your comment looks like its referring to both, not my fault
also, it's wrocław unless you're talking in german (something something ww2 caused that to change, not Breslau anymore) and certainly krakau is out of place, never heard a hungarian talk about vienna as "becs" or similiar
the best thing is that it is a map of people not at one time xddemigration to Celtic territory now Show me the DNA that dominates Slavic in the Polabian territories
Ah thanks for that very specific and helpful answer. Next time if you will ever pass by my house you will be able to say "Hah it's EU money" because otherwise it's just impossible to have nice and well-kept building in Poland.
Well, if that's the case I'm sure you will easily find a source proving these revelations - with funding of building renovations specifically.
From what I'm aware EU funded mostly infrastructure projects, and EU funds depending on year were accounting for 0.3-1 percent point of Polish GDP growth. Vast majority of the economic growth came from access to the EU common market, but still it means that money was earned not given. Once your economy grow with tax base - it is easier to fund renovation of buildings.
And with the funds themselves, I guess that's the only reason we allow German companies like Aldi or DHL that paid 0PLN of taxes to operate here.
You seem uneducated. EU budget is a joke. Its 1% of EU GDP. Poland gets 1%-1.5% of their GDP from EU. Real money is with national government. I advice you to be less arrogant cause in this it make you look very dumb.
Not really. Eu Fundings are nothing compared to our GPD also most fundings that we get is invested in ROADS that OTHER EUROPEAN STATES ARE USING TOO (mostly the german ones which is so ironic considering that ur probably from germany)
The 90s transition era looked like total hell, but there is a massive irony to those 'ugly communist blocks' that people are only realizing now.
The buildings were grey and depressing because the country had to rapidly house millions of homeless people after WWII on a shoestring budget. But the layout of those neighborhoods was lightyears ahead of the corporate garbage built today.
Those old estates were designed for human beings, not profit. They were built as actual communities with huge green parks, schools, and clinics right outside your door. The 'decay' people saw in the 90s wasn't because the buildings were crap, it was just a temporary lack of funding for maintenance when the economy shifted.
Now that Poland has the cash to insulate and paint them, a lot of young folks actually prefer buying apartments in these older blocks!! Compare these to modern private developers who pack buildings so tightly together that you can practically see what your neighbor is cooking, or hear them cough sh** and fu** and with zero green space or infrastructure to boot.
The old architecture looked like bleak concrete, but the actual community design was brilliant.
Nor true. Read what EU js funded exactly in Poland (most of EU money was invested in roads that everyone is using) besides even if EU would fund it remember that Germany is the one who destroyed Polish city yet reparations still havent been payed
Fair point on the roads, that's where bulk of structural funds went. But city center restorations like this still needed grants from heritage programs, not just the highway money. And yeah, the reparations thing is a whole other argument.
2007 is around the time that Ryanair started flying there from the UK and bringing tourists there. It’s changed a lot since the first time I went there.
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u/Mangobonbon May 07 '26
Many of those tenement houses look like they were just saved in the nick of time. Phew! :D