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Speaks Polish?: English only
Interests: cycling, cheap living, retiring early, my family

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shaynelle   
31 Dec 2007
Life / A couple, mid 30's considering retiring in Poland. [19]

We are a couple in our mid 30's with a small child. We are starting to consider buying retirement property somewhere and Poland is of interest to us. Before we travel there to check it out, can anyone please answer any of my questions? We may or may not purchase in Poland, it is just a consideration for now.

My husband is a licensed electrician with his own contracting company here - are Electricians in demand in Poland?

We want to buy a cheap property near Tourism so we can hopefully run a bed and breakfast - are there any good areas that would be suitable? Or are all the Tourist places expensive?

Would Polish residents not like if we bought property there for this (Tourism and Retirement) purpose?

Does anyone know of a good real estate listing website for Poland? All the ones I find seem to be not very good.

Thanks in advance, and any comments good or bad are much appreciated - as I said, we are just considering the idea at the moment and haven't a clue how serious we will get.

Thanks very much!
Katherine
shaynelle   
1 Jan 2008
Life / A couple, mid 30's considering retiring in Poland. [19]

Thanks for the information.

If we have a budget of 15,000 PLN Would it be reasonable for us to purchase a small plot of land in the (for instance) near the Bieszczady Mountains and build on it in the future when we retire? We would be retiring in approximately 20 years. I know I seem to be jumping the gun and we should travel to Poland and check it out, but I just want to know ahead of time if it's even reasonable for us to consider.

My husband would have a retirement income of at least 7000 PLN per month (in today's currency). We are frugal people and do not eat out a lot, buy expensive autos or clothing etc so this sounds like it would enough - the B&B or electrical income would just be a bonus if we did it at all.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help. (I'm not British by the way, it seems people assume I am?).
shaynelle   
4 Jan 2008
News / Darwins theory of Evolution in Polish schools [59]

Regardless of which theory, or possibly both or neither, both should still be taught as both are wide spread beliefs.

Personally my belief is there is no God and that "God" was thought up by man as some sort of solace to the knowledge that once we die we bite the dust. But that is just my belief, I can not say "there is no god" because I personally do NOT know if there is or not. Same for any other human... you can believe but you do NOT know for certain.

For those like myself who are not in the circle I feel we need to respect people inside the circle, and the same for believers, respect that not everyone else has the beliefs you do.