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VaFunkoolo   
17 Jan 2009
Real Estate / Real Estate hits a new low in Poland [86]

but I think the best place to invest is in property is in the US.

As I was saying, better deals to be had at the end of 2007 when the $ was a lot weaker.

Properties are at bargain basement prices but the GBP doesn't go nearly as far - $100,000 house would have cost me about 50,000GBP end of 2007 - same thing now costs closer to 75,000GBP.

For example, the cost of the property would have had to have dropped close to 40% in the last year for it to be any way near the same sort of proposition. The properties I was looking at haven't seen drops as large as this. In fact some of them has risen in value
VaFunkoolo   
15 Jan 2009
Real Estate / Real Estate hits a new low in Poland [86]

but the US dollar is a different story to the zloty

Of course. But the point is that these, and other currencies, have not been alone in their fluctuations over the last couple of years. My knowledge on the currency market is as limited as yours, what I had tried to say was that there are factors other than face value that will influence the best time to buy.
VaFunkoolo   
15 Jan 2009
Real Estate / Real Estate hits a new low in Poland [86]

it is doubtful prices will go up this year at all so there is no real need to rush out and buy asap

This is probably true, but it is also worth considering what is going to happen to the currency. Take America as an example - prices have largely dropped since Christmas 2007 but the value of the $ has strengthened. Better deals to be had earlier rather than later
VaFunkoolo   
9 Jan 2009
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Maybe this is why you are struggling to understand?

Au contraire. I can confidently say that I have lived in far more multicultural environments than you and built a very different understanding of the world
VaFunkoolo   
9 Jan 2009
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

I consider myself to be a moderate poster.

You are a moderate poster but your opinions are largely incomprehensible to me. I find many of them abrasive and struggle to understand where you are coming from to have formed such an understanding of the world.

Personally speaking, this is the first opinion you have epxressed that I have had some respect for, let alone agreed with

It's all fairdinkums
VaFunkoolo   
9 Jan 2009
History / The movie Defiance is a big lie (heroes that saved Poland suppored communism) [102]

Many Polonians are disgruntled over the film. Some see it as a deliberate attempt to distort history and glamourise Jewish anti-Polonism.

The film does nothing of the sort. This just confirms that 'many Polonians' will take offence at anything preceived in the slightest way polonophobic. Which the film isn't

Why not just see it for what it is - a good film produced in Hollywood
VaFunkoolo   
8 Jan 2009
Life / POLES' ENGLISH COMPARED TO EUROPE AS A WHOLE? [39]

Why? I think we are in agreement.

Sorry Sz - comment wasnt directed at you - I just used your quote to start my ramble... Yes, we are in agreement
VaFunkoolo   
8 Jan 2009
Life / POLES' ENGLISH COMPARED TO EUROPE AS A WHOLE? [39]

It's all about motivation to learn not ability to learn in our case.

I imagine that unlike many people on the forum I speak and write to communicate and not because i like the look of my words or the sound of my voice.

It seems that for many, learning a foreign language warrents a badge of some sorts - a selfcongratulatory pat on the back at the very least. I speak 2 of the 3 most commonly used langauges - I can communicate with a lot of people in a lot of places. Great. Job done

When I move countries I learn the local language I need for basic survival and niceties - everything else is largely done in English. Its easier. It's not worth my time or effort to bother learning the local lingo. Not being rude or anything like

Why, as a native English speaker, should I have some sort of shame thrust upon my because I cant speak half a dozen langauges to perfection? Is this about communication or some sort of competition. Englighten me. Please
VaFunkoolo   
6 Jan 2009
History / Poland Betrayed in WW2 [243]

And then you constantly hear that we did nothing for Britain, let's help Ghurkas, cause they did

Why are you comparing the Ghurkas to the Polish, you uninformed fool?
VaFunkoolo   
1 Jan 2009
Work / Looking for a Finance job in Poland [11]

Poles simply don't understand

This is a point made here time and time again and you know what, sometimes you just have to let them live in their ignorance
VaFunkoolo   
31 Dec 2008
USA, Canada / Why would someone leave Poland for the US? [120]

However, Clint Eastwood played a Polish guy in his latest film. He was called a 'dumb Polak' and 'hard-nosed Polak'.

Yes, and the character he plays when called those names is a bit of a kunntt, no?

Apt, really
VaFunkoolo   
23 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

My folks, quite well off in Aberdeen, were surprised that I could watch as many Youtube videos as I wanted. When I was there in July, my viewing was rationed.

Isn't this more to do with the pakage they have bought into

Public transport isn't as bad as people make it out to be here.

I am not a fan of public transport but am happier using it in Poland than in England
VaFunkoolo   
23 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

What seems to be undeniable is that Poland is way behind Western Europe and will take some time to catch up, regardless of how upsetting it is for some to accept this

But in recognition of this fact, how about a little credit to those who are aware of this obvious gap and have no qualms about pointing it out

I spend at least 30 to 45 minutes waiting in a long line snaking outside my local post office / corner shop to post my letters.

It's probably worth pointing out here that the majority of people in the queue will be foreign. The Brits, living in 21st century Western Europe, have bought themselves computers and send emails
VaFunkoolo   
21 Dec 2008
Life / POLISH "WIGLIA" -- NOT JUST ANOTHER BOOZE-UP [12]

Non-Poles who have experienced a Wigilia with a tradition-minded Polish family are usually amazed, surprised or even moved, since they rarely have anything in their own realm of celebration that even comes close in terms of symbolism.

What an absurd thing to say - many cultures place higher traditional importance to the celebrations of 24 December than 25, each in their own special way.

How many different cultures have you actually had the opportunity to experience this time of year's festive celebrations in?

Really, some of the things you write, P3...
VaFunkoolo   
14 Dec 2008
News / All this mess about Danzig... [122]

Taking a purely objective stance, the best thing that could happen to the tri city is to be handed over to the Germans. A qucikly glance at the bastardised mess of Sopot, brought about in large by the greed, incapability and corruption of those in charge, should be enough to convince the rational of this
VaFunkoolo   
11 Dec 2008
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Thats not what I said. Read carefully before you jump to the defence of your parents' people

Second thoughts lead to an edit, huh

Thats what happens when you speak without thinking

Be carefull because you only dig a deeper hole
VaFunkoolo   
10 Dec 2008
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

In fact, what is more conspicuously absent is a sense of respect for women, judging by your and Vanfukoolo's post's against certian female forum members on this topic.

Danny me ol cobba, you might still be living in the age of chivalry in that back of beyond country you inhabit but I live firmly in the 21st century where women are not immune to being called twats, if they are in fact twats.

In the country I call home, respect is earned, not dished out as some right that people are born to. Given what seems to be an inherent misconception on many things, you probably find this concept a little hard to comprehend which, in tern, would explian why I think you are a twat

Did you get that?