I just wanted to tell you guys this story because I thought it’s interesting. I’m from Poland. Me and my family once went shopping to a mall. While there, my mom unintentionally left her purse on one of the benches in the shopping mall. She only realized it at home, when the shopping mall was closing (about 2h later).
We hurried back there and thought her purse had to be gone. Guess what? When we arrived, a security guard was holding the purse near the entrance. My mom showed the security guard that it was her on the ID (because the wallet was in the purse) and he gave it back to her with a smile. We laughed it off and went back home.
I still can’t believe how safe Poland is. (This took place in Bydgoszcz a while back).
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That is true. I feel very safe in Poland, especially Krakow
I never knew how safe (and clean) Poland was until I relocated abroad. Miss this so much!
Is Poland actually that safe because Poles genuinely respect each other and keep their shit together
Or is it mostly because so much of Western Europe has turned into a fucking dumpster fire of crime, gangs, no go zones, and random violence that what used to be normal in the West now feels like paradise when you step into Poland?
This happened to me in a random city in Spain…
I could say Spain is the safest country because of that.
Spoiler: It is not
Please don’t tell this man about Łódź
Poland’s pretty safe overall but DON’T leave your doors open at night and DO NOT forget to lock your car. Thieves are everywhere unfortunately. Otherwise we’re a pretty nice place xD
Oh stop this „Poland is the safest country” bullshit. It’s as safe as safely you go around yourself. I’ve been to every continent and been mugged only in Poland.
One story.
I’m Polish living on Tychy.
One day around spring 2025 just a few months after I passed my driving exams, me and my mom went to Gemini park. Since I yet had no muscle memory for anything car-related, after I Parker and tried to take the keys, I coudn’t get them (or just forgot altogether). I assumed my mom took them and we then just left. We went to Gemini for 1-2h, and when I returned I noticed the car was open WITH KEYS INSIDE….
I didn’t take the keys beforehand, they were inside and my mom thought I would take the.lm.
I only dared to tell this to mom some months later.
Thank God for the puny crime rates.
What do they not have there that makes the place so safe? I can’t figure it out.
What is the trick???
I bet the only thing the security guard did was smoke one of her cigarettes…. 😉
From posts here seems like kids are playing on rookie level these days in Poland.
Since moving to UK, I hear about how bad it gets here with stabbings, muggings, drunks, stolen bikes… And I’m like meh, we had it in the 90s, what’s new?
My no go area was next street, because, administratively, it was in a different city, so I was in the wrong neighborhood. Over the years I was chased, mugged, threatened, punched for no particular reason, thrown stones at. Maybe things changed now. If so, I am glad for all of you.
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A decade ago we were driving back from Warsaw to Berlin and stopped in a restaurant near the border. Had the baby with us and I left the baby bag, which had our passports inside and my wife’s phone, on top of the roof as we drove off toward Germany oblivious as can be.
We couldn’t find the phone so I called it and a Polish dude picked up. He had picked up our bag, and was dropping it off at a nearby Polizei station.
Up to the point till you walk through some backward villages as a foreigner with different looks and deal with a shitload of racists. Major cities are at least safer
As an American tourist, I (stupidly) had put my wallet in a plastic bag which I was carrying around for the day. While on Nowy Swiat, I ate at a restaurant with a terrace on the sidewalk and left the bag next to the street where I was sitting. After walking away and realizing that I forgot my bag, I returned about 30 minutes later and the bag was still there, in view of the street and all. I would suspect that in most places, the bag would have been long gone. So, respect to Poland for that.
True. I’ve always felt safe even walking alone at night as a woman. Never encountered any problems.
And my husband has this weird habit of leaving his phone anywhere he goes. He left his phone on tables in countless restaurants, in bathrooms and even on a bench of a train station. The phone is always waiting right where he left it unbothered and untouched.
Read about tourist traps in gogo clubs and tell me if it’s the “safest” country.
One of my friends lost his backpack in a library, which had his passport and macbook. They reported and they even find who stole it with the camera, but police didnt find that person and they lost everything.
Anecdotal evidence. This thing happened to you, once. You are over the rainbow. wow.
I’ve spent a half of my life abroad in a couple of different countries. The only one that I experienced being beaten up by someone (several times, must I add) was Poland – and I’m not considered an asshole by a general populace. But if some special units of Polish society consider you queer – and mind me, I’m not even queer! just have a less masculine voice – you’ll be abused repeatedly.
My friend had also been repeatedly abused on the street in Gdansk because of his skin colour. He’s the absolute calmest guy on earth, no matter if sober or after several drinks. He was not getting into any trouble, according to his fair skinned wife and friend that witnessed it.
I had many different friends being robbed of stuff in Poland a multitude of times.
So much of antiimigration circlejerking in this ****** thread. But somehow it’s always Poles born in Poland that were the perpetrators in these examples.
Ekhm.. are we talking about the same country even? I have a feeling people are not going out after dark and then only to the main square and back. Only last year in my friend group we had 3 street robberies without beating, one with beating hard enough to land my friend in hospital, I got threatened rape by a man in my building because I looked gay (I’m a woman), also some guy went down the street I live on and in a drunken rage destroyed ~20 cars, TWICE. Let’s not forget about well oiled Ukrainian mafia that sells shit ton of drugs with fucking doorstep delivery (xd)
The same things actually happend to us in Mexico, which is definitely not considered to be a super safe country. So it’s all about the people, I think. You can meet decent people everywhere. As well as scumbags.
But yeah, Poland is safe in general.
Edit: typo
Lower number of migrants from the middle east and Africa has nothing to do with this, right guys?
Poland has tremendously evolved over the last 20-30 years. Still in 2005 there were neighbourhoods in Warsaw where you really didn’t go after dark (looking at you, Praga & Targowek). Now you see families with kids, tourists etc. When I took a bus though these areas coming home from work, I really had to dial up my situational awareness to avoid tough situations. And people told me O was being reckless. Now it actually feels safe.
Reasons? Much more wealth (petty crime no longer pays), young people grew up in relative prosperity, and… yes, much less UNCONTROLLED immigration from less culturally compatible countries. The ~2m+ Ukrainians who came here since 2022 have integrated well and generally have a lower crime rate than home population, and the hundreds of thousands of people from Asia seem to be working really hard in professions locals no longer want to work in (food delivery, taxis etc) so a win-win.
my wife’s car is 2004 VW Polo. the remote is broken. we can still lock it with the key, but only one lock is working, on the passenger side.
and because it freezes in winter we don’t lock this car at all for a couple of years now.
we don’t leave anything particular inside, but still, nothing ever happened.
Polish city, population 120 k
Yea yea. Dream Your dreams.
there are certain things we take for granted in Poland. I dropped my wallet before my apartment building one day and some kids just brought it to me. they were knocking at every door, that’s one thing, but the other is, nobody false claimed the wallet is theirs.
Anyone who calls Poland or any eastern european country safe is either a bot or a regard falling for rightoid propaganda and dogwhistles.
How is it that anytime you look up the safety rankings poland isnt even in the top 30
How is it that its always somehow tied to migration (but only of certain descent)?
Some canadian in this thread claiming hes half polish despite being born in canada and having nothing to do with poland his entire life is typing out paragraphs on how in canada theres lots of drug addicts in the streets committing petty crime unlike poland of course where there is 0 drug/alcohol addicts in the streets that definitely wouldnt stab you if you looked at them wrong
Remove this post this is literal brain rot infested by passport bros and rightards
I wonder what is the factor that makes Poland so safe?
‘Diversity is our strength’ leftist Redditors are dumbfounded what could possibly be causing this anomaly lol
My door always open so is my car same goes for my famili dont know what you talking about unless is my city just being safe
I’m in a smaller city (Przemyśl), but I’ve experienced the same thing multiple times. I left my phone at a gas station, went back within half an hour and the attendant laughed when I came in holding my phone up. Another time at my nearest Zabka I dropped a bank card, same story, I looked along the entire route I had walked hoping to find it. When I made it back to Zabka, the clerk had it (we frequent it so much, he knows who we are). This would never happen in the US.
tell this to the thief that stole twice my bike seat
We had our dose of terror in the past – now its time to live in peace. 90 were super un-safe gangs were everywhere, every expensive, western car was at risk of being stolen.
It this some kind of psy op? I’m not saying Poland is not safe, but holy smokes, you drawing conclusion based on a single case in a mall in a big city.
I’ve been living in Poland for 32 years. Even though it’s definitely better than it used to be, you can still be attacked by a thug, robbed, or verbally abused. The number of times I’ve been verbally abused just because I had longer hair and piercings is insane. There is literally a new post on r/Polska where OP’s boyfriend has been harrased just by having long hair and carrying bag with rainbow pattern.
Osobiście wielce mnie irytują posty tego typu, ponieważ jeszcze jak są w ojczystym języku to pół biedy ale już po Angielsku na przykład brzmi to jak jawna reklama
This is true, we are a safe country, however you still should follow some rules.
1. Don’t leave any doors open (house/flat, car, balcony etc.).
2. Avoid places known to be dangerous (city folk know which streets or neighbourhoods are pretty bad).
3. Ensure not to antagonise drunk and loud people. Avoid eye contact, try to go away from them and if they lose you from their sight: call 112.
4. If somebody tries to rob you – don’t try to fight them (unless you’re pretty confident in your self-defence skills).
5. If you’re a woman: remember to watch out for stalkers and don’t accept drinks from people. In case of danger, remember there are a lot of friendly people around that will immediately help you in case of a stalker.
On a contrary, once I left a camera on bus stop and forgot about it because I was distracted by talking with someone, 10 minutes later the camera was gone I never saw it again, so I would say – it depends 🙂
Definetly Safe, but not the safest i could say
I guess noone just sees a personal thing and decides to steal it
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You’re from Poland and you can’t believe this story? It’s pretty normal here.
Idk if it’s me but I personally get scared during the night when walking alone
Safety =/= not stealing. Crime-wise Poland is definitely less safe thatn Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Czech Republic or Slovakia. Look at poverty, kibole and menels on the street, is that safe for you? When people talk about safety they mean..drumroll – migrants! And yea, in this way its safe if you compare to west. Other than that no, there are safer countries is post-Berlin wall belt.
I lost a golden chain with a pendant somewhere. Couldn’t say where or when exactly. I assumed that it was lost on one the walks with my dog. Looked up posts about found jewelry on a local Facebook group, there was one. I contacted that person, but it wasn’t mine. I wrote a post with a photo of my necklace and somebody contacted me right away. They found it in nearby shop 🙂