I Didn't Know Europe Is Like This in Summer 🇨🇿

[@jorllx]

It is good that some cities are quiet. Better quiet than overcrowded. Overcrowding = more crime, impossible to park the car, more noise, etc. But if you travel to Barcelona, Venice, Rome, Paris, etc. it is the opposite of this city, extremely crowded in summer. It is clear that you have not visited any of the most touristic European cities... I am from Barcelona and I wish my city was as quiet as this city that you are visiting.... but it is absolutely the opposite.

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

First half - yes, absolutely. Second half - it is clear that you didn’t watch the video. I was telling people from 10+ million cities (Bangkok, Jakarta, …) that in Europe only the biggest cities are somewhat lively. I have been to Paris, Rome and Barcelona in summer. It’s okay. Like everyday in Bangkok in Tokyo

[@fulgencioroldano3773]

I like how this city looks. Nice recording and walk

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

Thank you 👍

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

They are all on summer holidays dude. Ever heard of those?

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

I haven’t

[@ΑποστολοςΚαραλιολιος-σ9μ]

Αγάπη από Ελλάδα

[@afiiik1]

Most people go to Ostrava for the music festival or to go to the zoo or the museum. The city center is rarely busy. Ostrava isn't a very touristy city.

[@Pidalin]

That's not 100% sure, a lot of people go to Ostrava to check social-realistic architecture and mines, it's also pretty big tourism, but ofcourse nothing comparable to Prague or some medieval towns.

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

Now, I know that it’s not very touristy 😀

[@Pidalin]

Ostrava is pretty big compared to how many people live there, because a lot of places in Ostrava were built during communist planning, they were making wide streets and a lot of space between buildings and also, everyone has a vacation in summer, half of native people are somewhere in Croatia now and Ostrava really is not a target for international tourism, except some people who visit mines or have fetish in socialist-realism, because we don't have that much of it in Czechia (because we fell under communism in 1948 when soreli architecture was already ending) and what we have is mostly located in these miner cities like Ostrava, because they needed a lot of coal after WWII and everything for miners had to be big and nice. Later classic comblocks look different. Another thing is that Czechia is very car-centric nation, so you don't see people at streets, because they are all in their cars and they never leave them. Only city that is different and going in a western way is Prague, when you leave Prague, it's 100% "car-nazism" everywhere, when you walk, they don't even consider you a human, you are like some ant for them, they will drive over you if you don't wanna be careful. 😀 And yeah, Czech alphabet should be easy for you if you can read Latvian, just hook is softened sound, comma is long vowels, pretty similar to Latvian.

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

Now, when you mention communist planning, it all makes sense - why it’s so big and quiet. I have seen it a lot

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

I always thought that we aren’t that car centric in Europe. I was wrong

[@Pidalin]

@@MakeAdventureHappen It very depends on specific region or city, I live in a small town and nobody walks here at all, but it's probably not really comparable with american car centrism. I would say that in our former communist countries, a lot of people still believe that real man must have a car and it's some symbol of adultness and masculinity and it's also generation problem. For example my mom and my grandma just can't understand that I just don't need a car and they force me to make a driver license and buy a car and be finally "proper man." I would say that this culture is not really a thing anymore in western europe.

[@kelseyhayes718]

Why do you think it is a ‘Czech thing’ they use cars a lot ? In comparisson to which parts of the world ..?

[@Pidalin]

@@kelseyhayes718 Ofcourse it's not comparable with USA, but our car culture is disgusting a tasteless compared to USA where they mostly really need that car. Here we don't need car, but a lot of people is that crazy, that they stay in traffic jams in historical centers for no reason, because to walk or use public transportation would be some kind of homelessness or something like that, I don't know how to explain it, but they think you must be some homeless when you didn't arrive by car. This is not such a big thing in Prague, people walk a lot there and use public transit, but even Prague is full of people who are not originally from there and bring thier car fanatism there. I also like nice (mostly older) cars and can enjoy that classic oldschool car-culture, but what they do now with their cars is not even culture, it's just fanatism, they block everything with their cars and I really think it went too far and we should do something against that becuase our historical cities are small and you see just cars everywhere and building more parking lots is not a solution, it will just attract more cars, they already know in Netherlands, that's why they are vice versa lowering amount of parking lots, they do it slowly, because they are smart, they know it will take a lot of tome to change it, we wasted 34 years after revolution by modifying everything for cars, while western europe is already abandonning that since 90s and they return to concerpt of cities for people, not for cars. Everyone is fat here and it's a massive problem we have to talk about, when I see thos fatasses how they can't even get into their cars....it's disgusting and you will have to feed these people from your taxes because they will go to invalid pension in their 50s.

[@janprevod]

About sixty thousands people has been left Ostrava since Velvet Revolution. Ostrava is quiet,safe and a little bit Ghost City. Main reasons: the wages are low, the managers in companies are grumpy and bossy, the city is corrupted and polluted. Modern architecture is build in low-cost standard. etc. etc.

[@MakeAdventureHappen]

Okay. I see. It was similar in my homeland, so in a way it doesn’t surprise me. A few hundred thousand Latvians have done that (that’s some 15-20% of our total population)

[@Pidalin]

@@MakeAdventureHappen Main reason is that Ostrava was a capital city of miners, but mines don't work anymore (because coal is no more or they can't go more forward because of villages that are located above coal or some "EU" reasons) and also a lot of other big industrial companies bankrupted after 1989, so people had to leave for work between 90s and 2005, but they didn't return even when situation now is very different than in 90s. Now, we have low unemployment and people are slowly returning to these places, but it will take years. A lot of people are leaving Prague now, because ratio salary/housing prices is really really bad there (and it's getting worse every year) and they realized that life in places like Brno or Ostrava can be actually better and easier, in Prague, it's never ending war where you are constantly looking for better job to keep up with rapidly growing prices, you live in constant pressure and stress and people who migrate from cities like Ostrava have very distorted imaginations about capital city, they believe that everyone is waiting for them and they will all have 1500 eur after tax in their first job. Now I live in a small town 30 km from Prague and these villagers here have better living standard than people in Prague, only problem is that they don't realize it and still envy Praguers, but what they envy? Rent 1200 eur/month?

[@janprevod]

@@Pidalin Hi.I'm from Ostrava ,but I have been in UK long time. I think Prague is much better than Ostrava. My sister lives and works in Prague. She pays 500 Euro/monthly for rent and her wage is 2300Euro/monthly. She paid about 550 Euro/monthly for rent and her salary used to be about 1100 Euro/monthly in Ostrava. Ostrava is still very,very poor city. In nowdays another factory was embezzled in Ostrava. Liberty was embezzled by embezzler Sanjeev Gupta. Lot of people have already lost the jobs.It's huge disgrace 😞

[@Pidalin]

@@janprevod 2300 eur is salary for a manager or very highly qualified worker mostly in IT. You have to know that her salary is definitely not a standard. Most of ordinary people work in shops and other services and they are happy when they have like 1200 eur after tax. I work as a CNC programmer, I have pretty much responsibility for everything because I am only one there and still, when I get more than 1400 eur after tax, it's a miracle. But I have apartment for almost free from company and it's 30 km from Prague. But I have better salary than most of my friends who stayed in Prague, I can go to 2 vacations every year, they can't even visit restaurant, they just don't have money.

[@janprevod]

@@Pidalin My comment disappeared. Dunno why. I'm goin to reply later on.