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Ostrava is pretty big compared to how many people live there, because a lot of places in Ostrava were built during communist planning, they were making wide streets and a lot of space between buildings and also, everyone has a vacation in summer, half of native people are somewhere in Croatia now and Ostrava really is not a target for international tourism, except some people who visit mines or have fetish in socialist-realism, because we don't have that much of it in Czechia (because we fell under communism in 1948 when soreli architecture was already ending) and what we have is mostly located in these miner cities like Ostrava, because they needed a lot of coal after WWII and everything for miners had to be big and nice. Later classic comblocks look different. Another thing is that Czechia is very car-centric nation, so you don't see people at streets, because they are all in their cars and they never leave them. Only city that is different and going in a western way is Prague, when you leave Prague, it's 100% "car-nazism" everywhere, when you walk, they don't even consider you a human, you are like some ant for them, they will drive over you if you don't wanna be careful. 😀 And yeah, Czech alphabet should be easy for you if you can read Latvian, just hook is softened sound, comma is long vowels, pretty similar to Latvian.
@@MakeAdventureHappen It very depends on specific region or city, I live in a small town and nobody walks here at all, but it's probably not really comparable with american car centrism. I would say that in our former communist countries, a lot of people still believe that real man must have a car and it's some symbol of adultness and masculinity and it's also generation problem. For example my mom and my grandma just can't understand that I just don't need a car and they force me to make a driver license and buy a car and be finally "proper man." I would say that this culture is not really a thing anymore in western europe.
1:55 - And now you imagine that at some stations, there is track in Czech, but platform in English, so it's just wrongly translated and confusing. They should unify it somehow or always show both numbers - platform and track and platform should be ABC...not number. But I am very "nazi" about these things, I would design everything better. 😀 3:18 - You are located in Silesia, you started a war by saying Čechy, that's just Bohemia. 5:50 - Most of today troleybuses are connected only in some places and in other palces, it goes like a battery bus. Classic 100% trolleybuses are located only in cities with long tradition where they never removed them, in other cities, when they return trolleybuses, it's mostly e-bus with trolley not everywhere. BTW, in Riga, you have the same numbers for buses, trams and trolleybuses, very confusing, especially when it's night and you don't even realize if you are going to bus or trolleybus, in Czech cities, numbers are mostly different, for example in Prague 1-30 are trams, 50+ trolleybuses (there are only 2 renewed lines now), 100+ buses, 300+ buses that go out of Prague and trains that go to near cities have numbers S1, S2 etc..., metro is just ABC, it's super simple. Some people think that S numbers for trans are pointless, but some trains have the same destination, but totally different route, so this helps a lot for fast identification of your train. 12:31 - These prices of beer are much lower than in my town near Prague, Pilsner Urquel here is like 37 or something. 😀
@@MakeAdventureHappen I know, I visited Latvia. 😀 But your trains go only like 80 km around Riga and to Belarus, I am waiting for Rail Baltica to be finished. 😀
I see the same in my homeland, so in a way it doesn’t surprise me. A few hundred thousand Latvians have done that (that’s some 15-20% of our total population)
No, this is not happening in Czech Republic, people are moving mostly to central Bohemia and Prague. Here in my town 30 km from Prague, half of people in our company are from Moravia, Silesia or Slovakia. Now when we have the lowest unemployment in EU for years, a lot of people are actually returning. Industrial companies that bankrupted in 90s are gone, but new things are starting, new bussineses and all companies are looking for people and they can't find them. So it's very weird situation that native Czechs move from Ostrava to Prague and companies in Ostrava have to import some Romanians or Ukrainians for work. It would be better if native people returned to these regions, but everyone beleives that they are waiting for him in Prague with good salary, but it's very far from reality.
@@MakeAdventureHappen I visited Latvia in 2018 and situation here in Czechia is not really comparable, some places in Latvia are completely abandoned, completely empty cities and villages and in Riga, most of workers in shops are Russians. Here in Czechia, this was never a thing in such a massive scale, population in eastern parts of country is going down since 1989, but it's absolutely not comparable with former soviet republics where literally everyone left after 1989. We had an advantage as industrial superpower of former eastern block (alredy in Austria-Hungary actually) and some companies survived pretty long time after revolution, they didn't bankrupt over night, so there was never work crisis, we have actually very low unemployment and that is stable for years. But after war in Ucountry started (I can't name that country, because youtube is censoring it), something massive is happening in last 2 years, another few years and it's gonna be the same as in Riga, you hear just russian in last 2 years. Official statistics say that there is half milion of them, but that's a nonsense, it must be like double or triple of it, so they will repopulate Ostrava and other more empty places of Czechia I guess.
About sixty thousands people has been left Ostrava since Velvet Revolution. Ostrava is quiet,safe and a little bit Ghost City. Main reasons: the wages are low, the managers in companies are grumpy and bossy, the city is corrupted and polluted. Modern architecture is build in low-cost standard. etc. etc.
Okay. I see. It was similar in my homeland, so in a way it doesn’t surprise me. A few hundred thousand Latvians have done that (that’s some 15-20% of our total population)
@@MakeAdventureHappen Main reason is that Ostrava was a capital city of miners, but mines don't work anymore (because coal is no more or they can't go more forward because of villages that are located above coal or some "EU" reasons) and also a lot of other big industrial companies bankrupted after 1989, so people had to leave for work between 90s and 2005, but they didn't return even when situation now is very different than in 90s. Now, we have low unemployment and people are slowly returning to these places, but it will take years. A lot of people are leaving Prague now, because ratio salary/housing prices is really really bad there (and it's getting worse every year) and they realized that life in places like Brno or Ostrava can be actually better and easier, in Prague, it's never ending war where you are constantly looking for better job to keep up with rapidly growing prices, you live in constant pressure and stress and people who migrate from cities like Ostrava have very distorted imaginations about capital city, they believe that everyone is waiting for them and they will all have 1500 eur after tax in their first job. Now I live in a small town 30 km from Prague and these villagers here have better living standard than people in Prague, only problem is that they don't realize it and still envy Praguers, but what they envy? Rent 1200 eur/month?
@@Pidalin Hi.I'm from Ostrava ,but I have been in UK long time. I think Prague is much better than Ostrava. My sister lives and works in Prague. She pays 500 Euro/monthly for rent and her wage is 2300Euro/monthly. She paid about 550 Euro/monthly for rent and her salary used to be about 1100 Euro/monthly in Ostrava. Ostrava is still very,very poor city. In nowdays another factory was embezzled in Ostrava. Liberty was embezzled by embezzler Sanjeev Gupta. Lot of people have already lost the jobs.It's huge disgrace 😞
@@Prudic1 2300 eur is salary for a manager or very highly qualified worker mostly in IT. You have to know that her salary is definitely not a standard. Most of ordinary people work in shops and other services and they are happy when they have like 1200 eur after tax. I work as a CNC programmer, I have pretty much responsibility for everything because I am only one there and still, when I get more than 1400 eur after tax, it's a miracle. But I have apartment for almost free from company and it's 30 km from Prague. But I have better salary than most of my friends who stayed in Prague, I can go to 2 vacations every year, they can't even visit restaurant, they just don't have money.
Most people go to Ostrava for the music festival or to go to the zoo or the museum. The city center is rarely busy. Ostrava isn't a very touristy city.
That's not 100% sure, a lot of people go to Ostrava to check social-realistic architecture and mines, it's also pretty big tourism, but ofcourse nothing comparable to Prague or some medieval towns.
Přívoz isn't a place to take walks with a camera out. Pick any other part of the city for that. There are lots of great laces to visit in Ostrava but Přívoz is a place where hearing screams is quite usual. Use the trams to travel, you can pay with a debit card (just tap it on the machine when you enter and when you exit)
Now, I know 😀 I just did like in all countries - googled, chose an area with some hotels (so I’m not the only tourists), and chose something near where I wanted to be (this time - bus and train station)
@@MakeAdventureHappen People always say "don't go to Nowa Huta district in Krakow" or "don'd go to Praga district in Warsaw"....I always go there and it's mostly totally fine there, people don't know what dangerous place really means. 😀
The area you rented the flat is crap an possibly dangerous - best to avoid it at night. Better rent apartments at the east side of the center. You rented on the west side
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