Food / Tatar - a raw meat dish [28]

you can get trichnosis from eating the neighbors garbage disposal pig raw. millions of fresh mettwurst sandwiches are sold in german every week without a problem. if you don't trust your source, you probably shouldn't be eating it.

another quick tip for having tartar at a restaurant. the decent places will take the slab of beef out and grind it in front of you. i'm not sure if it's true or not, but i heard that there are a certain additional set of criteria that a restaurant has to achieve with regards to the storage and prep area if they want to sell tartar.

side note, any suggestions for good tartar? there is a place in klodko that was awesome, will dig out the name...

Law / Transferring leased car to Poland. What to do? [3]

My company car is on Czech plates, both of the points in 1. made by Harry are true. I have never been pulled over here. On the other hand, pieces of my car went missing about every week. I just stopped replacing them, they stopped stealing them.

Life / Stolen car parts [30]

you know, the grill was stolen from a dimly lit parking area in the center of the some old buildings in wroclaw... you wouldn't happen to have an SLK grill for sale, would you?

Real Estate / How to find an apartment in Wroclaw [12]

Might want to try gumtree, lots of owner direct rentals there. Rentals are broken down into agencje and prywatne. You might have to spend a bit of extra time searching through the listings, but it's better than getting bent over by a key manager...

Real Estate / Mortgage default rates in Poland [10]

Do you know what happens when someone can't make the payment? Do banks usually change the terms? Force a sale? Go straight for other assets?

Real Estate / Prices of apartments in Krakow are collapsing further down in 2010-2011 [150]

Personally, I hope that Polish wages will go up so that housing becomes affordable, everybody would win in that situation. I'm not sure how that will happen without destroying the export market and all the "cheap labor" jobs. The US and the UK (among others) are proving over and over again that an economy that is powered by consumer consumption of imported products isn't sustainable in the long run.

Just to dig a bit deeper, do the people on the forum who are bullish on polish real estate see it as being affordable at the moment? What is the main reason that you would invest in the polish real estate market right now? Is it the supply and demand situation? The low interest rates on mortgages? The weak zloty (if you're investing from outside). Overall economic growth? What makes the Polish real estate market attractive to you right now?

News / HUMANE TREATMENT FOR CHRISTMAS CARP in POLAND [55]


Really? Seriously? Kids might be somehow harmed if they found out where their food came from? Scary the way things are going...

Law / Starting a distribution business in Poland [11]


They're not very expensive. You can get a shelf z.o.o. for €2500, ready to go immediately. It would be more hassle than it's worth to go from an "IchAG" to a z.o.o.

Food / Polish Restaurant Prices [20]

You forgot about the cost of the flight to Poland, time off work, taxi, hotel (if there are no return flights same day).

If you calculate all that in, £6 seems like a winner in the UK.

Love / What do you think of Polish women who swear in English? [15]

For dutch and german being so close linguistically, cloggies definately have it down when it comes to swearing.

Life / out of interest how many uk citizens are in wroclaw [4]

I hear a British accent every once in a while. Quite a few Americans, fair amount of halfbreed Canadians for some reason, even a couple of Aussies.

Travel / train @ bus from warsaw to budapest? [17]

no prices online for international trips, you have to fill out a form

polrail.com/sections/store/quoteprice.html

If you're feeling sadistic, eurolines will take you there for 70pln

UK, Ireland / Poles working and living in the UK [25]


That is interesting, because most of the foreigners that live here are on a local salary, no expat contract, legally registered... That indeed sounds like an immigrant to me...

Life / Who has moved to Poland in the last year? Swap stories. [115]


Just out of curiosity, do you speak polish?

Love / A suitable birthday gift for a Polish lady? [26]

birthday is different than a nameday

as for the gift, i personally enjoy chocolate on my nameday or birthday, always a winner. books work too..

high school teacher in wroclaw starts off at about 1800 a month before taxes.

Love / A suitable birthday gift for a Polish lady? [26]

In Wroclaw, public school teachers start off at 1800 a month before taxes. Yea, it's pretty low. It's still better than what train drivers...and tram and bus drivers make.


amen.

only thing is, a lavish gift to a married woman from a foreign guy might cause a bit of tension...

Food / Polish cocktails [7]

that's looking like a winner

Real Estate / Is it normal to pay 22% tax on renting a flat? [15]

From what I understand, you have to pay VAT on housing if renting from a company, not from an individual (it's taxed as income on their behalf)....BUT, it should already be included in the advertised price. Just like buying a car, groceries, etc.

Edit: Alright, seems like jonni is much more competent on this...

Food / Looking for Cider around Poznan Area [16]

britishcornershop/shop.asp?action=search&uid={FDB201E 0-E5F7-4B61-9362-882B5C33DB1B}

Food / Looking for Cider around Poznan Area [16]


I make applewine at home. It's really easy and if you give it a shot of carbonated water, a little sugar if you're into that kind of thing, and you've got good cider. Takes about 3 weeks...but it's way cheaper, tates better, and you get a whole jug of it.

Life / Handguns Not Needed in Poland? [44]


Likewise, I don't leave the house in the states without my browning. Here, I have never once felt the need to carry. Our neighbors to the south in the Czech Republic have the right to carry, but I never felt the need to in the 4 years that I lived there.

Life / Handguns Not Needed in Poland? [44]


It's really sad. Extremely sad actually.

Food / Looking for Cider around Poznan Area [16]


ehow.com/how_2093695_make-apple-wine.html - This is a good one to follow

I follow pretty much the same steps except I don't add ascorbic acid or wine tannin and use lemon juice as the acid blend. I like it cloudy, so I skip the campden tablet and drink it straight away (if you do this, make absolutely sure that everything you use is sterile, good way to make yourself sick!). I'd also suggest pressing your apples instead of buying store bought. You can play around with the type of apple to get what you like.

You might have to order some stuff, but it will last you forever because you don't need much of it for a batch:

burgundy wine yeast
yeast nutrients
pectic acid

hydrometer
airlock

The good news is that you'll be placing that order with a place that more than likely sells beer making supplies... so you can make it a christmas order and get everything you need to make beer too. Applewine is a lot easier than beer, but once you get beer brewing down you start getting snobbish because you can make exactly what you like at home. Beware, it's addictive.

Life / Handguns Not Needed in Poland? [44]

NOLA and Dallas.

Life / Handguns Not Needed in Poland? [44]


Like in the UK? Switzerland? The Czech Republic? Jamaica?

But in all honesty, if a government has to take guns away from its populace in order to attempt to bring down gun related deaths, it means that the police force isn't doing a good enough job protecting the people in the first place.

I think one of the important things to look at in places like the UK is not only the number of gun deaths that are now occurring (and the overall violent crime rate for that matter), but how many people are intimidated by the guy with a gun.