What do people do in Armenia, mainly in Yerevan these days?

[Yuro]

I haven't been there since I left 9 years ago, what's it like there now, can anyone tell me?

Realize, Recognize, Analyze.
Check yo-self befo you wreck yo-self.

[Zoran]

Lot's of disco's & bars to go to now, & hotel's have parties too. I miss Ararad brandy too, & being king of karaoke. Getting modern in the city but still much of the old world to stay.

Miss the food back home, peppers, eggplant dolma, soojoukh! :crying:

[Yuro]

I've seen pictures of Yerevan lately, but the streets are emtpy, maybe everyone was working, don't know.

My friends reckon there are no hot girls in Armenia, how are the girls, I need to know this cause I'm going back to Armenia for the xxxxing first time; it's going to be interesting, can't wait to see my cousins and grandparents, it's going to be choice!!!

[Zoran]

I like American gils very much, but just MY taste! There are many decent one's there my friend, but they will all want to marry you - be careful!

[Yuro]

I like American gils very much, but just MY taste! There are many decent one's there my friend, but they will all want to marry you - be careful!

I know what you mean.

[Zoran]

Go and enjoy Yuro - you will not being dissapointed, I promise. But you will see that also for many at home life is so hard and why we all leave. But it is a good place!

[HyePrincess]

oh my mom came back a couple of days ago and she said it was great she says armenia is getting better and better my grandparents came from armenia three years ago and they said that things have changed sooo much like new highways new roads trains e.t.c new hotels reasturants my mom said that a month was'nt enough for her she is going back in three years for like three months. I hope you have fun and enjoy your time

[HyeJinx1984]

Yerevan is getting better or Armenia is getting better? I could care less about Yerevan, that's doing fine.. great, good for all the fat cats.. but 60% of the country lives below the poverty letter. is anything getting better in the villages? Those are the people we should care about.

[!EEK]

My parents where there 2 weeks ago and my dad said the country side was getting better: better roads, electricity, more safety, repaired walkways, etc...

I was also said Yerevan was getting more expensive....I don't know if it means much but is it maybe a proof of economical growth among the "comon armenian"?

I don't know..

[Anonymouse]

I haven't been there since I left 9 years ago, what's it like there now, can anyone tell me?

Realize, Recognize, Analyze.
Check yo-self befo you wreck yo-self.

Well, don't quote me on this because this might be somewhat out of date, but I suspect that they do alot of breathing, waking up, working, eating, falling in love.

Like I said. Don't quote me on it, things might have changed in 9 years.

[Emil]

How about that water park in Armenia? Any of you gone there?

[TigranJamharian]

actually the percentage of people living below the poverty line has fallen significantly to about 43%. Some of the best news ive heard in a while. what troubles me most is the diff between yerevan and the rest of the country. wish there was more dev out of the capital

[Tres Bien]

As mentioned before about the @economical groth within the common people in armenia is not so much to cling to.

Its a few people that get rich, the other people , workers , employes, people who has high posistions or good education get very small salaries. Some of them dont get any saleries at all. That was the case for a scientist who was a very highly respectable scientist who had worked in the institution all her life, she waited two years to get a salery, wich she out of pitty shared with her neighbours who didint get any money from no where, no pension ,nothing.

[HyePrincess]

My parents where there 2 weeks ago and my dad said the country side was getting better: better roads, electricity, more safety, repaired walkways, etc...

I was also said Yerevan was getting more expensive....I don't know if it means much but is it maybe a proof of economical growth among the "comon armenian"?

I don't know..


exacxtly wat my mommy said she also said the electricity didnt go away once

[TigranJamharian]

its been like that for a while now, since they started metsamor in 1995 actually. the only problem now is that it is so expensive.

[!EEK]

Yeah, slaves are now 40% more expensive! :evil:

[xBaron Dants]

Yerevan is getting better or Armenia is getting better? I could care less about Yerevan, that's doing fine.. great, good for all the fat cats.. but 60% of the country lives below the poverty letter. is anything getting better in the villages? Those are the people we should care about.


Probably around 50% of the population lives in Yerevan...Yerevan getting better is a significant factor in the development of the country.

[Genuine_Stud]

How about that water park in Armenia? Any of you gone there?

Yea... I went to the water park back in August.

Dude.... SOOO many people there. They have those tubes where you slide in and come out of (kinda like Raging Waters).. but realllllly long ones. It was pretty fun.

BTW.... have any of you gone to the restaurant "Voske Badarakagh" (Golden Fork) in Armenia?

The band that plays over there is freakin nuts!! There music is soooo good. I mean, if you don't want to eat anything but a salad and REALLY have some kef, then that's the place to go. As usual... I was there frequently with the crowd I went with. Kef... almost every other night... haha :D

[HyeJinx1984]

Stop making me want to go, I can't afford it until next summer, lol.

[Thai-Samurai]

this is off topic. But Armenians should drill underground, make atunnel that pops up directly underneath Ararat mt. And turn the whole thing into a giant death dealing robot that walks the lands shooting lasers out of it's eyes and missiles out of it's forearms. That'll show them.

[HyePrincess]

this is off topic. But Armenians should drill underground, make atunnel that pops up directly underneath Ararat mt. And turn the whole thing into a giant death dealing robot that walks the lands shooting lasers out of it's eyes and missiles out of it's forearms. That'll show them.


hahaha ur funny thats a very good idea

[Anushik]

Yerevan is the best place in the whole world... it seems that you are in some European city, when you go for a walk in the evening... but, out of Yerevan you can see the same sad picture... you can say easily whether that person from Yerevan or from some village... Voske Pataraqagh is really great place... Water World is much better... I loved to be their... but it's pretty scary for me :)... especially that "Kamikaze" one... WOW My God... :) and during evenings, there are disco, party... it's great to dance near the water (or jump in the water.... even though it's not allowed :))... there are many new things to see in Yerevan... the best thing is that you can walk in the evening and do not afraid from anything... Government reconstructed "Hanrapetutyan Hraparak" last year... it is soooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful now... It's all in lights after 9:00pm... :)
I love Yerevan... HyeJinx you need to go to Armenia :)...

[!EEK]

Yerevan is the best place in the whole world... it seems that you are in some European city, when you go for a walk in the evening... but, out of Yerevan you can see the same sad picture... you can say easily whether that person from Yerevan or from some village... Voske Pataraqagh is really great place... Water World is much better... I loved to be their... but it's pretty scary for me :)... especially that "Kamikaze" one... WOW My God... :) and during evenings, there are disco, party... it's great to dance near the water (or jump in the water.... even though it's not allowed :))... there are many new things to see in Yerevan... the best thing is that you can walk in the evening and do not afraid from anything... Government reconstructed "Hanrapetutyan Hraparak" last year... it is soooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful now... It's all in lights after 9:00pm... :)
I love Yerevan... HyeJinx you need to go to Armenia :)...

Such an intense description Anush and with many :) s. Anyway, I always thought Water World was a really crap/stupid/you name it movie

[xBaron Dants]

Well, the locals call it jrashkhar (chrashkhar).

Incidentally, chrashkhar is also where you might find yourself if you eat too many fruits and drink too much water.

Not nearly as pleasant.

[Anushik]

Such an intense description Anush and with many :) s. Anyway, I always thought Water World was a really crap/stupid/you name it movie

I've been in Jrashkhar two years ago and I looooooooooved it... yeah, maybe you are right... after beeing in Water World in the US, our poor "Jrashkhar" becomes nothing... I felt that way this year... anyway, my first expression remained, and it pretty scary for me until now... :)

[HyeJinx1984]

Like a European city? *shudders* why would you want that? Hmm.. personally I think any rebuilding from this point on should be in very unique armenian architectural style. I don't want our cities to look like anyone elses. After all, in the old days we were known as master architects... I'm sure we could come up with something awe inspiring.

[Anushik]

Like a European city? *shudders* why would you want that? Hmm.. personally I think any rebuilding from this point on should be in very unique armenian architectural style. I don't want our cities to look like anyone elses. After all, in the old days we were known as master architects... I'm sure we could come up with something awe inspiring.

Saying that it looks like European city I meant, that in evening all Yerevan is in lights, lots of bars, discos, night clubs (I don't think that you could see that in the past), cafés, casinos, fancy cars bla-bla-bla... that is what I meant by saying European city... architecture? You should have seen the monument of our great composer Arno Babajanyan, which they put near Opera House... you would be sooooo scared, I don't think that you could go to slip that night... it was the worst monument which I have ever seen, especially in Yerevan... near such classic monuments of Hovhanner Tumanyan and Alexandr Spendaryan, the poor Arno Babjanyan was like Quasimodo...each time when I look at that monument, I want to through an agg on that arcitecture's face... I feel that he wanted to laugh on that kind of great composer... no seriously... that monument is terrible... before that monument, they put monument of Aram Khachatryan: that was not sooooo bad, but it was not Isahakyan, Saryan, Ayvazovski, Sasuntci David etc. ... our architectural style is changing, and I really don't like it... they want to use modern style, and because they don't know how to use it, the result is not the best one...

[xBaron Dants]

I didn't mind the Babajanian statue. People are just not used to seeing anything different.

My favourite statues, however, are those of Sasuntsi Tavit and Alexander Tamanian.

[TigranJamharian]

Although i was born there, i havent been there in 10 years so i feel maybe i have no right to dispute with you guys with what is going on in Yerevan, but from what i hear, Republic Square actually turned out pretty mundane and boring and a lot of people had been expecting some really nice grand thing but now.

Now Hyejinx you were saying why would you want it to look like a European city and that Armenia has its own architecture and all. Of course we do, and i think it is pretty European, i mean you say you dont want it to look like all the other cities in Europe but do you think that each European country has the same architecture or something? no each nation has its own ,and ours is Armenian and hence European.

Now as for the statue, i like it too, not nearly as much as the Sasunci Davit statue but i dont see the big deal, its a modern piece of art, and if you want the city to be alive you cant just stay in the old days and the old style, times change and so does art and society.

Anyway i cant wait to be back, every time i am walking around in New York and sometimes like around the Museum of Natural History and today in battery park i just get this nostalgia and am reminded of Armenia, for some reason i am reminded a lot more during autumn.

[Thai-Samurai]

Yerevan is actually (according to my teacher) one of the oldest consistently inhabited urban centers in the world. Meaning that we don't need to worry about copying European citie's architecture becuase Yerevan has been around way before they were. Germany didn't even become a nationstate until 1850 or something. France was something like 1400's but im not sure about that one. Armenia has been around as long as the Greeks. However the Chinese, Egyptians, And the Aztec, Incas, and Native Americans are by far the oldest civilzations.

[HyeJinx1984]

I dunno, when I think of Armenian architecture, I like to think of weird gathoic religeious looking stuff (because so much of our culture has to do with religeon) but witha neo modernized twist to it. Then again I'm into Vampires, so go figure, lol.