There is something else ... when someone in Poland asks "how are you?" He really asks about it, it can be an introduction to an honest conversation. In the USA "how are you" is like hello, no one really is interested in how you are feeling at the moment.
absolutely true statement!! I'm polish guy leaving in US for nearly 33 years.. at first it was striking when came to US and thinking naively they want to have 'nicer conversation/relation', because in Poland, when they ask 'how are you ' that's an indicator of true compassion, otherwise, don't ask.. why bother?? IN US in contrary, that's purely like their 'Hollywood smile' meaning : NOTHING.. just politically correct... sad.. in time, I got use to it, and do the same without even looking at the person, and more laughing than caring about my 'friend' hahahaha... crazy, and sad at the same time... people in US are alienated, everybody with phone, and their 'virtual reality'... therefore so many divorces, so many crap... it's hard, but economy.. that's what's gluing people into it... (i.e. to US), not much more.. not even 'freedom'.. it's very limited if you think deeper about it.. as they say: "You have a right to come to work, and go home sleep;, and cycle over and over, again and again.. " - work of course is not guaranteed right... But... so let nobody think Poland has not its own problems.. in fact, show me the place on the planet Earth without problems - g. luck...
When I first moved to Poland I was surprised that tomatoes, strawberries and most other veggies and fruits smelt so good. Their 'local' markets are amazing.
That's crazy because here in Poland ppl about 40 yo and older constantly remembering that in 20th century vegetables, fruits, bread, meat/sausages had uncomparably better taste than nowadays, and it's true for sure - I personally can confirm it undoubtly.
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@@SqueezePl yaeh, except that to get that ham or sausage you had to stay in line for 2-3 hours and you were allowed to buy only 2.5 kg per month. Freshly picked fruits definitely taste better in Poland AND in the US, the drawback is that where I live winters are pretty cold and you wouldn't have any fresh fruit available in the winter. And I really like the fact that I can eat berries all year long. Also bananas and pineapples don't grow where I live and I really like them both, so I guess modern industrial agriculture has some advantages too.
@@SqueezePl its because of chemicals which nowadays are in pretty much everything, back in the days most of the food was "fresh". still better than US vegetables where you eat plastic instead of actuall food
This American bread is known in Poland but as toast bread used only to make toasts. No one would even think to use it as normal bread without putting it into toaster.
Some people are using them as normal bread where they are going for long trip to West (for example truckers) because they are fresh for a long time and it's still better than typical bread in some western countries (Netherlands and their big airy bread is everywhere... Yuck).
Przecież pieczywo tostowe jak jego nazwa wskazuje jest do robienia tostów, a nie do jedzenia na surowo. Zresztą surowe pieczywo tostowe jest po prostu niesmaczne.
Why do you need your house to stand for generations? It's not like your kids are going to live there. American houses are more affordable and have better floor plans.
but you have floods in Europe, in USA you look for house which can survive tornado, in Europe you must be sure, your new house is not in flood area :-D
I am Polish, I have been to different countries, including the USA. I can only confirm your accurate observations about Poland. You are good to listen to. I admit that the bread is exceptionally tasty in Poland, of course the one from the bakery, less from the supermarkets.
It's not only wood vs. bricks in house building, but also the quality of materials used to build and for finishing. In the US it's all cheap. What is considered as a luxury in the US, is only a standard in Poland, but what is a standard in the US, nobody would even buy in Poland. When I was looking for an apartment to rent in NYC, I felt embarrassed in most of them.
"throw away after a year it if gets dirty" Sir, that's how you get a Polish grandma triggered - my gran's carpets are at least 50 years old and squeaky clean... the only catch is that you have to have your kapcie on at all times and clean it like a pro with ancient grandma ninja vanish techniques
@@peters8181 I guess not all, but majority fir sure. I’m not in US, so can’t speak for all. I’m in Canada and typically travel only to Montana. People in Montana are awesome, and I can’t say a single bad word about them.
Dude, I am Polish and I live in the UK. I don't know about the United States but try to imagine the Brits even have carpets in their bathrooms. What does it have to smell when you pee while drunk next to the toilet? 🤦♂️ A loaf of white bread from a supermarket in the UK tastes like SpongeBob. If you are a millionaire, you can build the same house in the US as in Poland.☝️
@@Trev_in_Poland Yes, I noticed this in a few rented houses when I was visiting friends. Something else, very common is a pull cord ceiling switch in the bathroom instead of the usual light switch on the wall. 🤣🤷♂️
@@Trev_in_Poland In the UK, you will not see an electrical socket in any bathroom, no more. They are afraid that water will flood them. Any hair dryer, washing machine or whatever - no way.
Greetings from Japan! Yeah, I totally agree with you Dave about things in Poland - there are some grand things and much less, let`s say - pleasing... One of the commentators mentioned, that he loved the drivers - most Polish drivers, at the light change to green, move simultaneously, whereas in Western Europe or Japan, it`s the pain in the arse to wait for your turn. Bread here in Japan is as horrible as in the USA or the UK. After opening the pack of `white wool`, it stays fresh and soft for a week... Milk tastes like chemicals with something white, sausages here in Japan are so bad...oh my gosh, unbelievable!!! It`s the MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAD TO EAT/DRINK IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! The variety of ice cream or yogurts, health food awareness here are great however.... Sushi, raw sea food-sashimi are sooooo fresh fish, japanese style curry and rice, miso, japanese `kotlet schabowy`/pork cutlet called `tonkatsu`, `kiszonki japonskie`/pickles - `tsukemono` as well.... I terribly Miss BALTIC AIR BREEZE , BEACHES, THE SMELL OF BALTIC SULTRY, SALTY AIR, miss SEA SHORE PUBS in Mielno, Uniescie, Hel, Darłowo... and FRESHLY SMOKED FISH.... Nirrrrrvana.... The smell of the Pacific is so bleak and easily forgotten... I also miss Polish sausages... Miss Polish bread, butter, sausages, our bakeries, makowiec and cheescake, our rolls, our local markets... I MISS OUR FOOD PARADISE! Miss also our Polish peoples`, sometimes errr, sort of bitter-self-sarcastic sense of humour.... I still believe that being Polish means following a special moral code , where there is lots of space for tolerance. Dignity, pride of being Polish and the word Honour are still very important! Race, colour, nationality is an obstacle for narrow- minded individuals...As long as we share those principals, we can claim `the sense of ``Polishness`` ` as our own, as well... You don`t have to speak Polish to be Polish, as claimed our famous patriot, advisor to kings, Jan Zamoyski, called - ``Almost` the King`` , the founder of Zamość city ... From my perspective, more than twice your age and an instructor of oriental fighting arts (the concept of `defense` and fighting skills, was always `vibrant` in Poland) , you are more Polish and such-balanced, more than many Polish-born people I know... Keep safe in the land of Sobieski!
A joke about working hours of a baker: a baker's son who went to the army is calling his father saying "Dad! It's great here! You can lie in bed late up until 5 AM! " :)
@@polish1self rozumiem i nie wnikam. Ale nie uważasz ze jeżeli prezentujesz się otwarcie jako Polak wprowadzasz cudzoziemców w taki sposób w błąd? Nie każdy zwróci ci uwagę lub zapyta. Tylko tak na marginesie pozdrawiam rodaku
@@MrLewkon Spoko, pozdrawiam też. Tak wygląda lepiej wizualnie (kontrast oczu z czerwonym). W poprawnym ułożeniu kolorów wyglądałoby to średnio. Myślę, że jak ktoś zechce się uczyć polskiego to ogarnia naszą flagę.
Poland has changed a lot during those 25 years, but also people have changed. I think that there's a big difference between people in their 60s, 40s, and 20s. I'd say that people who grew up in the communist era are often mentally still there - suspicious, complaining, unhappy with their country, having complexes. On the contrary, the 21st-century people perceive Poland much more positively. Me, approaching 40, I consider myself an intermediate form of Pole. xD
Yes family is very important in Poland. We make sure that we visit our family often, help each other and take care of good relations. Also lot of people want to live near to their family. It is not like that in every family but it is very often ❤️🇵🇱
@@andr27 This is not a bullshit, I am telling you from my own experience, from what my life looks like and from the people around me. I wrote that not everyone has it, but it is still the case in many families in Poland.
Long time ago, I heard an opinion with which I couldn’t agree more: Europeans would rather be right than happy, whereas Americans prefer to be happy than right. I think that Polish people are the best personification of Europeans.
When I was in US I hated the fact that all the prices in each shop were NOT including taxes. So basically when you saw at the shelf that something costs 10$, you should be prepared that this would cost 12$ eventually
@@raskimarraskimar8360 haha, man. Come on, I would have to make shoppings with a calculator and remeber what tax level is for every grup of items. No way! In the Europe it is your right to know how much you will pay before you pay. That's it :-)
Being Polish and living abroad for some time I could also add a few points to this: - public transportation - it's far from perfect, but it's actually much better than most of the countries I've visited. Maybe Germany and France would stand out, but not other countries. Polish public transport is clean, reliable, not really crowded and easy to book and pay for - everyday safety & security - unless you go to a really bad place like Orunia Dolna in Gdańsk or Bałuty in Łódź - you feel really safe and comfortable; pickpockets are rare, car thievery used to be a problem in the past but no longer now, there are no scary situations in the public places and even homeless folks are rare and not violent - general price/quality ratio - in the most countries you can get good things for a very high price but the reasonably priced good and services are bad quality. In Poland you can get a decent quality from your car mechanic / dentist / restaurant / travel accommodation for an affordable price.
Bałuty or Górniak in Łódź is still safer than Luton or London. You might get robbed if you are unlucky, but you won't be shanked or acid-attacked. While knife attacks in London happen every other week, in Łódź it is once every 5 years and such news are big not only locally, but they make headlines nationally. Polish society is very homogenous and pacifistic. Loud argument and calling names is the worst what usually happens.
In my town: Boleslawiec, the public transportation is completely free of charge for travel all around the town. On top of that, busses are clean and mostly new. Plus many of the busses are 100% electric! An what is weird parking cars on the streets and carparks are free of charge, too.
It's not true, as far as Orunia Dolna or Bałuty are concerned - the young people there, especially the ones wearing tracksuits, are very helpful. They will always ask you "You have a problem?" as soon as they see you.
U mechanika płacisz koło tysiąc zeta za zrobienie byle gówna, więc mi nie mów, że tu cena z jakością idzie. Jak myślisz, że u nas jest tanio, to nwm gdzie mieszkasz xd
@@SpicySpiritual To zmień mechanika. Właśnie w tej chwili czekam (w niedzielę!) na samochód, który mechanik obiecał mi dziś podstawić, bo wczoraj się nie wyrobił. Wymiana przewodu układu wspomagania kierownicy w golfie trójce - nowy oryginalny przewód 250 zł, robocizna 70, olej bodaj 20 zł. Jeśli to jest dużo... A facet jest fachowcem, nie robi napraw na podwórku. Może masz wypasione bmw, gdzie ceny byle śrubki zaczynają się od stówy? :) Aha, wyjaśnić wypada, że nie mieszkam w Warszawie, czy Krakowie.
Hi! I'm Polish living in UK for years, never been to USA myself, only know it from films and TV, so You can imagine how informative I can find Your videos. To be honest it's hard sometimes to notice and appreciate things we find so "obvious" and "normal" in our culture, until someone from "outside" tells us about them. It's nice to look at those "obvious" things from a different perspective and notice how special they are. Thanks, Mate! Good job!
The main difference in building the houses in US and Poland is that in Poland homes are build for the couple generations and people are really attached to the places of their upbringing. I believe that in US families are moving a lot and they don't care that much about the houses.
Your heart, imagine now that US is probably one of the shittest countries to live, any country is going to be better than USA. If u live in shithole for whole life it's obvious that secondish world country is going to be better, Like imagine Poland have worse food than Germany because they need to make same profit from country where food is intended to be cheaper. In US they got everything in German Like prices but quality is 3rd world quality, for one month in US I gained more fat than for whole year eating same stuff.
Hi Trev, it's kind of funny what you've said about polish bread. I live in the UK, we've got a polish bakery around that make the bread based on polish technology. It is not even close to what we have in Poland. Frankly, this is one of the things I miss the most. Polish bread, yummy...
Haha I am living in UK as well(London area) and I am buying Polish bread from Polish bakery(Stary Młyn) witch is much better than an average bread in Poland .
we also have carpet floors, though they usually go for bedrooms. Bedroom floors are usually either wood and a rug or carpet. BUT we don't walk on them in shoes, we use slippers inside houses. Generally traditionally shoes inside are only allowed when there's a party, and that's usually a more "official" party when people are supposed to dress up to the occasion. Otherwise - take your shoes off, or else ;)
@@mittens5789 it seems to be pretty common in the west. I lived in Canada for a while and most people I met there tend to just walk in shoes inside their houses. According to the video USA does the same so....
My husband is English and we moved from London to Warsaw some 11years ago. He certainly agrees with many of your comments. Both of us visited USA frequently and have experiences from New York, Colorado, San Francisco, New Jersey, Arizona and so on. Thank you for your observations, Trev.
yes I am polish living in US and I agree with it all, the family is spot on this is the most I miss when I am here in US family is everything in Poland
What about environment? Americans use planty of disposable plates, food is separately packed. What about it? Who's tones of plastic is in oceans? It is not normal.
Constructing solid houses is something I definitely appreciate in Poland. I live in a renovated house from 1838, which used to be a tiny village school. Solid, clay roof tiles, brick walls, stone foundations. I feel like I live in a manor in comparison to those cardboard and plywood shacks across the Pond :D
Try to sell this solid stone, brick house. Nobody wants to buy it because one needs thousands to warm it up every year and it’s expensive to built. Everyone prefers today light construction for less money.
@@utahdan231 Actually not true. If you warmup once stone keeps energy for longer time ,plus you can put modern isolation on it. Also you don't need air conditioner in the summer.
@@utahdan231 I can't agree. Everyone is looking for affordable but also low-maintenance house. No one like to be cold during winter. We keep our houses warm all the winter (20 to 23 Celcius degrees, 68-73,4 F) and thick, well-insulated walls help a lot to reduce heating costs.
@@utahdan231 Not really. You only need to heat the brick house once and only maintain its temperature throughout the cold season. This actually makes it cheaper than wood that loses heat as soon as it gets there and requires constant heating. One saying I grew up with is "we can't afford the cheap option", referring to the fact that many cheap things don't last and make you pay more money in the long run. I, for one, would never want to live in a house held together by plywood and good will.
I remember watching "Gilmore Girls" few years ago- there was an episode, where they had termites in their house and had to do some expensive reconstruction. And I was like... "wait... but termites eat wood, so why do they eat the house? Wait...are you saying the house was made of wood???" Truly shocking discovery for me :D
That is definitely true in terms of families in Poland. Generally speaking Poles are very family oriented, we care about quality time spent with family. Of course not every family is like that but I feel like to most of my friends family is very important. I also think that because of putting family first, polish homes are more hospitable to guests than anywhere else, compared to countries I've been to.
5 things I like about: 1. family oriented 2.always greet each other with dzien dobry 3. polish grandmothers are the sweetest 4.awesome weather 5. people are happy when u as a foreigner speak their language
I have this theory. American houses are made of timber. When you live upstairs your every step can be hearing in the room below. A thick carpet is used to prevent that.
Have to admit that, if anything, hearing about the small details like bakeries and whatnot from people not native to the country made me appreciate having them a bit more.
Im Polish and been watching vids on your channel and I don't understand how anyone could be hateful towards you in the comments! Your material is always so balanced, honest and educational and fun to watch! I benefited much from your channel since you can balance An American and Polish perspectives so easly! I especially liked when you spoke in detail about how houses in US and PL are built differently. Keep up the great work!
@@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water yeah, the country is beautiful and culture is great and rll interesting but the government situation and mentality they want you to follow is kinda screwed right now
I feel appreciated that you pay attention to such small details in our country because, as we say in Poland, małe ale cieszy we follow the philosophy feel happiness in every little thing in life
Polish person here. I remember being a kid and watching first ever house building/reno in a some HGTV style show made in US, and seeing You guys using so much wood to build it - I got sad, because so may trees had to die... :)
i have something to add. Beforehand i must say that i wasn't in USA before but i work with people with families in US. i also studied urbanism of Poland and US as well. the thing that repells me the most from visiting US is the urban sprawl, streets with no pavements, distances way beyond pedestrian range, and overall dependency on cars. for me it's incomprehensible to not be able to "go" to the shop. here only lazy people go shopping (for relatively small groceries) by car. i have 5 shops in less than 200m range of my flat.
As far as criticism is concerned, Poland's population is a trend-setter. I think Poles treat honest criticism as a gift or present for the interlocutor. (Unfortunately, such approach is not yet appreciated widely). You see, in today's world if someone doesn't like or want something, he/she just switches channel, goes to another shop, speaks with another person etc. They go away, in silence, without getting any feedback. In Poland even we we criticize someone, express dislike or hate sometime, it is because we do care that for future contact, the interlocutor would get better, improved. You know what I mean. Cheers from Polish working in Norway
Good point. On the other note, quite often foreigners are taken back by Poles who complained a lot. One justification I heard about notorious polish complaining is that Poles are ambitious 😁
One of the things that suprised me most in US was the fact, that Americans were completely not interested of history of their families. Most of Americans who I met, at most knew their grandparents, but they were not interesting of getting know of history of older generations.
You know something about your ancestors in Poland? We must be Americans here in Czechia, you know only your grandparents here. Sometimes you can remember grandgrand parents when you was little kid, but that's all, you even don't know their names.
@@Pidalin Actually I know history of my family up to early 18th century. Of course I don't expect that everybody should be fond of genealogy, but it was a bit weird to me that people in US are completely not interested in their European roots, for example.
@@Pidalin maybe it's not about knowing the history, but the fact that we want to learn it. for example, i've always wanted to know my family, what if someone was like, i dunno, famous for something or fought in a war? for me personally it's very interesting and in school we always did our family tree. i'm part polish part czech, but i never tried to deepen my knowledge about my czech side, though it's not clear for me why. but this topic in general was always super interesting to me.
@@stvrmistic3700 Problem is that older people don't want to speak about that, when I ask my grandparents about someone on photo, they just don't care, they speak only about themselves, but not about their ancestors.
Bear in mind that the internet tends to be an order of magnitude harsher with their opinions. But, I do think you have a very valid point there, sometimes it's good to hear some truth, after all we learn this way too.
BTW just realized one thing. Perhaps the person you spoke to couldn't recall "swollen", and said "fat" instead. Ouchie. ;-) I can't imagine what else would make them say that given you don't seem fat at all, not even close.
I live in Warsaw, also lived in PA for 2 years. Came back, happy to be in Waraaw: food, healthcare, free education for kids, no fake smiles / masks juz directly honest people.
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Left Warsaw long time ago. Do not plan to come back. Yes, nice place to visit, but wouldn't like to live there. Maybe things will change. We'll see...
Nobody feels fat until someone or something tells you that, in my case was gravity XD. I don't know how fat Trev was, but glad to see Trev is looking fine and healthy now. Cheers from Poland.
At the moment I live in the UK, but I come from Poland. Houses here, in the UK and not the best. In Poland it's just done neatly. We don't want our hoses shaking with every move, step, etc. We often live with our families (like parents) in just one house. And also we don't want to hear what happens in the next room.
Good list Trev! One more thing that sticks out in my mind. PL beats the US to the bone in banking services. Try to wire money from a non-business US bank acct to someone else's acct, it'll take 3-5 days for the funds to arrive, if you're lucky. While in PL, the funds will be there immediately or within a few hrs, and usually free of charge. Just something that I have to deal with on a daily basis and it's driving me crazy :)
The level of caring about taking shoes at home: Even if I fly to visit my family, and we missed each other and everybody's happy cause we're all together... One step too far in my shoes in the house, my family members' faces change immediately... From delighted to dead serious "WHAT are you doing?!" kind of thing. 😂😂😂
About house rofing, here in Poland we practicly don't use asphalt shingels for house. Yeas you can cover whit it a barn or dog house but not your own house. All houses that are covert whit them are from what i know developer build frame houses (yeas they are build also here). Ussuly used material is metal in form of standart sheets or metal shingels eather in big sheets or smaller moduls or clay/cement shingels. Extremly reare ar in use roofs cover whit wooden shingels or gras (strzecha) but they are quite expensiwe in compere to other kinds of roofing. As for material used for building walls that it's eather foam concreete (yeas it's not your common concrette block often used in US but special mix of cement and limbe that whit use of aluminium solvant in temperature around 200 degreese celcius become fommy, and by that it get quite good insulator) or ceramic block (that red brick alike thing).
I've never seen a barn covered with asphalt shingles, it's usually trapezoidal metal sheets (or asbestic tiles if that's an old barn). Asphalt shingles (gont bitumiczny) are more expensive. Plus they're more flammable which is kinda a huge deal for that type of building. As for the houses - yeah, they're quite rare. But I think they're raising in popularity a bit. And for the walls I would add cinder blocks (pustaki) to the list.
@@elementiro Pustak its that foam concette block that i wrote previusly. Btw i think your right about the asphalt shingels but i dont agree that they gaining popularity, on one hand they are cost quite more than metal sheeting, and costs are no ending on shingels itself. They must be underlained whit tare paper and had full sheeting of roof construction whit eather OSB/MFP material or boards. I dont know how it look in other areas of Poland, but here on south east i practicly don't see theas kinda of roofs...
Criticism is one thing but being simply grumpy is something completely different. I know you mentioned that those smiles in US are more like a pose but when I was in a few states I was shocked by the locals who were so friendly and polite. Even one bartender gave us drinks for free, darts for free, snooker for free. It is something you probably never experience in Poland from a stranger.
Polish people are famous for their politeness , so why are you wrongly guessing that strangers in Poland would not give you free drinks or darts to play , come on.... If you asked we would give you food and shelter . Ukrainian refugees received great support from ordinary Poles and guess what we took 1.5 million of them offering private homes and giving them food for many months . Some of them are still accomodated for free in Poland . There are no campsites for refugees . We took 12.5 millions of Ukrainian war refugees and spent 1 % of our GDP . I don`t know about any other country helping so much . Moreover European Union didn`t give us a penny , instead they want to punish us for not taking illegal emigrants from Africa who are trafficed by mafia to Europe and some countries can`t protect their borders and let mafia to make money on human trafficking . It is a double standard what Eurocrats are doing and example how double standards exist in Europe on daily basis . European Union authorities and their Parliament is morally corrupt , run by the Germans and devoid of empathy in which the Poles got stuck and now cannot get out due to too large capital ties. And the Germans who rule there not long ago murdered 6 millions of Poles and destroyed the whole country and up to this day they have not paid Poland for such a destruction ( the whole Warsaw was levelled to the ground with bombs and fire extinguishers ) , immagine as if NYC was destroyed that a one brick was not left on another , they left piles of rubbles , but they want us to listen to them and teach us their democracy . When they run out of arguments, they tell us that we, as Poles, do not know what democracy is all about . It is just bunch of lies - our constitution was created as the second in the world. As part of this fight for democracy, generals - Kosciuszko and Pulawski fought for your Americans' freedom. So , before you assume something just try to get acquainted with some Polish history
You in USA have only one word: "carpet" We have three: (1) "dywan" - for elaborate, decorative piece of textile that you can simply roll and take out for washing (word "diwan" comes crom Arabic and means "saloon"). (2) "wykładzina" - for that what you shown us, u have in USA, (3) "arras", "gobelin" - for Asian (Russian, Turkic) type of decorative carpet that you hang on the wall for better isolation in winter. 5-tka za ten materiał!
No in the US we have a lot of names for rugs and carpets, there is up to 27 different names but the main ones are: 1: Carpet 2: Rug 3: floor mat 4: throw rug 5: tapestry 6: matting 7: runner 8: floorcloth 9: Bath rugs
My types (I'm guessing on begin of video) 1' Democration 2' Health insurance 3' Education 4' Food (health norms that translates directly to taste of it) 5' Public transport (cheap and u can travel anywhere) 6' Tips, u don't have to tip service cos they have already independence normal pension.
You are spot on about everything. I am going back to Poland for retirement. One of the reasons is that I want to have a real house especially now when 2x4 houses in Toronto are selling for millions of $.
Thanks for sharing Trev. I have to agree with bread- I miss it soooo much! And yes cebularz at "Buczek" is delicious. Butter, I am not sure, did not see so much difference. Houses, I was shocked how different they are made, but I think I know the reason. First, I am not sure if anyone in the US would be able to effort a house build from stones with ceramic or metal roof? Material too expensive and labor as well. Also not sure if you agree but most of my family members do not have air- condition in they houses, so by building their house from stones they help keep it colder in the summer, and warmer in the winter - with that said agree better buildings in Poland, but there is a logical reason for that.
About bakeries at least in bigger cities they are usually just delivered to the shops and baked somewhere else(i live in Warsaw), another common practise is to have pre product(formed breads but raw) delivered to the spot and baked on the spot and thats what gave you impression that its always made on the spot when in most cases its just the finishing touches. but yes from my expirience we have that pretty much nailed compared to other countries i've visited.
You are extremely positive person, your girlfriend is lucky and I hope you guys will be happy together for the rest of your life! If you ever want to visit Kolobrzeg and Ustronie Morskie in the summertime I am very happy to help. If you're fan of music you should visit SUNRISE FESTIVAL 😉
Im from Poland but live in sweden nowdays and i have to agree with you about bread which is also horrible here. Always when im back in Poland i have to go buy fresh bread
I don’t know if you already have it in US, but there is a plan called “too good to go” where shops sell slightly expired food on huge discount. That’s great, because most of the time this food is still 100% suitable for eating and you don’t waste it because of shop policy
I haven't been to US yet but i would love to! As a Polish myself i can say that sometimes for a simple snack there is nothing better than a fresh slice of a bread with a real butter and a bit of salt... maaaaaaan that taste is great. Wouldn't it be a gold mine to have bakery in US?
I have to agree about the bead. I'd missed it a lot when I lived abroad. About the family orientation- I think we r starting to think about money (unfortunately) but bcs of the the honest way we express our emotions and feelings we r still holding better. Anyway thank you. It was a real pleasure to watch
I'm Polish living abroad for many years and I agree with everything you said just I'd add some stuff. 1. Bread, butter - you're totally right. I've never been to USA but as far I know from people who were, documentaries and comments in the internet, food in general is much better in Poland, more natural. 2. Criticism - it's new for you so you're delighted. I'm not. I mean of course it's better to be honest than pretending everything is fine but many Polish people just complain and look for reasons to criticise you. It's going too far many times and people comment something that is not their business. 3. Houses. It's hard to say which system is better. There are not tornados in Poland so I don't know these houses would still stand after a tornado. If not, imagine how much time repairs would take and how much it would cost. Of course, there are many places in your country, where you don't have tornados and if there are still cheap, poor quality houses, Polish ones are much better. 4. Family - yes and no. First, it is changing. Like everything. I remember when the world was much smaller, especially in the Eastern Block. Families and close neighbourhoods were much more important then. Mobility was much lower so basically we didn't have too much choice. It is changing. Families are still close but not that much. Is it good? It depends on your family. If they're great people and you can rely on them, it's great. But also there are toxic families and you should cut all ties when it's possible but because of this attitude we're taught, it's more difficult than in some other places in the world. So if you have great family, that attitude is great, if not, it's a curse.
I think the family care case is mostly about distances. Even if you live in the village, the nearest "big" city, where you can develop your carrer is aproximetly 30 km away (about 20 miles) wich using a car or even public transport like trains or buses is not a distance at all. And if your family live in a city like mine (Łódź) both grandparents have their flats about kilometer away... What is more, the rll popular trend in poland, is moving from city center to the nearby villeges, where the plots are much cheaper (mayby you heard the "wyprowadzać się na obrzeża" sentense that means something like "moving out to edgings of the city") Then you most often work in city and vist your parents for a free dinner or supper on the way back to your home :P.
I love multicereal bread, or rye, rye-wheat bread, freshly baked, crispy skin and sponchy, still worm inside with cottage butter on it. In 80´s, 90´s you was going every morning to bakery or when was fresh delivery in a shop, and till you came to home 1/3 has been already eaten ;), unfortunately to cut costs more bakeries gets industrial, and traditional one closed, I hope, with fashion on " you are what you eat" this tendency will change! We are honest, sometimes hursh, but not to offend or hurt others, we just believe that honest friend is the best friend you can get. Thank you for this movie, It warm my heart, specially, that I am living in Spain now, and I miss Poland :P
I agree with you. Those are the things I miss from Poland living in Canada. On the last point of family, I think it is hard to generalize as it depends a lot on an individual family and their values. I grew up in Poland in a dysfunctional family, so divorce can be a problem there too, many people don't even marry anymore. But in general Polish people tend to interact with their family more. Despite of my family being dysfunctional, I still interacted a lot with them, though often separately due to family feuds. I like Polish honesty, but sometimes it can go too far, mine is moderated a lot by Canadian politeness I acquired by living here. I like to take the best of each culture and apply it while discarding the bad. There are good and bad things in each culture.😀
I can confirm that family is a priority in Poland basing of people I know here. People tend to stay close to they whole family and all aunts, uncles and grandparents usually leaves nearby. Some young people come to main city to earn big money, then in few years they drop the job and return to family village/city to build a house or flat near his/her family.
You are absolutely right about bread. Lived 4y in WA. Moved back to NJ. Mostly because I was missing THE BREAD. In the condo neighbors were knockin on the door to ask what smells soooooo goooood... I live in the area where polish population is really big and I have 5 bakery shops just few minutes away by foot. With the butter you also were right. I have it over here straight from Poland. The construction business? Yes, polish construction inspector would have heart attack after seeing how US houses are built...
I am Polish living in the UK and found exactly the same bread problem as you in th USA :) I totally recommend a breadmaker, this is how I am being able to survive abroad ;) thanks for all those nice things about Poland ;)
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There is something else ... when someone in Poland asks "how are you?" He really asks about it, it can be an introduction to an honest conversation. In the USA "how are you" is like hello, no one really is interested in how you are feeling at the moment.
Yes, and the question "how are You?" translated into "Jak się masz?" sounds like invitation to complaining 😀
same in Uk ppl as you allright ? or how are you? and they dont want any answer just reply right or allright.
absolutely true statement!! I'm polish guy leaving in US for nearly 33 years.. at first it was striking when came to US and thinking naively they want to have 'nicer conversation/relation', because in Poland, when they ask 'how are you ' that's an indicator of true compassion, otherwise, don't ask.. why bother?? IN US in contrary, that's purely like their 'Hollywood smile' meaning : NOTHING.. just politically correct... sad.. in time, I got use to it, and do the same without even looking at the person, and more laughing than caring about my 'friend' hahahaha... crazy, and sad at the same time... people in US are alienated, everybody with phone, and their 'virtual reality'... therefore so many divorces, so many crap... it's hard, but economy.. that's what's gluing people into it... (i.e. to US), not much more.. not even 'freedom'.. it's very limited if you think deeper about it.. as they say: "You have a right to come to work, and go home sleep;, and cycle over and over, again and again.. " - work of course is not guaranteed right... But... so let nobody think Poland has not its own problems.. in fact, show me the place on the planet Earth without problems - g. luck...
@@martajacak3248 and Jak się masz is shortened to to classic "siema" wich is like hello lol
@Derek O'Brian I always answer " I'm fine and you?". Is is wrong ?.
When I first moved to Poland I was surprised that tomatoes, strawberries and most other veggies and fruits smelt so good. Their 'local' markets are amazing.
That's crazy because here in Poland ppl about 40 yo and older constantly remembering that in 20th century vegetables, fruits, bread, meat/sausages had uncomparably better taste than nowadays, and it's true for sure - I personally can confirm it undoubtly.
@@SqueezePl yaeh, except that to get that ham or sausage you had to stay in line for 2-3 hours and you were allowed to buy only 2.5 kg per month.
Freshly picked fruits definitely taste better in Poland AND in the US, the drawback is that where I live winters are pretty cold
and you wouldn't have any fresh fruit available in the winter. And I really like the fact that I can eat berries all year long. Also bananas and pineapples don't grow where I live and I really like them both, so I guess modern industrial agriculture has some advantages too.
No chemicals in at least not that much as they have in USA
@@SqueezePl its because of chemicals which nowadays are in pretty much everything, back in the days most of the food was "fresh". still better than US vegetables where you eat plastic instead of actuall food
@@novy1198 Okay 🙂
This American bread is known in Poland but as toast bread used only to make toasts. No one would even think to use it as normal bread without putting it into toaster.
It's also good grilled and I think it's more popular for students than working adults, because it's cheaper
Some people are using them as normal bread where they are going for long trip to West (for example truckers) because they are fresh for a long time and it's still better than typical bread in some western countries (Netherlands and their big airy bread is everywhere... Yuck).
also toast 'bread' is considered trash food
You know what... american bread I find super sweet so it's more like buleczki maslane than even a regular toast bread. 😬
Przecież pieczywo tostowe jak jego nazwa wskazuje jest do robienia tostów, a nie do jedzenia na surowo. Zresztą surowe pieczywo tostowe jest po prostu niesmaczne.
When I was a little kid, every small town in the US had a bakery. By 1980 they were almost all gone. Big companies ruined food in America.
While bakeries are usually owned by small or average sized companies, 95% of grocery shops in Poland became part of chain companies in last 15 years.
We don't prepare for tornados. We just want our houses to stand for generations.
yes. more we r preparing for government :)
@@kicatygoodidea4650 Not sure if I should only salute you or start constructing a tank...
Why do you need your house to stand for generations? It's not like your kids are going to live there. American houses are more affordable and have better floor plans.
but you have floods in Europe, in USA you look for house which can survive tornado, in Europe you must be sure, your new house is not in flood area :-D
but the build time is like 1 year or something
Fun fact: butter in Poland has to consist of at least 82% of milk fats to be legally called "butter"
Minimum is 80% (particular brand may require more milk fat - like 83%).
60-62% - Butter 3/4
39-41% - Half-butter
82 is for extra I think
@@Z4KIUS exacy, only pure _milk_ fat with min 82% fat can be called "maslo extra"
It's not Poland, its EU
@@takitam2521 apparently youre too young. The same was in Poland before EU. So dont praise EU for the butter
I am Polish, I have been to different countries, including the USA. I can only confirm your accurate observations about Poland. You are good to listen to. I admit that the bread is exceptionally tasty in Poland, of course the one from the bakery, less from the supermarkets.
I dont know. I dont ate good bread for ages. I think bread was good like 20 years ago.
@@blackjohnny0 try baking bread yourself or ask someone to bake for you, if you cant afford one from bakery. difference in taste is huge
@@Vinqent YEa, I am only saying that polish bread isnt very good now. 20 years ago it was different story.
some supermarkets bake bread inside its fresh out of the shelf
italy also had some horrible bread when i visited
It's not only wood vs. bricks in house building, but also the quality of materials used to build and for finishing. In the US it's all cheap. What is considered as a luxury in the US, is only a standard in Poland, but what is a standard in the US, nobody would even buy in Poland. When I was looking for an apartment to rent in NYC, I felt embarrassed in most of them.
especially those beautiful communist blocks in Poland are so luxurious.
@@topalbano Compering to American "projects", aka ghettos, even communistic blocks are luxuries.
@@1ramyus Well, I used to live in a residence downtown with 24-Hour Front Desk / concierge, gym and a friendly and polite doorman. :)
"throw away after a year it if gets dirty"
Sir, that's how you get a Polish grandma triggered - my gran's carpets are at least 50 years old and squeaky clean... the only catch is that you have to have your kapcie on at all times and clean it like a pro with ancient grandma ninja vanish techniques
lol
yes, exactly what i thought
Americans only think about themselves.
@@peters8181 I guess not all, but majority fir sure. I’m not in US, so can’t speak for all. I’m in Canada and typically travel only to Montana. People in Montana are awesome, and I can’t say a single bad word about them.
True that !
Dude, I am Polish and I live in the UK. I don't know about the United States but try to imagine the Brits even have carpets in their bathrooms. What does it have to smell when you pee while drunk next to the toilet? 🤦♂️
A loaf of white bread from a supermarket in the UK tastes like SpongeBob.
If you are a millionaire, you can build the same house in the US as in Poland.☝️
So you just admitted to biting and eating a part of Spongebob!?
@@Mgoblagulkablong 🤣🤷♂️
Wait what!? 😂😂😂😂 they have carpets in their bathrooms? 😂😂
@@Trev_in_Poland Yes, I noticed this in a few rented houses when I was visiting friends. Something else, very common is a pull cord ceiling switch in the bathroom instead of the usual light switch on the wall. 🤣🤷♂️
@@Trev_in_Poland In the UK, you will not see an electrical socket in any bathroom, no more. They are afraid that water will flood them. Any hair dryer, washing machine or whatever - no way.
Greetings from Japan!
Yeah, I totally agree with you Dave about things in Poland - there are some grand things and much less, let`s say - pleasing... One of the commentators mentioned, that he loved the drivers - most Polish drivers, at the light change to green, move simultaneously, whereas in Western Europe or Japan, it`s the pain in the arse to wait for your turn.
Bread here in Japan is as horrible as in the USA or the UK.
After opening the pack of `white wool`, it stays fresh and soft for a week...
Milk tastes like chemicals with something white, sausages here in Japan are so bad...oh my gosh, unbelievable!!!
It`s the MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAD TO EAT/DRINK IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!
The variety of ice cream or yogurts, health food awareness here are great however.... Sushi, raw sea food-sashimi are sooooo fresh fish, japanese style curry and rice, miso, japanese `kotlet schabowy`/pork cutlet called `tonkatsu`, `kiszonki japonskie`/pickles - `tsukemono` as well....
I terribly Miss BALTIC AIR BREEZE , BEACHES, THE SMELL OF BALTIC SULTRY, SALTY AIR,
miss SEA SHORE PUBS in Mielno, Uniescie, Hel, Darłowo... and FRESHLY SMOKED FISH.... Nirrrrrvana....
The smell of the Pacific is so bleak and easily forgotten...
I also miss Polish sausages... Miss Polish bread, butter, sausages, our bakeries, makowiec and cheescake, our rolls, our local markets... I MISS OUR FOOD PARADISE!
Miss also our Polish peoples`, sometimes errr, sort of bitter-self-sarcastic sense of humour....
I still believe that being Polish means following a special moral code , where there is lots of space for tolerance. Dignity, pride of being Polish and the word Honour are still very important!
Race, colour, nationality is an obstacle for narrow- minded individuals...As long as we share those principals, we can claim `the sense of ``Polishness`` ` as our own, as well...
You don`t have to speak Polish to be Polish, as claimed our famous patriot, advisor to kings, Jan Zamoyski, called - ``Almost` the King`` , the founder of Zamość city ...
From my perspective, more than twice your age and an instructor of oriental fighting arts
(the concept of `defense` and fighting skills, was always `vibrant` in Poland) , you are more Polish and such-balanced, more than many Polish-born people I know... Keep safe in the land of Sobieski!
Your comment is brilliant! And Your perspective is very interesting ^^ Greeteings from Poland ❤
A joke about working hours of a baker: a baker's son who went to the army is calling his father saying "Dad! It's great here! You can lie in bed late up until 5 AM! " :)
Before, it was a story about a milkman...
@polish 1 self. The colours of the Polish flag on you profile picture is not correct, unless it is the flag of Monaco
@@MrLewkonmy logo it's not a flag. I'm Polish and I know what my country's flag is.
@@polish1self rozumiem i nie wnikam. Ale nie uważasz ze jeżeli prezentujesz się otwarcie jako Polak wprowadzasz cudzoziemców w taki sposób w błąd? Nie każdy zwróci ci uwagę lub zapyta. Tylko tak na marginesie pozdrawiam rodaku
@@MrLewkon Spoko, pozdrawiam też. Tak wygląda lepiej wizualnie (kontrast oczu z czerwonym). W poprawnym ułożeniu kolorów wyglądałoby to średnio. Myślę, że jak ktoś zechce się uczyć polskiego to ogarnia naszą flagę.
I am Polish living in Canada for 25 years and I think you got it right 100 %
Poland has changed a lot during those 25 years, but also people have changed. I think that there's a big difference between people in their 60s, 40s, and 20s. I'd say that people who grew up in the communist era are often mentally still there - suspicious, complaining, unhappy with their country, having complexes. On the contrary, the 21st-century people perceive Poland much more positively. Me, approaching 40, I consider myself an intermediate form of Pole. xD
Yes family is very important in Poland. We make sure that we visit our family often, help each other and take care of good relations. Also lot of people want to live near to their family. It is not like that in every family but it is very often ❤️🇵🇱
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American is good dear
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bullshit ;) but poles believe that crap
@@andr27 This is not a bullshit, I am telling you from my own experience, from what my life looks like and from the people around me. I wrote that not everyone has it, but it is still the case in many families in Poland.
Long time ago, I heard an opinion with which I couldn’t agree more: Europeans would rather be right than happy, whereas Americans prefer to be happy than right. I think that Polish people are the best personification of Europeans.
When I was in US I hated the fact that all the prices in each shop were NOT including taxes. So basically when you saw at the shelf that something costs 10$, you should be prepared that this would cost 12$ eventually
This have one adventage: it's easy for you to know how much money goverment takes from you.
@@raskimarraskimar8360 we have that on our bill - it shows us how much tax was for products.
@@84Raptor84 I know, but usually one one is reading all bill, only checking items. I think that US system is more direct.
@@raskimarraskimar8360 haha, man. Come on, I would have to make shoppings with a calculator and remeber what tax level is for every grup of items. No way! In the Europe it is your right to know how much you will pay before you pay. That's it :-)
@@raskimarraskimar8360 Europeans usually can read and check tax on their receipts.
Being Polish and living abroad for some time I could also add a few points to this:
- public transportation - it's far from perfect, but it's actually much better than most of the countries I've visited. Maybe Germany and France would stand out, but not other countries. Polish public transport is clean, reliable, not really crowded and easy to book and pay for
- everyday safety & security - unless you go to a really bad place like Orunia Dolna in Gdańsk or Bałuty in Łódź - you feel really safe and comfortable; pickpockets are rare, car thievery used to be a problem in the past but no longer now, there are no scary situations in the public places and even homeless folks are rare and not violent
- general price/quality ratio - in the most countries you can get good things for a very high price but the reasonably priced good and services are bad quality. In Poland you can get a decent quality from your car mechanic / dentist / restaurant / travel accommodation for an affordable price.
Bałuty or Górniak in Łódź is still safer than Luton or London. You might get robbed if you are unlucky, but you won't be shanked or acid-attacked. While knife attacks in London happen every other week, in Łódź it is once every 5 years and such news are big not only locally, but they make headlines nationally. Polish society is very homogenous and pacifistic. Loud argument and calling names is the worst what usually happens.
In my town: Boleslawiec, the public transportation is completely free of charge for travel all around the town. On top of that, busses are clean and mostly new. Plus many of the busses are 100% electric! An what is weird parking cars on the streets and carparks are free of charge, too.
It's not true, as far as Orunia Dolna or Bałuty are concerned - the young people there, especially the ones wearing tracksuits, are very helpful. They will always ask you "You have a problem?" as soon as they see you.
U mechanika płacisz koło tysiąc zeta za zrobienie byle gówna, więc mi nie mów, że tu cena z jakością idzie. Jak myślisz, że u nas jest tanio, to nwm gdzie mieszkasz xd
@@SpicySpiritual To zmień mechanika. Właśnie w tej chwili czekam (w niedzielę!) na samochód, który mechanik obiecał mi dziś podstawić, bo wczoraj się nie wyrobił. Wymiana przewodu układu wspomagania kierownicy w golfie trójce - nowy oryginalny przewód 250 zł, robocizna 70, olej bodaj 20 zł. Jeśli to jest dużo... A facet jest fachowcem, nie robi napraw na podwórku. Może masz wypasione bmw, gdzie ceny byle śrubki zaczynają się od stówy? :) Aha, wyjaśnić wypada, że nie mieszkam w Warszawie, czy Krakowie.
Hi! I'm Polish living in UK for years, never been to USA myself, only know it from films and TV, so You can imagine how informative I can find Your videos. To be honest it's hard sometimes to notice and appreciate things we find so "obvious" and "normal" in our culture, until someone from "outside" tells us about them. It's nice to look at those "obvious" things from a different perspective and notice how special they are. Thanks, Mate! Good job!
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The main difference in building the houses in US and Poland is that in Poland homes are build for the couple generations and people are really attached to the places of their upbringing. I believe that in US families are moving a lot and they don't care that much about the houses.
Cebularz especially warm is soooooo beautiful
My Granddad came over from Łódź, he was a great man, he definitely showed me that the family one is true.
I miss Łódź
Today I felt almost like I was in Łódź, but I was sitting in another city xD
ex Bialystok says 'hello' ! :)
Our hearths are rising when we hear an American guy like you say so many great things about our country! Keep up the great work!
Your heart, imagine now that US is probably one of the shittest countries to live, any country is going to be better than USA. If u live in shithole for whole life it's obvious that secondish world country is going to be better, Like imagine Poland have worse food than Germany because they need to make same profit from country where food is intended to be cheaper. In US they got everything in German Like prices but quality is 3rd world quality, for one month in US I gained more fat than for whole year eating same stuff.
Don't embarrass yourself.
Hi Trev, it's kind of funny what you've said about polish bread. I live in the UK, we've got a polish bakery around that make the bread based on polish technology. It is not even close to what we have in Poland. Frankly, this is one of the things I miss the most. Polish bread, yummy...
Haha I am living in UK as well(London area) and I am buying Polish bread from Polish bakery(Stary Młyn) witch is much better than an average bread in Poland .
we also have carpet floors, though they usually go for bedrooms. Bedroom floors are usually either wood and a rug or carpet. BUT we don't walk on them in shoes, we use slippers inside houses. Generally traditionally shoes inside are only allowed when there's a party, and that's usually a more "official" party when people are supposed to dress up to the occasion. Otherwise - take your shoes off, or else ;)
who tf would put on shoes in their house wtf
@@mittens5789 it seems to be pretty common in the west. I lived in Canada for a while and most people I met there tend to just walk in shoes inside their houses. According to the video USA does the same so....
I would say that at least in my case most people walk barefoot in hause
I’m an American in Warsaw and I agree.
My husband is English and we moved from London to Warsaw some 11years ago. He certainly agrees with many of your comments. Both of us visited USA frequently and have experiences from New York, Colorado, San Francisco, New Jersey, Arizona and so on. Thank you for your observations, Trev.
The roofs are mostly covered with ceramic tiles or embossed metal sheets imitating roof tiles
yes I am polish living in US and I agree with it all, the family is spot on this is the most I miss when I am here in US family is everything in Poland
Throwing out carpets every year when it gets dirty?
This just sounds insane
Damn, how can people live with this smell? The dusty smell
@@typowynieogar you just fucking clean it from time to time
That definitely is not a thing that happens in most American homes. Just ones with money. Like at least take them to a carpet cleaner if you must.
What about environment? Americans use planty of disposable plates, food is separately packed. What about it? Who's tones of plastic is in oceans? It is not normal.
@@arbuz_kawon In US it`s cheaper and faster to replace for new instead cleaning old
Bro I know exactly what you are talking about. The smell of freshly baked bread in the morning when you passing bakery. It's magical in a way.
Constructing solid houses is something I definitely appreciate in Poland. I live in a renovated house from 1838, which used to be a tiny village school. Solid, clay roof tiles, brick walls, stone foundations. I feel like I live in a manor in comparison to those cardboard and plywood shacks across the Pond :D
Try to sell this solid stone, brick house. Nobody wants to buy it because one needs thousands to warm it up every year and it’s expensive to built. Everyone prefers today light construction for less money.
@@utahdan231 Actually not true. If you warmup once stone keeps energy for longer time ,plus you can put modern isolation on it. Also you don't need air conditioner in the summer.
My house is older than German Empire, I don't know exact date but for sure before 1870'
@@utahdan231 I can't agree. Everyone is looking for affordable but also low-maintenance house. No one like to be cold during winter. We keep our houses warm all the winter (20 to 23 Celcius degrees, 68-73,4 F) and thick, well-insulated walls help a lot to reduce heating costs.
@@utahdan231 Not really. You only need to heat the brick house once and only maintain its temperature throughout the cold season. This actually makes it cheaper than wood that loses heat as soon as it gets there and requires constant heating. One saying I grew up with is "we can't afford the cheap option", referring to the fact that many cheap things don't last and make you pay more money in the long run. I, for one, would never want to live in a house held together by plywood and good will.
I remember watching "Gilmore Girls" few years ago- there was an episode, where they had termites in their house and had to do some expensive reconstruction. And I was like... "wait... but termites eat wood, so why do they eat the house? Wait...are you saying the house was made of wood???" Truly shocking discovery for me :D
@ I've been living in apartment blocks my whole life, we have different insects here- mostly pharaoh ants ;)
W Polsce też się buduje domy z drewna, szczególnie w górach
@ no nie wiem jak twój budynek, ale mój jest z cegły, a nie z drewna
@ a wiesz jak dużo jest takich starych budynków? nowe budownictwo to mniejszość
sama mieszkam w budynku z lat 20. XX w.
That is definitely true in terms of families in Poland. Generally speaking Poles are very family oriented, we care about quality time spent with family. Of course not every family is like that but I feel like to most of my friends family is very important. I also think that because of putting family first, polish homes are more hospitable to guests than anywhere else, compared to countries I've been to.
5 things I like about:
1. family oriented
2.always greet each other with dzien dobry
3. polish grandmothers are the sweetest
4.awesome weather
5. people are happy when u as a foreigner speak their language
wow, so many compliments about Poland, and from native American :)
Native American means their ancestors were there before Columbus.
Trev can be a native speaker but for sure not Native American 😊🤭
I have this theory.
American houses are made of timber. When you live upstairs your every step can be hearing in the room below. A thick carpet is used to prevent that.
yes, this is why
Have to admit that, if anything, hearing about the small details like bakeries and whatnot from people not native to the country made me appreciate having them a bit more.
Im Polish and been watching vids on your channel and I don't understand how anyone could be hateful towards you in the comments! Your material is always so balanced, honest and educational and fun to watch! I benefited much from your channel since you can balance An American and Polish perspectives so easly! I especially liked when you spoke in detail about how houses in US and PL are built differently. Keep up the great work!
Poland is really underrated
It is!
@@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water yeah, the country is beautiful and culture is great and rll interesting but the government situation and mentality they want you to follow is kinda screwed right now
I feel appreciated that you pay attention to such small details in our country because, as we say in Poland, małe ale cieszy we follow the philosophy feel happiness in every little thing in life
I'm from Polish, and when I was at my sister's place in UK, I couldn't eat that bread...it tasted like sponge or something. I love our Polish bread!!!
You have a 100% right about this things in Poland :)
po polsku - masz rację (masz 30 lat) a po angielsku -> you are... (right, 30 years old) not "have"... 😉👍💪
@@peteroz7332 dziękuję 😬
Polish person here. I remember being a kid and watching first ever house building/reno in a some HGTV style show made in US, and seeing You guys using so much wood to build it - I got sad, because so may trees had to die... :)
I agree with you after me living in USA for 10 years. I missed Polish bread etc so much
In Poland we also like bake bread in home oven, so if you are lucky, you can try many types of bread with for example grains, herbs or cheese ^^
Not very common though, however recently more people do it
Thank you so much! So nice to hear different point of view
Thanks for sharing this information with us and represent Poland
i have something to add.
Beforehand i must say that i wasn't in USA before but i work with people with families in US. i also studied urbanism of Poland and US as well. the thing that repells me the most from visiting US is the urban sprawl, streets with no pavements, distances way beyond pedestrian range, and overall dependency on cars. for me it's incomprehensible to not be able to "go" to the shop. here only lazy people go shopping (for relatively small groceries) by car. i have 5 shops in less than 200m range of my flat.
As far as criticism is concerned, Poland's population is a trend-setter. I think Poles treat honest criticism as a gift or present for the interlocutor. (Unfortunately, such approach is not yet appreciated widely). You see, in today's world if someone doesn't like or want something, he/she just switches channel, goes to another shop, speaks with another person etc. They go away, in silence, without getting any feedback. In Poland even we we criticize someone, express dislike or hate sometime, it is because we do care that for future contact, the interlocutor would get better, improved. You know what I mean. Cheers from Polish working in Norway
Good point. On the other note, quite often foreigners are taken back by Poles who complained a lot. One justification I heard about notorious polish complaining is that Poles are ambitious 😁
One of the things that suprised me most in US was the fact, that Americans were completely not interested of history of their families. Most of Americans who I met, at most knew their grandparents, but they were not interesting of getting know of history of older generations.
You know something about your ancestors in Poland? We must be Americans here in Czechia, you know only your grandparents here. Sometimes you can remember grandgrand parents when you was little kid, but that's all, you even don't know their names.
@@Pidalin Actually I know history of my family up to early 18th century. Of course I don't expect that everybody should be fond of genealogy, but it was a bit weird to me that people in US are completely not interested in their European roots, for example.
@@Pidalin maybe it's not about knowing the history, but the fact that we want to learn it. for example, i've always wanted to know my family, what if someone was like, i dunno, famous for something or fought in a war? for me personally it's very interesting and in school we always did our family tree. i'm part polish part czech, but i never tried to deepen my knowledge about my czech side, though it's not clear for me why. but this topic in general was always super interesting to me.
@@stvrmistic3700 Problem is that older people don't want to speak about that, when I ask my grandparents about someone on photo, they just don't care, they speak only about themselves, but not about their ancestors.
@@Pidalin i understand
Bear in mind that the internet tends to be an order of magnitude harsher with their opinions. But, I do think you have a very valid point there, sometimes it's good to hear some truth, after all we learn this way too.
BTW just realized one thing. Perhaps the person you spoke to couldn't recall "swollen", and said "fat" instead. Ouchie. ;-) I can't imagine what else would make them say that given you don't seem fat at all, not even close.
“Bear in mind “must be British.
I live in Warsaw, also lived in PA for 2 years. Came back, happy to be in Waraaw: food, healthcare, free education for kids, no fake smiles / masks juz directly honest people.
Left Warsaw long time ago. Do not plan to come back. Yes, nice place to visit, but wouldn't like to live there. Maybe things will change.
We'll see...
Trev, your face is not fat 🙂
Nobody feels fat until someone or something tells you that, in my case was gravity XD.
I don't know how fat Trev was, but glad to see Trev is looking fine and healthy now.
Cheers from Poland.
After trying bread in UK i came to appreciate Polish bread more
At the moment I live in the UK, but I come from Poland. Houses here, in the UK and not the best. In Poland it's just done neatly. We don't want our hoses shaking with every move, step, etc. We often live with our families (like parents) in just one house. And also we don't want to hear what happens in the next room.
Yay I'm so glad you mentioned my beloved Lublin!
Hello from a polish living in the uk!
Hello
Good list Trev! One more thing that sticks out in my mind. PL beats the US to the bone in banking services. Try to wire money from a non-business US bank acct to someone else's acct, it'll take 3-5 days for the funds to arrive, if you're lucky. While in PL, the funds will be there immediately or within a few hrs, and usually free of charge. Just something that I have to deal with on a daily basis and it's driving me crazy :)
You are absolutely right, and I really like your comments, keep up good work 👍
Thanks for sharing this with us. Nice to hear that you feel good in Poland.
The level of caring about taking shoes at home:
Even if I fly to visit my family, and we missed each other and everybody's happy cause we're all together...
One step too far in my shoes in the house, my family members' faces change immediately... From delighted to dead serious "WHAT are you doing?!" kind of thing. 😂😂😂
About house rofing, here in Poland we practicly don't use asphalt shingels for house. Yeas you can cover whit it a barn or dog house but not your own house. All houses that are covert whit them are from what i know developer build frame houses (yeas they are build also here). Ussuly used material is metal in form of standart sheets or metal shingels eather in big sheets or smaller moduls or clay/cement shingels. Extremly reare ar in use roofs cover whit wooden shingels or gras (strzecha) but they are quite expensiwe in compere to other kinds of roofing. As for material used for building walls that it's eather foam concreete (yeas it's not your common concrette block often used in US but special mix of cement and limbe that whit use of aluminium solvant in temperature around 200 degreese celcius become fommy, and by that it get quite good insulator) or ceramic block (that red brick alike thing).
I've never seen a barn covered with asphalt shingles, it's usually trapezoidal metal sheets (or asbestic tiles if that's an old barn). Asphalt shingles (gont bitumiczny) are more expensive. Plus they're more flammable which is kinda a huge deal for that type of building. As for the houses - yeah, they're quite rare. But I think they're raising in popularity a bit.
And for the walls I would add cinder blocks (pustaki) to the list.
@@elementiro Pustak its that foam concette block that i wrote previusly. Btw i think your right about the asphalt shingels but i dont agree that they gaining popularity, on one hand they are cost quite more than metal sheeting, and costs are no ending on shingels itself. They must be underlained whit tare paper and had full sheeting of roof construction whit eather OSB/MFP material or boards. I dont know how it look in other areas of Poland, but here on south east i practicly don't see theas kinda of roofs...
You are a very special young man.
God Bless You and good luck in my dearest fatherland, Poland.Greetings from NY.
Criticism is one thing but being simply grumpy is something completely different. I know you mentioned that those smiles in US are more like a pose but when I was in a few states I was shocked by the locals who were so friendly and polite. Even one bartender gave us drinks for free, darts for free, snooker for free. It is something you probably never experience in Poland from a stranger.
Polish people are famous for their politeness , so why are you wrongly guessing that strangers in Poland would not give you free drinks or darts to play , come on.... If you asked we would give you food and shelter .
Ukrainian refugees received great support from ordinary Poles and guess what we took 1.5 million of them offering private homes and giving them food for many months . Some of them are still accomodated for free in Poland . There are no campsites for refugees . We took 12.5 millions of Ukrainian war refugees and spent 1 % of our GDP . I don`t know about any other country helping so much . Moreover European Union didn`t give us a penny , instead they want to punish us for not taking illegal emigrants from Africa who are trafficed by mafia to Europe and some countries can`t protect their borders and let mafia to make money on human trafficking . It is a double standard what Eurocrats are doing and example how double standards exist in Europe on daily basis .
European Union authorities and their Parliament is morally corrupt , run by the Germans and devoid of empathy in which the Poles got stuck and now cannot get out due to too large capital ties. And the Germans who rule there not long ago murdered 6 millions of Poles and destroyed the whole country and up to this day they have not paid Poland for such a destruction ( the whole Warsaw was levelled to the ground with bombs and fire extinguishers ) , immagine as if NYC was destroyed that a one brick was not left on another , they left piles of rubbles , but they want us to listen to them and teach us their democracy . When they run out of arguments, they tell us that we, as Poles, do not know what democracy is all about . It is just bunch of lies - our constitution was created as the second in the world. As part of this fight for democracy, generals - Kosciuszko and Pulawski fought for your Americans' freedom.
So , before you assume something just try to get acquainted with some Polish history
You got everything right! I live in the States for years. Dziękuję
you are very observant and absolutely correct about everything!
You in USA have only one word: "carpet"
We have three: (1) "dywan" - for elaborate, decorative piece of textile that you can simply roll and take out for washing (word "diwan" comes crom Arabic and means "saloon").
(2) "wykładzina" - for that what you shown us, u have in USA,
(3) "arras", "gobelin" - for Asian (Russian, Turkic) type of decorative carpet that you hang on the wall for better isolation in winter.
5-tka za ten materiał!
Are you carpet seller?
jeszcze "chodnik" HAHA
There’s also a rug.
@@utahdan231 can You tie the room together with such rug?
No in the US we have a lot of names for rugs and carpets, there is up to 27 different names but the main ones are:
1: Carpet
2: Rug
3: floor mat
4: throw rug
5: tapestry
6: matting
7: runner
8: floorcloth
9: Bath rugs
I live next to a bakery, so often in the evening or at night when I open the window I can smell fresh bread baking :D
My types (I'm guessing on begin of video)
1' Democration
2' Health insurance
3' Education
4' Food (health norms that translates directly to taste of it)
5' Public transport (cheap and u can travel anywhere)
6' Tips, u don't have to tip service cos they have already independence normal pension.
You are spot on about everything. I am going back to Poland for retirement. One of the reasons is that I want to have a real house especially now when 2x4 houses in Toronto are selling for millions of $.
Big thanks for video. Greetings from Krakow!
Thanks for sharing Trev.
I have to agree with bread- I miss it soooo much! And yes cebularz at "Buczek" is delicious. Butter, I am not sure, did not see so much difference.
Houses, I was shocked how different they are made, but I think I know the reason. First, I am not sure if anyone in the US would be able to effort a house build from stones with ceramic or metal roof? Material too expensive and labor as well. Also not sure if you agree but most of my family members do not have air- condition in they houses, so by building their house from stones they help keep it colder in the summer, and warmer in the winter - with that said agree better buildings in Poland, but there is a logical reason for that.
About bakeries at least in bigger cities they are usually just delivered to the shops and baked somewhere else(i live in Warsaw), another common practise is to have pre product(formed breads but raw) delivered to the spot and baked on the spot and thats what gave you impression that its always made on the spot when in most cases its just the finishing touches. but yes from my expirience we have that pretty much nailed compared to other countries i've visited.
You are extremely positive person, your girlfriend is lucky and I hope you guys will be happy together for the rest of your life! If you ever want to visit Kolobrzeg and Ustronie Morskie in the summertime I am very happy to help. If you're fan of music you should visit SUNRISE FESTIVAL 😉
7:35 about rooftops - nowadays it's metal sheet that looks like clay roof tiles. Real clay tiles are only in older houses.
Im from Poland but live in sweden nowdays and i have to agree with you about bread which is also horrible here. Always when im back in Poland i have to go buy fresh bread
Fun video :)
I agree with all your statements, in particular the bread/butter...to die for :D (and food in general imo)
You're right in all your points. Interesting compilation of facts, as usual 👍
I also have carpets 🤭 they make house looks cosy. But I don't walk around with shoes on 🤪
I don’t know if you already have it in US, but there is a plan called “too good to go” where shops sell slightly expired food on huge discount. That’s great, because most of the time this food is still 100% suitable for eating and you don’t waste it because of shop policy
No, we don’t.
Such a great video! Cebularz rocks indeed (yeah, I'm from Lublin) ;-)
I haven't been to US yet but i would love to! As a Polish myself i can say that sometimes for a simple snack there is nothing better than a fresh slice of a bread with a real butter and a bit of salt... maaaaaaan that taste is great. Wouldn't it be a gold mine to have bakery in US?
this familly thing you talking about is a real thing, we really care about familly and our tradicions.
I have to agree about the bead. I'd missed it a lot when I lived abroad.
About the family orientation- I think we r starting to think about money (unfortunately) but bcs of the the honest way we express our emotions and feelings we r still holding better.
Anyway thank you. It was a real pleasure to watch
I'm Polish living abroad for many years and I agree with everything you said just I'd add some stuff.
1. Bread, butter - you're totally right. I've never been to USA but as far I know from people who were, documentaries and comments in the internet, food in general is much better in Poland, more natural.
2. Criticism - it's new for you so you're delighted. I'm not. I mean of course it's better to be honest than pretending everything is fine but many Polish people just complain and look for reasons to criticise you. It's going too far many times and people comment something that is not their business.
3. Houses. It's hard to say which system is better. There are not tornados in Poland so I don't know these houses would still stand after a tornado. If not, imagine how much time repairs would take and how much it would cost. Of course, there are many places in your country, where you don't have tornados and if there are still cheap, poor quality houses, Polish ones are much better.
4. Family - yes and no. First, it is changing. Like everything. I remember when the world was much smaller, especially in the Eastern Block. Families and close neighbourhoods were much more important then. Mobility was much lower so basically we didn't have too much choice. It is changing. Families are still close but not that much. Is it good? It depends on your family. If they're great people and you can rely on them, it's great. But also there are toxic families and you should cut all ties when it's possible but because of this attitude we're taught, it's more difficult than in some other places in the world. So if you have great family, that attitude is great, if not, it's a curse.
Zawsze miło posłuchać jak dobrze mówią o moim kraju :)
Thank you young man : )
thanks for video Trev ! you are doing well :)
criticism is just an information, same as compliment :D
I think the family care case is mostly about distances. Even if you live in the village, the nearest "big" city, where you can develop your carrer is aproximetly 30 km away (about 20 miles) wich using a car or even public transport like trains or buses is not a distance at all. And if your family live in a city like mine (Łódź) both grandparents have their flats about kilometer away... What is more, the rll popular trend in poland, is moving from city center to the nearby villeges, where the plots are much cheaper (mayby you heard the "wyprowadzać się na obrzeża" sentense that means something like "moving out to edgings of the city") Then you most often work in city and vist your parents for a free dinner or supper on the way back to your home :P.
I love multicereal bread, or rye, rye-wheat bread, freshly baked, crispy skin and sponchy, still worm inside with cottage butter on it. In 80´s, 90´s you was going every morning to bakery or when was fresh delivery in a shop, and till you came to home 1/3 has been already eaten ;), unfortunately to cut costs more bakeries gets industrial, and traditional one closed, I hope, with fashion on " you are what you eat" this tendency will change! We are honest, sometimes hursh, but not to offend or hurt others, we just believe that honest friend is the best friend you can get. Thank you for this movie, It warm my heart, specially, that I am living in Spain now, and I miss Poland :P
You nailed it ! 😎
I agree with you. Those are the things I miss from Poland living in Canada. On the last point of family, I think it is hard to generalize as it depends a lot on an individual family and their values. I grew up in Poland in a dysfunctional family, so divorce can be a problem there too, many people don't even marry anymore. But in general Polish people tend to interact with their family more. Despite of my family being dysfunctional, I still interacted a lot with them, though often separately due to family feuds. I like Polish honesty, but sometimes it can go too far, mine is moderated a lot by Canadian politeness I acquired by living here. I like to take the best of each culture and apply it while discarding the bad. There are good and bad things in each culture.😀
Hi Tehrani
I really appreciate that there are people who make films about the country I live in.
I can confirm that family is a priority in Poland basing of people I know here.
People tend to stay close to they whole family and all aunts, uncles and grandparents usually leaves nearby.
Some young people come to main city to earn big money, then in few years they drop the job and return to family village/city to build a house or flat near his/her family.
All of the things you mentioned are the exact same things I miss ever since I moved to USA
As a Polish-born guy who lived in the States for over 30 years, I have to say you are 100% right. Especially when it comes to bread and homes.
You are absolutely right about bread. Lived 4y in WA. Moved back to NJ. Mostly because I was missing THE BREAD. In the condo neighbors were knockin on the door to ask what smells soooooo goooood...
I live in the area where polish population is really big and I have 5 bakery shops just few minutes away by foot.
With the butter you also were right.
I have it over here straight from Poland.
The construction business?
Yes, polish construction inspector would have heart attack after seeing how US houses are built...
Spot on
I am Polish living in the UK and found exactly the same bread problem as you in th USA :) I totally recommend a breadmaker, this is how I am being able to survive abroad ;) thanks for all those nice things about Poland ;)