Why You'll HATE Living In Poland 🇵🇱

After living in Poland for 4 months I have really enjoyed my time in this country. Not everything is perfect though. Today I discuss the main reasons why I don't like living in Poland.

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[ViciousViscount]

Try smiling while living between Germany and Russia.

[moonanoke]

As a Polish person, I'm so happy I don't have to practice small talk with people I don't know! I hate it

[boyounglee]

As a Korean who has Polish husband, I like Polish being just natural, I don’t feel they are rude. When they ask ‘how are you’ they mean it. ‘How are you’ doesn’t mean ‘Hi’. That’s how I find similar culture to Korean’s.

That’s so true that Polish complain more often. 😂

[Robvagab]

I’m from Portugal and I’ve been in Poland I just love the fact they don’t go into small talk or fake smiles .
Once you give them some caring and making yourself fool in a joke way, you can see that protective barrier gets destroyed and they release their really good personality.

[xWEPx]

the best explanation i heard for why polish people seem rude to foreigners is the fact we consider it rude to be aproached/interrupted by a stranger without a valid pretext.

[fif]

people are a little cold but at least not fake

[sth]

I am from Austria and we also don't like to be "fake friendly" to strangers. Its exhausting for me if people pretend to care. This is not only an eastern european thing, but also a central and northern european thing.

To understand these cultural nuances you might want to try watching some european indie-movies or reading some books written for european audiences (not the ones Americans would recommend each other).

If a stranger comes up to me and asks me how I am and stuff, I expect them to be from a cult, wanting me to sign a petition or begging for money.

[slaviapolandia]

When a Pole asks you "How are you?" it's because we actually care and expect a truthful answer. Poles won't fake smile or small talk unless we have a reason. Poles might be "rude" but we are genuine and authentic. But try visiting a polish house and you will learn what polish hospitality is "Gość w dom, Bóg w dom" meaning...we treat our guests as if God entered our home. Polish people will go into debt to host their guests with abundance and respect.

No one is required to speak English, go to France and try to talk to people in English. Try to learn a local language, it shows respect to the people and the country you're visiting.
People don't really smile in Poland. Even when tried they look at me as if I were crazy.
Speaking about slavic countries' weather is ridiculous. If 15-22°C is a cold temperature to you, most of the Europe apart from the south, isn't for you - from west to east.

[kennethswick]

I am baffled by your views. I live here in Kraków as well and I find all of the people extremely friendly and nice.

The drunk people are almost exclusively tourists, and usually Brits. They CANNOT handle their alcohol at all. Every time you hear loud drunk behavior behavior it will inevitably be brits, usually on a bachelor's bachelor party.

[titiibyel]

As a Hungarian I’m not surprised that people find them “rude” because we are the same in Hungary😂 We are not used to the fake smiles and small useless talks with strangers, but maybe it’s just Eastern European thing 🤷🏻‍♀️Anyway I send as much love as I can to my lovely polish mates❤

[hanshomesteading]

Dzień dobry!, dutchie here. I travelled the world for like good 20 years and even lived in Asia for a while. Now living in Poland for 2+ years. I believe you are experiencing a culture shock. Polish people can be closed in your first meeting, but open up and are the warmest people ever. Once they know you, they help you and go a long way to do things for you, me and my family have never felt so welcome. Absolutely love the people here, whereas friendliess in the US (in particular) is skin deep. 'Hey how are you' is for Europeans a question, not a greeting. its all about how you treat and approach people.
In Rome do like the Romans do, at least make the effort to talk Polish. it will get you a long way. Do widzenia!

[Piotr-ns]

Hi Wes.
A lot you describe as rudness is simply from interpreting human interaction through the lenses of your culture. A bit surpsrising for such well travelled person. Politness in Poland requires respect of other people privacy and personal space. Smiling at strangers and small talk is not practiced here as considered intrusive. Also no pestering of customers for more business. If this is new to you, you will feel negative emotions or even hostility but this is just a false interpretation. You need to get used to it if you want to feel well in Poland. Practice Polish face, make fun about it with your frends. This custom is not worse or better than other models of behavior, it is just different.

[silkcitysocialist]

You live in Poland, but not interested in learning the language? But interested in learning Russian? WTF?!

[ukaszs]

Poles are not rude, but just neutral. We show only true emotions. We are neutral to people we don't know. And actually we hate this superficiality of Americans for example. They are asking "how are you" but they didn't expect real answer. In Poland you cannot as how are you to people you don't know. This is personal question and answer this question is usually complex and true. If you are doing this it means you are cultural ignorant, so I'm not surprised people are rude to you. You should learn about our culture before coming here. And when comes to language, how not knowing of Polish can be disadvantages in non-english speaking country. You cannot expect everyone speaks englis. Of course all educated people speaks English, but if you want to speak wit everyone you need to learn polish. It's insane saying this is disadvantage - how many Americans speak polish? And finally regarding to visa waiting time. You should know that we have war behind our eastern border and 2 millions of refugees waiting for visas. Beaurocracy is also higher in Germany, France or Italy. Weather, I love Polish weather, I hate extreme hot weather like in south countries so it might be a problem for you but not for everyone.

[CrustyCowboy]

Every Polish person that I've met has been nice. Poland would be my first choice

[gonzommz]

Go to Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria or Slovakia and the people will be the same, all Central European countries have a similar culture and are quite cold when talking to or meeting someone they don't know. Being slavic has nothing to do with it, it's just linguistic term (people in Russia, Ukraine or Belarus are quite friendly, Balkan slavs are one of the most welcoming people in world). However, living together for a thousand years as neighbors has made all the nations of Central Europe quite similar due to culture, religion and history.

[Rybakcm]

We need more films like this, maybe thanks to them Poland will stay as it is, without this "happy European culture."

[MoAdan]

Don’t agree with alcohol in Poland. Like in UK Yh people would vomit a lot when I was at uni and they can’t handle alcohol some of them but the way it’s going on it’s really bad in Uk alcohol, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same in some European countries.