Why I left California for Warsaw Poland || FOREIGN REACTS

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[@petragrevstad2714]

I (🇸🇪) hear a lot about Poland these days… I’ve had family members and friends vacationing in Poland recently and any day now a young relative moves to Poland to study to become a veterinarian. And I really do admire their stance on Russia-Ukraine (although not surprising, still impressive).

[@bognagruba7653]

Some reaction youtubers that I watched when I started realizing that the U.S.A is not exactly what I thought it was, randomly start reacting to my country, Poland. Wow.

[@jangaazka5789]

Polish women? I would say that is the best of my country. And I don't mean their beauty (they are really beautiful), but strong character, charisma, own opinion, life balance, ambitions and still being very feminine. I am glad that finally found out not only their beauty, but much more important feachers.

[@WojciechXd]

it's true that Poland's development is fast, but the history of my country is even more beautiful. Poland won more battles than the Roman Empire, do you know 300 Spartans? 400 Poles won the battle against 40,000 Turks, the Battle of Hodow, the Polish Sabaton lost the battle, but there were 40 Germans per Pole, the fight lasted until the very end until the ammunition ran out, the Polish 303 Squadron, which saved England, if it weren't for us it simply might not exist . Poles saved the whole of Europe many times. We also once had the most powerful army in the world, the Husarie(Huzar is other formation but is not husaria), which did not lose a single battle for 125 years. Our constitution was the second in the world after the USA, but in fact we had a substitute for the first constitution in the world called the Articles of Henry in 1573.

[@dezerter141]

IT Sector is one of the best paid job in Poland, so many people changed their career path to IT, thats the main reason why it is developing so fast :)

[@coldbastard6859]

Depends on your occupation, just like in the west only a small amount of very skilled IT devs make majority of the money and the rest earn about 4k to 5k zlotys a month. When you stack that against living costs it starts to look really average.

[@alekjanowski9847]

Simple - the Omnissiah has blessed us! Greets from Swarzędz!

[@anndy6094]

The prices are not like that anymore in Warsaw 😅

[@kasiakarewicz1210]

Movie was 3 years ago... prices raised about 30%. 😉 Warsaw is more modern, I prefer Kraków vibe. Regards from Pole. 🙂🤗

[@user--erny]

I'm a woman and I'm from Ukraine. Moved to Poland after the war started in my country. It's a great place to live, but I'm not sure about 50/50 division in tech. I'm a developer. Currently, I work in team of 8 ppl. 3 out of 8 devs are women, but 2 of 3 are from Ukraine. In previous company I worked, a dev team consisted of 20 ppl and only 2 women were there at the beginning, but most of the time I was alone. Of course much more girls work as BA and QA. But in Ukraine we had a lot of qualified female dev engineers. So it was quite a surprise for me how few women I work with. But anyway. Country is great. With it's pros and cons, but I'm loving it

[@Azeroyyy]

Man i felt that dayum in my soul 😭😭😭

[@gorskitomasz81]

I remember communism, that was live roller coster. Nothing was normal, from pirate's softwares games movies to selling car. Softwares and games we was bay on special students trades "giełda komputerowa". When my father was bay a old car fiat 126p, he was pay biggest money hove for a new fiat. Crazy time.

[@charonboat6394]

"Bay"? Bought*

[@ralfralf9833]

actually you described an early 90's...when communism was buried(of course from many perspective opinions may differ).but i firmly stand by line.have a good time

[@NeroN7290153]

You can watch some videos about how poland grew from communist poverty to almost G20 economy. Greetinmgs and see you in next polish vid

[@MarekAcro]

Want to compare safety in Poland with other European countries? Here you go! Here are many safety indicators. I recommend the film „Dlaczego POLSKA jest TAKA BEZPIECZNA?” (Why is POLAND SO SAFE?) from the channel Globalista - Oskar Bednarski. /English subtitles available/ This data will be a surprise. And an interesting theory as to why Poland is so safe.

[@MarekAcro]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoiZfnmwrr5leKs

[@MrHades37]

Honestly, as a typical, average Pole living near Warsaw, I'm afraid of what Poland will look like in 10 years. I lost my job, I've been looking for a year now, I live with my parents at 23, I'm depressed and have no particular prospects for what to do next. Yes, Poland is great, but only for the ambitious and talented.

[@lili-rs8qj]

I hope you will be good and you will find New job

[@mrsmerily]

Poland is like that for a reason. If you know, then you know. Of course I wanna point out, coming from Estonia, I bet Poland has the same problems we have. Yes IT sector is crazy ahead, but it leads inflation as well and every other sector is far behind, so people find it much harder to survive in those sectors, even when the number are "beautiful". Also with the production value and the tone of video IMO it kind of seemea as paid video... I am sorry. Poland is beautiful, safe and one of the richest countries coming behind the curtain, but then again being in one of those countries that rank top... everything is not glitter that shines...

[@Polans-gd]

This video is actually an advertisement for one of the IT companies and that is why everything is presented in such a way in it. In addition, the film also compares the standard of living of people from Europe to the USA (safety, health care, quality of food, working conditions, etc.). But all in all, everything it says is true, if you look at the way Poland (and not only Poland, because this also applies to countries in our region, including Estonia) has come, it is nevertheless impressive. Of course, from our Polish point of view it doesn't look so beautiful, because we ourselves know that we have messed up a lot of things, a lot of things didn't work out and it could be better - every Pole, if you ask them, will rather complain that it is hopeless, it sucks and in general a lot of things went wrong. But when you look at the numbers and the facts, it's not so bad after all, and that's nice. And in general, it is very nice that such development and growth does not only concern Poland but also the Baltic countries and our southern neighbours. Best regards to Estonia. You are also great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@supercarfanatic2078]

Even Germany not everything is glitter

[@gorskitomasz81]

28 000 people see this video about poor Poland, in 7 hours. Impressive I'm very happy and proud, wen people from better country are interested Poland. Thanks for videos. Jestem dumny i szczęśliwy, aby tylko nie osiąść na laurach. Musimy mocniej pracować i się nie oglądać, tylko rozwijać stale ten Nasz kawałek ziemi. Pozdrawiam wszystkich.

[@royssss1]

Ale, wiesz dlaczego tam tak jest?

[@bognagruba7653]

Most of the views are from Poland. Everyone likes to see other's opinion about themselves, but especially Poles, because we used to get no to little attention. This seems to be changing.

[@jarosawwaz8260]

Just come and see.

[@xlolx6544]

u can always hire drone operator

[@oto.Kielce]

Shocking information about Poland's economic development: "World Bank data for the years 1989-2023 indicate that in 2023, Poland overtook Russia for the first time in history in terms of the value of exports of goods and services, reaching $ 469.01 billion, while Russia's exports amounted to $ 466.6 billion" Source of information: press article published on the Internet on October 11, 2024 by Robert Kędzierski entitled "Polska wyprzedza Rosję w eksporcie towarów i usług. Pierwszy raz w historii". It is also worth adding that Eurostat reported that in January 2024, average unemployment in the European Union was 6.0%, while in Poland it was only 2.9% 👏 In addition, inflation in Poland is systematically falling and is estimated to be only 3.5% in 2024 👍 while wages in Poland are systematically increasing and in the first quarter of 2024 they increased by 14.9% ✌ and in the second quarter of 2024, for the first time in history, wages in Poland were higher than wages in the Czech Republic 💪

[@lumpek4149]

Yea Warsaw is called little European NY :D Well we know its really little compared to NY :D but still every year knew +200m builds are maded

[@bullet1544]

Yes Mate. Tost.

[@rufsven8312]

Miło Was znowu widzieć

[@pawelmela4572]

Old statistics, video outdated. Yet good review 👌

[@kroll01]

WARSAW FROM THE AIR 2024 | 4K | POLAND ON AIR by Maciej Margas & Aleksandra Łogusz kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYfVaYuufMaoqbs

[@agataryznar5675]

It is only Warsow. One big city. Must see others

[@Ficu19902]

go back

[@davidhines7592]

if i had a border with russia i would ban drones entirely lol.

[@ChrisShelley-v2g]

Calling European countries states is a big faux pas, a good way to piss a lot of people off.

[@MrGrucha]

It pisses off only stupid people who do not understand that word state also means country (as an administrative unit)

[@leno_o17]

How? State and country are synonyms, but state is a more scientific/elegant word, there's nothing to be offended about

[@cvl9053]

@@leno_o17 I believe it's because "state" is associated mainly with the USA. Please remember that English isn't the first language for the majority of Europeans. People might think that you see different countries in Europe as similar to a different state in the USA. And since each country in Europe has different culture and language, people might get mad about it.

[@leno_o17]

@@cvl9053 I know, there aren't many people in the world for whom English is a first language, I'm Polish myself. However, when you learn a language and you choose to communicate in it, you have to realize that there are certain standards regarding vocabulary. It's normal to associate the word "state" with the US because it's probably the most commonly known reference, but feeling "offended" by that, simply indicates a lack of education and ignorance. I'm sure plenty of people in Europe don't feel offended at all, particularly in the Germanic countries, because they use exactly the same word-like the German "der Staat". A state is, according to dictionary: a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. For example, "Germany, Italy, and other European states." In that sense, the states in the US use this word somewhat excessively nowadays (literally, they are called "States" because they were originally considered independent countries. Until some agreement, the name of which I don't remember, joined them into one federation). Country and state can usually be used interchangeably, but it’s the same case as our "kraj" and "państwo" or, for example, in French "pays" and "état." Country refers more to a geographical unit, borders, land, etc. Państwo has a more political/administrative meaning. Not to mention it just sounds better because it contains the notion of subjectivity and sovereignty (more than "country"). For example, Scotland is a country itself, but it is also part of a multinational "state", the UK.

[@rehurekj]

Says a lot about his travels thru Eastern block when Poland WITHOUT DOUBT feels most Western. First his American, Western biases is showing( post communist nomenclature gets old very quickly, I guess like if we still called US British excolonies) and second theres no doubt Polish culture and whole country is more or less very similar if not identical in many aspects to western nations, but if he's really oh so well travelled he would know the same can be said about most of countries around Poland: Czechia, Slovenia, Estonia, hell even rest of Baltic states or Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia would feel the same- western country with local Lithuanian, Czech or any other flavour, fully westernised capitals, still noticeably civilised a.k.a. western but poorer countryside( i doubt village in eastern Poland feels so much more western than one in eastern Slovakia). Sorry but I starting to hate this videos singling out Poland as some diamond among coal, this fanboying without actual knowledge. Poland is great country dont get me wrong, but its the same like the doom and gloom videos about US, UK or western Europe just in positive instead negative- learn few snippets, cherrypick few details, add experience living in your expat/ immigrant enclave, ignore anything else, put your desired spin on it and voila video about how exceptionally wonderful/ or horrible your chosen country is compared to rest of world.

[@echinorlax]

100% agree. We are where we are only because we're a large country by European standards. Inertia carries us through crises much more steadily than small countries like Czechia, Estonia or Slovenia - we also have bigger pockets to dig in to cover the losses when we inevitably fuck up - but our standard of living is not any higher than the aforementioned smaller states. I shake with excitement just thinking where would we be with all those resources, but with Czech or Estonian attitude. We're masters of innovation and outside--the-box thinking, but it doesn't balance out our negative traits, which are actually too many to list. For people with amazing lateral thinking, we're way too often short on common sense. And don't even lemme start on *pride*... No, Poland is not the diamond. Poland is actually the master of missing the opportunity. The diamonds are the smaller post-communist countries who did as well as we did, but starting with much less. They just lack the carat count to make an impression on global consciousness. Poland became a poster child of these processes because West chose so, and since it feeds our pride, we responded very well with tax cuts, financial incentives and so on. Appealing to our pride costs nothing and works like a charm. It's a buck to bang ratio of infinity for investors.

[@MrGrucha]

As a Pole working in IT I must say a lot of that video is just a PR BS, this guy worked for VC funds investing in Eastern Europe, so this video is promoting our country to potential investors. A lot of what he said is true, but not everything for example, you won't be able to speak English with majority of adult Poles, unless by adult you mean 25-40 year old people working for corporations in Warsaw. In most IT companies you will rather find 90/10 - 80/20 ratio of male/female engineers, not long time ago there was still a stigma that IT people are sweaty fatsos living in moms basement, its slowly dying but effects of that are still visible when you look at senior positions.

[@yovee5912]

As someone close to IT I can not agree with you when it comes to women in those companies. Unless they are of Polish ownership then yes, that's a cultural thing in our work culture men are the only ones good for the job 😉

[@nazimelmardi]

Same for Hungary.

[@MrGrucha]

@@yovee5912 so you worked in multiple companies with 50/50 engineering roles? I'm not talking about HR, accounting, legal etc. Pure engineering. I've worked in British, German, Australian and American companies in Krakow and never saw more then 20-25% female engineers. In university we had 112 guys and 8 girls, that was in 2006. My female friend literally heard from hers (also female) highschool teacher that she was too pretty for computer science.

[@phoearwenien4355]

​@@MrGrucha It depends. There are companies run mostly by women (new companies like startups), those that have 80/20 split (like telco) but is close to 50/50 when you include project menagers, testers and other departaments, those that have 50/50 like game industry (indie games and outsourcing companies). So I would say 50/50 of people working on IT and not necessary engineers. Writing code is important, but that's only one part of many that are needed to create a product.

[@MrGrucha]

@@phoearwenien4355 I know that there will some companies that have more women then men, but there also will be some that have none (and not because some chauvinism or bigotry). We are talking about industry average, not about single cases. According to 2024 BulldogJobs survey "Badanie Społeczności IT" only 16% of IT roles in Poland are held by women, and it includes also testers, POs, PMs, BIs, UX etc. (which are engineering roles) so the disproportion is still big and it si nowhere close to 50/50.

[@polish_pete_uk]

Warsaw is not representative. Warsaw is not Poland. Its Warsaw.

[@cezarybawat6048]

nie zgadzam się, warszawa urosła na krwi wszystkich Polaków, jest cudem który pochodzi ze wspólnego cierpienia, jak nie Warszawa, to niby jakie miasto jest bardziej polskie?

[@andreasandersen1893]

@@cezarybawat6048 ktoś pewnie by napisał, że Kraków, ale Kraków nie oddał życia za polskość jak Warszawa, za co zresztą otrzymała ona odznaczenie Virtuti Militari i dewizę Semper invicta - Zawsze niezwyciężona, a wskrzeszona pracą i wkładem całego narodu, choć niestety w zaledwie ułamku swej dawnej tożsamości.

[@arfa1916]

What a muppet 🤣🤣🤣

[@polish_pete_uk]

@@cezarybawat6048 ok Widze loparologicznie trzeba. Powiedz kolesiowi a postpegieerowskiej wsi jak cudownie zyje sie w Polsce, pokazujac mu Warszawe. On Ci powie, ze nie ma pksu, dzieciaki chodza do szkoly 5 km, on nigdy nie byl w teatrze, a jedna robota we wsi to minimalna krajowa w tartaku. Kumasz baze czy dzis na obiad masz pateiotyzm I dume narodowa? Jak wstales z kolan, to otworz oczy.

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

Z krwi... oby nigdy więcej!!! Warszawa podniosla się żmudnym trudem, przez codzienną pracę i chęć odratowania, ale i zbudowania nowocześniejszego, bardziej higienicznego miasta - dostępem do zieleni, światła i świeżego powietrza. I choć teraz dawne bloki nie często zachwycają, to już jakość przestrzeni, odstępy między nimi, zieleń - to jest coś, co należy odtwarzać, budując teraz!

[@MarJin727]

W Polsce jest małe bezrobocie bo młodzi ludzie po ukończeniu szkoły uciekają za granicę.

[@yovee5912]

Z roku na tok coraz mniej osob emigruje z Polski, dane łatwo znaleźć. Uciekają tylko Ci ze słabym wykształceniem i kompetencjami. Wysokowykwalifikowani są po prostu rekrutowani przez firmy miedzynarodowe. Twój komentarz jest emocjonalny, nie rzeczowy.

[@MarJin727]

@@yovee5912 na pewno mój komentarz jest emocjonalny? To ty dodalas etykiety ja powiedziałem że ludzie wyjeżdżają a ty powiedziałaś że nie niekompetentne pospólstwo co nie ma jakiś tam papierków że szkoły że przeczytało ileś tam książek,że jak ktoś twoich standardów nie spełnia i jak wyjedzie ze swojego kraju to i tak się nie liczy bo i tak miał słabe wykształcenie,jeszcze raz ci wytłumaczę o czym pisałem,pisałem o tym że ludzie wyjeżdżają nie ważne jacy ważne że wyjeżdżają i przez to jest niskie bezrobocie.

[@yovee5912]

@@MarJin727 napiszę tak, strasznie emocjonalnie podchodzisz do kwestii wykształcenia, piszesz coś o papierach i przeczytanych książkach. Widzę, ze to drażliwy temat. Natomiast stopa bezrobocia w Niemczech jest porównywalna do Polski, a nikt stamtąd nie ucieka ;) Na niską stopę bezrobocia wpływ ma cały szereg czynników i nie jest nim emigracja zarobkowa. Corocznie do Polski przyjeżdża więcej osób niż wyjeżdża i chodzi tu o podejmowanie pracy. Ten trend trwa od 7 lat. Stąd mój komentarz, dane są dostępne, trzeba się tylko odrobinę przyłożyć. Powtarzam. Twój wpis jest emocjonalny. Wyjazdy zarobkowe Polaków maja się nijak do stopy bezrobocia.

[@agataryznar5675]

@@yovee5912 no nie powiedziałabym lekarze pielęgniarki i inne zawody takie jak informatycy i coraz częściej inżynierowie architekci ciągle wyjedzają

[@yovee5912]

@@agataryznar5675 ok. To poproszę link do danych. Bo opinie nie są rzeczywistością.

[@Azeroyyy]

Main issue in poland rn is the far right i wanna say this couse its them who created the housing crisis and union busting fortunatlly we have a movement that tries to corect it and it grows day by day and overall im happy to be living here (despite the fact that we have a humanitarian crisis on our border and mental health crisis in our soldiers couse many of the soldiers stationed at our belarusian border leave with a feeling of shame and blame couse our migrant policies are forcing these poor ppl to die in the belarusian swamp)

[@Azeroyyy]

Also about crime i know that our crime is very low but we sorta have a culture of not talkivg to the Police couse Police in Poland is really power hungry my home girl was chocked by a kneeling officer only becouse she didnt know anything about a stolen car that was stolen by somebody she might have known same happened to me when walking home from school Police officer beat me up couse they suspected i was selling drugs only becouse my principal called them and acused me of doing drugs (i had severe depresion and was highly medicated) many woman also fear to report SA couse Polish Police will blame them for being raped and treat them as a criminal (alltough it changed during our new goverment rule couse the left wing parties pushed a legislation that changed a definition of rape but we still have a long way to go regarding women rights (right to abortion and a right to be protected from sexual and domestic abuse ) and gay rights such as gay marrige also workers rights are frequentlly being broken by big corporations but not to the extend as in USA but nontheless also racism is a huge thing (on the internet couse irl its not so common ) so we have some educating to do in schools

[@andreasandersen1893]

@Azeroyyy stop telling this neo-marxist absurd propaganda. Polish soldiers are being killed or injured on the Polish-Belarusian border by aggressive illegal migrants trying to cross the EU border. The new Polish government is doing scandalously little to improve the security of Polish borders and soldiers. People tasked with guarding the border are paralyzed by the lack of clear regulations, so they cannot effectively defend themselves even against migrant attacks. This is part of the Kremlin's hybrid actions against our country and Europe. Stop telling lies about Poland, you kremlin troll.

[@halko7122]

Main issue in poland rn is the far left

[@urszulapuzniak787]

Co za głupoty piszecie. Przeciętnego Amerykanina nie interesują społeczno- polityczne dywagacje. On nic o tym nie wie ,więc nic nie zrozumie o czym piszesz. A opisywanie pojedyńczych przypadków które wam się przytrafiły i uogólnienia na tej podstawie to głupota

[@adlervonschlesien4869]

Currently, Poland has a gigantic budget deficit due to the idiotic policy of the European Union, which forces Poland and other European countries to go into ideological madness related to the climate, which is why companies cannot bear the costs associated with it. Taxes and energy fees have increased very quickly. Currently, Poland has the most expensive energy in Europe. In addition, Poland now supports Ukraine and money from the Polish budget goes to Ukraine, and in addition, Ukraine receives military equipment and ammunition worth millions from Poland. Poland has already spent several hundred billion on Ukraine, of which it has received nothing in return from Ukraine, because in Poland we also have to support several million Ukrainians who receive social benefits.

[@darekczekalski9148]

smoluch w szoku to nie burdelownia amerykanska

[@g.peters244]

@darekczekalski9148 - burdelownię to masz w głowie. Tuż obok sieczkarni ze słomą.

[@halko7122]

smoluchów to szukaj u siebie w rodzinie.

[@annajakl3450]

Polska jest dla Polaków.

[@halko7122]

@@annajakl3450 czyli nie dla ciebie, onuco.

[@g.peters244]

@@annajakl3450 To co tu robisz mieszanko genów?