What are the poorest regions of Poland?

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DomPolskiThreads: 8 Posts: 35 Joined: Sep 13, 07 ♂	Edited by: DomPolski Jun 27, 10, 17:21 #1
In what condition are these places? dirt roads etc? any pictures. Regions, towns etc, etc

terriThreads: 1 Posts: 385 Joined: May 3, 09 ♀	Jun 27, 10, 19:15 #2
Define what you mean by 'poor' - poor in employment prospects, capita per inhabitant...what exactly do you mean by 'poor'?

polishmeknobThreads: 12 Posts: 162 Joined: Feb 9, 09 ♂	Jun 27, 10, 19:36 #3
Eastern border lands and south-central countryside (I hear-tell.)

sobieskiThreads: 82 Posts: 1,142 Joined: Jun 1, 08 ♂	Jun 27, 10, 19:44 #4
The Eastern half of Poland always has been the poorest and less developed. That was already so before partition time. One only has to take a look on a map of the railway network. The other side of the medal is that the nature and landscape are arguably the most beautiful there.

AvalonThreads: 3 Posts: 813 Joined: Sep 11, 07 ♂	Jun 27, 10, 19:48 #5
polishmeknob Eastern border lands and south-central countryside (I hear-tell.) I "here-tell", that we are in Afghanistan and Iraq to bring democracy to the people. Do you believe that as well?

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Jun 27, 10, 23:27 #6

It is very hard to say which part of the Poland are the poorest.
The general view biased on GDP on the level of woievodship show that eastern Poland is poorer than western .
But if you look more carefully and you have travelled around Poland it turns out that the poorest regions are the country regions of northern and western Poland (old collective farming areas).
I have never seen around Chełm or Białystok such miserable people as in villages near Gubin at the German border or near Koszalin and Bartoszyce in the north.
It is easy to spot if you use country roads - in those regions roads that are on the map which was printed 30 years ago are today often overgrown by forests because inhabitants just do not use them because they don't own cars while in Hajnówka or Suwałki nearly every villager owns VW Golf or sth. and the country roads are repaired even by private people because they use it...

If you look as unemployment map it looks similarly to what I told - the highest unemployment (about 30%) is in the western and northern countryside and in the parts of Mazowieckie woievodship that lay far from the capital.

Kind regards

Łukasz

SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13 Posts: 1,915 Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂	Edited by: SzwedwPolsce Jun 27, 10, 23:30 #7
sobieski: The Eastern half of Poland always has been the poorest and less developed. Podlaskie (North Eastern Poland) has now the best roads in Poland. Source Things are changing (EU-money).

terriThreads: 1 Posts: 385 Joined: May 3, 09 ♀	Jun 27, 10, 23:57 #8
Let's establish one thing. How 'poor' does a person have to be to be considered 'poor' i.e. if he has a job, what is the limit below which you would consider his/her 'poor'. Does owning your own house make you poor? Does owning a car (albeit second hand) make you poor? Does not having a job, but having other means of income make you poor?

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