Italian Reacts To Why you should move to CZECH REPUBLIC

[@tigrovica8417]

The "skyscraper" (Mrakodrap) from Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech) showcased in the video was build in 1924 and at its time, it was actually large looking building as most of the buildings around weren't there yet. Also not sure about this but the architecture was at least partially inspired by the old 20's skyscrapers. Also if we want to go into deeper rabbit hole why we connect this building with the US and Skyscrapers & stuff. The building is literally placed on "Americká Street" (Street named after US which has a huge US memorial with giant flag 'n all) and on the bottom level, there's a McDonalds which was the 1st McDonalds that opened in the city. But the extremely hilarious thing is that even some locals do mistake the building for another one when people say "skyscraper" (or Mrakodrap in the Czech language). The one that was showcased on the picture is the real deal but there's another building just around 500m away that's often regarded as a "skyscraper" instead (You can literally stand next to one and have the other in your POV). To be fair the "fake-skyscraper" does resemble an actual skyscraper much more, it is taller and much more modern looking building, but the fact that even locals will confuse these two buildings because of the name is extremely funny. There's a video from Honest Guide (not on their channel but on actual Pilsen YT channel, which is even more funny) where they showcase "The Skyscraper" but they showcase the fake one (Though to be fair the "fake" Skyscraper does offer more things for tourists & stuff). And of course even Google gets confused when searching images for "Plzeň Mrakodrap", you get results for both buildings.

[@publicminx]

Those 'Commieblocks' (in German: Plattenbau) existed in reality also in the West (in German often called 'Satellitenstaedte' (Satellite cities), in the US prospects etc.). The 'commie blocks of the socialist/sovjet era became just more famous, because they were basically the key element for their new city utopia planning while in the West it was more like a pragmatic fast patch to create quickly cheap apartments for an exploding city population. The best city to compare both is Berlin, because it has both! All of that goes mostly back on the idea of 'Garden cities' which were a concept/idea to fight against the after the industrial revolution booming cities with their usually overcrowded older apartments (5-20 ppl per room) and structures with not much sunlight. For left wings/socialist/communist it also became an ideological fight against the architecture/city planning of the 'ancient regimes' which especially in the politically Eastern countries but also sometimes in the west destroyed many nice old buildings. It was not just the world war! And till today many left wings are still have this bad mindset (as one also could have seen when Notre Dame burned partly. Many left wings were against a renovation and for a destruction! Like always, the reality is quite the opposite of left wing ideologies. Not only are such buildings neither nature nor urban (which was the base idea) but are also a kind of 'crime accelerator' under certain circumstances which is why France, Sweden, Denmark started to deconstruct some . Stupid socialists who still like such buildings have not enough brain to understand that if you have a certain migration from certain problematic countries then such urban construction is the WORSE what you can have, because you can NEVER gentrify them (to ugly, not urban, usually not possible for integration over small shops/stores because there are none on the ground level). They are the most ugly buildings in cities and basically 99% of tourists, expats or whatever visit and move NOT to cities which are predominantly of this kind but prefer by FAR cities with a much nicer architecture. And everyone who is not an idiot also shows in videos 'nice parts' of a city which automatically means 'avoiding as much as possible such commie block/banlieu parts'. Even in virtual worlds people dont like them and create totally different buildings, usually old looking architecture of all kind or modern ones which REALLY look modern. Now, to a certain degree many people are kind of pragmatic. If one looks also at Chinese and many people of the former socialist countries then to a certain degree its also just a matter of what you are used to live. But from an urban planning aspect thats the worse kind of building (due to the space between them they also create not enough density - higher older structures with house on house blocks are not just in general preferred (and more expensive for this regard) and create much more lively settings but also have MORE density (despite being lower on height usually). And as said, if such commie block like urban parts became a crime nest then you cannot gentrify them - you can only destroy them. And thats exactly what better urban planners do which automatically means only idiots create new ones. They are a typical result of left wing ideologies which only think from the hand in the mouth instead of thinking more holistic on more sustainable solutions which also add to the city attractiveness.

[@MrMajsterixx]

those apartment buldings which she showed are very old pictures, theses days they mostly have new fasades and windows where I live so they look quite good

[@kuba8604]

Hello Mauro, I really apriciate your genuine interest in Czech Republic. Me and a lot of Czechs are going in summer to Italia for sea and culture. I feel like Italians are flowing through life with passion and easiness like a hot light wind.

[@JUANORQUIO]

That’s Interesting! Have A Lovely Weekend! 🤩❤️✨

[@BiscuitGo666]

Czechia has one skyscraper?!? Only Prague has 30+ skyscrapers

[@ondrejfilipek9022]

Is not Real scysrapers this shits of Pankrác? . And i am glad to this. I want no scysrapers on my home..Comunist high concrete shits Is too much fór mě a ND some glass And iron shits? Thank no?

[@frufruJ]

If you define a skyscraper as a building over 150 meters, Czechia has no skyscrapers 😀If you lower the threshold to 100m, there are like 5.

[@saad-t7k]

12.30 - she was talking about covid test. At that time, certificates of infection-freeness had to be brought to restaurants and the police had to check. In practice, no one carried certificates and the police were virtually invisible. Maybe somewhere here is the answer to why we were the worst in Europe in dealing with covid. Most of us took it (and I am one of them) as another flu, for which it is necessary to take care of the weaker ones. That is, right from the beginning it was clear to us (some of them) that covid will be here forever from now on and it will be worse in the next 2-3 years. That's why we didn't escalate the political hysteria so much. We were interested in pensioners, etc. and no one else really cared. 14th min - In fact, the top of Sněžka is in Poland. And so, for me, the highest mountain in the Czech Republic is the beautiful and magnificent Praděd in Jeseníky.

[@Pidalin]

I visited Vienna in the worst covid time and checking it there very depended on what nationality workers are, if it was some russian lady, she was like "ok, you have some paper, I don't need to check it," but if they were austrians or muslims, they were really checking it in every restaurant or pub.

[@Pidalin]

12:33 - she is talking about covid time 14:40 - many buildings still keep their original names with skyscrapper in it even when it was skyscrapper like 100 years ago Young people hate escaping city to some stupid little cabins like our parents and grandparents were doing. I am not saying that young people don't have them at all, but it's pretty much just communist thing and when you was kid, you probably hated it that you have to stay there for most of summer instead of staying in capital city and running outside with your friends. Most of Czech villages are completely dead in these days, there is nothing and you won't see any living person after 4PM, you don't want to spend your young age in such places. Commblocks are actually better than modern housing estates called "developer hell" where you have fences and cameras everywhere. In communist planning, they wanted to keep space between houses, so there is a lot of space for greener and many secret places where kids could do their bussines and play out of sight of adults, which was actually good. I am glad I am not kid in today spying time with phones and cameras everywhere. I always defend commblocks, because people have to know that Czech commblocks are something completely different than in Russia or somewhere in Balkan, it's everything well maintained, colorful and with a lot of greenery and good public transportation around. Unfortunately, today developers are trying to destroy it by making buildings on empty spots, which kills original idea of architects and it turns commblocks to more rabbit cage style like they have in Russia, we should stop this trend until it's too late. BTW, it's funny how "phone zombies" belive that wifi=internet. Your wifi speed probably has nothing to do with speed of your actual internet connection. If you live in a bigger city, you probably don't have less than 50 Mbps in these days, but more likely you have 100-200 Mbps, but you won't see such speed thru some stupid wifi on your phone. Most of today buildings in bigger cities have option to connect thru cable TV or optical fiber, so you can have even 1 Gbps if you want, but phone zombies probably don't need it. Yes, buerocracy here is crazy, that's why we are stucked in the past and nothing is possible to change and that's the reason why Poland and Austria have finished their part of highways and we didn't even start with construction. Poland will totally destroy us economicaly in next 10 years if we don't completely scrap our book of laws and make it again completely from zero.

[@petr-podrouzek]

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