Due to Huge Economic Growth, Emigrants Are Back to This Country

Not long ago, they were quite poor, and newspapers mocked one of their largest cities, saying “the whole place moved to London.”

The river Vistula and the Royal Castle, in one of the most attractive cities in this country.

It was almost 10 years ago, and I started dating a girl* from a country that I had little knowledge about back then.

She told me she was from a city called Lodz (that is not really how you write the name of this place, but I cannot find the special characters here on this keyboard). I googled the city and found an article from the British tabloid The Sun (one of the best-selling British newspapers). The headline?

The Polish city that’s moved to Britain.

The article, later removed from the newspaper website after the city mayor threatened to sue them, had some grim descriptions of the place, like:

Derelict buildings, boarded-up businesses, crumbling masonry — the poor and elderly getting in line to buy bread.

Or

On Piotrkowska Street, which at three miles long is one of the longest high streets in the world, the cobbled thoroughfare is empty even in the middle of the day,

Or