r/europe • u/xCheezyCZ • 2d ago

Picture Every country stressing about homeless people, meanwhile Poland with double side benches:

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u/tchofee Lower Saxony (Germany) 2d ago

I once laid down on a bench in Poland (Toruń, back ache, waiting for the Ibuprofen to kick in) – and in less than 10 minutes, I had a police car next to me asking what I was doing there...

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u/xCheezyCZ 2d ago

I was just sitting in Krakow with my girlfriend and like 20 people were just staring at us like we was sitting where we shouldn't be sitting.

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u/Alternative_Gur_2100 2d ago

OR you were just there and they were Poles. I'm from that area and the way people stare at you intently for no reason affects even me. It can totally give you an impression that you're doing something/looking the wrong way at any moment. My mother's been living in a different country for a decade now, and it seriously pisses her off when she visits. I imagine it must be troubling for many foreign visitors. Admittedly, it appears to be less of an issue in Warsaw.

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u/mahboilucas Poland 1d ago

I have social anxiety and it's always worse in Poland. I lived in the Netherlands and Austria for months on end and when I came back it felt almost too intense at times