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Gdynia is an often overlooked neighbor of the famous Gdańsk. Together with Sopot and Gdańsk they make Trójmiasto (Tricity). I live here for 7 years now and this agglomeration together with Kashubian surrounding is my fav place in the earth. Worth visiting if you want to see Poland

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Yeah it’s a cool city. I especially like it for the modernist buildings:

https://modernizmgdyni.pl//en

Beautiful! I see where the Bauhaus comparison comes from.

I could never see the touristic appeal of Gdynia, but it is (or at least used to be) the very best city in PL to live in. I wouldn’t trade growing up there for anything. Unfortunately life displaced me to my least favorite city :)

> Unfortunately life displaced me to my least favorite city :)

Warsaw?

Probably Gdańsk, the typical neighbors conflicts between Gdynia and Gdańsk are common here, since the cities are very close to each other and thus compete for the same resources

I personally enjoy each of the cities and the Kashubia and Kociewie surroundings, it’s just each of these places has its own soul and unique culture

As an American tourist, I have gone to Gdansk for work (at the University) and then trained over to Gdynia for a kitesurfing vacation.

But as a Californian, the two cities feel as different as Arcata and Eureka.

It's a nice place, but prices have been going up. Right now, on Otodom, cheapest 100m² apartment in Sopot is north of a million.

For the same price, one can find a full house, bordering on 300m², in the forests around Warsaw.

I would have loved to have bought into the tricity area a half-decade ago.

> For the same price, one can find a full house, bordering on 300m², in the forests around Warsaw

No you can't if you want a remotely nice house that is not in the middle of nowhere and fully car-dependent.

There are nice houses in that price range around Otwock, Piaseczno, and similar.

1.5M-2M is sort of the price range for something big, nice, and not car-dependent right now. You can find things less nice below that.

If you're willing to go as far out as Nieporęt or Grodzisk Mazowiecki, there's a ton of things below that. It's certainly not car-dependent; lots of stores nearby, but it is a decently long train ride if you want to come into Warsaw more frequently, at least if you mind working on a train.

If you don't mind car-dependent, it's a lot cheaper than that. Places outside of Otwock, near Park Kampinoski, and similar can be had for a song.

> Gdynia is an often overlooked neighbor of the famous Gdańsk.

Both of them are just up the Baltic a bit from Gdenmark and Gdeutschland.

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