London is very Polish too.
Ealing certainly.
Go out of London to places like Leek or Scunthorpe or Castleford and you'll see a very visible Polish presence. The first, Leek, with a longstanding ccommunity and the second two post-2004.
London is Poland's 24th largest city
Ealing certainly.
Go out of London to places like Leek or Scunthorpe or Castleford and you'll see a very visible Polish presence. The first, Leek, with a longstanding ccommunity and the second two post-2004.
Go out of London to places
If you get out early enough you can hear the call to prayer being blasted from a loudspeaker......
JokesOnYou
19 May 2026 #93
If you get out early enough you can hear the call to prayer being blasted from a loudspeaker......
Laughable grifter bullsh*t that you seem to have swallowed hook, line and sinker. Tell me, what's it like to believe everything the orange vegetable reposts on social media?
If that's true, I guess Poles can't go anywhere without hearing the bells of Eastern Orthodox churches, as Ukrainians make up 7% of the population - similar proportion to Muslims in the UK. And as Mexicans make up a whopping 12% of your population, I guess in the USA you're just deafened by the sound of Reggaeton music everywhere you go, right?
I don't know what's weirder and more pathetic - that you think you're actually scoring points with this feeble, bigoted crap or that you actually believe it. Either way, you sure live up to your name, clown.
Ron2
19 May 2026 #94
I've recently talked to someone who visited Europe for the first time (Americans). They went to Italy (Rome), to Poland, and to London. They were the most excited about London. I was surprised as I thought they would like Rome more.
Tell me, what's it like to believe everything the orange
No idiot, There are dozens of YT videos of the Adan being played over loudspeakers all over the UK. Do some research you ignorant Fuk!
I guess, the joke on you! lol Coward hiding behind fake name.. go suck a dick fag-got!
JokesOnYou
20 May 2026 #96
@Joker
I should know better than to engage with a clown who gets all his information about the world from watching "dozens of YT videos" and calls it "research".
And I guess Joker is your real name? I don't have an account because I don't want to post here much - the presence of people like you, who just use it as an outlet for their impotent bigotry and laughable internet-derived beliefs about the world, don't give me much incentive to.
Jon is correct - it's against council noise regulations. The videos you're referring to are always from the same two or three neighbourhoods, and they've either been given permission to or are doing it as a one-off on a special occasion like Ramadan. Take it from someone who has actually lived in the UK and doesn't get all their information from YouTube accounts with names like PatriotsUnite.
Finally, you call me "f*ggot" but you're the one bringing up dicksucking out of nowhere like he's got an obsession with it. Sure there's isn't something you're not telling us, clown?
I should know better than to engage with a clown who gets all his information about the world from watching "dozens of YT videos" and calls it "research".
And I guess Joker is your real name? I don't have an account because I don't want to post here much - the presence of people like you, who just use it as an outlet for their impotent bigotry and laughable internet-derived beliefs about the world, don't give me much incentive to.
Jon is correct - it's against council noise regulations. The videos you're referring to are always from the same two or three neighbourhoods, and they've either been given permission to or are doing it as a one-off on a special occasion like Ramadan. Take it from someone who has actually lived in the UK and doesn't get all their information from YouTube accounts with names like PatriotsUnite.
Finally, you call me "f*ggot" but you're the one bringing up dicksucking out of nowhere like he's got an obsession with it. Sure there's isn't something you're not telling us, clown?
@JokesOnYou
Another sock puppet from the homo jon/ lazarus coalition.
Totally obviously, looks like its was composed by a 5 year old. 😆
Another sock puppet from the homo jon/ lazarus coalition.
Totally obviously, looks like its was composed by a 5 year old. 😆
JokesOnYou
20 May 2026 #98
Totally obviously, looks like its was composed by a 5 year old. 😆
You write like a five-year-old (whose parents let him view far-right YouTube during tablet time) so I guess you'd be an authority on the subject. I've seen Jon trying to explain the basics of apostrophe use to you - would you like me to enrol you in a kindergarten class so you can get the basics of it, or would that be too much of a temptation for you, as a weird far-right paedophile like your hero Trump?
No, btw, I'm neither of those users. I think at this point they know better than to feed the little troll. More fool me.
Ealing certainly.
Ealing has been very Polish all my life but also Kensington,Hammersmith,Acton and now Greenford.
I have NEVER heard the Muslim call to prayer in London.
There are dozens of YT videos of the Adan being played over loudspeakers all over the UK
Strange, I haven't seen any of them,maybe they are only available in The USA?
Ron2
30 Jul 2026 #100
"London's total population is roughly 9.1 million people, but recent Office for National Statistics data shows that over 420,000 people left the capital in a single year to move to other parts of the UK"
bbc.com/news/articles/cwyeq8w3zg3o
What happens, do Polish people leave too? Is it because of the London's mayor?
bbc.com/news/articles/cwyeq8w3zg3o
What happens, do Polish people leave too? Is it because of the London's mayor?
JokesOnYou
30 Jul 2026 #101
What happens, do Polish people leave too? Is it because of the London's mayor?
It's because rents and property prices are hellishly high. It's one of the most expensive cities in the world. Since remote work became more of a thing, people realised that they can buy a house elsewhere for half the price (even less in parts of the North of England, Scotland, Wales and NI) and take a train into the city to visit the office every now and then if necessary, or not at all if it's not.
Polish people leave London fpr the same reasons others do, and they leave the UK itself for two reasons: 1) they have saved enough money / accumulated enough assets working at UK wages (2x Polish) that they can now afford a very nice life back in Poland. 2) Poland is no longer the grim post-Communist wasteland it was when they left (usually shortly after Poland joined the EU).
It's nothing to do with the mayor, or anything to do with politically motivated lies/exaggeration about 'cultural enrichment'. As with most things in life, it's just money. London is very expensive (but London wages are good). Other parts of the UK, and Poland, are much cheaper (but wages are crap). Earn money in London, go and live and spend it elsewhere.
Is it because of the London's mayor?
People like him; he's on his third term of office.
to move to other parts of the UK"
As JokesOnYou says, it's about rental costs. There is rampant Landlordism and a high student/young population. Also overtourism in the centre.
do Polish people leave too?
Less so than native Londoners who often move to areas around London.
JokesOnYou
30 Jul 2026 #103
Also overtourism in the centre.
The thing is, though, that London is so huge that the overtourism doesn't even really affect residents much. Unless you go to Westminster, Buckingham Palace, the West End and a few other places where tourists cluster, you can go about your life largely avoiding them. This unfortunately isn't the case in places like Krakow or Gdansk, which are much smaller and the central places where locals go to eat and drink are full of tourists. The residential parts aren't as developed, so unlike in London, you can't just easily go out in your own borough/neighbourhood - everyone goes to 'the old town'. And then they have to deal with hordes of tourists there. And then they get arsey about it.
You couldn't pay me enough to live in Krakow. Like a sort of pound shop Prague with far too many tourists for its size. The locals love to act like it's the best city in Poland, though. Give me Warsaw or even Lodz any day.
you can go about your life largely avoiding them
This is true. I was in Kilburn a while ago and quite liked it. It's a London that visitors (even from the North) don't really see. Lot's of small independent businesses, none of them pretentious and some obviously around for many decades.
Krakow. Like a sort of pound shop Prague with far too many tourists for its..
A pound shop Lviv, even.
JokesOnYou
30 Jul 2026 #105
It's a London that visitors (even from the North) don't really see.
That's most normal, residential, non-central parts of London. The parts in South London with lower house prices (which is most of it compared to North and West) are even more down to earth. Kilburn has multi-million pound properties just down the road (St John's Wood, Maida Vale, Little Venice, etc), it's still kind of posh and artificial, especially nowadays. If northerners came to Croydon, for instance, they would completely rethink their ideas of London. Normal people, ordinary shops that have been there for a long time if they survived (running a business in London is brutal), people know their neighbours, there is an old fashioned sense of community that's been the same since time immemorial, etc.
Talking about small independent shops that have been around for decades/generations btw - what happened to those in Polish cities? Zabka has Wallmarted almost every 'off licence' / 'corner shop' in Warsaw out of existence. It's very sad.
A pound shop Lviv, even.
Here's the thing about Krakow:
It has what, four main attractions?
- The castle
- Kazimierz
- A salt mine
- A concentration camp
And two of those (latter) aren't even in the city. They're day-trips.
And in terms of eating, drinking, clubbing, culture and fun, it doesn't compare very favourably to innumerable other European cities.
So there isn't really much there. Except a sh*tload of strip clubs in very prominent touristy locations.
Then Krakowians are aghast and surprised that it attracts a lot of the cheap beer crowd. People who want to go on sophisticated cultural city breaks don't go to Krakow. You go there for a lads'/stag weekend or to see where your ancestors lived before the Nazis killed them or they fled Poland, but there aren't many other reasons to visit. That might seem a pretty brutal summary to Poles but it's true.
London is very Polish too. Ealing certainly.
It's Ealink Jon ;-)
Lyzko9bda5804d1f
4 Aug 2026 #107
New Yorkers once referred to Puerto Rico as America's fifty-second state:-)