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I meant that I personally enjoy the cultural products of Czechia and its architecture over those found in the other 3. Yes, I did find the east of the Visegrad region backwards for my preferences. There are decent Slovak and Polish beers, too, but German and Czech beer is better. Especially in comparison to Hungary and Slovakia I enjoy Czech historical city centers and what they offer more, it doesn't mean the other 3 don't have much to offer in that department.
In terms of film I would genuinely argue about this however, because the Czech contributions especially to film tricks and animation have been enormous, as well as to comedic genres, there was the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 60s, figures like Karel Zeman and Svankmajer had a worldwide impact. Music, paintings and literature I did not bring up, as Hungarian contribution to classical music has also been very significant and I have enjoyed Polish art and literature, so it wouldn't be fair.
All I said is that only the westernmost regions had a cultural landscape I liked. For reference, I got lost multiple times in both the center and east of Slovakia and in Hungary, it was hard finding landmarks, navigating, even finding people who could point you in the right direction. Holidays in the Tatras were not comparable to the Alps, as soon as you got within view of civilization, I found the settlements downright depressing. Often slept in wooden chalets that had furniture beetles in them. I'm not exactly an urbanite, I grew up playing with garden dirt and watching my grandmother feed pork kidneys to cats, I don't have any problems with camping or the outdoors, but I never really got along with locals when traveling to these regions nonetheless. Compared to the west, many towns have also been made ugly and disorganised by new urban development in the late 20th and 21st century (albeit this is not an isolated issue, a lot of western Europe also suffers from it, it was just very pronounced in some eastern regions). Czechia and the west of Poland have maintained the historical character of many towns much better, compare eg Brno to Bratislava or Kosice, there are fewer modern buildings breaking the historical character of the city center and the amount of preserved buildings is larger. Not even going to bring Prague into the picture. Hungary has a lot of historical landmarks as well, some of them very well-maintained, some of them suffering from the same issues, but it is an alien country to me, I've never liked staying there too well.So only Westernmost regions have civilized people, interesting... infrastructure is partly true, there is a migration withing countries to bigger cities so it's natural there won't be many investment but they still are and these take much time to do, slowly it gets better
I didn't, but those 'national dishes' are still the popular ones and people will often get defensive over them. Trdelnik and Mangalitsa sausage are good, most Hungarian sausages are, but they're not the ubiquitous meal you think of when it comes to 'national food'. And really, I just wanted a fight. I'll throw in one more: I don't like Szegedin goulasch either!My favourite, did you basically summed up each cuisine in one dish? I wanna remind there is much more to these. Not to mention there is big common ground with these cuisines, so there is something you would like for sure, hundreds of types of sausages, sauerkraut dishes be it kapustnica or łazanki(pasta with sauerkraut), potato salad etc
Also unpopular opinion, Czech cuisine is a ripped of version of Austrian cuisine, there is no way to find anything Czech special, Polish have bigos, Hungarians came with gulyas and langos, even Slovaks came with Trdelnik which reminds of apfelstrudel yet it is made differently
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