After LIVING in POLAND, I RETURNED to EASTERN EUROPE (and this happened…) 🇵🇱
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2022
- After spending several months settling into my new life in Poland, I needed to return to Eastern Europe…
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Półtorej minuty wytrzymał bez gadania o balkonach :P
Nie dziwię się mu, że zwraca na nie uwagę, bo balkony we wschodniej Europie na prawdę są w tragicznym stanie, oczywiście nie wszystkie i nie wszędzie. Nawet na Litwie rzuca się to w oczy. Kiedy byłem tam pierwszy raz kilka lat temu, byłem przerażony stanem niektórych bloków, klatek wejściowych i balkonów w Wilnie i też od razu na to zwracałem uwagę.
I usually stop and check the timestamp myself, but today I was too busy with ”What are you doing in Moldova? When? How long? And why are the trees painted white?" (I was going to read the reply to you, Lester, but maybe I'll look at the Polish for a while and see if I can figure some of it out before I let Google translate it)
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Fascynat balkonów bo w bywszym Sojuzie w "Chruszczowkach" wszystkie zabudowane !!!
Lester, wez bez fetysz szejmingu co?
Witamy ponownie w Polsce. Wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej
Ty to glupi jednak jestes .Polska nie jest jego domem .On jest z Ukrainy .A ty chyba sie pomyliles ze masz imie " bialo-czerwony " to jakas hipokryzja u ciebie .
@@marzenarydzyk4559 Dom jst tam, gdzie żyjesz, a nie gdzie się urodziłeś. Całe szczęście, ty jesteś mądry.
Nie bardzo rozumiem dlaczego wszystko musi byc porownywalne kturw tych wideach ze Stanami??? Ja tu mieszkam i wiele widze okropnych miejsc szczegolnie w NYC gdzie jest brak stylu w tamtejszej architekturze czy zachowaniu ludzi. Europa jest inna i nigdy nie bedzie odzwierciedleniem Ameryki. Niezaleznie od tego czy ktos to lubi czy nie/!
I really like the format of this video. The narration is fantastic. Moldova looks like a nice country from what you showed us.
It reminded me of Poland back in the 90s
Really liked this video and informative format. Thank you.
Your videos are always very informative and a delight to see. You have a special way of sharing your adventures in such a way to make us feel we are walking along with you as if to actually be there also. Thank you for your many videos. Best wishes and health always.
Thank you 🙏
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VERY interesting insights! Thank you for opening up my mind. peace from Macau.
to be honest, most of the areas here look better than I saw when travelling in the US. The poverty, inequality, housing and public infrastructure I saw in the US was truly shocking and in a start contrast to the over-affluent areas. Sometimes I wondered if i was in a third world country
Fantastic video my friend. I always love getting your perspective - much love❤️❤️♥️🥰
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You can go by bus line 666 to Hel. This is possible only in Poland.
Hel is actually a pretty nice place xD
just love it, that you are so... walkative😁.
g'luck, and keep it up James!
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A new word! I like it :-)
When I was a child and attended Polish primary sports' school in Istebna it was named: The school of Jurij Gagarin. There was a rocket in front of the school.
I was always wondering how life in Moldova looks like, since it's the poorest european country... But the capital looks very decent and livable I would say. Thanks for this video!
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I'll spend my summer holiday in Bulgaria this year, going by car as previous times, so I had a plan to see something else on the way. Chișinău is place worth to visit.
This video is really, really good. Watching it at my balcony ;) :D
Pozdrawiam z Wejherowa!!!
The one thing I like about Poland is that the wealth is spread out across the country. In that regard it's similar to western and northern Europe. The really big difference I see between here and Germany is the number of local factories and middle size businesses which in Germany is just mind-blowing. Of course there's exceptions and differences between cities and regions in Poland, but basically any place can end up thriving if governed well. I'm actually from the city (Gorzów Wielkopolski) which is sadly not using it's full potential (it has around 120k inhabitants and is located halfway between Berlin and Poznań) and by years of bad decisions has been kinda left behind, and the difference between here and large cities is noticeable, even more so now than in the past. Not in the sense that it is now in worse condition than in the past, just that the larger cities (and many smaller ones as well) change for the better way quicker. The brain drain by larger cities with respected universities and high tech companies is a big problem.
Enjoy your time there I love Moldova and Transnistria as well.
NY Restaurant & Bar :) The surroundings look very modern.
Bald and Bankrupt went there and he ruined that city, he showed it from the worst possible way, making it look like a half ruined city. You have shown it from a better perspective, a less biased perspective and it actually looks quiet good.
I've seen it - you'r right.
I can't remember whether I have watched one of his videos all the way through, but I did end up following Johnny on a bus trip to Bosnia last night. There were wild horses! I think I was interested because it was a bus trip. The trams in Moldova looked interesting. From the outside. (I've only watched Johnny a few times. He was going back from Poland to Ukraine (and massacring the name of a couple of Polish cities, which I have heard done elsewhere, once by someone who I thought was a journalist but was actually reporting for some relief group) otherwise he seems okay and pretty genial, And yesterday was having a little trouble with some ATMs. And I looked at the date and it was actually yesterday. RUclips and it's suggestion algorithms, because I'm not following him or anything. But by that point I was like who are you, and what are you doing in Eastern Europe, and where did you come from? Anyway I wasn't all that interested in Bosnia, but the wild horses were fascinating. And I have no idea whether I'm going to get all my parentheses closed properly)
Bald and bankrupt showed it as the Kremlin would like to show it. Just like when he came to Vilnius and said "everyone speaks Russian", which is completely untrue except for 50+ generations. He didn't even mention a lot of people in Vilnius speak Polish...
It looks better than I thought
So it was just one day trip to Moldova. Nice! I have neve ever been there. Greetings from Hungary.
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No one eats that much food in one day. :-) It had to be a couple at least.
Very interesting content
Thanks interesting video a bit off the beaten track! I may have a need to get to Odesa in the near future, so a stop over in Chișinău may be in the offing so was good to see.
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A nice place and a nice apartment!
Bardzo ładne miasto.
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Bravo Mr Gypsy man 😉 you do it you way dear👍🏻 i love it ! Thenkz hallo fram Norway 🇳🇴🇺🇦
Very cool video, nice to see some Moldova representation. I'm curious If you ever plan to go to Transnistria, since it's such an anomaly.
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50 km from Chisinau, there was a border post on the Dniester River between Poland and Turkey, where disputes between these countries were settled.
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great !
Was the Warsaw road that reminded you of the Belt Parkway in NY equally full of traffic? I swear that the NY Belt Parkway practically has a 24 hour rush hour
Yeah lol without the traffic near the JFK junction 😂
What’s so special about it? Only when it’s the coolest dude on the planet doing so😉
I like Moldova. Nice place🙂
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Poland is much more rich with nice modern buildings and has well preserved medieval buildings which is something you don't see in Eastern Europe.
Those dirty stores in underpass at the beginning are typical view in poorer part of eastern Europe. In whole Poland it was typical in 90'
Mall dova haha dobre!
Moldova look like great place to vacation.
surprised that room still required a physical key considering even roach motels in the US just have the swipe cards now days.
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Loved the name of the mall. Liked the sidewalks. The street signs are too small. Love the street signs in Warsaw! Loved the lady who told you the story of her life and all her opinions. I tended to be that way with strangers at bus stops. At least when I was younger. Probably still am. It got me an apartment the first time I left home for good.
Why do they paint the bottoms of the trees white?
Have you ever sorted out your ability to stay in Poland? Or is that too personal a question?
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Na niektórych szerokościach geograficznych słońce pada pod dużym kątem i choć jest jeszcze za zimno drzewa budzą się do życia później znów jest zimno i drzewo przemarza. Malowanie na biało odbija słońce i daje pewność że drzewo nie obudzi się za wcześnie,stosuje się to zwykle na drzewach owocowych.
@@marcinpominski4591 Thanks for that explanation.
After i saw the title of this video - I thought - why did you leave Poland? Its good you're back in da house :)
Oh good, it wasn't just me. (You would think that he left the US or something)
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James is cheating on Poland with Moldova ;)
He's secret ploy to steal Sosnowiec and relocate it to Moldova is coming along.
6:50 where is this ?
This really reminds me of Kyiv - but the real question is, DO they have coffee stalls/kiosks every few minues?
Many people from moldova and mostly transnistria are comming to Poland for better future.
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sorry a little bit too fast with panning when showing neighbourhood
Somebody had to leave Schengen for a bit.😁
So are the prices better in Moldova or in Poland? I am surprised that the names of the establishments in Moldova are written using Latin alphabet rather than Cyrillic Alphabet.
From what he showed Poland have better prices, but from the neighbrhood it could be premium store which have higher prices than normal ones.
@@potencjalnypracownik2966 - Dziekuje za odpowiedz. Pozdrawiam.
This is not telling you is this expensive or not ! It is important how much is the basic wage?
" my new wife, here in Poland " rozjebałeś system
new life nie wife
Hi, try6 balkan grill if you need some balkan food in Warsaw. You can get there easily by metro
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Poland is as much Eastern Europe as ex East Germany is. No one in poland wanted to speak russian or be under russian control, noone there who finished education after fell of the communism do speak russian and those who were forced to learn it before 1989 speak usually poorly and hating it ;) So yeah, Poland was a vassal state of the soviets till 1989 but like in case of east germans not willingly. No one here had a minute of doubt if we are russian or western, not sharing the language, alphabet nor religion with the russian east. But yeah, for less educated folks the sole fact that we've landed on the wrong side of the iron curtain is enough to mark us the same way as ex soviet republics, sure, why not? ;)
U are so absolutely right no one in Poland wants to speak or be identified as a communist soviets and Russian language till this day this statement gives me goosebumps not in the good way so no Poland is Western European country we were never eastern European country we have different alphabet cultures language I don’t like to be identify as someone that has anything has to do with Soviet Union Russian oppressor
@@pistolpete5192 I would say we are centric. A perfect geographical centre of Europe.
And I do not want to speak Ukrainians either in Poland and the Children to be forced to learn Ukrainians in Poland too.And Ukraine to take Poland either. And Ukrainian" s flag to be taking over Polish flag in Poland .This is Poland !!To be clear .
@@marzenarydzyk4559 no one here is discussing anything related to Ukraine so please take this discussion elsewhere, let’s stick to the topic.
It’s the eastern block and will always be associated with it so please stop crying like a baby… people from Poland who grew up in Western Europe are even proud of their “Ostblock-heritage”
Sophomore actress. Shows a certain sign 5:14 We have New York 14:58
Hello mate... Very interesting video and well narrated!!!
Will be in Warsaw next week, want to grab a coffee and bounce some ideas off with a fellow RUclipsr?
Some remarks about languages:
It's always a good thing to know any foreign language despise of our feelings. I can speak Russian pretty well and I proud of it - my university teacher to encourage students to give more effort to study Russian used to say "it's important to know the language of your enemy".
In early '90's the percentage of Poles knowing English was less than 20. Now is probably much more than 60%. There was no national program or action to learn this language. Poles just realise that to achieve any success in the world knowing English is inevitable. And this became to be nearly paranoid: once I saw a banner in my neighborhood which said: "WE START TEACHING ENGLISH KIDS WHO ARE AT LEAST 7 MTHS". It's amazing, isn't it?
It was also decided on the EU lvl to teach English as one of foreign languages so that the Union has a common lang. So now kids in schools EU-wide have English + other foreign lang of their choosing.
@@zegarp Bollocks
I don't speak Russian. Like I know three phrases and two random words that sound like Polish. Thankfully one of those phrases is I don't understand. I can also say I understand. I was watching The Americans, which has a whole boatload of subtitled Russian. But I didn't understand the word understand until I heard it and saw it subtitled "I see." Somehow that flipped a switch in my brain.
When James was talking to someone in the store about how he was filming I heard the same ending on what must have been the verb as I did on "I understand." And for once I noticed it. (Because it probably happens all the time)
If only it wasn't in Cyrillic, it's possible I might have tried to learn Russian instead of Polish. Thankfully, Google translate will put the sounds into the alphabet I am used to - which one is that? Latin? It's a lot easier to replicate a sound when I can see it. It's still not easy but it's easier.
I wonder, do the Chinese learn English or are we supposed to learn Mandarin? When I was busy not watching Firefly, years ago, there was a bunch of Mandarin in it, based on the concept that there would be more Chinese people in the world than anything else and Mandarin would be everywhere. Already, we shut down if we can't get things from there... Diversification seems in order, as far as supply. It might have been wonderful to find another route to China in the days of Marco Polo, oh look it's China again. Wait. Is that where he was going? It's been a long time since I was a kid. Silk - yes. Spices - not sure.
If there's a tangent to find I will always go off on it :-)
@@edytapfahl4641 it depends on school, but it is usually English. The second is usually German / Spanish/ French / Russian.
@@maciekszymanski6898 It is no accident that English is so widely taught in Poland. Decisions were made in the 90s by the Polish authorities, and the effort was aided by the EU funding, as well as various international organisations, including e.g. the US Peace Corps. Modern and well-equipped schools were founded and a lot of volunteers from the US, UK, Australia etc. came to live and work and Poland to teach English. And yes, a lof of the funding came from the EU, long before Poland became its member.
Isn't Poland in Central Europe? By calling it eastern Europe it sounds like you are referring to the Soviet block.
Because the soviet block is still present there in many ways. The country is still in post communist hangover
Poland is in Eastern Europe.
Thats funny because Kiev gave me NY vibes that I had 40 years ago when NY was a nice place. Frankly I dont want any place like NY nowadays.
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I didnt see any cars on fire on the Polish Belt Pkwy or any people driving by with bones in their nose.
How come you are called PlanetJames and not BalconyJames?
Yuri was the very first Ruzzian cosmonaut who returned to earth alive, so they say
Moldova is a better place I though, seems quite ok
nice man, i really want to visit a Russian speaking country to practice Russian.. I was thinking of Moldova tbh
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@@montekore374 ja 😎
@@montekore374 to nie jest jezyk jednego kraju, to jest jezyk uzywany w Kazahstanie, Gruzji, Armenii, Azerbejdzanie, Ukrainie, Bialorusi, Moldawii, Estonii, Tadzykistanie, Turkmenistanie i Uzbekistanie.. ciekawia mnie takie klimaty, bo nie sa popularne a duzo maja ciekawego do zaoferowania - w Europie angielski starczy.. a na wschod od Polski bez ruskiego ani rusz wiec nie wiem co ty mowisz mi za logike hehe Rosyjski to nie tylko Rosja
@@montekore374 a Polska to bojowisko Europy na ktorej wszyscy swoje problemy zalatwiaja.. i na co tu zyc?
"I returned to Eastern Europe" 🤔 Isn't PL Easter Europe?
No, it's centric Europe ans we are much more culturally close to western.
Eastern Europe has a different alphabet, a knowledge of Russian is high, is ortodox. Comparing to Poland which uses Latin alphabet and the biggest group of words originating from different langauge are latinisms (not russianisms), a knowledge of Russian is almost non-existent (a main foreign langauge here is English and then German), Roman catholic, literature was influenced by Latin, Greek schemas, Roman catholic, French, Italian and Russians became a big influence for Polish literature not until romantism (mostly because our most important writer Adam Mickiewicz went to prison in Russia and when he was released he lived in Russia for a couple of years, just to travel to western Europe and live there for the majority of his life), we have never had a tsar for a king during electory kings period in Poland when we literally had French, Transylvanian, Swedishes, Saxonians, Poles... And also a Lithaunian dynasty before the electory Poland who often married with Austrian, there was a guy who even had Italian mother. We had different political system for the most of our history to Russia, different mentality. And we also hated Russians from the core of our hearts, for all the genocides they comitted on us, for preventing us to have our own culture, country, for communism... So yeah, we are NOT eastern Europe. A fucking geographical centre of Europe is here and we are more western than eastern through we often connect west and east because this is the place where west and east connected.
@@recordofragnarokisapurehyp6660 oj, chlopie... wszystko zależy od punktu "siedzenia". Oczywiscie, można tak myśleć. A mnie ciekawi co inni na to odpowiedzą. BTW, dzięki, ze sie rozpisałeś. Może ktoś z zewnątrz sobie poczyta i co nieco dowie. Pozdro
@@antija6825 Tak czy owak, Polska jest w środku Europy. Oczywiście, noe stwierdzam, że wcale podobieństw do wschodu nie ma, jednak z punktu widzenia historii my zawsze jednak byliśmy bardziej w środku Europy i byliśmy mixem europejskim. I to nie był nawet prosty podział zachód-wschód, ale nawet południe (tak, Imperium Osmańskie również wpłynęło na Rzeczpospolitą w mniejszym stopniu, ale jednak). Tak czy owak, nie jesteśmy wschodnią Europą. Nie jesteśmy zachodnią. Leżymy w centrum i również w centrum ścierają się różne mentalności zachodnia i wschodnia.
@@antija6825 ale też pozdrawiam, miło było
Swoją drogą chłopem nie jestem, a babą, ale kij z tym, haha
Why did the new wife have the old one in the past?
hej, przyszłam tutaj poczytać komenty Polaków po angielsku xD
Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. NOT OCTOBER 1966 !!!!!
There! That is why I found that confusing. I saw 1966 and I thought, that was after John Glenn who it turns out wasn't even the first, it's just that in 1962 I was 3 years old, so John Glenn is the first astronaut I ever heard of. And I don't know what he was doing when I heard of him. I went to Wikipedia and there was an entire list that went on forever. And it said 1961. I wonder what they meant by 1966...
PS thank you
You misunderstand. What the plaque is saying, is that the first man in space, Gagarin, planted a tree there in 1966.
Isnt Poland eastern europe?
@@doctorc499 how they always try blocked money from union and dont forget they never pay for ww2
Why not Northern Europe?
;@@doctorc499 Maybe because Poland is in the middle of Europe like a heart? It even looks like a heart. ;)
P.S. Poles dare because Germany hasn't paid war reparations directly to Poland for WW2 yet. And speaking of tanks, it was Germany that first proposed to their eastern neighbors: to give their older tanks away to Ukraine, and in turn Germany would compensate these countries by replacing their tanks with German ones instead. So now, when Poland has sent 240 T-72s to Ukraine, where are the German replacement tanks for Poland? Ahh right... Germany just said that it wont be sending any tanks to Poland. German-Russian strategic cooperation and old blood "friendship" (over Poland's bloodied dead body) is still alive and well! :D
No, because of development.
Both Eastern and Central Europe at the same time
Did you know that Polish governent started to invest in Moldova, for now is planning to spend 100 mln euro, probably more in future?
I've heard that women there are very beautiful. Would you agree?
I was in Moldowa it was tragedia !
Go to Tiraspol !!!
There is nothing compared to Poland
Mołdawia is not part western the Poland loaned to Mołdawia couple hundred milions usd
yet everyone in England considers Poland to be eastern Europe on pair with Moldova...
well people love simplifications and stereotypes, it lets them think less, and thinkin costs the energy ;)
Everyone in England is ignorant obviously
Not everyone, not everyone in the UK is so stupid
Everyone? Well, those that believe that are wrong.
Chłopie głupi jesteś.Nikt tak nie uważa.Bzdur nie opowiadaj.Mołdawia to trzeci świat.Jeden z najbiedniejszych krajów europy
ukraine rocco siffredi
Poland is exactly eastern Europe lol just fortunately more developed but also can be more boring.
Europe would be a better place if Romania would be a bit more similar to Moldova where minority rights are respected, see also the autonomy of Gagauzia... Romania is full anti-Hungarian nationalists, the 2019 football match in Craiova was a hell for Hungarians. The Romanian ultras threw a sound grenade to the referee who had to receive medical care. The game should have been suspended, but the officials did not dare to end the match prematurely "because the security personnel could not have guaranteed their safety". This is Romania. In Moldova, _anything_ like this would have never happened. Moldovans are respectful to Hungarians, even some of their politicians(!!!) speak at the _very_ least, a few words in Hungarian(!). This is why I hope that Moldova won't unite with Romania - the opposite would be better, with Chişinău as the capital :).
Moldovans consider themselves the descendants of Alexandru Ioan Cuza who was later king of Romania but originally from Moldova.
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Poland is not Easter European but Central Europe
Poland is also Eastern Europe...
Only in your little twisted mind.
@@pawelborger8819 lol. Typical testy Pole. Bit insecure?
What’s your problem? Do not they teach you geography in Romania?
You look at countries thru what happened between 45-89 which has nothing to do with geography.
Politically was part of Soviet part of the world but it was literally only 50 years and you judge Poland based on very short time in a history of that country. Poland has existed more than 1000 years as a country. Read more about history , geography na then speak publicly otherwise you look ridiculous and humiliating yourself.
@@pawelborger8819 What do you have against Eastern Europe bigot? I love Eastern Europe.
James i don t think that putting Poland as Central Europe is proper. I do understand you like it a lot, but anyway , even politically it was always Eastern Block. Look also at some UN classifications. We miss Marina in this video !
Wrong Historically its always been Central Europe Much more European than msny ateas of southern.Europe
NN you too huh You have no clue
If by always you understand "after being conquered by the russians in IIWW" then yeah. If you look at the country history from when it was baptised in 966 (by the Holly Roman Empire's Otton basically) then you'd realise that the only time poland was politically inclined with russia were those times when it was occupied by ruskies ;)
Look on the map and say it again. Poland is right in the centre of Europe. The terms Eastern Europe I could leave it if it was used correctly. Geographically not so much the term Eastern Europe has been normalised during NATO expansion before the 89 when the USA classified all countries in one pile away from west of Germany to Russia. Because most of the countries have been abused by Russia in the past into submission none of those countries like this “brand name “ anymore and find it insulation as it’s painful memory. So if in doubt check on the map of Europe and tell me who is more Central Europe than Poland. Thanks
🤣😅you are funny...
Cmon Poland is basically Eastern Europe
Poland is central Europe. See the map ...
in ŁÓDŻ u have geographical center of EUROP!
Haha. You do not know much about the world, do you 😂
@@pawelborger8819 ive been to Poland brother. Technically its Central Europe but its more related to Eastern Europe. Only polish and Eastern Europeans throw fits when u call it Eastern Europe
Don't feed the troll ;)