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Only an American leftist could look at the chaos and nonsense that is a former soviet republic and say "how can we replicate that misery in the US?"
Yes, because left = gulag, right? Let’s just toss all the discussion out and give our cash to the nearest billionaire.
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It's not for the top 10%. It's on the more expensive side of things but a software engineer should be able to afford it. There are other companies like Taxify or Liftago that are cheaper. The public transport works pretty well as well, you don't need to use taxis much if you live here.
But Software engineers are in the top 10%. (I'm a software engineer and use Uber in Prague every week or two.)
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Yes, because left = gulag, right? Let’s just toss all the discussion out and give our cash to the nearest billionaire.
Did you miss the part where the bridges were falling down? How can we get ourselves some of that?
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Taxi mafia is the only thing I don't agree with. Uber shaked that up pretty well.
Price-wise is Uber competitive or is it for the top 10% ?
There are local companies that are a bit cheaper, as others have already said.
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Yes, because left = gulag, right? Let’s just toss all the discussion out and give our cash to the nearest billionaire.
Did you miss the part where the bridges were falling down? How can we get ourselves some of that?
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Basically the problem of whole east europe (although we like to call ourselves central europe) - too much crap left over communist rule and twisted mentality (ie everybody for themselves, screw the rest). Extremely rich individuals openly influencing politics, laughing at the cameras and enjoying being in spotlight. Prague is a beautiful city to visit, be it for a weekend or a week. But living there long term sucks -…
> Czech love to constantly complain and moan about almost everything Funny, so do all ex-Yugoslavs, and I understand Russians do too. Could be some kind of Slav thing. Or communist :-)
How is life in Prague for English-only speakers who want to relocate for a few months? The city itself is so beautiful.
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Basically the problem of whole east europe (although we like to call ourselves central europe) - too much crap left over communist rule and twisted mentality (ie everybody for themselves, screw the rest). Extremely rich individuals openly influencing politics, laughing at the cameras and enjoying being in spotlight. Prague is a beautiful city to visit, be it for a weekend or a week. But living there long term sucks -…
No nature in Prague? Where did you move that's better? There is lots of nature within Prague: Petrin, Prokop Udoli, Divoka Sarka, Stromovka, Krcsky les, Kunraticky les, Hostivar, Milicovsky les,... Mountains (Krkonose... but you can ski there) are like 120km away. And there is lots of other nature areas within 100km, hills, valleys, rock formations, castles, dams.
But that's me, I love these high altitude places, and based on amount of Czech you can meet anywhere in the Alps even people there love them. The thing is, high mountains are the last place of true wilderness, rest has been conquered and cultivated long time ago and is usually just a substitute for things that were.
I've met people in Prague that didn't get this, they were asking what the heck am I doing in those stupid mountains. Everybody is different, the only thing important is to be happy with where you are. I've found my place (Switzerland, in 45 minutes drive I am right under Mont Blanc).
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There is a huge expat community, almost everyone speaks English and IT jobs are open to everyone and will help you with visa and sometimes even relocation. I worked in a company with hundreds of foreigners, they all like it here.
Prague is a beautiful city and they were generally friendly to me and didn't mind speaking English. Some don't and sign language helped when I traveled. But they knew I was a tourist (I was a brown Indian guy who is not exactly the type there ;)). One thing I found surprising for being an European city is how hard it is to find any kind of food past 9 PM. Maybe I picked a neighborhood like that to stay? Also, stores…