Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Thank you, I will.

I was being lazy, and looking to avoid all the unnecessary bumpf!

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Thanks Sean,

I'll look into that. Another question out to the forum as it were: What sort of money do I need to surive out there? I mean for a 'comfortable' lifestyle; smokes, a few beers, a few saturday nights out here and there?

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

I'm from sunny Manchester!

Realistically, what's a decent wage to get by on?

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

I have tried. 3300? Plus I can get a UK tax certificate, so no Polish income tax to be paid?

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Well money was my main concern to be honest.

Any no go areas?

Thanks so much for all the help by the way Sean

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

So basically like any other large city, with the problems that come with it?

No worries, forums are as forums do.

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

I'm not the sort of person to go looking for trouble, although my mouth often takes me there. Hopefully, my subtle nuances won't cause too much offense here though.

Never been to Poland before, brave step for me really. But hey, you only live once!

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Coolio, as long as I have enough money then all's good in the hood.

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Well, that in itself is complicated so the short version:

Qualified as a teacher this year but didn't want to go into teaching full time in the UK yet.

Didn't want to do supply work either, nor waste a year earning and burning in a crappy temp job.

Spilt up with my girlfriend a while back and have been living on my mate's sofa for a while so thought that since I have no ties or commitments I might as well work abroad.

Did some research and thought about teaching English. Poland is an exciting place, heard Kraków was amazing and am a history buff, so I put all these things together and ended up getting a job here!

Jobs a good un

Work / Moving to Krakow to teach English, need more tips on life in Krakow [27]

Oh I'm there, just here in spirit.

USA, Canada / I want to move to Poland from North America, I'm 19. Please read. [8]

Passport is your first option to go anywhere really.

Being from North America you can come for 90 days without a visa, but I'd imagine if you'd want to stay for any longer you would have to demonstrate why you would be of benefit (degree, teaching qualification etc etc) and then apply for a visa.

News / Poland's Future Includes Fewer Poles, More Foreigners [324]


Meaning what precisely? The streets aren't paved with gold?!

I don't think anywhere isn't hype. Just as a foreigner from a rich nation might be satisfied with the prices in a poorer nation, they're gonna gripe at the infrastructure, services and poverty. There are no ideal places to live.

But signing up to the EU will increase Polish prosperity, it may just take a while to do so. Look at places like Ireland, Greece and Spain. Hell look at the UK.

Having said that, joining the EU shouldn't just be seen as some sort of cash cow to milk and then once you've had enough of that complain about the numbers of foreigners that come to live and work in your country. Like most things in life, it's about give and take, and it's rather a naive sentiment to think you can just take the good bits and ignore the bad bits.

USA, Canada / DO AMERICANS/CANADIANS TRAVEL TO POLAND???? [57]


Hmmmm I think the first big mistake here is to think that there is one particular English style of architecture, or to further develop that point, think that there is any one type of national architecture.

Go to England and I'm sure you will see (in parts) medieval, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Baroque, Georgian, psuedo gothic, fin de siecle, Edwardian, modern and post modern architecture (amongst others). Go to France and you will see different types of architecture. Go to America, the same. Almost every country has different styles of architecture that encompass their national and cultural development.

It's like me saying that Hungarian architecture was rubbish because when I was in Budapest all I saw was communist flat blocks. But hell, the world lives on generalisations.