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jrmax988   
13 Oct 2008
Real Estate / How much to build a house in poland [7]

I know this is one of those questions that is impossible to anwser, but i was hoping someboby "in the know" would give me a rough estimate. I'm Scottish and my wife is Polish and we have just bought our piece of land and are looking at plans for the house. I found them on dobry-dom.pl and the name of the plan is Ariel.

Any ideas would help me alot, as she wants to start building as soon as possible and i need to work out if i need to sell a kidney to pay for it.
jrmax988   
14 Oct 2008
Real Estate / What is a "jard" [10]

I'm in the process of buying a piece of land with my polish wife and she keeps going on about "Jards". (sorry if the spelling is wrong) I thought she meant a yard, but when she was showing me this massive bit of land and telling me it was 50 jards, i was confussed. Can anyone clear this up in good old fashioned m2?
jrmax988   
14 Oct 2008
Real Estate / What is a "jard" [10]

Sorry my mistake, I'm going to have to lock her in the basement. Apparently its "AR"
jrmax988   
18 Oct 2008
Real Estate / Building new house what are the prices like in Poland? [8]

I'm in the same process at the minute. It is a question with no real anwser. You need to budget between 2000-3000 PLN per m2. For this price you will have a house of good standard. Go to dobry-dom.pl and you can get a rough idea of the plan you want, then you find the hard task of getting a price of costruction. My house will be about 150 m2 and am hoping of having the building work done 130,000 PLN.
jrmax988   
20 Oct 2008
Life / Deadly Roads - "Are polish roads really THAT dangerous?" [139]

My wife is polish and i'm Scottish. I'm not religous but i've started to pray before getting into a car here. What i have learnt is to forget everything you ever learnt driving in Britian and become an intolerant, aggressive, talentless moroon, but on the bright side, last week i was driving along minding my own business when this prick in a 20 year old BMW decides to show me how its done in Poland. I thought he would have been put off with the big flashing yellow lights indicating school, or the sign saying dangerous bends for 2km, but these were obviously just guidlines and that he'd seen Kubica driving on the tv and he dosnt slow down for anything as petty as that. Well i'm sure youve an idea were this going (unfortunatly he didnt).so he overtakes and i give a laugh inside. 2 mintues later,there he is standing at the side of the road, his BMW making conversation with a tree, his pride and joy completely f.ucked and i felt so happy. Maybe this will teach him a lesson, but i dont think so.

For anybody who does decide to drive here, take note of the following

1. Lane dicipline means nothing.
2. It is perfectly acceptable to undertake you, then pull out 3feet infront off you and brake sharply.
3. When you overtake somebody you must indicate to come back in, because they wont be able to work out that you dont like driving into oncoming traffic.

4. No matter what the road conditions, ice, snow, rain, you must drive at the same speed as in normal conditions.
5. Manners are for the week.