I spent a few days there in 1996 when on leave from a deployment to Italy. It hadn’t been too long since the iron curtain fell and they were rebuilding from that. It was good to get to see it before it became touristy. Beautiful city with beautiful women, Czech girls are stunning. At that time I saw zero blacks, zero Muslims, & zero Asians. You could get by with English but it sounds like they’ve adopted it much more now.
It was really cheap then, the exchange rate was crazy & the cheapest place for beer was a bar that had been built in a nuke fallout shelter below the city. Some guy had rented it and put in a bunch of big oak tables and had a guy with a guitar singing in the corner & a few busty blonde Czech waitresses slinging beers. It was packed and the (good) beer was 11 cents a pint. Capitalism at it’s finest. There wasn’t really any public transportation and you had to watch out for the cab drivers, they’d rip you off once they figured out you were American and had money. As a rule though the Czechs loved Americans at that time, I hope it’s still the same.
I agree with KFWA about it still being Europe and having all the Euro issues, you’re never going to get them to give up on socialism, it’s too ingrained in them. Heck, we can’t get 90% of the U.S. to toss that garbage. I think the Czechs are probably more receptive to freedom than most of Western Europe though. Nothing makes you appreciate it like living under the Soviet Union for 50 years.
