Abstract
12 years has passed since the East European Revolution. The Central Europe has been drastically changing in all aspects. Generally speaking, the Central Europe would have been developed in both economically and in the viewpoint of the quality of life. Under these processes, one of the characteristics in the Central Europe is that disparities of social levels and regional disparities have been growing up. For example, agriculture and rural areas, which played a important roll, is considered as “a loser” now. However, we can observe there have been diversified aspects in rural areas. The present development and characteristics of rural areas would be mainly depend on the following 2 points: 1) how have the State farms and Cooperatives in the socialism’s era become? 2) how many employments without agriculture are there(the advance of industries into rural areas, commuting to the urban areas in the neighborhood, developing of tourism etc.)? This presentation shows, how the 2 rural areas have been changing. The one rira; area is Dunajska Luzna, located in the outskirts of Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital city, the other is Wegorzyno located in the northwestern part of Poland.
