YIMBY Poland 🇵🇱🥟
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I started this profile because I discovered that, shockingly, in other countries, people are not happy when there's new construction in their neighborhood
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This article pops up here and there on both leftist and housing Twitter and every time I'm so infuriated by all the wrong tankie takes I decided to write a short thread about housing construction in socialist Poland
These Soviet-era structures are the housing blocks communism left behind. All were built after World War II to cheaply house the masses in a way that jived with communist ideology: near-identical two- and three-bedroom apartments. 📸: Zupagrafika
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Just a reminder, this thing was first opened in Lublin and Vilnius in 2021 and it operated in these cities without any issues for years. Makes you think what kind of society Dublin and NYC have
Hilarious that they turned off the portal *and* added barriers so people can’t reach the camera
The social experiment is going well
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“We cannot be like Europe with their walkable spaces”
Europe wasn’t like Europe either. Wrocław 1979 and now.
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Crazy story but apparently Vifon, a Vietnamese instant soup manufacturer popular in Poland, advertises in Vietnam by… citing its popularity in Poland. They even use Polish-language packaging, Miss Poland 2022 and Polish consumers’ choice certificate. lol
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Right after this dance, there is dinner, and after dinner, everyone changes into provocative clothing and dances to rap and techno while getting completely drunk lol
Not to mention free healthcare and college, very welcoming immigration policy, and rapid secularization lol
This shocking prom video emerging out of Poland might be very disturbing to the progressive Westerners.
Viewer discretion advised!
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The sunniest place in Poland in the last 24h got 6 minutes of sunlight and I think this is all you need to know about winter in Poland lmao
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This is a video from Wrocław, where at least 1 in 8 residents is foreign born. Not sure if this is what Radio Genoa is trying to say here.
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Before and after new rules about outdoor advertisement in Kraków
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@mattyglesias
If you were born in Karvina in 1910, you were born Austro-Hungarian citizen, started school in Germany, graduated in Czechoslovakia, married in Poland, had your first kid in Germany, had your first grandchild in Czechoslovakia, and died in Czechia. All without leaving Karvina.
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My post about the market square in Wrocław getting rid of the cars got viral, so I thought people will appreciate a follow-up. Same place, different perspective.
1960s v. now
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@winebox_papi
I mean you’re not necessarily wrong but there’s no one Lithuanians hate more than Poles so by your logic they should be making obscene gestures at one another
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God I hate American commies. In the 70s, my grandpa (head of logistics for a coal mine) got awarded a cruise from Odessa to Batumi. The ship had 1/100th of these amenities, and he still talks about to this day. Meanwhile an American truck driver can afford this thing every year.
Late stage capitalism is so absurdly comical at times.
This new cruise ship has:
- 23 restaurants
- 22 bars / clubs
- 7 full sized pools + 9 hot tubs
- Full waterpark
- Rock climbing wall
- Ice skating rink
- Surf simulator
- Golf course
- Basketball court
- Rooms for
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My grandpa grew up without shoes in the summer. My mom grew up wearing hand-me-down clothes send by relatives in Germany. I grew up thinking McDonalds is a treat. My nephew and niece are growing up now and their lives are identical to those of German or British children.
Polish Tiger
When do we start to talk about economic development lessons from Poland?
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Another great street transformation in progress in Katowice. Warsaw street used to be a truly disgusting place, even despite some of the nicest buildings in the city lining its both sides. Now it's going to be green, with wide sidewalks and small architecture.
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Abandoned building turns into high-end apartments in Wrocław
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"I hate capitalism because it made America so car-centric"
meanwhile socialism:
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Kraków is banning large outdoor advertisement (billboards etc.) in most of the city starting tomorrow. You love to see it
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I mean these have to be engagement baits… and I fell for it
You can drive 9.5 hrs in North Carolina and still be in North Carolina. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
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Lots of people saying “oh they’re just fun”. Seriously? You live in NYC of all places and the largest dopamine boost you can think of is showing your asshole to a rando across the Atlantic? That’s truly depressing. Live a little! Download Tinder.
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After and before in Poznan, Zwierzyniecka St
Poznan is by far the most bike-friendly city in Poland. Great developments there!
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In 1990, Lech Wałęsa’s election slogan was „second Japan in Poland”. At that time, an average Japanese was able to buy 3x as much stuff as an average Pole. Today, there’s virtually no difference. 33 years later, Wałęsa’s promise is Poland’s reality.
This is the best economic measure of living standards we have. EU average is a 100 here, UK would be 107, US 164, Japan 90.
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Poland will simplify immigration for citizens of Ukraine, Saudi, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, UAE, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Nigeria and Moldova to accept “at least 400k immigrants a year”
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While we are at discussing the superiority of Polish-made buses over the American-made ones, can we discuss the interior layout in American buses which is insane? A few posts --->
Bucharest is at last getting a new batch of trolleybuses. Solaris eventually won the order for 100 trolleybuses with In Motion Charging.
N. American transit advocates note: this vehicle cost about $650k before tax -about half the price US manufacturers would charge.
@ChittiMarco
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When I was in Chicago for the first time, I’ve tried to imagine I’m an early 1900s peasant who’s just arrived from rural southeastern Poland and saw this. Minds must’ve been blown.
People in America 🇺🇸 is this how Chicago looks like for real 😳 ?
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I'm bored before my evening call at work so let me do a quick thread on my subjective opinions of Polish cities:
1. WARSAW
Fantastic city. I used to hate it (as every Silesian should), then I've moved there and fell in love. A true metropolis. Highly recommend, 9/10
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Reddit moment: someone asks on r/Socialism_101 “why Eastern Europeans don’t like socialism?” and the answer given is “because of US propaganda” lmao
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It's Saturday, so it's time for a thread 🧵 on another Polish urban phenomena - *pasteloza*!
If you have ever been to Poland and some other Eastern Bloc countries, perhaps you've noticed that the socialist-era housing estates in Poland tend to be more... colorful. But why?
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One of the craziest thing about Poland is that as a country, we're heavily subsidizing the dying, rural East at the expense of urban areas.
Example: this massive freeway in Eastern Poland has lower traffic figures (and forecast) than a regional road in my village in Silesia.
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It’s truly fascinating how the current Polish government manages to have an image of staunchly anti-immigration while at the same time making Poland literally the
#1
country in terms of accepted immigrants (total, not even per capita) every single year.
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And then the mayor of Warsaw said "Let there be construction" and she saw construction was good and she doubled down on construction.
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Nothing radicalizes you as a YIMBY more than the fact that there is more housing units under construction in this small part of downtown Katowice (285k) than in the entire city of San Francisco (875k).
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The Catholic Church is truly in a free-fall in Poland. Next year, more people will marry outside the church than in the church.
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Poland and California are similar in population. But California chose to ban new housing construction. As a result, Poland builds twice as many new housing units as California, despite being nearly 5x poorer
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I mean this is literally from that party. The song lyrics go as follows:
"This is a barbecue as Gawron's place, the dogs [the police] film it from a drone
Carla is dancing on the table, her ass in my friend's hands
She's fast as Maradona, sweet as coke"
moj bracie w chrystusie pół godziny później studniówka wygląda tak a wszyscy są najebani w 3 dupy
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I posted this already but I'm reposting adding one more view of the same place. It's just absolutely crazy how much better a space can get with just a few little changes. Katowice should do this on more streets in the city center.
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You can now get a hot dog subscription in Poland. Get one hot dog a day for PLN 69 a month (~$16)
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@montes_narayana
If this is a challenge, try being white from Poland and explain Americans that no, I don't hate socialism because I'm an imperialist who would like to colonize and enslave non-white people but because a socialist dictatorship did pretty much that to my white ancestors
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20 years ago, unemployment rate in Poland was at 17.3%, with over 3M people unemployed. Many left the country to find jobs abroad.
Today, it's at 5.1%, with merely 850k unemployed. Almost 1M foreigners work in Poland to fill the demand for workers.
Truly a remarkable story
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Meanwhile in Poland, you can go to the movie theater, order popcorn and soda, and watch the conservative government finally losing power
Aside from these on the video, a quarter million people are watching the live stream on Youtube right now
Tymczasem w "Kinotece".
(filmik: Michał Marszał IG)
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American NIMBYs: No you can't build new apartments in this historic district of 1930s Sears mail-order catalog homes
Polish YIMBYs: we live in Wrocław, a literally medieval city, and we're extending old buildings and building news ones next to them bc we don't hate our children
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I'm sick and bored today, so let's review skyscrapers under construction in Poland.
1. THE BRIDGE, WARSAW - 174m (571 ft)
Yet another office skyscraper in the Rondo Daszyńskiego cluster, which boomed after the new metro line was opened a few years back. Coming in 2025.
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My favorite thing about SF is that the red areas with tall buildings is where rich/tech ppl live, while the socialists live in the yellow area which is full of SFHs, Victorians and low-rises.
Then the socialist complain that housing is expensive in SF because of the rich.
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Myth 1: Everyone got free housing in socialism.
There are two claims here: everyone got housing and the housing was free. Both are wrong.
Let's start with the second one. You absolutely paid for the apartment - and you paid upfront!
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Wrocław in socialism (1963) v. Wrocław in capitalism (2022)
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It’s 11:41pm on a weekday in Warsaw and the subway comes every 7 minutes and the station is clean
*cries in San Franciscan*
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Polish men are either total masc or femboys, there's no in between
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I’m constantly impressed by the massive transformation Łódź is undergoing
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Original proposal for a residential building in Zamość’s old town (a UNESCO heritage zone) v. what was actually built after local community’s input. I think its’s a very positive change! cc
@michael_diamant
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Krupnicza St in Krakow over the years. From chaotic ads and unregulated parking to walkable, elegant, tree-lined street. (From Reddit)
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I saw an older dude at the gym today and thought I recognize him somehow. Guys it was Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple lol
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Why would you have concrete foundation for a light rail system when you can have multi-colored plants instead?
This is in Poznań
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A fantastic map showing how many buses per hour leave from bus stops within a 5 minute walk from any spot in Warsaw.
Warsaw’s excellent public transit really flies under the radar of most people. 75% of trips in Warsaw are on transit, walking or cycling.
Author: Jacek Gęborys
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@Nachtig68829913
Our only alternative is slowly and painfully dying out like Moldova or Belarus so I think we’ve made the right choice
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Warsaw skyline looking nice
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The thing I like the most about Warsaw is how the high rises provide an excellent backdrop for the cute old town
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Warsaw has recorded a single-digit pedestrian death toll for the first time in modern history. This is a huge and welcome decline over the last decade.
Katowice and other Polish cities shared similar numbers recently.
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If you ever think the US is awfully car-centric, you haven’t seen rural Poland. This is a kindergarten in Wiskitki in Eastern Poland. The area in red is parking, the area in yellow is all of the outdoors available to the kids
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This reminds of a story of when I've first moved to the US (2020). A Korean (born and raised in Korea) colleague of mine has moved to the US a year earlier and I saw her IG story about a racist white Uber driver who dared to ask her about where she's from. 1/
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@kevigi
I’ve been to Dublin and while I love Irish people in general, I have to say that there’s a large subsegment of Dublin youth that’s absolutely feral and unchecked and indeed, the city can’t have nice things because of them
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Poland announced its 2021 census results. Some interesting developments:
- Warsaw has 66k people more than expected, 1.86M in total
- Kraków now has over 0.8 mln people
- Wrocław surpassed Łódź and is now the third-largest city in Poland with 672k people (Łódź has 670k)
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"It's a normal small talk people do. The two of us literally did that to one another when we first met", I added. She told me that I'm incredibly insensitive and I don't understand racism in America. You've guessed it, she's a Berkeley graduate. 3/3
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In other words, in socialist Poland you paid for your apt upfront to wait years to never receive it in the end, and if you received it, it was never yours. In capitalist Poland things are not perfect but if you have the down-payment, you get a mortgage and own it in 30 years.
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New development in Legnica (98k people), 85 apartments + 12 commercial venues on the first floor
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I always found it funny that every larger Polish town/city has a 1970s housing estate called "Manhattan" which consists of a bunch of 10-floor prefabricated apartment buildings. Here's one in Katowice (credit: Katowice z lotu ptaka on FB)
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Wrocław recently became the third-largest city in Poland, and when you see the amazing transformations of the city streets, you get why people want to live there. Photos from the FB profile “Wrocław - inwestycje budowlane”
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Online trad Catholics with a Poland fetish never cease to amaze me.
In reality:
- 63% of young Poles are Catholic, down from 85% 10 years ago
- 28.3% of Poles go to church, down from 36.9% in 2019
- 50% of marriages are religious, down from 70%+ 10 years ago
Poland is not afraid nor shy to proclaim the Kingship of Jesus Christ!
Ireland should learn from Poland. A return to its Catholic roots would bring back peace and prosperity to Ireland. Remember the warning of Cardinal Robert Sarah who said, “A tree without root dies”
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Hotel Monopol in Wrocław, 2005 v. now
✅ Discretely added one more floor
✅ Road got narrower and parking got civilized
✅ Spire rebuilt
You love to see it
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Lights are out for two letters on Gdynia Główna train station, and it now reads "a pumpkin of shit"
This is why I love Poland
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One of my largest WTF moments after moving to America was that you need a prescription to buy contact lenses here. In Poland, you can literally get them from the vending machine.
One of many examples of American over-regulation.
Just used the most random piece of tech I never knew existed, but which turned out to be surprisingly useful – a contact lens vending machine (soczewkomat). Dotted all over Warsaw
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Tenement house renovation in Wrocław. Kosciuszki St no. 37
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To get state-built apt, you had to join a spółdzielnia (co-op) and pay. But even if you paid, you had to wait for the apt to get built. For example in '88, 1.4M co-op members paid down-payment in full, and additional 862k paid it in full but were not even members of co-op yet!
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@skvarekm
That’s the propaganda but the reality is very different. Poland has pretty permissive immigration policy. Despite the anti-Islam rhetoric, over 230,000 people from Muslim-majority countries moved to Poland just last year alone.
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Pretty cool street transformation in progress in Katowice
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I'm a sucker for urban canyons ending with a skyscraper. Warsaw, 1998 v. 2023 (photo: Kukushka)
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5. Another factor that makes bus travel better in Poland: stops are not literally on every block. It takes my bus (12) around 25 minutes to reach downtown - which is slower than if I took the bike! All because there are sometimes two stops on the same block.
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Honestly, it starts better than I expected. Don't forget to mention that they're cutting funds for the Catholic church in the next two weeks and moving them towards universal public healthcare.
Poland in the past 2 weeks:
-Globalist Prime Minister is sworn in
-Far-left LGBTQ activist is appointed as Minister of Family and Social Policy
-Tusk shuts down TVP broadcasting and replaces the management of TVP, Polish Radio and PAP.
-Speaker of the Parliament poses with a
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Reply-guys are giving Bastiat shit but it only proves his point. People in the west are incapable of imagining life without achievements of capitalism. Supermarkets in Poland look very much like American ones today, too, while merely 40 years ago they’ve looked like this:
sometimes I walk into the supermarket and can't help but think about how modern civilization is an absolute marvel to behold
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American trad accounts are just the stupidest people around. Matched only by tankies.
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One of my favorite Youtube Polish channels, Architecture is a Good Idea, did a clip on *urbanistyka łanowa* (field urbanism) in Polish suburbs and since I wanted to do a thread on it too, here it comes!
Why are all new housing estates in Polish suburbs long and narrow? 🧵
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Today is Epiphany, also known as the Three Kings' Day when the three magi from the East gave baby Jesus gifts.
In Poland, we have an updated version of the three kings. Three guys from the East (Ukrainian, Bangladeshi and Uzbek) are on their way to deliver gifts :D
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Starting today, retailers in the EU are forced by law to disclose the lowest price for a product in the last 30 days, to end the practice of artificially raising the price just before offering a "promo" afterwards.
You love to see it. Thanks,
@EU_Commission
@Europarl_EN
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Percentage share of housing units build in the last 25 years in total housing units number, major Polish cities:
Warsaw - 35.6%
Wrocław - 37.7%
Gdańsk - 38%
Kraków - 38.5% (!!!)
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