I just returned from a trip in eastern Europe, visiting Ukraine and Poland. The difference between these two countries is remarkable! Just note the terrible road conditions in Ukraine!
In this kind of weather (just above zero Centigrade when snow just begins to melt) everything looks particularly shabby. Trust me, the place would look much more cheerful in summer.
Seems like a good place to open a chain of front end repair shops...I will appreciate some of the U.S roads I have to drive on more! I would still like to visit.
yeah roads suck everywhere...and tell me where there is a government to love..Ukraine has great food..great music...wonderful people.and tons of things to see..Beutiful country I love it here
slow village life is incredible..I was reading comments by americans..they call it poverty..why?no macdonalds and people riding bikes???I saw full larders of nhome made ,home grown food..wonderful beautiful farms...Lviv and Kiev will me fasinated for years..Glory to Ukraine..and peace and happiness for the new year
Kenneth Horne thanks, man! Happy New Year 2 u also! Come 2 visit us again soon, we r always welcome foreigners here. )) Thanks 4 wishing us peace... thats very important 4 us nowadays, u know.
I am inKiev for the new year..I will return this coming summer for a long stay..I am at home here now..Your country has stolen my heart Yes i wish you all peace and security for ever
Doesn't look all that different from rust-belt small towns in the USA like Portsmouth Ohio. When the economy is slow and young people leaving an area, it will look tattered because little new is being constructed.
Michigan's roads are about like Ukraine. I would like to see this trip in mid summer when everything is green. This looks like mid winter after a thaw when all is grey and overcast!
I would love to visit Ukraine. Apart from the road infrastructure, rural Ukraine doesn't look bad at all. In summer it should look great. I can also see lots of private buisnesses going on which is really positive. Greets from Poland.
Lviv has the king of Polands house to see..I knocked but he wasn"t home...Kiev has so much to see and do it will be years before I tire of it..Happy new year.and its going to rock in the square until 2 am..Peace
Curiously, most of the houses (especially the ones at the beginning) looked liked they had been cared for, and well loved. But they also looked kinda worn - As if things that were originally meant to be temporary ended up being permanent. And things that were meant to last a long time,ended up lasting twice as long as even they were meant to last. It kinda looks like while everything is wearing it's fatique gracefully, but it's still full of fatique. As if they didn't have enough money to repair everything fully, and so compromises were made. I dunno if I'm making any sense ?
Sorry, but that is not eastern part of Ukraine, it is just to the east from Lviv. Most of the video it is the city of Starokonstantiniv, Khmelnytskiy region (oblast). Kyiv, the capital, is about 280 km to the east from the place on the video. It is definitely Western Ukraine. The city has more than 30.000 people. It could not be considered as rural area of Ukraine. Provincial, yes, but not rural. Ukrainian rural areas are much different and worse to that on this video. Life in cities and towns is better. As for comment, that life in Ukraine looks more poor, not true either. Moscow and region in Russia are rich, but towns like this in Russia look just horroble, mostry careless woden houses, lack of work and lots of alcoholics.
+Sergii Budim Word. Never been to the Ukraine but apart from the bad quality of the roads and the cheap cars this just looks like a typical part of Western Germany.
+sergi budim , Sergei the poor people who live here in England ,we have council estates, /but there is social cleansing going on in say'' London for the property developers to buy up the land ''and also there are people who own there own houses here some of these houses what i see are definitely owned but what happens to your people on low income,unemployed, old or in bad health do you have a government funded,housing
Kobryn is listed as a GODFATHER to at least one Tanczuk children... my family from Volya Yakubova / aka Wola Jakubowa, . I just visited and have a lot of their cemetery pictures. They attended Church of of Saints Cosmas and Damian, and the cemetery adjoins the church. The town is 6.9 miles from Drohobych, their government center... government records might be in the town or Drohobych or LVIV.
I disagree. Poland imo is Eastern not Central -- both physically and culturally. Btw, While geographers say continental Europe extends to the Ural Mountains, in my geographic opinion Europe ends with Finland in the north then down thru Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. Russia is not in Europe and is not European in any way.
+William Gill_Esq. PS: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are european countries. I'm Polish but I like this nations sometimes but maybe always better than for example German and French.
+Mariush Arian But what? You don't understand me. In my opinion people just say about this countries that they aren't in europe because that are poor.It is not fair.
+Максим Устяк This is my hometown Starokostyantyniv! Back in the days it was a developed town with many educated people, but most of them left, they went to bigger cities or abroad. And now only peasants from the surrounding area live there, so you are basically right - it's a village))
In this kind of weather (just above zero Centigrade when snow just begins to melt) everything looks particularly shabby. Trust me, the place would look much more cheerful in summer.
been twice and yes roads are terrible but people are fantastic and a beautiful country
yes,ive been twice also and going again in November. Cant wait.
+Keith Kanyeshna You actually mean ,, can t wait to receive a bulet in my head ,, :))
Thanks for the upload. I really enjoyed.
Seems like a good place to open a chain of front end repair shops...I will appreciate some of the U.S roads I have to drive on more! I would still like to visit.
Our roads suck as much as our goverment does )
yeah roads suck everywhere...and tell me where there is a government to love..Ukraine has great food..great music...wonderful people.and tons of things to see..Beutiful country I love it here
Kenneth Horne oh, yeah, it does! Thanks, bro! Always nice 2 read smth like that. Respect 2 u ;-)
slow village life is incredible..I was reading comments by americans..they call it poverty..why?no macdonalds and people riding bikes???I saw full larders of nhome made ,home grown food..wonderful beautiful farms...Lviv and Kiev will me fasinated for years..Glory to Ukraine..and peace and happiness for the new year
Kenneth Horne thanks, man! Happy New Year 2 u also! Come 2 visit us again soon, we r always welcome foreigners here. )) Thanks 4 wishing us peace... thats very important 4 us nowadays, u know.
I am inKiev for the new year..I will return this coming summer for a long stay..I am at home here now..Your country has stolen my heart
Yes i wish you all peace and security for ever
Doesn't look all that different from rust-belt small towns in the USA like Portsmouth Ohio. When the economy is slow and young people leaving an area, it will look tattered because little new is being constructed.
I agree. I looks similar to parts of the Appalachia or area in Canada.
Michigan's roads are about like Ukraine. I would like to see this trip in mid summer when everything is green. This looks like mid winter after a thaw when all is grey and overcast!
I would love to visit Ukraine. Apart from the road infrastructure, rural Ukraine doesn't look bad at all. In summer it should look great. I can also see lots of private buisnesses going on which is really positive. Greets from Poland.
come to Ukraine..the food ..the people..the music is great..and its all just great fun..I love it.
I will some time.
Lviv has the king of Polands house to see..I knocked but he wasn"t home...Kiev has so much to see and do it will be years before I tire of it..Happy new year.and its going to rock in the square until 2 am..Peace
I'd like to see Lviv, Kiev and Odessa most. Enjoy yourselv in the square. Happy New Year!
Happy New year to you too
Curiously, most of the houses (especially the ones at the beginning) looked liked they had been cared for, and well loved.
But they also looked kinda worn - As if things that were originally meant to be temporary ended up being permanent.
And things that were meant to last a long time,ended up lasting twice as long as even they were meant to last.
It kinda looks like while everything is wearing it's fatique gracefully, but it's still full of fatique.
As if they didn't have enough money to repair everything fully, and so compromises were made.
I dunno if I'm making any sense ?
I don't think things in Ukraine "fatigue gracefully". I have spent several years in Ukraine and the poor areas simply get old and fall apart.
Sorry, but that is not eastern part of Ukraine, it is just to the east from Lviv. Most of the video it is the city of Starokonstantiniv, Khmelnytskiy region (oblast). Kyiv, the capital, is about 280 km to the east from the place on the video. It is definitely Western Ukraine. The city has more than 30.000 people. It could not be considered as rural area of Ukraine. Provincial, yes, but not rural. Ukrainian rural areas are much different and worse to that on this video. Life in cities and towns is better. As for comment, that life in Ukraine looks more poor, not true either. Moscow and region in Russia are rich, but towns like this in Russia look just horroble, mostry careless woden houses, lack of work and lots of alcoholics.
+Sergii Budim Word. Never been to the Ukraine but apart from the bad quality of the roads and the cheap cars this just looks like a typical part of Western Germany.
+sergi budim , Sergei the poor people who live here in England ,we have council estates, /but there is social cleansing going on in say'' London for the property developers to buy up the land ''and also there are people who own there own houses here some of these houses what i see are definitely owned but what happens to your people on low income,unemployed, old or in bad health do you have a government funded,housing
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The short answer is no. People are entitled to a Gov't pension which is about $50 a month. Sucks to be old, sick and poor in Ukraine.
Glory to Ukraine!
Its the eastern part of Ukraine but a few 100 kilometers from Lviv.
O my good how people living there
Kobryn is listed as a GODFATHER to at least one Tanczuk children... my family from Volya Yakubova / aka Wola Jakubowa, . I just visited and have a lot of their cemetery pictures. They attended Church of of Saints Cosmas and Damian, and the cemetery adjoins the church. The town is 6.9 miles from Drohobych, their government center... government records might be in the town or Drohobych or LVIV.
looks like Detroit, only better!
While visiting Romania I wanted to cross over and visit Ukraine....maybe next time.
It's that bad?!
I love Ukraine so badly though I am a sri lankan.)
Poland isn't eastern europe Poland is central europe :)
I disagree. Poland imo is Eastern not Central -- both physically and culturally.
Btw, While geographers say continental Europe extends to the Ural Mountains, in my geographic opinion Europe ends with Finland in the north then down thru Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. Russia is not in Europe and is not European in any way.
+William Gill_Esq. PS: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are european countries. I'm Polish but I like this nations sometimes but maybe always better than for example German and French.
+William Gill_Esq. but im my opinion your english opinion is so stupid, so british. you are simply idiot.
+Mariush Arian But what? You don't understand me. In my opinion people just say about this countries that they aren't in europe because that are poor.It is not fair.
Look like indonesia
Still better than russian villages..
It's a village.
+Максим Устяк This is my hometown Starokostyantyniv! Back in the days it was a developed town with many educated people, but most of them left, they went to bigger cities or abroad. And now only peasants from the surrounding area live there, so you are basically right - it's a village))
Dmitry Nikitin It's so pretty when Ukrainians speak English one with another...)
Not safe drink water this area! Pollution from Chernobyl only few kilometer away. Femen Rules!
dont worry you roads will not suck and govornment also wont suck when ukraine is apart of eu here we dont use you like russia did