as a polish person, it's pretty insane to see the narrative flip in the last 10 years...
i was born in poland - at the time it was a country slowly recovering from communism
like millions of other families we were very poor, so we moved to western europe when i was a few years old
for most of my life, to be a polish kid was to be the son of poor migrants - a british person looking up to poland was almost unheard of
in 2020+ the narrative has completely flipped, today somebody moving from poland to the UK is considered an almost unfathomable downgrade
our country has been through a lot - partitions, being the epicenter of both world wars, uprisings, genocide, displacement, communism
it took 30 years of freedom to turn the resilience this has instilled in us + the hunger of being one of the poorer countries in europe, into the country poland is today - a very inspiring success story
the only sad thing about all of this, is that our great grandparents & their parents, the ones who actually endured all of this suffering & fought to make poland what it is today, didn't get to see the country it'd turn into
🇵🇱 Warsaw is Poland's biggest city and it is completely safe at 1am at night
No violent junkies, no drug dealers, no street thugs hanging around harassing women (and men), no pickpockets (nor in the day btw)
No shady people hanging around the train and metro stations
Just people living chill together and police enforcing safety
You know like we used to in Western Europe?
There's a lot to learn from Poland