in Belgrade is much much easier and better now in 2021 and its been on an upward scale for the past couple years. Education matters, jobs are everywhere and its just getting better. My wife is from Singapore and she is amazed with life here. Both leaving USA and moving to Belgrade for good.

" If the Serbian government would care enough to understand the pay scale overall isn't adequate to live comfortably things would be much better for everyone."

So it's only about the Government understanding? Simple as that? Are you living on Mars?

Keep in mind that Serbian Bureau of Statistics lies about average salaries, so the people dont revolt and the main party stays in power. The real situation is that average salary is around 350 euros, and the prices of everything is the same as in west Europe. Exept real estate and cigarettes.

I spent one month in Serbia two weeks in Belgrade two weeks in Nis.If you're looking for a place that pretty much has it all for a much reduced standard of living without giving up convience,then Nis is that place. Ofcourse Belgrade is nice too which we enjoyed during our visit.

Actually I've visited Serbia three times in the last 5 years, I found it affordable, I agree with some previous comments that there is some stereotype or a propaganda which promote Eastern Europe as a bad place, there is many Eastern European countries who have developed and managed to build a good economy such as Poland which is located in central Europe, where Poland used to be in the past and where they are in the present time, Italy France and Spain are suffering from bad economy, I don't speak Serbian but I managed to find few nice and friendly Serbian people who were kind and warm, I think Serbia deserves a chance to develop and move forward, I am thinking with my partner to open a small size business in Serbia, I don't know much people in Serbia but I would like to make new friends