Hello darian, And welcome to the polish Forum. Have you been to Poland before? Costs depend very much on where you would like to live. The capital Warsaw is possibly the most expensive. Best of luck
how much rent,bills,food,and clubbing are going to be!
sorry, my info is not up to date...
my advice: get an apartment near to agh.edu.pl/en campus which is situated in Krowodrza (part of Krakow; Al. Mickiewicza 30 30-059 Kraków)... it's close to the center, and you'll meet lots of students and make friends :)
im planning on moving to krakow when i graduate highschool. i need to know how much rent,bills,food,and clubbing are going to be!
You'll be paying at least 1800zl for a liveable apartment near the centre. For internet, cellphone, electricity and telephone you can add another 400zl. Food costs more in Poland than the USA. How much you spend is going to depend on what you eat and how often you eat out. If you're going for a night out (a bar or two followed by a club or two) you need to allow at least 100zl and more like 150zl to 200zl.
There are 3zl to $1 at the moment but that rate will soon fall to more like 2.5zl to $1.
Oh I thought your parents will pay for you never mind! If you find a job in Poland with out a sill (good luck) you will make only like $300 a month. Best of luck
darian you will not be moving to europe unless you have at the very least a university degree; even then it is unlikely unless you have outstanding skills in an area of work shortage.
First of all, you do realise that non-EU (maybe even non-Polish, I'm not sure...) residents will have to pay tuition fees in Poland? The cost of those, combined with the cost of living...it's pretty unlikely that you'll be able to earn enough here in order to survive.
Secondly, your youth will probably count against you - although they like native speakers here, they're only going to take you on if you have the maturity and experience - and someone straight out of high school is going to suffer in that respect.
As for people making a living here in bakeries and so on - yes, they do, but you're forgetting that they often have many people to a small apartment (for example, 6 to a 60sqm apartment isn't abnormal) and they only have the administration costs of the apartment to worry about. When you've got rent to pay, it's considerably harder.
Take my advice and get the degree in America first. You'll find it so, so, so much easier that way :)
(oh, you asked for costs...)
Rent - anywhere from 400zl to 2000zl a month. I've got no idea about Krakow, but in Poznań, it's definitely possible to find a room for 400zl a month.
Bills? In a shared flat, maybe about 200zl a month?
Food can be ridiculously variable - it's probably easy to live here on about 40zl a week, but eat anything that isn't native to Poland and the prices will shoot up.
Going out - can be as cheap as 4zl for a beer, but equally so, paying 8-9zl for a beer can happen too. Just depends where you go - but student pubs, probably about 5zl on average.
But bear something in mind - wages can be horrifically low here. You'd probably struggle to get regular work here at a decent wage - but let's assume you can make 2000zl a month gross. That can easily turn into 1200zl net - and that's before rent, bills and transport costs. Then you have to consider the costs of tuition into this - and it's highly unlikely that you'd make enough money to survive.
