I will be moving to the Katowice area after the first of the year. Can anyone recommend a safe neighborhood for an Irish gentleman? Any tips in general about living there? Thanks Here is my e mail. Venez11@safe-mail.
I am living in Katowice. When it comes to place where you should rent a flat etc. it depends as well where you gonna to work, so the distance wasn't too big. There are some place where I wouldn't recommend you to live, but I think even if you ae going to look for a flat you can assess on your own, whether the are is friendly or not.
If you have some specific problems/questions let me know, I will try to advice you.
Haniaa..Please do suggest a nice middle class area for me that is safe. I have been using spollokator.pl to find a room,but no one seems to answer my request...in Polish! Any problems bringing my car? I am a semi retired Barrister and I plan to start at ground level, an English Language Service. Any advice in general? Venez11@safe-mail.net James
buy an old cheap used car in Poland instead - you can pay not much really but don't expect it to last - and you won't have and old avarage car vandalised unless in some really bad neighbourhoods (but I'm not really familiar with Katowice or Śląsk in general)
Hi, you cannot register a RHD car in Poland. It would be better if you buy a used car in Germany and drive it accross. The neighbourhood around the Silesia shopping centre is a nice area. All the apartements are new built and you have the shopping centre on your doorstep, its only a 4 min drive to Katowice centre. If you are looking for a drinking place, you could do worst than Spencers.
oh, come on. why so many negative opinon about katowice region?
yes, it's industrial area, but for God's sake, that's was a problem in XIX century...
Brasstacks, i see that ypu are planning to use a car here. it will be better and cheaper to buy something here than fighting to register RHD car.
About nice place to live: there is a plenty of it in the area. you can choose between Dabrowa Górnicza and Gliwice, both around 30 min by car to Katowice centre.
It's easier to say which place ypou shouldn't choose:
Katowice: Załęże, Szopienice and Zawodzie districts. Sourroudings of Warszawska street is also not recommended. Chorzów: Batory, Stary Chorzów Będzin, Bytom, Mysłowice: whole cities Sosnowiec: Niwka, Modrzejów districts
I recommend city of: Dąbrowa Górnicza, Tychy, Mikołów. a little further away from region centre, but you don't need a car, public transport is well developed.
my friend from uk visited me last week. he don't speak polish at all, but he managed to get to me with regular public bus :)
Obviously a long time ago if you think the two compare.
Stroll down the Wicker and wander in Brightside and you could be in Gorny Slask.
To the OP, both are reasonably safe places. Industrial regions that have long passed their heyday.
Then again, if you removed all the posh 1930s architecture from that area behind Katowice station, you'd have Mexborough. And the bits of Sheffield round Gleadless etc could pass for the arse end of Gdansk, round Przymorze or the wrong part of Wrzeszcz.
It's more or less the same now ;) The train station can be unsafe and it's generally less safe than here in Gliwice. Plenty skinheads in Katowice and Silesia in general. However, they tend to leave white Europeans alone if they are behaving themselves.
I can't really comment as I've never been to Sheffield. However, I do seem to recall Michael Palin showing a few parts of it (he is from there, right?) and finding it to be very grey. A bit like Aberdeen and, I'd say, Katowice too. If you are saying both are dreary then that would seem to be the case.
I take it you prefer The Blades to The Owls then!? ;)
Katowice has very few green areas compared to here. There is more discontent too but it is still safer than some other cities. Like any other city, it has its bad areas and its fairly good areas.
If you're not in Katowice yet, you can see how various neighborhoods look like through Google Street view: google.com/maps/place/Francuska+GTC+Sp.+z+o.o.+Centrum+biurowe/@50.2480831,19.0272532,1631m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4716ce4cfaee94b1:0x5d0ecb1ea7b28467
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