@Wroclaw Boy
In fact virtually all Brits crave for village life as opposed to the opposite.
That's completely untrue. A certain kind of person, when they reach a certain age (usually with family and kids) gets sick of cities/towns and just wants to live somewhere quiet with a lot of space. That's something you see among middle aged family men/women and retirees everywhere. But me, I love cities, and so do lots of people I know. I would go mad living in a village more than a few weeks/months a year.
I would say that actually Poles are more inclined to village life. You can see that in how so many really loathe Warsaw - the only city here that I would say really qualifies as a proper 'big city'. Me, I don't like certain aspects of life here, such as all the menele, dog poop, Legia graffiti, but I don't mind the fact that it's a big city, all the people, etc. Many Poles are horrified by the fact that Warsaw is a big, busy metropolis and far prefer their cities in smaller, more manageable formats, such as Torun or even Krakow (which, to me, have more of a "historic market town" kind of feel, like Oxford or Bath or something. Quaint old town in the centre, lots of very quiet suburbs for them to have their big detached house, minimal blocks and concrete in between.
Re. "traditional mindsets": actually, I feel Polish women are far more progressive than men. You can see this in the voting figures and which gender tends to vote for which parties. Polish men are primarily the ones who want a wife who will stay at home, give him lots of dzieci, clean the house and cook him obiad every day without fail. Which, if this doesn't offend people too much, is part of why I think men from more progressive foreign countries are so much more popular with Polish women than Polish men are with women from those countries.