A “gateway” between Western and Eastern Europe lies on the Charles River in the Czech Republic—Prague. It’s been a Western tourist hotspot for many years now. Many people consider it a city “overrun” by the Westerners. Ruined, and no longer worth it.
I’ve spent the last month of my travels here in Prague, and have had a good opportunity to contrast to a place further east–Ukraine.
With that being said, here are 10 observations I’ve made about Prague.
1. Yes, It’s Overrun, BUT…
That doesn’t mean you can’t find places that aren’t overrun. Yes, if you choose to stay in Prague zone 1, you’re going to have a drastically different experience. There will be hoards of people with selfie sticks, and fat Western girls wobbling all over Old Town (blocking the already narrow streets).
If you head out to Prague 2, 3, 5, etc., you’ll have a much different experience. You’ll get to meet some locals, try beer other than Staropramen, and avoid the throngs of tourists.
Of course, it’s important to note that Prague is a beautiful city. It’s natural to want to see some of the sights. If you choose to go this route, there’s simply no way around it.
2. The Reaction From Locals Changes Over Time
Simply put, locals are used to Westerners. And most of them roll their eyes at them. However, once they know that you’ve laid down some semi-permanent roots, they’re far more friendly.
Just the cashiers at the market below my apartment have done a complete 180 on me in the few weeks I’ve been here. It went from a general coldness that they show all English speakers to genuine warmth.
3. The Beauty (Of The City) Is Unreal
This is my third time in Prague, and I’m still blown away by how beautiful of a city it is. From the castle to the riverwalks to all the colorful buildings, it’s just a very pleasant place to be. There are a lot of beautiful cities in Europe, but Prague is definitely near the top of all of them.
You can’t really blame people for wanting to come and see it.
4. Cheap By Western Standards, Expensive By EE
Simply put, if you’re looking for short-term rentals—you’re getting hosed. And there’s not many ways around it. Prague landlords know the power of Western currency and know that the short-term stag parties don’t mind blowing it.
It’s far, far cheaper to sign a lease for a 3, 6, or 12 month period.
A meal in a nice restaurant will probably run you between $8-12 USD. This is incredibly cheap compared to places like Italy, Spain, or London. At the same time, it’s definitely a bit more expensive than places such as Kiev, Budapest, or some cities in Poland.
If you want actual numbers, I’d say it’s about 30% more expensive than Kiev. Probably about 10-15% more expensive than Budapest (the last time I was there was April 2015, so keep that in mind), and just marginally more expensive than Poland.
Of course (as I keep harping on this), it’s going to get cheaper the further you go from the Old Town area.
5. The Girls
I know this is probably a large part of the reason you’re reading this. So let’s break it down. The girls are hot. They’re not as hot as Ukrainian and Russian girls, but they’re a step above Polish women.
At this point, it’s easy to see that any and all local Czech girls living in Prague are basically immune to foreigners. You aren’t going to impress a girl by swooping in for a weekend and renting out a great pad with a view of the Old Town. In fact, she’d probably rather do almost anything but hang out in that area.
However, being a foreigner will give you some major value if you’re living there. In Colombia, girls will bang you just because you’re a foreigner. In Ukraine, they’ll probably at least give you one date for being foreign. In Prague, they’ll do neither—especially the high quality ones.
However, the same things apply if you’re living there (or coming back consistently).
Plus, it’s not exactly rocket science to be higher value than the drunken tourists stumbling around. Just keep your liquor in check, and avoid putting a GoPro on your head–you’ll already be ahead of the game.
6. Conclusion—Is It Livable?
When you come from a place like Ukraine, Prague feels much more like home. The English is better, and it has a more Western feel. You can find the larger supermarkets and other comforts that are often rare in the Former Soviet Union countries (Ukraine, Belarus, etc.).
The question is whether or not it’s worth it to deal with what comes with those Western amenities—high amounts of tourism and a general feel of it being taken over. There’s no denying that Prague has probably lost a lot of luster for the adventurous single man compared to how it was 20 years ago.
However, Prague is definitely a good spot for a digital nomad to settle in and get some work done. The internet is fast, the city is interesting, and there are good expat groups that put on cool things to do.
You could do a lot worse.
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Reading this has me thinking, what are some areas that will be up and coming poosy paradises for men? It seems like all the good ones we know about have peaked decades ago and are becoming more and more westernized.
If I’m going to give up my good job, family, friends, home, and lifestyle in USA, just to go to some place that’s not quite as bad, that’s not good enough. Where is a place that will be *improving* for young digital nomads going forward.
China seems like a possibility. The culture seems still somewhat controlled even as the economy and infrastructure improve. Note: I haven’t been to asia so this is all judging from afar–maybe some other Asian nations are better.
Russia – I think it all depends on what happens post-Putin. Russian women are definitely acting more empowered and slutty than before. Will this be contained, or will they let it go full retard?
South America – There needs to be a change in leadership–Argentina has been declining. Ecuador it’s hard to say. Colombia improving as in safer and more stable and the women are hot but becoming more degenerate.
Perhaps I would say Venezuela. It had some greatness in the past, things are pretty bad there now, so nowhere to go but up. Some real hotties down there. The problem is I don’t even know if you could get reliable internet in some areas now to work some kind of remote job. Please share any other ideas.
Don’t base your judgment on one article.
You’re saying Czech isn’t becoming westernized?
Big cities yes. But villages and smaller towns are not. We are critical when it comes to foreigners, but that’s not surprising at all considering our history.
Keep strong, although I assume that is a matter of one generation of villages getting westernized.
Cuba, maybe, now that it’s opening up. I imagine Albania and Georgia might also be unspoiled frontiers for those of you that are still single.
Albania? Better hang on to your kidneys, Bucky. You’ve been warned.
lol
Plenty more lolz when he wakes up in the morning in a tub full of ice with a kidney missing. Don’t bang random chicks in random countries.
Sucre, Bolivia.
I was there in June and it was a great place to be a digital nomad. Extremely cheap ($2 cocktails and $3 lunches), beautiful urban design, good weather, lovely surrounding countryside. It felt a lot like Andalusia in Spain.
The women looked good — not great, just decent to good — but you could find a few honeys. It would be an awesome place to live for a few months if I were working remotely, and especially for those needing to learn Spanish.
The hottest women in Bolivia (yes, they exist) are in Santa Cruz, but they’re narcomunecas. The rest of the country isn’t good for living (La Paz is a hole), just for sightseeing. Sucre is really exceptional.
I remember nearly dying in La Paz after spending quite a lot of time at Route 36. There were tons of hot women but most of them were euro tourists. Oh my lord that was a hell of a time.
Cocaine bars at 14,000 ft altitude … um, aren’t really my scene.
It was pretty awesome. I also did a bike ride tour that honestly should have been considered a suicide attempt. Nothing like riding down a sheer 15k foot cliff face with absolutely no safety standards after two days of hanging out in a cocaine bar that is open 24 hours a day
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2729754/A-15-000ft-descent-sheer-drops-300-deaths-year-Welcome-Bolivia-s-Death-Road-terrifying-route-tourists-love-cycle.html
If I’d had two or three more days there, I would’ve done la ruta de la muerte too. I chose to explore Lake Titicaca instead.
A tour guide told me that a 19-yr-old French girl killed herself on that road in June. She biked straight off the edge of the cliff while trying to take a selfie.
I skipped Lake Titicaca. I felt riding the road of death was safer than the lake as there was a 104% chance I would laugh myself to death the first time I heard someone say Titicaca. The bike ride was really fucking extreme and I had been doing some high quality blow for a few days. Def worth the trip.
Is it true that the food is atrocious? Roosh wrote about it in his book “A dead bat in Paraguay” and I recall that he said something along the lines of: “It is hard to avoid food poisoning in Bolivia”.
As I love Andalusia, I will have to give Sucre a try and see for myself.
The food in Bolivia is average at best. In fact, the worst meal in my life occurred there. Its only saving grace is that it’s cheap.
But Sucre is much more sophisticated. Good cafes, good bars, good education, better quality of living. My current gf is from Spain and she felt at home there. Even the street signs are Andalucian style. Also, more English than in other parts of the country because of the small but visible expat community.
Ecuador – Run by hardcore leftists who were “pressured” by the 0bama administration so there’s not much hope for it not experiencing further cultural decline.
Venezuela – even the US celebrities who proclaimed its greatness in the time of its past 2 administrations won’t go there now, bands of armed robbers roam the streets stealing food. If it is going to improve, improvement is a long ways off.
China – If Trump wins, China will decline. If not, western currency lowers in value while China grows, either way it sounds like a problem for Western ex-pats. Also the toxic smog that turns every day in some urban areas into a scene out of a WW1 gas attack.
Venezuela will be a great place to travel to in the future – once the current government will be overthrown…yes, the women are hot!! Currently it is too dangerous to go there but I’ll be one of the first to book a flight if the situation improves.
Many beauty queens come from Venezuela, and I can see why!
I also rate Colombia highly, the main cities are becoming safer and it is an exciting place. Go to smaller cities, such as Pereira or Bucaramanga, which are off the typical tourist track. If you speak Spanish fluently and have some game skills, you will have a great time there!
I live near Prague and I visit it on almost daily basis. Even after all those years, there are still new places to see.
where would you recommend, beyond the beaten track?
That depends on what you want to see.
I was in Prague for a long weekend in 1993. Met one of the most beautiful blondes I’ve ever seen and stayed with her and her roommates in their dorm. It was awesome. Almost no one spoke English and I was the first American anyone had met. Absolutely nothing seemed to cost more than 50¢ US, and yeah, the city is stunningly beautiful. I often wish I’d stayed, instead of going back to the US and finishing my stupid bachelors degree.
I had the same experience in 1995. There was exactly one Levi’s store and zero English speakers. I stayed with an old woman, back when they used to offer rooms for rent to travelers as we stepped off the train. God was she happy to see U.S. dollars. I remember a full 3-course dinner cost $4.
I didn’t meet any girls, but it was a strange and beautiful three-day weekend.
Oh dear. If you tell kids that today they won’t believe you.
Prague — EE Lite?
Why did I get banned?
Pretty random
It seems weird to think of the Czech Republic as not being a western country, given how far west it is.
Most of us Czechs do think we are western country, some prefer central europe but we still think of us as westerners, occupation by Russian hordes did not changed that.
Only those who consider us EE are pro Russian traitors and sellouts.
Prague sounds awesome. I have always wanted to Czech it out
Instead of asking should I go there you should ask yourself why the hell you have never visited it.
My traveling days are pretty much done. Other than my annual jaunt down to the Caribbean to unwind I have no more desire to see the world.
Hey! You should still keep a ride out to Ohio on the itenerary, bub. Or a meet in the middle in PA (which is a dull, boring state but hey, it’s in the middle).
My dear lolknee, are you telling me that you are not interested in a country full of gorgeous women, tasty beer and awesome guns?
Still, I am Hungary to see the place.
You’d love it. We can hit a pool hall and I’ll show you once and for all how well Iraq the balls on the table.
I am surrounded by gorgeous women, I don’t drink beer and I can live without the guns. Sort of possibly going back to the South of France I don’t see myself ever returning to Europe or really going anywhere outside of new York except the French civilized Caribbean until after I retire and even then I will probably not bother with Europe…I certainly will never go to asia, centrl or south America or aftrica. Hell, I won’t even go to New Jersey
ooops I replied to the wrong one lol
I Belize you that it would be fun but Uganda understand it from my point of view.
Can’t argue with that. Everybody has their preferences.
I did do some extensive traveling back when I was a young knee and I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything. I just find I become less adventurous as time goes on.
I’m surprised you’d turn down an opportunity to be surrounded by 50,000 young hot college girls. Have you turned and only Bangkok now?
Now you are just being a big Turkey
It’s probably indigestion from the Chile I had for lunch.
I thought you were Finnish’d but I guess Norway Jose
Har har, you think you’re a comedian like Paul Mooney, but brother, I’ll tell you this for free, you’re Nepal.
Well back in the day I lived in Ireland I was more serious about my comedy. I made a fortune in Ireland…the capital was always Dublin. That said, I am much more laid back now. You can find me in Cuba…taking it easy and Havana a good time.
Boy, you Congo in a lot of directions with that joke.
Imagine what a professional could do. You and I are just a regular Paraguays. I’m a guy and Uruguay. Kenya dig it?
(btw one of the hottest girls I ever banged was a blonde hair blue eyed girl from Uruguay….she was essentially perfect)
I Haiti to admit that you’re right, but you’re right. Everything you say is congruent and Israel.
I like Paraguay. It is very scenic and with a lot of mountains. When I go there I like to rent a Montenegro to show me around.
renting the Montenegro to show you around is just Praguematic (aaand back to the top)
Well if we’re looping, hopefully well get some New Zealand zest generated!
You jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive Turkey!
” I just find I become less adventurous as time goes on”
I hate to admit it – but this is my sentiment to. Lolknee are you going to retire Stateside?
My goal is to retire in a nice little house in Beaufort, NC. That said I have another 15 years before that is going to happen so a lot can change ya know
I hear ya – the south may successfully suceed from the union – who knows. I hear the mountains in western part of the state are nice too.
Who knows what will happen when. The south has been talking about leaving the union since they were a part of it. I think people on both sides need to stop treating trumps election like it is the heralding of some new age where civil war will change the world.
I hear the mountains are nice too. But I couldn’t live in the mountains. I need to be near the ocean and I need to be in, at least, a small city.
Screw jersey. Totally on board with that. But central or South America? Definitely on my list.
Been to both. I’m all done. I recommend going but I’m ready to settle now
You’re not Russian to get there, though?
Maybe he’s Finnish.
You guys are way off Den mark!
They say E. Europe used to be a very po’ land
U kraine your neck looking out the window on the train!
Yeah, it would be fun, but I don’t think I can get there this year, so I figure Latvia gonna do?
you could always get estonia’d
very few fat women in prague. The czechs rarely bounce
In prague they call abortions cancelled Czechs
yeah, never cross a czech or post-date one
I have observed that there are plenty of local fatties in Prague – far more than in Czech provincial towns and cities. This is because the easy availability of high calorie food just like in “the west” that you don’t get in a provincial town.
Maybe in the suburbs, and amongst older women, but when I was there I found the vast majority of young women in the central areas – 1,2,3 etc to be slim and attractive. Most of the fatties you see in the centre of Prague are UK or US tourists unfortunately
Prague is awesome, I can guide you trough best clubs/bars and college campuses to get quality beer and pussy <3
I knew it. I knew it I will find a fellow Czech under this article! Makes me quite happy.
I want to go find that uncontacted tribe down in the rain forest. Everybody is all like “nooo, let them be!” but we all know that Leftists will eventually contact them. I figure I’ll drop in with enough Kevlar and/or thin dense mesh chain mail to deflect poisonous darts, and then I’ll teach’em proper civilization. By the time some Leftist hippy team shows up to “enlighten them with sunshine and rainbows” they’ll find a highly trained village of warriors standing there with M4’s and who shoot anybody who says “problematic” on sight.
Oh, the blood bath that will ensue will be glorious. Glorious!
So anyway.
Yeah, Czech girls can be hot. I took two languages in the military, one of them was Czech. Now some smart ass, probably Tom, will start spouting Czech at me but outside of a few stupid phrases, usually joke based, I don’t remember shit. It was a nasty, awful language, it made Russian sound like gentle poetry on the ears. Since there was no call to use it after I left the military I let it fade into the void of my memory trash can, never to return.
The point of this being, I got to experience *all kinds* of Czech (and Polish, and Russian) women during my time at DLI. Fuck but they were hot. And nice too, very sweet. The Czech men were all really old (to me, at the time, I think they were all in their late 50’s early 60’s), but really cool, fun loving and laid back.
You know, it’s funny. I never thought I could feel this way, but seeing all these men talk about Czech women, I can’t but feel kinda cucked and hurt in something I can only call national pride. Heh. Not that I am entitled or anything, but having not grown up in the country that I feel the strongest connection to and never having had its women either … that makes me feel like much more of a failure than having failed with German women.
I know what you mean, sorta. My boss married someone from my ancestral homeland and for some reason it irks me as he is not “one of us”.
Silly really.
So I cocked her while he was out of town! Ho!
Lol! Yeah its weird. I wonder if thats how we are wired or if its some cultural ego thing that one just needs to get over. Maybe a bit of both.
“cultural ego thing that one just needs to get over.”
I think that’s it – its completely ridiculous in my case considering I’m three generations away from having anything to do with that place!
But it’s not exactly unthinkable that kind of stuff is stored in DNA or shit.
Luckily I don’t feel that way when some zio is pathetically boning some Asian ho. Because they have no value to me, ancestrally or no.
I’m white and almost exclusively attracted to Arab or Indian girls but I can’t help but to feel cucked when one of their men is with a white girl despite my low interest in them. I especially resent Arab men because white girls love them but Arab girls don’t like us white guys so much.
Nothing wrong with having a “type”.
Don’t get too upset and the choices/preferences made by women. I’m convince they’re mostly deranged anyway….
Ale no tak, jsi nikdy neměl Češku?
Ne. Vzdyt ja tam ani nebydlim.
मैं नहीं समझ सकता कि तुम क्या कहा
Wut?
That was kinda the point LOL
and to think – there’s still places out there that “dont accept Czechs”!
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“It was a nasty, awful language”
It’s damned hard but I don’t know that it’s awful. I don’t think an English speaker can really learn to speak it well in under five to ten years, let alone master it
It is, believe me. 8 years living here, still studying, and the more I learn, the more it frustrates me. I simply hate it. But that’s the price to pay.
been learning it sporadically for a couple of years. It’s a very difficult language to build upon as it is shifts shape a lot. It actually quite intrigues me though that even after this period I still see completely new words in pretty much every paragraph of news for instance, if not sentence
Time for me to vote now, if you haven’t yet…
get off your rump and vote for Trump!
Seriously, ROK? Fucking pop ups?
I’m not getting any.
#7. For possible expats – CR has the second most free gun laws after the US. Shooting is a national sport and and hunting is very common. Gun ownership is socially acceptable. The laws are still rigid compared to the US (eg national registration) but nothing like the rest of Europe.
That’s new to me…. maybe I should go “back to the roots”.
as far as I’m aware anyone in the EU living there can apply providing you can fill out the application form in acceptable czech (no minor caveat unless you can also have it done for you). I think its because gun manufacture is still a part of the czech economy.
Lax Gun ownership laws apply only to CZ citizens and *maybe* reachable at some extent to EU citizens.
Never thought I would find my hometown review here.
Well, I live here too (although not Czech) and I feel that Prague (and CZ) has been a little neglected or overlooked by ROK.
How does someone stay there for over 3 months though? I’d love to have the experience of living there for 6 months to a year, but I don’t want to go over my visa and become an illegal alien.
apply for temporary residence. Probably not hard if you’re a US citizen. Easier if you’re EU
What most americans do to stay legally here, it’s to register a trade licence and work as freelance English teacher. You must prepare a budget and hire an agency to do the paperwork. The bureaucracy is hell, and in Czech language only.
However you will be just another american sharing a 19th century flat in some shithole district with 4 other fellows in the same dire situation.
If you’re having trouble with the women, just do some kratom and ride your winged horse into town.
“There’s no denying that Prague has probably lost a lot of luster for the adventurous single man compared to how it was 20 years ago”
Indeed. The Czech Republic was reportedly one of the first of the FSU nations (Former Soviet Union) to Westernize i.e. their women started to skankify and adopt the behaviors and values of American females. This started happening around the 2000-2005 mark. Not sure why it was CR women of the FSU countries to first to turn to garbage, but it may have something to do with the fact that many of our famous supermodels in the USA came from Czech – though this is speculation.
A while back Roosh wrote an article that in Ukraine, American men are no longer the rock stars that they used to be to Ukraine females. The same is true about the Czech Republic. An American man in Prague is nothing special to Czech women – and this also includes the small towns throughout the CR. Trying to get with a hot Czech chick one will have to compete with the usual nonsense: their smartphones, social media as well as fashion and stupid shit.
This is very much the case with east european women – once you get beyond the novelty of a different culture and get beyond the language barrier, with each passing day EE females are showing us that the expression “women are women wherever you go in the world” is becoming true.
I do think though that visiting CR and the other FSU nations are worth it – they still seem to be a stronghold against their cultural destruction by not accepting immigrants, though I think it’s only a matter of time until they get strong armed into the EU shithole. But at least one can still experience some heritage and culture of old europe. But I’d recommend doing so now before all of europe – including these FSU nations become a vast islamic ghetto.
“Not sure why it was CR women of the FSU countries to first to turn to garbage”
One problem is that the country basically is western but was easternized. Another one is that communists had their own version of feminism. Communist liberation of woman from evils of patriarchy prepared women well for current version of feminism.
Interesting point. Indeed if feminism is part of the ideology of communism, one has to wonder what the females were like within their communist culture of that period. I suppose the only ‘alpha’ males the women could choose from were the men in positions of power in government; so then the only card the men could play was to convince a female he was a high ranking party member.
Prague is a beautiful (imagine a version of Disneyworld were people actually had lived for centuries) city, but honnestly, you have to know people there. Otherwise, it’s a giant tourist trap.
I spent a good while in Prague. It’s a pretty good mix of the western and the eastern, although it’s certainly pretty mainstream now, compared to the first time I visited in the 90s. Unlike big western cities like london and paris there are no obviously bad areas that I know of and in comparison both prague and places like budapest seem much safer (considering how hard a time the western press gives ‘xenophobic’ hungary, that especially notable for budapest). The old time gets wearisome owing to the tourists, but the mala strana is wonderful even outside of the castle district. Both Prague and Budapest are very liveable cities, with everything you could need. Cost of living obviously is a major factor, and since Brexit nothing in those countries seems cheap any more, but it was probably getting more expensive even before then. Still renting and eating is still much cheaper than paris or london, and comparable to what you’d pay in a small town in england or thereabouts. Given the pace of change in ‘eastern europe’ over the last 25 years it’s difficult to know what the future holds, but assuming things continue apace I’d expect Prague to become increasingly westernized. Some might say its already there and spoiled. I’m not so sure. There’s a good chance that globalisation will stop metastasising in the way it has done recently. The good thing about the czechs, slovaks, hungarians, poles etc is that they know what living under communism was like even if that memory is fading amongst the younger generation. There are still a lot of things which haven’t succumbed to the globalist borg collectivization process: you can still smoke in restaurants (which personally isn’t so good for me), people still drive and talk on mobile phones (not necessarily safe, but that’s the point), there are still ads of naked women in papers, advertisements and other forms of sexism / normality, and health and safety and litigation hasn’t gone mad (although I’m not so sure masonry I’ve seen falling from buildings in prague and budapest is a undifferentiated good. The women are pretty fine in both cities, but prague girls are unfortunately amongst the most tattooed girls in europe, although by and large their choice of tatts are far better than in England.
One good thing about European city is that you can walk around and visit 1000 year old castles and cathedrals and ancient historical sites unlike America where all the suburban cities are cookie cutter and there is nothing distinct about any of them.
This is one of the main reasons why I love visiting Europe. You could just walk out your hotel and walk EVERYWHERE and see something unique and interesting. America is basically the same thing all over. If you visit one city in America, you’ve seen them all.
Just want to go there and bang bitches…
I’m applying for a Holiday visa to Czech, was at the Embassy in Ottawa (Canada) a few months back. Well, it’s kinda bitch finding employment which is why I’m getting the “tourist Visa”. Basically you can work for up to a year on “contract”. Their is a larger ex pat community in Czech than other places in EE. When I lived in Hungary for school there was less English than Czech.
Good. And then start to talk about Russia. What they feel about Russia and what Putin means to them.
Talk! In Latvia also! Talk, They are arming themself!
Colombian girls are THAT easy? I hope it’ll last because meanwhile they meet guys like this on chaturbate:
strongbigdick:tu nombre deveria ser Perfeicion
trevido4u:la perfecion es un estado de espirito
trevido4u:asi dicia platao
decosols37:hola
queen_chanel:hello decosols