Why I left the USA |

Hi! I'm Monica Zielinski, a Polish-American living in Warsaw, Poland. In this video, I explain what led me to leave my life in Connecticut behind and pack my bags and move to Europe.
Are you an American living abroad? I'd love to hear why you decided to leave the USA! Leave a comment below.
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[@gabrielnajarian01]

After living in Spain, Poland, and The Netherlands then coming back to the US I felt the exact same way. Reverse culture shock/regression depression. I’m moving back to the EU in the spring and couldn’t be more excited. I feel so much more alive there. The history, architecture, languages, culture, food, and people are so beautiful and interesting. Europe is filled with a soul that I’ve never experienced in America. The grass really is greener on the other side haha. Mad respect to you for feeling the same.

[@jacobs3848]

Jakie interesujące! Ja też będę mieszkać w Polsce. Specjalnie w Warszawie. Za 3 tygodnie

[@VisaVisbyVictoriaVoigt]

We’re so grateful to have you in Poland! Proud to call you our national treasure 🌟

[@joeperkowski]

I am seriously thinking of exiting the USA soon. I'm burnt out of all the BS and drama living here.

[@redruby747]

Yes❤

[@optivitanutrition]

and your choice ius Poland ? LOL

[@joeperkowski]

Whats wrong with poland @@optivitanutrition

[@adanio69]

Nice done Monica.(Monika) I wish, that my US born daughter Anita, as well, as my son Adam, would eventually try to follow your steps. Well, at least give it a chance. Both are smart, but I think, that such experience, would give them a chance to explore some other oportunities in this world.

[@CieplinskiPawel]

Miruś, I beg you: don't rise your kids so after trip to Europe they say BartCSSSelona...

[@tracylf5409]

Dear Monica, I'm just sorry that you felt you needed to make a video explaining your choices. You have your own life to live & don't owe anyone any explanations. If you're happy, others should be, too. Best to you & your grandparents. From Western AU. xx

[@laurentheheiress98]

I’d love to know the reasons that are keeping you there. As well as the story about making the Polish woman cry. I resonate with so much you said about not feeling at home once you returned to the States

[@mirka]

Great story, Monica. Wishing you good luck 30 yrs ago I moved in opposite direction, from Warsaw to California. Times changed, nowadays Warsaw seems like an attractive place to live, as opposed to my boring suburbs. Thinking about moving back, at least for couple months a year.

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

30 years ago the USA was sitll "cool" though, I think or? These days not so much.

[@mirka]

@@annachristinanotyet4678 30 yrs ago US was super cool, and great place to live. Some areas still are, like my favorite San Francisco Bay Area. Just a little boring...

[@SBB1955]

Great story, Monika! Being born in Poland but living in the US since I was 10, I'm planning on moving my family to Poland most probably Warsaw. Life in the US is so tiring and for the most part boring. I can't wait to move and feel alive again. BTW, I've done very well financially here in the US, but there is so much more to qualify of life than just having money. Warsaw.

[@michaelaltawil]

What a beautiful story

[@freundinano]

Good luck in Poland, Monica. I'm glad you've found your place xx Poland can be proud of the recent change. Who would have thought Poles born in America would be happy to be back? x

[@redruby747]

Depression rate is high in us

[@jackbrodnicki7403]

Prosta sprawa - czasami człowiek robi to, co mu podpowiada serce ... "TAM DOM TWÓJ, GDZIE SERCE TWOJE !" Jeśli o mnie chodzi, to również bez wahania, wróciłbym do takiej Polski, jaką opuściłem przed wieloma laty. Niestety takiej Polski już nie ma ... Życzę Ci wszystkiego co najlepsze Moniko ! Trzymaj się !! Cześć !!!

[@CieplinskiPawel]

Tried Podlasie? (JOKE:)

[@sl2047]

Tam dom twój, gdzie powiesisz kapelusz.

[@chrisd3560]

Thank you for sharing! First TikTok I've ever paid attention too. Love you're story!

[@tonyzuco9634]

I think i find my new english teacher - thanks for videos :) I've found you by interwiev with Dave from America :)

[@michalp.1484]

I love your videos Monica and would love them even more if there was no reverb in the sound. Is it possible to do something about it? ☺

[@slawekzug]

Wersja angielska, dlaczego zostalam w Polsce? Napisy mogły by być, większość zrozumiałem, ponieważ znam powody i widziałem poprzednie vlogi. Są osoby które emigrują w drugą stronę, można powiedzieć idą pod prąd 😁 Dużo zdrowia życzę Monica.

[@jankos2226]

Yes, I want more.

[@piotrgarbacz47]

Podziwiam cię dziewczyno ,ja uciekłem z Polski 17 lat temu ,do Londynu także blisko do domu

[@ShaniaHalliwell]

Dla Warszawy zostawiłam kiedyś marzenie o życiu w Hiszpanii. Nie żałuję - niezależnie od sytuacji politycznej czy ekonomicznej, to fantastyczne miasto, które ma wiele do zaoferowania.

[@mbguap]

Ekonomicznie to różnice nie są nawet dużew skali całego państwa, a jeśli porównujesz Warszawę z inną miejscowością/miastem niż Madryt czy Barcelona to Warszawa wydaje mi się że luźniutko wygrywa.

[@Scully331]

Monica, My husband and I are seriously considering moving to Poland. I have been researching what life is like in Poland. My husband just visited for work and also met with some distant cousins and loved it. He considered it a lovely modern European country. However, I was concerned when I watched a YT video with a high end real estate agent in which every video had a woman in lingerie prancing around in a sultry way. It was gross! Such a sexist marketing campaign would fail miserably in the states. It is commonly known that women are the target group when trying to sell just about anything, because, ultimately woman are the decision makers. Do you think sexism is predominate in Polish culture? Thanks

[@fidesetratio2878]

I would like to speak English so fluently as you one day 🙂

[@booboss]

From what I see you actually do my friend 😀

[@fidesetratio2878]

@@booboss Thanks. Now I'm writing not bad. The thing is how to improve speaking as well? 🙂

[@booboss]

@@fidesetratio2878 From my experience watching American movies in English with your language subtitles. Does magic 😀

[@waltermachnicz5490]

Do not know whether to comment or not! Comment is as much about me as what I seem to have heard you relate. Grew up reading in small town CT. Science Fiction, History and Historical Fiction, and other. WW2 stories played a part. Dad was in the Army Air Corp Engineers, for five years mostly overseas. Like most veterans dif not like to talk about it.

[@waltermachnicz5490]

Setting the scene. Add the Vietnam War, Kennedy shot (did not happen here) shock, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hippy movement, felt totally liberating to attend....Uconn at Storrs. But loved the International House, and Coffee Houses of the period, enjoyed the Outing Club (then Hiking, Mountaineering, Winter Mountaineering, Canoeing, Lake and White Water, Cave Exploration, took me some distance for the time. Met Communal living people and a couple in a Tipee... I was not brave enough for Europe. My mothers side was Polish, My fathers side Lemko (Lemon was in Austrian Hungarian Empire then Polish then subversion attempts by Russians and Ukrainians and... I have no ear for languages (born with some hearing loss in speech range. If I could have picked up Polish.. Anyway University taught me what I did not want to be and gave me some tools and experience. You seem to have found the same perhaps (though it probably does not feel easier that way to you). Growing up is what we make it. Costs and benefits are not a report card just living. Hope you continue to find wonder and achievement! Feel free to ignore my blather if it makes no sense to you. lol. Been watching riotous for a year or so. Fascinating in a good but Dr Spock (Star Trek) way. People, lfe, art, exploration, competition, adventure, friendship on the outside, see and do, Love the costumes. Still reading.. Good luck and good life..

[@waltermachnicz5490]

Riotous translates to TikTok. Proof reading is not appealing. Word correction from Fire Tablet wild.

[@arye2457]

I've watched a few videos of yours. In one of them you mentioned a mass shooting in the American school. I believe, this is a major factor that is discouraging you to get back to States.

[@CieplinskiPawel]

My friend Michael Bates, R.I.P. always when asked why he moved to Ukraine: well my 8yo can take public transport and walk to school alone. And no one will shoot her there! And *yes,* it was after the War started in 2014...

[@booboss]

@@CieplinskiPawel unfortunatelly this nightmare came back in 2022. Stand for Ukraine!

[@CieplinskiPawel]

@@booboss No. It never went away. *6-8 THAUSANDS* of Ukrainians were killed 2014-Feb. 24 2022. It's just the World went back to _business as usual_ with ruSSia... All those 8 years in Donbas and Lugansk regions people were suffering, getting killed. *At war.* There was no week without Ukrainian soldiers dying. The media just lost interest and the World forgot...

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

It's funny how we can get "stuck" be it countries of our ancestors or heritages, I feel like besides political refugees that's now the most people who somehow left the USA. "I planned a few months - year!" And then they end up stuck in one country or even traveling the World for multiple years. Ooops! Well, I am very much German in Germany, so I always wondered how that would feel like for (me) if I'd ever go abroad for a longer period of time.

[@BBTeZeT]

I like you, stay positive

[@TomaszBorowskiTOM124q]

Should I stay or should I go now,,,,, lalalala, STAY, STAY.

[@redruby747]

Good 4u ❤❤❤❤

[@waclawkoscielniak9291]

MegaMillions today is 1.28 billion $. Can you get that in Warsaw? I don't think so.

[@markchimmy]

Did you and everyone else that played get that 1.28B in the US? 😂

[@mioszzakrzewski2012]

sooo what keeps you in Poland?

[@arye2457]

Safer environment

[@paweljanus7849]

While listening to this story, this song reminded me. All the lyrics do not match but the chorus is definitely there: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-UiKqkeqmKd68

[@waldemarbiernacki7270]

Moniko, chciałbym mieć taką wnuczkę, jak Ty.

[@naseemashah1995]

Please more videos in english.

[@olganosowski7681]

You will be back in short time.

[@redruby747]

Plz say depressed cuz we are in usa good 4u girl

[@BalloonInTheBalloon]

I was puzzled where I'd heard of this woman before.. then it hit me; Monica Lewinski o.O sorry for the mixup.

[@CieplinskiPawel]

The challenge is: Drink each time Monica says she's an American, from America, US of A... FYI: they don't drink that much in Poland anymore! ;)

[@CieplinskiPawel]

7:25 _in America..._ I'm done, goodddnighhht!

[@hanskloss9482]

thank God there are still women like you

[@SurMikasMetin2PL]

Hahahahahaha "zielona karta"... XD Amerykanie serio są tak nieświadomi, że w USA jest "prawo ziemi" dotyczące obywatelstwa? XD

[@booboss]

Odnosząc to do gier video amerykanie myślą że USA to główna mapa gry a reszta świata to DLC. Wystarczy powiedzieć że amerykanie będący na wakacjach w Maroko nie umieli zrozumieć dlaczego nie ma fajerwerków 4 lipca.............. Coś jeszcze mam dodać?

[@ajulianj]

Your parents didn't teach you polish??

[@monicazielinski2673]

Yes they did.

[@Geezerelli]

I lived in Ukraine for about 3 years and felt like a human being there but in San Diego I can’t relate to the wokeness😂

[@moyprofile]

Noticing that European Americans are scared straight to even say aloud the main reason for them moving to Europe. Which is avoiding that 'diversity' obviously. There's no experience as soothing, calming your soul and natural as living among people like you.

[@sucram1018]

Diversity of what?

[@notadem406]

That about sums it up.

[@harrietscott214]

ƤＲＯ𝓂Ｏ𝕤ᗰ

[@redruby747]

America is not the be all end all

[@ericgutierrez2936]

Deported?

[@toddskaggs7631]

Do us America a favor stay gone.

[@yuliamel4162]

You’re so mean Like a real American

[@hanskloss9482]

@@globe_master3290 with 2 millions prisoners, and a culture of being slave for your whole life it's surely a great place to live

[@lnn4446]

Proste, zeby robic kariere jako Sanah

[@sl2047]

A girl moved often and starts anew due to her commonly or widely known bad reputation:)

[@mdollbot]

polish american tez cos

[@LadyRebel_666]

trzeba było tam zostać

[@megi4109]

Słabo ze nie ma nawet polskich napisów ..

[@andrewpoterek4447]

@megi To nie jest kierowane do ciebie. Po polsku to juz bylo wielokrotnie.

[@booboss]

Słabo że nie znasz angielskiego skoro tak bardzo cie interesuje treść

[@megi4109]

@@booboss Rozumiem ze każdy powinien znać angielski tak jak jego język ojczysty🤦🏼‍♀️ nikt nie ma prawa nie umieć ,lub być w trakcie nauki,lub potrafić na średnim poziomie.Albo potrafisz ,albo jak śmiesz wchodzić na filmy gdzie Polak,Polka mówią po angielsku🤦🏼‍♀️

[@booboss]

@@megi4109 Nie, oczywiście że nie. A uczysz się?