News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

If you mean by "liberals" the many people who voted against Trump, Brexit, Le Pen and PiS then they do not fail at life. In each case they are more educated, wealthier and healthier then the discontents who voted for simple undeliverable promises and primitive slogans.

That is an issue that developed societies will have to resolve. Sadly the people that voted for the demagogues are the ones that will get screwed over whether by losing healthcare, higher inflation, lower investment and volatile currencies. The rich and educated will be in a better position to manage the fallout from these terrible decisions.

Travel / Best sports bar in Warsaw? [7]

Champions Bar used to do that but I think the last 2 years they did not as the crowd they got was too thin - because it goes on a few nights then most US expats here don't have the ability to drink in the middle of the night that they did a few years back ! Last year I just streamed this in my hotel room. It will be starting 3am Polish time.

Work / Studies In Poland, is it easy to survive on part-time jobs? [259]

I don't know when you were last here Dom but in Warsaw the number of jobs being done by immigrants with pidgin Polish has increased very quickly in the last few years.

The guy who delivered my pizza to my room had not been studying Polish for many years - he could read a room number and an address and count money. Just go into any Macs or KFC and you will hear a babble of Ukrainian from the back room. Many of these are studying too and many are recent arrivals. And I can tell full well the difference between an Indian and an "Indian looking Pole"

I also don't think students should come here to study when really they want to work, but it's not correct to say that nobody will employ them.

Work / Studies In Poland, is it easy to survive on part-time jobs? [259]

That is not true - on a recent two day trip to Warsaw I saw foreign students working, including Indian looking people, in bars, in Hala Koszyki, cleaning the pool in my hotel, delivering a pizza to my room etc.

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Yes and all from the comfort of Chicago, Moscow and Belgrade.

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Why is it unusual that French Jews would vote against a party that includes fascists and holocaudt deniers ?

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

If by liberals you mean people who love freedom then yes it is a good day. France invented liberty, felicitations to them on their wise choice to reject a return to the 1930s.

As I said on the day of moron Trumps inauguration, the world look very different by the end of 2017 and we are on the way there. The Dutch and now French voting for the future and not for divisive undereducated demagogues who offer no credible policies.

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Well I will wait until the results come in :) fingers crossed the polls are right this time

Interesting that on this thread the people hoping for an outcome that would damage Poland are

- Serbs
- Russian trolls
- PolAms who had a few too many toasts down the Red Apple buffet

would love to hear from an actual Frenchman. Are there any Franco Poles on the forum ?

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

What is with all the trite quotes ?

You can have dictatorship, one ethnicity and a controlled economy - it's called North Korea. Prefer that or living somewhere like France with high living standards, good work life balance, great wine, great cheese, flirtatious women, good footballers and lots of interesting culture from all over the world ? It's not perfect of course but I go there often and I like it.

Language / Any good English term for lewactwo and derivatives? [16]

Young people voted overwhelmingly against Trump.

Am I the only person who finds mocking "retards" offensive ? It would not be allowed in polite conversation face to face.

News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Yes - suggest you rush down the bookies with the prediction that Vlad will be ousted in free elections next year.

The investigation of Trump is still ongoing and his links to Moscow have not been dismissed. It has already cost him one important cabinet member and more will follow.

Work / Polish / Irish couple with kids moving to Warsaw - finding a job without any connections. [37]

I think there are opportunities but well paid ones with no Polish will be very tough to find. I think one problem is that there is work for expats here but your husband has wide experience in finance but not deep. He has done 5 years of different things when really the areas where foreigners still add value is if they have done 20 years of one thing like treasury, compliance or structured finance. That might be the case that your Irish acquaintances have in Warsaw.

An organisation like McKinsey would not take him - they want recently qualified MBAs or top tier students who they can work to death. much better would be to look around private equity firms, or take up Delphs offer re the start up scene (money would be low but it would be fun, keep him busy and help build a network). Or you could go direct to some of the VC funds like Experior, Nest etc - can all be accessed via LinkedIn.

Good luck - if he is an open minded guy then something will come up.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

Bit harsh to call it theft - if someone left something on the floor that I paid for under the bed that I paid for then I would also bag it and stick it on eBay. Probably the other guy is married so I doubt he we will be pressing his claim !

Law / Granting Polish citizenship by the President (for money) [15]

Sorry for the duff info - source was a bloke I once sat next to on a plane and I never bothered to check that.

Might be distasteful but I can see the pragmatic benefits - there are only a very limited number of people who can afford it, they will contribute to the tax base, often do a bit of philanthropy and since they are mostly either clever or hard working then will add to the gene pool. Of course the risk is that crooks can use this as a way to avoid Russian or Chinese justice but they would find some way to corrupt the process anyway.

Law / Granting Polish citizenship by the President (for money) [15]

You can try Hungary to get EU citizenship. they have the citizenship by investment with a low threshold - 75k euro. In Poland you could have 75 millions and it would not be enough.

Real Estate / What do I need to buy a house/flat or property in Warsaw? [12]

Try Otodom or Gratka websites - but for that price you will really struggle. You might find something basic for around 250.000 but probably only one room.

Work / Fraudulent job situation Poland [15]

There are quite often threads on here where "students" are asking if they can work part time. And the answer is always no because the visa does not allow it and in any case nobody would employ them.

Is it actually the reality that they can work on a civil contract and there are plenty of unethical people willing to exploit that ? Many people are at fault in this case - Uber, the "students" themselves, the colleges that invited them and probably the restaurants that are using this service ? Isn't there anything to be done - dishonest employers like this give the honest people a bad name and create unfair competition.

Love / Urgent Relationship help - wife wants to stay in Poland [118]

Is there any way you could do some arrangement where you lived in Poland say one week a month, spent time with the kids, and then worked extra hard in the UK for the other three weeks. Without being a regular presence on your kids life Then I think there's probably not a lot of mileage left in your relationship. By the sounds of it, she also has extended family close to her involvement, and you have to accept that, that is probably one thing that is preventing her from moving to the UK.

Work / Fraudulent job situation Poland [15]

I dunno - when I was a student, I did two shifts in waffle house, and I thought that was too much because it interfered with my studies. How are you can get a student Visa and then spent 60 hours per week cycling round Warsaw and still have time for your studies beats me. But assuming you have the right to work, then yes you can take it to the labour inspection because you are working well below the minimum wage.

Work / Fraudulent job situation Poland [15]

I think she died quite a while ago ?

Work / Fraudulent job situation Poland [15]

Terrible behavior by Uber if what you say is true.

However why were you all signing up for 5 day weeks if you were students ? Surely that is a serious breach of your visa conditions.

You have no redress under labor law - you were not employees and you were probably not entitled to work.

You might have some redress under civil law if you can prove that Uber broke the contracts in bad faith after 11 days. You would need to find a lawyer to take the case and it would take at least 6 months to resolve.

Work / Will Poland tax my ISA? [7]

What Delph says is more or less correct. Note that You are not permitted to make further contributions if you are non resident - essentially you will then be relying on what you have already invested to drive your growth. There are some exceptions if you are in the army etc.

If you have access to the Telegraph website they had some good articles on this a few months ago.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Was directed at TicTacToe who does not ev n bother to register :) I know you are an upstanding and sensible guy :)

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Probably would of make more sense to quote his whole article - which stated that as other economies grow then the EU countries who led have more influence and economic leverage if they worked together.

It is hardly a loony view

Blair has never been my cup of tea but a 3 times elected PM with 13 years running the country, he is far more qualified than Boris, Gove, Farage or any of the other rabble who have now all conveniently disappeared without implementing their vision.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

All nonsense - how can telling the population they will be richer benefit the 1 percent ? As to peace well it is fairly noticeable that Europe has enjoyed its longest period of peace since the EU began. The world wars were not continental squabbles - Britain was fully involved in the build up to both of them.

Crowing about winning just shows the idiocy of the leave case - it is not a Football game or an argument on the internet - so you need to start to deliver on those promises - access to the single market is impossible, extra money for the welfare state is no longer possible and the govt will not commit to Lowe immigration. Meanwhile the negative consequences are already starting - Scotland asking for another referendum, growing issues in Northern Ireland, collapse of the pound and even stupid old disputes like Gibraltar starting

Classifieds / Looking for best way to get in touch with someone, I met from Poland. [11]

Why on earth didn't you ask at least her first name during dinner ?

If you are that smitten then go to those villages round Lwow - ask around the families still there and maybe she has some living relative there.

When I lived in Britain one of the newspapers had a column called "I saw you" where you could try and follow up chance encounters - I'm surprised there is no Polish equivalent as Poles love romance.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Ha ha - yes sorry Irish :) let's call it the Irish question instead

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

leave would not have won without pensioners
Leave would not have won without the uneducated
Leave would not have won without far right voters

All 3 statements are correct

Now they have to live with the consequences of their gullibility - all in the cause of a schoolboy quarrel in the ruling party

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Here are some simple emotional arguments

- Brits would be richer
- they would hav more opportunities
- their kids would have more opportunities
- The EU makes Europe safer
- it helps provide a solution to the Irish problem

Whether those resonated with a bunch of morons, pensioners and bigots is questionable - they made their decision and they can get on with it.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Not sure why TicTacToe still has a beef. He got a hard brexit that he wanted and now it is up to Britain to prove that was a good move. That will be difficult as everyone who promoted has run a mile from the promises they made.

The tales of Britains largesse are getting a bit boring - the cost of access to the single market was 12 billion a year - roughly 200 quid per head. A coalition of pensioners, thick people, ideologues and plain racists meant that 52 percent of people thought this was a bad deal - let them get on with it and stop telling the rest of the us that the organisation will disintegrate without them.