Firstly Georgians like our country because of the Lack of disaster risk

According to the research on FaceBook Georgians answered on two questions: Why is it good to live in Georgia and Why is it bad to live in Georgia?! For one week in the research approximately 300 people have taken part. Generally respondents’ age was changing from 20 to 35 years.

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From ten currently more popular problems Georgians have chosen five the most important things.

First place with the number of 40 votes took “High unemployment rate and imperfect labor code”. Reminding you that Unemployment rate has been growing for years and had achieved 16.3% in 2010.

Next two are “Breaking Human Rights” and “Low level of living standards” with the votes of 21 and 20 people. But according to the National Statistics Office of Georgia since 2004 the level of poverty has been reducing in Georgia till 2008. In that year poverty level increased with 0.8 percentage label; but in 2009 it has decreased again and was with respect to 60 percent of the median consumption 21.0% and with respect to 40 percent of the median consumption – 8.8%.

Since 2005 Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia has been changing the Educational System and has been making more reforms each year. Last three years expenses of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia was growing and reached 27,868.2 thousand GEL in 2009; in 2010 it has almost doubled and was 46,978.1 thousand GEL; this year expenses is expected to reach 53,572.2 thousand GEL in the field of Educational System and it’s totally financed from the State Budget. Besides this, third place in this research took “Lack of development of the educational system and Low level of education” with the number of votes of 23 people.

In the top five problems of Georgia, last fifth place took two linked sectors’ Instability - Political and Economic, with the votes of 11-11 people. As an index of the Economic Instability can be regarded high inflation rate that has been reduced last month and now we have 10.0% of annual inflation.

In addition to voting people where commenting about there choices and saying that if they could choose multiple answer they would do so.

20-years-old Georgian Student George Bitsadze who studies in Munich, Germany at Technical University of Munich commented on the research “The person who answered on this question with one of these points I recommend to live abroad and then answer it again. We don't respect our country enough good.”

Another different approach to the question about the bad sides of Georgia was expressed by Tbilisi State University’s Economic and Business Faculty student Lasha Nikolaishvili. “Living in Georgia is bad because people are indifferent to things that really matter and are oriented on the fake problems.” – He says.

Research's second part was connected to choosing five best things about Georgia. Here on the top was “Lack of disaster risk” with the vote of 53 people. For reducing the risk of disaster two years ago was founded an union that was initiated by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In this Union are gathered representatives of Government agencies, NGOs, International and Research organizations.

47 people said that they love living in our country because of “Beautiful Nature”. It's not a surprise because in this country you can find mountains and sea beach together.

Balanced Climate, Attentive People and Traditions took last three places in this rating with approximately the same votes. As it seems Georgians appreciate Geographical location and Cultural understanding of people most of all.

During this one week while naming best things, Georgians were complaining about the type of the question. 90% of the comments say “I like living in Georgia because I was born in here and because I love everything in my country.”

Georgia has 69.700 km² area with the population of 4 469.2 thousand people. The capital and the largest city of the country is Tbilisi with the area of 726 km² and with the population of 1,152.5 thousand people.

Tbilisi has been regarded as the cheapest living place in the region according to Mercer’s rating of World’s the Most Expensive Cities 2011.

This was all about Georgians talking about their country but, what about Foreigners who have lived in here and what impressions they have taken from here.

21 years old Dennis Mwaura from Kenya who studies at Harvard University says - ”I lived in Georgia for three weeks. I spent ten days in Bazaleti and the rest of the time in Tbilisi. I liked interacting with Georgians. Everyone I met was very open and very friendly.”
When I was interested in what he didn’t like in Georgia I got the answer – “I liked everything about my stay, the only issue was a few things are a lot more expensive in Georgia than they are in the US.”
“I'd love to stay in Georgia as long as I could.” – says Mr. Mwaura. Although Dennis has been trying very efficiently to study Georgian Language during his stay in Bazaleti as the most deterrent thing for living in our country he names communication problem - ”The language barrier might cause a problem because I don't speak Georgian and most people in Georgia use this language to communicate.”

None of the respondents of the research found the different ethnic groups living together as an advantage of living in Georgia.