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Very informative. The whole block of building are probably owned by individual or corporate. Need a small garden courtyard and backyard parking. Those building maybe protected by city ruling , therefore no external renovation to the facade. The old building are probably build in the early 1920's , escaped destruction during ww2 battle in kiev by the germans and red army. - read the history of kiev and babyn yar. As per liveability - costly utility bills, Bathroom, kitchen, sewage, water supply and plumbing pipe, gas supplies can be an issue and costly renovation. Need a narrow strip of green streetscape or hedges to fence off wall from graffiti/privacy. Notice a block of stalin building is being demolish for a low rise new building which can accommodate modern living. Need a basement suits parking, storage, bombshelter, utilities pipeline, electrical control board, security camera control room. A duplicate of old 4 storeys building block for wealthy professional in NYC. High rise Residential building looking into a park would be desirable like those in manhattan park. CBD area's are exorbitant expensive because of business activities. Pandemic/ 911 has proven that living in city centre may not be desirable. They are only few key financial wall street / branded boutiques / restaurant/ time square in the world. Not possible in kiev. Don't like living in centre - noisy chaos, crowds , overhyped and pay through your nose. For foreigner and tourists, it's more of getting around without getting lost and moving out after a week.

Thanks for honest opinions about property investment and purchased. Buying property is not something we do regularly. Careful evaluation on its neighbourhood and property title ownership given the gray area on the rules of law as mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, sorry to hear that the war as upended the property purchase. Hope peace will return and improvement in its rules of law in the Democratisation process and independent. With best regards.

Come back James!!! We miss you

Ukraine situation is different becouse of two factors, too much tangled with Russia and massive corruption. Even now as war is happening and western countries send milions of dollars, the money doesnt reach the front, its robbed by politicians near the main table. Suddenly they have money to buy properties outside of ukraine, while soldiers on field eat rotten food. So yeah, corruption holds strong there even durring war times. So its a matter of mentality and proper use of resources, like in Poland each town gets money for modernizations, they must use that money to end of the year or they lose it and the ammount would be reduced for next year. So cities invest into infrastructure and constantly build new things.

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Why didn`t you join the army to defend your country?

Are you this Ukrainian gut who pretends to be an American tourist?

Zakopane ssie. Nie jedziecie tam!!!

I'm looking for a lady called Natalie in Warsaw .I'm a Sri Lankan. My name is Asoka. Beautiful Polska,I love it.🎉❤❤❤

It's nice to see you again. It's a pleasure to watch your interesting video. Well done. Keep it up!!!

Your video is very interesting and informative. I enjoed watching it. Well done. Keep it up. Super !!!!!!

Warsaw has a budget of over NPL 20 billion (this is huge money for Polish conditions), so there is enough money to build and maintain the entire infrastructure of this city... This money mainly comes from taxes generated by industry and services, and also comes from tourism, from subsidies from the state budget, and some of the projects are subsidized, but only in part (about NPL 400 million) by the EU. For curiosity's sake, I would like to add that Vitaliy Klitschko was once in Warsaw (at the beginning of his sports career). The person who accompanied him at the time (probably a Polish sports activist) wrote about it. They were riding somewhere in a taxi through the city, and Vitaly was surprised almost as much as Marina's mother at how nice and modern Warsaw looked. Apparently he even drank Coca-Cola for the first time in his life in Warsaw and that this first sip was not only very tasty for him, but also important because it reminded him of the West and freedom. I think that Vitaliy Klitschko would also know how to take care of Kyiv if there was no war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the war changes the priorities of our activity. Glory to Ukraine!

Hello, James! I just stumbled onto your videos. Great work, especially how you go into details about everyday life in Poland and Warsaw. What's also important is that you have a very good understanding and personal experience living in many different coutries, so your comparisons of Poland to other lands is that much more credible and useful. There are many videos of people raving about their Polish experience but those are mostly based on a short tourit type visit. FYI... I was born in Warsaw and emigrated here (USA) as a kid with my parents. I liven in Anchorage, Alaska, Lincoln , Nebraska, Phoenix, Arizona, Chicago, Illinois (the longest) and Fort Myers, Florida. I've also had the opportunity to travel all over the US and internatonally. I'm retired (kind of) but plan on retiring for good this year and I plan on retiring in Poland!. My wife was born and raised in Chicago and my daugter (attending college) was also born in Chicago. Personally I cannot wait to move, however, my wife is more reserved and woried that she will feel isolated as she doesn't speak Polish. I watch your videos with her to ease her anxiety about living in this new strange land. Keep up the great work! P.S. I would like to establish contact with you if you don't mind. Let me know the best way to PM you.

Welcome to the Donkey's world... in the woods. Happy days.

11:39 James it doesn't depends from Klitchko it depends from general policy and economy , especialy from : healthy banking system and private properties , small bussineses and paying taxes honestly and of course EU subsidies .

Thanx bro for these nice comments about our country !

European Union, money, and its laws helped.

We are looking for you James.

I love that so many of us care about what happened to this family. James where are you?

Where is James originally from? His accent is a unique mix of East Coast US and Eastern Europe

James, hello from Warsaw! Long time no hear. How are things with you? Missing your videos.

Are you ok?

@PlanetJames are you Ok? Please let us know.

Please just drop us something so that know that you are OK

Hello, are you alive?

Awesome video bro! Thank you!

Don’t let them in!! As an American who has visited Poland, they will ruin your country. There is nothing good about immigration

love you guys positivity

I heard he is dead!

Ukraina shit

Poland the most poor country in Union Europe ,,people in Poland are die for food

omg lol talk about new yaawk accent love it

Hi James, Long time no see you. How you've been doing? How is your family? Do some video, show us you're still there!

Hi James. We have not heard from you in such a long time. I hope you and your family are safe and well.

What happened to this channel nothing is uploaded anymore.

I would have chose Portugal

Long live Poland from Philippines

For your information life in the UK was better when there was a Soviet Union. This migration has affected us all. 20/30 years ago, about the time of Afghan war things began to change. Afghan also changed life in Russia too. The system in USSR made people what they are today in these countries. People need some get up and go.

Bud you've had plenty of time to evacuate! Russia has been winning this the hole time. Russia has the rite to keep the woke commies out of Russia

James is M.I.A

I wonder if they are still in Poland. Probably not or we would have seen another one of those every 3 month videos. I guess it's good I didn't get overly involved with anyone in the group? I still remember that fun day in Katowice. And we barely got to Krakow or Zakopane. There was so much more to see but I guess I will have to see it with Nynke. Last I saw she was in Wroclaw. I wouldn't be worried about her disappearing. She loves Poland so much. The family she worked for left and she stayed even though she didn't have a home or a job. And she's still there. I can never remember if she's the writing traveler or traveling writer But I think it's the first one.

Czyli co? Kanada?

You should see how Poland looked in the 90s. It was so much uglier and dirtier. This is what russian influence do to everything. Break free from them and you will se the difference soon.

What happened to this channel? It got tons of viewers and all of a sudden the videos stopped. It is a shame as I enjoyed these videos. Hope your family is safe. I too am interested if you are still living in Poland. Poland is really a great place. I think you would be happy there. I miss you talking about the balconies (lol) as well as videos regarding your family. Hope all is well. I assume you are looking to find a new ‘home’. If you are looking for an English speaking location you should go to Malta.

H. will someone else who is not from originally from Eastern Europe say all that too? about Eastern Europe:

wow, what can i say. Poland has got it all. i got carried away watching those neighborhoods you just walked through. Ill likely visit Poland. I am beginning to love the country

Planet James, czy Planjeta Wanja?

No to jak wszystko robia mieszkancy miasta, sami, to nie potrzebuja prezydenta miasta, ani prezydenta kraju, ani prezesa, no wedlug ciebie! Zastanow sie co piszesz. A, juz wiem o co ci chodzi , bo prezydent Warszawy nie jest pisowcem, dlatego😜 . Bylby pisowcem, to oczywiscie piekna Warszawa bylaby tylko jego zasluga, no wedlug ciebie😜

it doesn''t probably, the infrastructure, put many cities' in the US to shame... thanks for giving us a benefit of the doubt, BUT 100% puts ALL American cities to shame!!!!