I am from the south of Poland (next to Wrocław). 20 years ago I moved to Warsaw and at the beginning I had to take the time to like it. Today I can say that I love Warsaw with all my heart. And when I meet my friends who live in different Polish cities and tell them that I love Warsaw - I see big surprise in their eyes (what are you saying - how can you love Warsaw? For what?). My answer is always one: for it's energy! for possibilities, for what cannot be seen with the naked eye, but what is experienced every day. I have lived in various beautiful places (paris, washington dc, lausanne) but Warsaw is the city of my life. I wish you to experience the energy of this wonderful city that rose like a phoenix from the ashes.. and it s just the beginning:-)

Your video is promoting this city better than any other on YT. Thank you for that.

Hello my dear friends.. and THIS is why I continue to fall in love with Poland. With Warsaw even. You most definitely have me thinking, and contemplating my own future my friend. Yes, I live in a metropolitan city. Los Angeles. Sure we have diverse foods here. However, safe? Unfortunately this city is becoming progressively worse as far as safety. New York City? Where I’m from? Again, sure. Some absolutely beautiful architecture! Fantastic places to go, and of course to eat. I’m also a foodie, and crave different and unique options. Safe? It’s New York. So no, unfortunately. Not so much. You started with the infrastructure. And to be totally honest. I wouldn’t take a bus here if you paid me. Dangerous. Trains even. Any kind of metro here almost doesn’t exist. I mean it does… sort of. It’s a bit more complicated This is a car city or state even. You really need a car here. I know you know what I mean. I wish I could sit down and break bread and have a coffee and discuss this more… God willing next year! That’s my plan! So looking forward to coming to Poland 🇵🇱. So excited! I absolutely loved this video. Sure I love and appreciate all your videos.. but you’re giving me food for thought. Ahhhh see what I did there?? LoL. So much to think about. And in closing..The answer is….. No. my city or cities are NOT better than Warsaw. Who would’ve thought?? Much much love my dears🥰🥰♥️♥️❤️

I have to admit that your observations about Poland are very accurate. TBH I've never even lived in Warsaw, but when I moved from Poland to Berlin (5 years ago) I had an impression that I went back in time for about 10 years - I was shocked that Germany is so backward. It turned out that in many aspects Poland has overtaken the "west", is much more modern and, in addition, is still developing what is very visible, unlike in Germany. Both 5 years ago and now in Germany, there is still a problem with card payments, even in a big city like Berlin. When I lived in Poland, contactless payments have been in place for many years. In Berlin, it was not, and it was just beginning to appear - all the terminals were not adapted to it. Same with Apple Pay - In Germany at first nobody knew what was going on and when I wanted to pay with my watch, cashiers took the terminal and said that you can pay "only by card". Not to mention how many things in Poland can be done online. In Germany everything is sent by traditional mail and it takes ages to get something done. Self-checkouts began to appear only 1-2 years ago, where it has been operating in Poland for x years. There are so many things that make your life easier in Poland, that Germany doesn't have, there are thousands of examples like this. I don't even want to start talking about housing situation, sending CVs to apply for the flat as this is the worst aspect of living in a big western city. Flat offers are often disappearing after 10-15 minutes as they already have over 100 candidates by this time. When it comes to salaries, if you have education, white-collar job (especially IT, business or even such thing as UX design) you are able to earn exactly the same in Warsaw as in Berlin. + Warsaw still has this advantage that costs of living are much lower

I'm suprised, i thought 4 reasons will be wide streets, balconies, Żoliborz and biedronka

I am from Poland but live in Scotland. Your videos make me really nostalgic.

Fiat 126 was in fact produced under license by FSM (Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych) in Poland (Bielsko-Biała and Tychy). It is an iconic car of communist era in Poland.

14:21 I love how you skipped Moskwa 😂

For the Polish people here in other cities, don’t fret. I think he is mostly comparing Warsaw to major cities in other countries, not other cities in Poland. He is clearly a fan of all things Poland !

Gradually step by step getting that Polish language, love your small introduction in Polish to your vids, keep going guys really good attitude 😊

I confirm, Warszawa has got these four values. I would add one more value: it is clean. I lived there over 40 years since my birth, I saw how rapidly and it was changing. I recommend to make tour on bycycle around it to feel it even more.

Great video I like your editing and you're very confident in front of a camera. I'm glad my country's capital city has gained such amazing people as you both (or rather 3 ;)). Thank you for promoting Polish cities and Poland overall and allowing us to enjoy the content. I honestly have been watching your videos not only because of the commentary which is great, but also because of the shots you put in the video. I like the perspective you bring.

James, send this vlog to the Warsaw city office, its the ideal video CV to get a job as a city promoter 😆 Am glad you guys are taking in the city and feeling more comfortable with living here. We’re happy to have you here. :)

Greetings from Szczecin, we are waiting for you here

Warsaw of 10 years ago ... before Poland - Ukraine Euro 2012 football cup you could still see Ikarus buses in the streets, central railway station was a smelly, dirty place full of drunk homeless. No direct access by car to any highway, or even motorway. It was not entirely clear whether it would be possible to prepare the entire infrastructure: roads, stadiums, railway stations on time. Ultimately it worked.

I would add one thing for sure, 30% of the city is "green" ;)

i am glad to see marina talking more english she's getting a lot more confident and i think that is very important

There's so many people, because it's holiday weekend in Poland. 1st of May is Work Day, free of work for many people, 3rd we celebrate our first constitution from 1791, also free. Many people take a day out of their vacation time on 2nd May to make it a long weekend and, well, celebrate.

When I was in Warsaw at age 12...now 61 yrs old...they only had small food stands selling kielbasa on a stick with a roll. They had lody...ice cream and that was it. My sister and I did not like restaurant food...we loved out ciocia... aunts home cooking!!! My Polish relatives name is Weglewski & Klosinski.

14:00 what an improvement in Polish words prenaciation! damn, you got some linguistics skills bro!

I would add 2 more: Relatively cheap and extremely walkable and pedestrian friendly. The last one became paramount for me after living in a few cities around the world, Manila, Casablanca and New Delhi among them.

I am Iranian and visited Warsaw 3 times. I agree with you. Warsaw is very lovely city to live. I also recommend you Iranian restaurant in Warsaw. Its name is Tehran Restaurant. The Iranian food is also amazing. I have a request from you. Could you please make video about schools in Poland?

in a year you will be able to go on top of that big skyscraper 9:35, there will be 2 terraces for public. One at 230m and one a little bit lower but on open air and also there are trees planted there already. It will be amazing

Cities in Poland are built for the people not cars :). I'm from skarżysko-kamienna - and our public transport rocks! My fiance pays only 42 PLN per month as a relief ticket - full is for 84 - and she can travel all over the city for a month!

Try Georgian restaurants. Their cuisine is like nothink alse, maybe litle similar to the middle east food and there is a lot of Georgians in polands so also a lot of good georgian restaurants in most of polands gigger cities.

I recommend burgers in the Pogromcy Meatów (Ulica Koszykowa 1). Pogromcy Meatów is a play on words. This name sounds like Myth Busters in Polish. The English word meat is used in the Polish inflection of the noun. Pogromcy Meatów is to be translated as Meatbusters.🙂

I just wanted to say that several cities in Poland have these 4 features. 😉 You will like Krakow and Wroclaw. You forgot to add 5 points cleanliness. Polish cities are quite clean

Kiev is probab;y where Warsaw was in the 90s. I hope after the war there will be as many investments there as in Warsaw after access to EU.

I definitely agree with your point of view about Warsaw. Keep going and good luck 👍

When speaking about public transportation you missed a very important piece of it you probably did not yet discover. There is the "Warszawski rower miejski" system in place where you download an app, make a small deposit and can have a bicycle pretty much anywhere you need it. The best thing is that up to 20 mins it's completely free of charge. That's what makes it a real city transportation solution adding to the excellent system we're having here that you described.

14:15 just loved the way you ignored it 🤣👍

Glad Poland is treating you well!

Fiat 126p is famous in PL and very sentymental. Look up how Tom Hanks posed next to random cars and how the Bielsko-Biała company gaved him His very own Fiat 😊

If you have a driving licence check out the concept of hiding a car for minutes. There's a well known firm in the city. Thats also another option.

Just to clarify something. Before the WW2 Warszawa was called "Paris of the East".

Nice video, thank you for making and sharing it with us.)) I'm a Varsovian originally (on my father's side our family has been in Warszawa for several generations even before WW1), but we migrated to the West when I was a child. Yet I still come visit Warsaw practically every year, whenever money allows it, sometimes even more than once a year. My heart is tied to this city with an unbreakable bond, I really want to move back someday. You're right that it's very difficult to find all 4 of these aspects in tandem; in the UK they struggle especially on the food part haha, but when they don't it's usually either too modern or unsafe. The housing is actually surprisingly worse as well: England is a first-world country, but all these terraced houses are flimsy, damp, mouldy, cramped, and have very little greenery. Poland, on the other hand, is a second-world country and has all these intimidating tower blocks from the PRL (especially in a big city like Warsaw). However, these "commie blocks" all come with central heating, sturdy and durable quality, good ventilation, and they were built with people's necessities in mind - there is plenty of open space between each building with greenery, playgrounds, parking areas, etc. Shops, doctors, schools are all within walking distance. It's a greatly underappreciated element of the old state-controlled housing estates in Poland. Anyway, I'm glad you and your partner have found your place in Poland and particularly in Warszawa. It's always lovely to hear stories of people from abroad settling in and falling in love with my old hometown. Hopefully, I'll be able to do the same one day.

You should defenietly check out Wrocław some day! It's a great city! You won't be disappointed in food choices here :D

I Had a great burger at a little place on Nowy Swiat in 2019 This year it was gone so thanks for this reccomendation

You should visit Poznań. We have one of the most beautiful park in Poland i think - Cytadela. It's a park made on the old XIX centuries fortifications. City at itself is very modern and not as big as Warsaw but has a lot of open spaces which i like the most. Srsly, one of the best places to live in Poland.

In fact, most Polish large cities have these 4 features. The smaller ones sometimes have a problem with food variety, but that is also slowly improving. 0:15: So where are you planning to go this time? Wrocław, Kraków, Poznań, Olsztyn? We are waiting :) Remember that you can buy tickets for long-distance (and regional) trains without leaving your home :) [OK, I just realized, that free train tickets for Marina you can buy only on station or from conductor), but in some cases also on-line application would be useful]

Guys you should visit Bulwary Wiślane by night during hot weather. It is full of people and great pubs :)

true, I lived there for almost 10 years, and I was watching this changes. Greatings for You!

Dude, your making me really jealous with these videos!!!! Incredible delicious food and all these ultra POSITIVE points about Warszawa. (I know you are secretly getting paid by the PL government to promote PL 🤣). How's social life for foreign expats - making friends/connections? I'm glad you guys look so happy wondering through the streets. So did you pick a name for the 👶? Next time your in NYC and passing through Williamsburg Brooklyn, let me know, we need to meet up for a good meal - my treat.

You should definitely try Vietnamese here. Poland has a big Vietnamese diaspora dating back to the 70’s, So the food is really authentic. Check out the restaurant called „Vietnamka”

Warszawa was my hometown from 1970 to 1978. Then I emigrated to the USA [UT, CA]. Now I'm thinking about coming back for the last part of my life ... but probably Skierniewice - Lowicz area, or Czestochowa, Kielce, or Beskidy Mtns. I'm listening to all your videos because I need encorigement ... I spent about 900 days in Poland within 4 years [Aug.2015-Dec.2019] and still try to travel again without cov-vax.

I'm from Łódź (Poland) 1. infrastructure - We have it rather good. Our metro/subway is still not ready, but overall public transport is great. Some smaller streets in the middle of the city are often closed for renovations, causing annoying changes in the traffic routes for cars. 2. Food - We also have a lot of international food places here. Most likely to a smaller extent than Warsaw, but it's still large variety. 3. Architecture - Łódź has rather unique architecture on the scale of Poland. We are not like other Polish big cities with old castles etc. Instead, we are the city of factories and the whole city tries to keep that style as we prefer to renovate building instead of destroy and build new ones. We have small modern style areas, but it can't compare to Warsaw. You can still see how the city is evolving, and new cool buildings are appearing (either by being built or by being renovated from something old) 4. Safety - I'm not aware of any differences in this aspect between big cities of Poland. 5. Prices - Warsaw is more expensive to live in than Łódź. It's capitol after all. But you also earn more there. People in Poland tend to dislike Łódź. Even people from here often have some inferiority because of the lack of popular tourist attractions in a form of castles as well and the old buildings that "looks the same all over the city". I disagree. I notice a lot of beauty in my city after living here for 10 years. Architecture is actually really nice, with both the renovated buildings as well as simply well-kept ones. The wall paintings that were added over the decades adds the color to the most unexpected parts of the city. Whenever I notice some street looking uglier than others I get surprised by a sudden huge wall painting balancing it out and possibly even making my day, since even after 10 years I'm discovering more of those paintings as there are hundreds of them. You should visit Łódź when you're free. It's the closest other big city to Warsaw and well-connected, with lots of trains between the two every day.

My friend, you know my opinion about Warsaw (vs my place of birth). Anyway, I have been to the burger place when I was there during the drum camp that I have attended. The burgers were nice indeed. As I said today, you are looking great - the sun is giving you a great smile, Marina is looking great with the suntan - her belly looks cute and she seems like a very happy lady. Polski Fiat was a thing during the communist era. We had a factory that first assembled and later built from scratch these vehicles. Imagine a family of four traveling for the holiday in this car (it was called Maluch in Poland). People were traveling with their luggage on the roof and squeezed inside. Basically it was a car that was more or less the only option - the bigger fiat (125) and later Polonez were available to the richest or dignitaries and party members. Did you know that Tom Hanks was amazed when he saw the Polish Fiat and took a photo next to the car? After that, there was a fundraising and some folks found a well preserved Maluch, fixed it and sent to Tom in the States?

I hope President of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, will see your video. He attended high school in Bloomfield Hills, MI and I’m sure he will be happy to meet two wonderful Ambassadors of Warsaw 👌 P.S. Today Poland is celebrating National Flag Day 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

Warsaw is also considered one of the best cities in the world when it comes to vegan restaurants.

Another great video. Most of all I love your positive attitude towards many things that I took for granted and somehow at some point unfortunately learned not to appreciate them anymore. That's changing now (although food choice in Warsaw is hard to beat anywhere in Europe and I've always known that :D). You guys are inspiring me to go out and explore my own city once again. Thanks!

I'm just going back from Warsaw to Wrocław after my one day trip and in fact it is a great city, the day was so beautiful and the streets looked great with the leaves on the trees etc. The restaurants choice is increadible. I lived in Warsaw for 4 years and it made me tired though, so I moved to Wroclaw. But still every time I'm in Warsaw I like it a lot and feel nostalgia :)

I keep showing your videos to my children who don’t know country if their parents. Please keep your enthusiasm and awe.

Yep, I had the same feeling every time I came back from abroad. I am positively surprised how clean and safe the underground is. I just wonder how it would be if there are more lines instead of 2, because of course it is easier to maintain only 2 lines than 10 or more.

Haha, that's a brave title, people will argue with you till the end of time to prove how wrong you are. :P

You are 100 percent accurate with your views Love Warsaw in so many ways

I've lived in UK for few years and I have the same feelings about Warsaw as you. Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław and even Łódź ;) Polish cities are cool.

Warsaw tends to get very cold and depressing in the Winter. Good that you have positive attitude towards it :)

22:38 You are completely missing something that causes even me to say "wow! Look at those balconies!" I don't generally get excited over balconies. But wow!

I like how far you can go even by trains on the all transport pass. Today we went to veterinary clinic in Radosc around the time you were recording this (we live 5 minute walk from palace of culture and science) to catch a train. :) It seems you live nearby. I actually live in a totally f up place next to Varso Tower. I'm on Wola district, two błocks away on the same street ppl live in Srodmiescie, but on the opposite side of the street is Ochota. XD

You make me miss Warsaw so much and I haven’t even been there before.

3:15 Marina is pregnant, everybody will let her get out of que. It's unwritten rule here

Hi, It's pleasing to hear all these nice thoughts & observations about Poland and Warsaw in particular. But please, give us some perspective to believe you are not hypnotized by the country or flabergasted mindlessly by its charm. We all know this country is full of various pros and gems but...show us also your ability to speak about things that made you... hmmm not so happy :-) All the best. You could be our ambassador on the media :-)

Witamy w Polsce, proszę dopuścić do głosu Marinę :)

Marina is extremely modest woman, always smiling.

Also I am thrilled that you have found an apartment even if it will not be for a month. It is time to be "nesting" soon :-) I have heard that children who are raised in multilingual families speak later than other children, but then they catch up and they are multilingual. It is far from the time to be bringing this up, but I'm thinking of it now and I don't want to forget. I wish that I could have learned other languages when I was young and had more neuroplasticity. It's not that I'm old, But there is a certain time of life when your brain is more attuned to learning languages and your child will have that. Lucky girl. :-)

Kraków inhabitants ain't going to be happy with your ruling 😁😁 BTW, what was the conclusion yesterday? Are you or are you not planning to visit Sosnowiec?

Your Polish is improving constantly, congrats! Btw, was the burger worth the line?

Glad to see you like it in here :) All the best to the three of you :)

Hi, guys, I think you said you were living in Madrid for a whole year, in Madrid city or in Madrid Region? Here we have all those 4 reasons you mention to be an incredible city to live and I would say that the most important it’s feeling safe. I have traveled a lot and the safety we got here in Madrid it’s impossible to find in other western capitals as you said like Paris, Dublin, London and of course NYC. And do not forget we have Real Madrid F.C. the best F.C. ever! Greetings from Madrid (España).

I'd add that Warsaw is very green. It's one of the greenest capitals in the world and has really many places to relax.

you should check out Grochów. Start from "Plac Szambeka" and go to "Balaton" park

Please share your food reviews any time you try something new. Very curious to hear your opinions.

You do really good job for promotion of Poland. You can visit Gdańsk/Gdynia/Sopot and then the coast and beaches toward Jurata and Hel, go there when it will be over 20 Grad. There is a big museum of the WWII. Hel was the longest fighting polish military outpost in 1939. Sopot has the biggest polish pier and crooked house. Wrocław is very nice place to visit especially Stary Rynek/Old Market, which i really huge. Then you can see f.e. the mysterious castle in Książ. Good luck.

In Palace of Culture you should go on a tour to hear a little bit about this historic place. It is pretty cool looking building.

you are good people, I wish you all the best❤️

in Poland, the people are the best because they create the state

You have to visit museum of Warsaw uprising, it will get a lot in perspective, the things we had to deal in order to rebuild this city.

Yerba mate, the stuff with which "mate", a traditional infusion from Argentina and Uruguay, is made, Usually is served in your own "calabaza" (literally "pumpkin"), a vase wih a straw.

Thank You for that movie. Greetings from Warsaw, Ochota, Grojecka str.

If you enjoy Latin america food you have to check "Bar pacyfik", its amazing bistro with Carribean cousine

Polecam piosenkę ,,Sen o Warszawie” Czesława Niemena To nieoficjalny hymn miasta🙂🇵🇱🇺🇦

Would like to see a fifth value investigated given their impending parenthood - how child friendly is it? Playgrounds? Childcare? Preschools? Education in general?

I think it depends on what you want in a city. If you are a foodie, like James, then yeah, Warsaw sounds like a great place. But for me, I am not bothered if there isn't much to choose from in terms of restaurants, since I don't go out much anyway. So yeah, it depends on what you enjoy and what you want to experience in a city.

How about cleanliness and the clean bathrooms? I love that.

I recomend Greek restourant - Meltemi.

Thank you for another brilliant update - I love watching your videos and feel like I am watching the updates of two close friends (and of course Moysa 🙂) - I don't live in a city - I am a rural village girl 🙂I will have to visit Poland, you guys have convinced me and I hope we can meet for a coffee 🙂 - stay safe and head bumps to Moysa from the kitties here 🙂

About public transport in Warsaw, in a lot towns in Poland you right. They on time, a lot to choose, excellent 👌 In UK ist afawul, really afawul...

"Why [my city] Is Better Than Your City" -- You are becoming Polish, my friend.

You are such a great couple. All the best!

Instead of going to Pałac Kultury, you can go to top floor bar in Mariott, during happy hours you get same view with a drink in a lounge for a price of ticket to PKiN

Мені дуже подобаються ваші фільми. I like that you like Poland. у каждого города есть свои преимущества и недостатки. lar é onde você se sente seguro.

Nothing can win with 3miasto :) But You should visit Muzeum Motoryzacji i Techniki w Otrębusach - best place to learn about motorization in Poland and Europe.

Noooo, you are becoming true Warsawian. Now I have to fight with you ! :D l It's my duty since I am from Poznan! Poznan also have these 4 features :P

You are the second best speaker in the world, the first is my mother, maybe even talking in her sleep

Lovely t-shirts from Łódź I can see. I remember the video you were buying these t-shirts 😀Once again, I must say that I am very glad that you like my Warsaw. Btw in the course of breaking the Guinness record for the Fiat 126p, 17 people fit. Fiat 126p was for many years one of the most common cars on Polish roads, it also got many common names, the most popular of which - Maluch (Little) , became its official name at the end of the production of this model (1997). Just imagine hahahahahahha.

Hi. Hard challenge to win. I live in London and maybe we can compete in number of restaurants but surely I will lose if we compare public transport, and safety in London isn’t on the highest level to. Take care.

I suggest you to visit Ursus it s vary developping rapidly zone maybe more then anywhere else in the city

I agree with you and few ppl here in the comments. Warsaw is an "acquired taste". It gets better the longer you taste it, the more exposure you get to it. The one thing I could never quite find there was the parks and water, being someone who grew up in the northern Poland in the Masurian lake district, I longed for the space, clean forests and lakes while in Warsaw. Things improved tho in the capital. You've got a lovely walkway along the Vistula river these days, even some patches of sand locals refer to as "beach" :D I guess it's better than nothing and definitely better than 20 years ago when I lived there. each time I visit (every few yrs) I am absolutely shocked and amazed at the progress. Be sure to visit the business district with all the new modern tall towers with office space for the yuppies :D Summer offers some magic too, especially when there's world cup or some events of that nature. Go out watch a game or two with some ppl in the various squares while enjoying some food and drink.

As a ex warszawiak, warsaw person, will tell you one thing, wait till winter and the air quality will stab your lungs.Come and see Warmia with Olsztyn, Lidzbark Warminski,Ostróda, landscape lakes and wildereness.Guess what you will meet a lot of ex warsaw people, real one not jars, słoiki, same in Mazury.

Somehow I get the feeling that you like Warsaw : )