Insight into practices of Warsaw's multilocal residents: spatial and temporal arrangements, motives, types of residence and use of public services
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https://doi.org/10.12775/bgss-2025-0021Keywords
mobility & migration, urban studies, multilocality, residential mobility, WarsawAbstract
The article aims to present the multilocal residence practices of Warsaw inhabitants by focusing on four key aspects: the distribution of living arrangements across space and time, the underlying motives, housing solutions, and patterns of use of public services. In this exploratory study, we describe selected results from the first ever analysis of multilocal residency in Poland, which was based on data obtained through a nationwide research panel carried out in 2023. Here, we focus on multilocal Varsovians (n=445).
Analyses indicate that having two places of stay not far from each other was dominant among the group being researched. A concentration of places in the Mazovia Voivodeship was evident, as was the long duration for which multilocal residents had used both areas of stay....
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