A: I’m not happy these days, you know; I feel dejected, spiritless. What do you do when you feel like that?
B: Well. I’ve tried traveling. I have been to Warsaw twice when I felt that way (“sad”would be odd), but it didn’t help.
You are relating your past experience from the present point of view. This usage of the present perfect is called EXPERIENTIAL or RESULTATIVE. “Resultative” means that your recalling the experience of trips to Warsaw (not necessarily their futility) is now relevant and the resultant experience still valid and worth mentioning now.
The present perfect is another stativizer: in any of its uses it yields a state that holds at the moment of speaking.
edytowany przez Janski: 08 paź 2024