Why do people say that Poland is so unsafe?

♂

Jun 21, 10, 20:50 #1

Hello,

I am half french and half Spanish and came to live in Poland.
Back in Spain, france and other countries, I heard people talking about Poland like if it was a super dangerous place where you will get robbed and beaten up by skinheads, get hit by a car and other stupid things like that.

I even heard from a Polish guy that "if you look any different in Poland, like if you have earrings, piercings, tattoos you will get attacked by skinheads bla bla bla avoid public transport", maybe it's because I live in warsaw, but after 2 years of living in Poland I actually feel it's the safest country I've lived in. Sure, i've had some looks cause my skin is fairly dark, I speak another language and are pierced, but no one has actually ever said anything to me, nobody ever touched me.

I got robbed twice in spain, and in france i almost got stabbed by a drunken guy on the street in the middle of the day.

I actually feel very safe here, take the bus, go around the city, even at night, and never had nay problems. In france and spain i had to watch my back all the time.

So why do people describe Poland as a super dangerous place?

convexThreads: 46 Posts: 7,185 Joined: Nov 25, 09 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 20:53 #2
Rage: So why do people describe Poland as a super dangerous place? Images of track suited AK toting Mercedes drivers running things. I'l repeat it here, this place is candyland.

RageThreads: 2 Posts: 16 Joined: Jun 21, 10 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 20:54 #3
convex: Images of track suited AK toting Mercedes drivers running things. I'l repeat it here, this place is candyland. I know, I really enjoy living in warsaw, and as i said i feel it's the safest place i've lived in, probably france/spain are 10 times as unsafe, and there it's a chaos. In here i can actually relax. Good that people say Poland is bad, people who appreciate it can enjoy it :)

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 20:55 #4
I also feel quite safe in poland but I'm a native.

vetalaThreads: - Posts: 512 Joined: Jul 10, 09 ♀	Jun 21, 10, 20:56 #5
Maybe it's because France and Spain only get news from Poland with headlines like "Black man beaten in Poland" and never "Black man not beaten in Poland, bought a postcard"

♂

Jun 21, 10, 21:03 #6

convex:

Rage:
So why do people describe Poland as a super dangerous place?

Images of track suited AK toting Mercedes drivers running things. I'l repeat it here, this place is candyland.

Completely true. I am living like six years in Warsaw and I am coming since 1989 regularly to Poland. Never experienced something bad criminal/dangerous here, and also take often the metro late at night without problems. My car is parked on the street and the worst thing which happened is that somebody stole two wheel covers from my Touran. Admittedly we do not live in a "hot spot". Bielany is not an "exciting" place at night. Praga might be different, from what I hear.
I think actually the biggest danger is from the absolutely deranged drivers I see each day on the roads.

RageThreads: 2 Posts: 16 Joined: Jun 21, 10 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 21:14 #7
sobieski: absolutely deranged drivers I see each day on the roads. It's quite bad, but when i was in Rome for my holidays i thought my life was in danger. Those guys there are ******* out of mind.

sobieskiThreads: 82 Posts: 1,143 Joined: Jun 1, 08 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 21:43 #8
Rage: sobieski: absolutely deranged drivers I see each day on the roads. It's quite bad, but when i was in Rome for my holidays i thought my life was in danger. Those guys there are ******* out of mind. Actually my brother-in-law thinks that the average Warsaw driver is quite civilized compared to the Paris ones. Is this the case? I have no idea.

enderThreads: 13 Posts: 528 Joined: Nov 7, 09 ♂	Jun 21, 10, 22:05 #9
If to so great so be it. Why don't you stop this thread I don't think we need more foreigners in Poland. There is so many more "safe" countries i EU. Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech, Austria, Hungary, Island, Finland.

♂

Jun 21, 10, 22:25 #10

ender:

Actually my brother-in-law thinks that the average Warsaw driver is quite civilized compared to the Paris ones.

The French will run you over on crosswalks; we will too.

This thread should be deleted, and these rumours that Warsaw is safe should be ignored. We are homophobic, racist, antisemitic, psycopathic thieves. If you don't believe it, just search this forum for all the convincing threads that prove otherwise.

I personally know a foreigner who got his bicycle stolen on Marszałkowska in broad daylight.

Don't say that you weren't warned by 1jola.

♂

Edited by: Rage Jun 22, 10, 00:07 #11

1jola:

The French will run you over on crosswalks; we will too.

This thread should be deleted, and these rumours that Warsaw is safe should be ignored. We are homophobic, racist, antisemitic, psycopathic thieves. If you don't believe it, just search this forum for all the convincing threads that prove otherwise.

I personally know a foreigner who got his bicycle stolen on Marszałkowska in broad daylight.

Yeah, crossing the street in france is like russian roulette.
I am just talking about my personal experience, and poland isn't so bad. In Warsaw i can take the metro at 12:00PM and nothing will happen to me. I can go to clubs and if i dont disturb other people, i won't get into fights (never happened to me).

In Spain i will probably get robbed on the metro, and i can't walk at 2 am alone. So why you say warsaw is so unsafe? Because there are homophobic/antisimetic people? Those are everywhere, just that from what i see, in poland most of those are on forums and there are just a few incidents, and where i lived crime was every day stuff.

I think people in warsaw don't know what unsafe means. A bike stolen? Hardcore crime. I almost got stabbed from a guy who took my wallet and didn't think i had enough money with me, this was in broad daylight. Some people saw, nobody called the police or did anything. My car's glass was broken in the day in spain because i left a half-packet of cigarettes on the seat, and another time because i left a nice jacket in my car. And more stories of things that happened to friends and myself. In some neighbourhoods, you have to be back home before the sun goes down, police won't even come to you if you are in trouble.

Really, from what i saw warsaw is nothing to worry about. And a jew and a black guy who get beaten up once every month, bikes and cars getting stolen doen't mean the city is unsafe.

ender:

Why don't you stop this thread I don't think we need more foreigners in Poland.

Don't worry, im not here to take your jobs and your women, im working in a spanish company.

alpacino88minThreads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: May 22, 10 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 00:18 #12
ender be ur self n alittle open minded plz

RageThreads: 2 Posts: 16 Joined: Jun 21, 10 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 00:19 #13
alpacino88min: be ur self n alittle open minded plz What's that supposed to mean? Could you explain how i am being close minded and not myself?

♂

Jun 22, 10, 00:22 #14

I guess it's a little different when you retuen to Poland as a tourist.Let me give you a few examples.My uncle went back for a visit to his hometown Zielona Góra.He got beat up and was robbed.My dad went to visit his hometown in Wroclaw---he also got got rolled over and robbed.My buddy just came back from a trip to Poland and ended up in the hospital.Guess what----He got beat up and robbed.----Am I ever going back to my country ??????I'll give you two guesses and neither one is "yes" !!!!!!. I am told they can pick outl tourists from a mile away.

♂

Jun 22, 10, 00:28 #15

polkamaniac:

I guess it's a little different when you retuen to Poland as a tourist.Let me give you a few examples.My uncle went back for a visit to his hometown Zielona Góra.He got beat up and was robbed.My dad went to visit his hometown in Wroclaw---he also got got rolled over and robbed.My buddy just came back from a trip to Poland and ended up in the hospital.Guess what----He got beat up and robbed.----Am I ever going back to my country ??????I'll give you two guesses and neither one is "yes" !!!!!!. I am told they can pick outl tourists from a mile away.

I've been living here for 2 years, and never got robbed. And none of people who came here to visit me/holidays got robbed or attacked. I think it's common sense too. If you walk alone in praga after a legia game, wearing gucci belts and talking on your iphone surely something will happen.

rychlikThreads: 51 Posts: 446 Joined: Aug 6, 08 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 01:06 #16
Rage: So why do people describe Poland as a super dangerous place? It's the Jew media of the west that likes to stereotype Poland like this. Because there is no other logical explanation for why you would think this, is there? What brought you to Poland?

♂

Edited by: Rage Jun 22, 10, 01:08 #17

rychlik:

It's the Jew media of the west that likes to stereotype Poland like this. Because there is no other logical explanation for why you would think this, is there? What brought you to Poland?

Work, the company where i work, i have a contract for 4 years in poland, but the thread isn't about my job.
I just can't see why everyone in western europe describes poland as dangerous when their countries (our countries) for what i experienced are way more dangerous.

♂

Edited by: MareGaea Jun 22, 10, 01:11 #18

rychlik:

It's the Jew media of the west that likes to stereotype Poland like this. Because there is no other logical explanation for why you would think this, is there?

You're not even living in Poland. So who the heck do you think you are to speak for Poland? It's not the Jews that created the image of dangerous PL in the rest of the world. Maybe Poland doesn't have a dangerous image abroad? Just because flippedyflop says so, doesn't mean that it's actually true.

Rage:

I just can't see why everyone in western europe describes poland as dangerous when their countries (our countries) for what i experienced are way more dangerous.

I'm Western European and I've never heard that Poland was dangerous. I've heard that the Poles were annoying and only after your money, yes, but never that it was dangerous to be there. Unlike Russia, for that matter. But I never go after what ppl say, anyway.

>^..^<

M-G (told you that I would kick your butt if you would say silly things)

SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13 Posts: 1,915 Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 01:13 #19
London, Paris (in fact most Western European capitals) are less safe than Warsaw.

♂

Edited by: Rage Jun 22, 10, 01:14 #20

MareGaea:

Maybe Poland doesn't have a dangerous image abroad? Just because flippedyflop says so, doesn't mean that it's actually true.

Well, i have no reason to lie, im just saying what i heard before coming here. If you ask the average spanish person, he will think that poland is a 3rd world country where you will get robbed instantly, when in spain the odds of getting robbed are waaay higher. And now that im living here i laugh at those people.
I don't go after what people say either, infact i accepted the job. I just can't see why many people picture poland like that.

♂

Edited by: MareGaea Jun 22, 10, 01:16 #21

SzwedwPolsce:

London, Paris (in fact most Western European capitals) are less safe than Warsaw.

I think that every European capital or big city is safe, as long as you know the places where you shouldn't go on your own or when you're unfamiliar with those cities.

Rage:

If you ask the average spanish person, he will think that poland is a 3rd world country where you will get robbed instantly

Ever heard of prejudice? I'm for example from the Netherlands and if I have to believe all that ppl who don't live here have to say about my country, then everybody is on drugs and all girls are prostitutes. I think you shouldn't pay too much attention to gossip like that.

>^..^<

M-G (every city is as safe or as unsafe as you want it to be)

♂

Edited by: Rage Jun 22, 10, 01:19 #22

MareGaea:

Ever heard of prejudice? I'm for example from the Netherlands and if I have to believe all that ppl who don't live here have to say about my country, then everybody is on drugs and all girls are prostitutes. I think you shouldn't pay too much attention to gossip like that.

Yeah, i agree. Infact i didn't do so, and i'm glad im living here, when ill leave in a couple of years im gonna miss it.
Oh, and people talking **** about NL are plain stupid, one of the best countries i've ever been in <3

♂

Jun 22, 10, 01:31 #23

Rage:

Oh, and people talking **** about NL are plain stupid, one of the best countries i've ever been in <3

You'd be surprised how many of them idiots hate NL :) But there has been always a special bond between the Dutch and the Spanish; after all if you manage to fight a war that last for 80 years, it must be sth special that you have with each other :)

>^..^<

M-G (you will always be welcome in NL)

♂

Jun 22, 10, 01:37 #24

MareGaea:

You'd be surprised how many of them idiots hate NL :) But there has been always a special bond between the Dutch and the Spanish; after all if you manage to fight a war that last for 80 years, it must be sth special that you have with each other :)

There indeed is. The prejudice shown to NL is stupid. How is not wasting money on a war against MJ, but regulating it and killing illegal trade making a country bad? I think only a great country can have the balls to do that, and that's just an example, netherlands a very nice country from almost every aspect i think. I liked everything in NL, people were very opened and fun. I think i never had a boring night, the dutch are tall and blonde but make more noise than us spanish people.

frdThreads: 8 Posts: 1,956 Joined: Feb 3, 09 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 01:49 #25
MareGaea: Ever heard of prejudice? I'm for example from the Netherlands and if I have to believe all that ppl who don't live here have to say about my country, then everybody is on drugs and all girls are prostitutes. Exactly, and it's exactly the same as the bias against poles for supposedly being homo and xenophobes... rubbish

♂

Jun 22, 10, 01:55 #26

Rage:

the dutch are tall and blonde but make more noise than us spanish people.

Well, some of us do indeed, others know how to behave themselves. I've been to Spain a few times, the first time was on a beach vacation (you know, Salou and all that nonsense), but me and my ex got bored after two days, so we decided to visit the cities inland and we had a great time...So much that we went the next year as well. Spain is so much more than just drinking, sunbathing, fcuking and having an hangover on the beach...

frd:

Exactly, and it's exactly the same as the bias against poles for supposedly being homo and xenophobes... rubbish

That's what I'm saying, bro :)

>^..^<

M-G (yet another cola wodka for a change)

vaswThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: May 30, 10 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 04:27 #27
Any country in the world is dangerous if you go to the wrong place at the wrong time,even in Melbourne (Australia) their are places that i wouldn't go at night for fear of stabbings and fighting.

King SobieskiThreads: 7 Posts: 1,106 Joined: Jan 22, 07 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 05:45 #28
vasw: Any country in the world is dangerous if you go to the wrong place at the wrong time,even in Melbourne (Australia) their are places that i wouldn't go at night for fear of stabbings and fighting. yet indians that live in these areas and travel to their homes late at night think these are racist attacks not just dangerous places that you shouldnt be.

1jolaThreads: 33 Posts: 2,737 Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 08:02 #29
The most dangerous element in Warsaw are the female gangs. If you have a bad habit of sitting down in trams in the winter or you like to shop at the outdoor markets, you will be their victim sooner or later. They are fierce, stout, brutal, surprisingly agile, and if you lock eyes with them, you will pee your knickers from fear.

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Jun 22, 10, 08:07 #30
1jola: The most dangerous element in Warsaw are the female gangs. If you have a bad habit of sitting down in trams in the winter or you like to shop at the outdoor markets, you will be their victim sooner or later. They are fierce, stout, brutal, surprisingly agile, and if you lock eyes with them, you will pee your knickers from fear. You are to old to make such jokes...

POLAND . The Unofficial Guide	Unanswered \| Archives
POLAND . The Unofficial Guide	Meet Polish People at PF!	Witamy, Guest \| PF Members \| Gold Members

Home \| Unanswered \| Archives \| Random \| Statistics	Time in Poland: 05:25 / May 27
About Us \| Contact Us \| Rules, Privacy \| Poland Advertising	© 2005-12 PolishForums.com