Wage - Expenses = It Doesn't Add Up!!!

The rent for a kawalerka/studio [45m2] is about 650 pln. the heating and electricity is about 250 pln. cost of living for groceries is about 400 pln (assuming you cook at home). cost of going out every weekend with 4 beers on saturday is 100 pln. Taking out a friend to a pizzerial will be 60 pln (two pizza [quattro stagione and salami], two beer [zywiec] and two coffee [lavazza] for instance) this is in a small city in dolneslaskie regio.

Average salary for someone working in supermarket is about 1500 pln. people live at their parents palce or together with both working or mom at home with kid and father abroad working very hard for higher salary and sending the money back home.

Danny

Take the top of the class for your observations, that is why the average pole stays home.. unless your British/Irish, they have it good.

It was ment to be to draw a rough/average picture of the average wage-expenses=It DOES add up scenario. The young people living with this scenario and staying home do have it also good and not only British/Irish or Dutch/any other first class expatriate for that matter. Ofcourse they like to start living on their own with their partner and look for kawalerka's when they can afford it (I meet them every week in our office for that). And most of the time when we ask what work they do it is he is working abroad or in a international factory (which has a bit above average salary), she is working in local shop. These two salaries can support living on their own. It is more or less the same as in other Western countries for young people looking to live on their own. All numbers are then the same except the currency symbol is different (more or less).

Danny