Millions of young Poles have left their hometowns and are arranging their lives in Warsaw, Wrocław or Krakow. Although they say that those who stayed there "live like doughnuts in butter"they themselves do not consider returning. Especially women, and this – according to the expert – leads to serious consequences. – "A farmer is looking for a wife" does not come out of thin air, these are real problems – demographer and social gerontologist, Prof. Piotr Szukalski, tells Interia.
No young female with a mind wants to live in a Roman Catholic Bantustan.
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A farmer better start paying fucking ZUS instead of finding a wife
Yeah, unfortunately for many careers, especially for fields like tech or finance, you either have access to one of the Large Four (Kraków, Warszawa, Wrocław, Poznań), are experienced enough to be allowed to work remotely – assuming the roles you’re looking for allow that – or you are kinda just fucked.
Source – programmer who lost his job last year, the closest of the big cities to me is Kraków which is 120 KM per direction, and it just so happens the best road is a paid highway with two toll booths.
This will change in time people think living in a hole in the wall in the city is amazing until they realize paying the same amount for a home in the country will give them a better life style. The issue is connections and commute to those bigger cities and the train line in małopolska from the krakow area will fix that, the fact you go around saying these small towns are all farmers is funny and shows you never lived in one lol
It’s the same in every country. Rural towns and villages don’t have the same opportunities as cities. Education, employment, entertainment, is all found in cities. There’s nothing to keep younger people living in a rural place. If anyone figures out how to fix it, they’ll be rich.
I live in a place like this, where out of my 25 classmates maybe 4 or 5 stayed after we finished school. The houses are cheap compared to any big cities, but your career options here are: store clerk in a market or 12h shifts in a factory 7km out of town. Other vacancies would be like 1 doctor a decade, 1 new teacher every 5 years, 1 office job at the town hall every 3-4 years, one of the two hairdressers will soon retire so maybe someone could open a new saloon in her place then and so on. If you aren’t lucky enough to be looking for a job when someone retires you can either leave or buy a car and commute to the nearest city, which is half an hour drive if you’re working on the outskirts close to the main road, or above one hour if you have to get to a place within the city. There’s nothing to see and nothing to do after work, there are two bars that serve beer and onion rings. Pros are, once you land a job you can most likely keep it until retirement and even longer and life here is cheap so minimum wage is absolutely enough to survive. If you want anything more from your life than going to work you’ll probably hate and returning home to watch Netflix, you need to move.
In the meantime, I really want to go back to my hometown