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Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#101

Post by expertentipp »

saiya-jin wrote: post #39
emteycz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm Czech living in Prague. Last 4 years the Prague local government was led by ANO, the party led by StB (communist secret police) member billionaire Andrej Babis. Their campaign was extremely strong then and they won - today Prague is in horrendous state, bridges are literally falling down (2 more just this week), traffic is worse (extremely worse!) than ever due to idiotically planned long roadworks that have…

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 -…

I agree with the most of the above. Although the city is beautiful and has many green areas, renting in these areas is out of reach without heavy research and one is more likely to end up in the sad and gray districts. Attractive areas are basically inhabited by tourists and rich kids from Scandinavia and Anglophone countries, having some fun, trying to find a partner (and end up dissappointed - stop watching so much porn, kids!), then moving back after a year or two.

The nature of the outsourcing/nearshoring industry sets the top limit for the salaries at ~90k CZK annually and imply problems with finding senior professionals.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#102

Post by Latteland »

snidane wrote: post #100
emteycz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm Czech living in Prague. Last 4 years the Prague local government was led by ANO, the party led by StB (communist secret police) member billionaire Andrej Babis. Their campaign was extremely strong then and they won - today Prague is in horrendous state, bridges are literally falling down (2 more just this week), traffic is worse (extremely worse!) than ever due to idiotically planned long roadworks that have…

Your disdain for Krnacova [ANO] is palpable. Typical for Praguer, similar to disdain for Trump in major liberal US cities. You make them look like they actively go around destroying bridges. One footwalk collapsed by accident and people rushed to investigate other bridges to prevent another collapse. Of course they found them in state of crumbling down so obviously tehy had to be shut down/prepared for reconstruction…

Well, where on earth have the billionaire "tough" leaders been good for their country? Is there even a single example where someone is a billionaire, not in government who wins political power and does a good thing? In eastern Europe there's this additional common situation of rich billionaires who got their money from dodgy or likely illegal practices - they adopt nationalism because it benefits them to attack the naive and "weak" democratic governments. Think Putin.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#103

Post by Tsubasachan »

Latteland wrote: post #102
snidane wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your disdain for Krnacova [ANO] is palpable. Typical for Praguer, similar to disdain for Trump in major liberal US cities. You make them look like they actively go around destroying bridges. One footwalk collapsed by accident and people rushed to investigate other bridges to prevent another collapse. Of course they found them in state of crumbling down so obviously tehy had to be shut down/prepared for reconstruction…

Well, where on earth have the billionaire "tough" leaders been good for their country? Is there even a single example where someone is a billionaire, not in government who wins political power and does a good thing? In eastern Europe there's this additional common situation of rich billionaires who got their money from dodgy or likely illegal practices - they adopt nationalism because it benefits them to attack the n…

Its funny ain't it? How quickly the plebs run out to vote for some plutocrat. And such men of the people they claim to be!

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#104

Post by TomMarius »

yazr wrote: post #90
TomMarius wrote: post #53

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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.

Which neighborhoods can u recommend? Preferably walk-able with cafes etc and some expats..

Karlin, Andel, Vinohrady

Everything in Prague is walkable and has public transport :-)

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#105

Post by qwerty456127 »

roel_v wrote: post #50
qwerty456127 wrote: post #30

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> so prices of flats skyrocketed This was amazing. A friend of mine has bought a humble flat and got 100% profit on the investment in just a couple of years! What are the chances the prices are going to fall significantly? Should I advice him to sell now?

Probably best to not advise anyone based on random comments from some dude/dudette on the internet...

It's usually nice to advice as long as you don't insist you're right and as long as the person you advice doesn't follow your advices blindly but just takes your opinion and the observations behind it in consideration. For some people that can't handle advices the right way a misleading (and the chances it's misleading are always high) advice can be very harmful but for others advices from reasonable people that know what they're saying can be a valuable source of information. Anyway, that was me who has told him "my opinion is you should buy this flat now!" to remove his hesitations and it turned out a huge win, I feel like I should also provide a clue when to sell to secure it perhaps.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

#106

Post by [deleted] »

emteycz wrote: post #4
jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

Yes, I'm Czech living in Prague. Last 4 years the Prague local government was led by ANO, the party led by StB (communist secret police) member billionaire Andrej Babis. Their campaign was extremely strong then and they won - today Prague is in horrendous state, bridges are literally falling down (2 more just this week), traffic is worse (extremely worse!) than ever due to idiotically planned long roadworks that have…

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