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guesswho   
27 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

" For most that's only a dream.

but it doesn't mean that they live in a poverty and that it stinks where they live.

You know how many friends I have who finished college good colleges and had to take jobs that they didn't go to school for, sometimes even labor jobs.

Well, in this situation they should relocate ASAP as long as they're still young, before they buy a house and create a family with kids etc. There are places in the US where they need qualified people. The biggest problem with Polish-Americans is that you guys live in some very specific areas in the US (where the life standard was much better in the past but not anymore) and you don't even try to move to another area where your life could be better.
guesswho   
27 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

suburbs is middle America living the dream

can you please rephrase it?

most Americans can't say they own a house in the suburbs and have a good white-collar job.

As far as the white collar job, well PB, one has to learn first to have one and some people are not willing to learn or to sacrifice other things to be able to learn. OK, some are unable to learn to begin with.

Most people in this country still live in the cities or areas with city like conditions.

but does it mean that it stinks where they live PB? Does it automatically mean that they're poor?

This is what sht was saying about America.

This is a free world and everyone is responsible for his life. Some people achieve a lot and some don't, it's just the way it is. If one doesn't like it, he lives in a wrong country.
guesswho   
26 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

Unlike yourself I don't make it my life's mission to bash your country

which country do I bash, sht?
If I ever criticize Poland then it was my observation based on 4 years I lived in your country.
I would never dare to criticize anything there if I only visited this country as I simply wouldn't know enough about it to do so.

BTW I did encounter plenty of German and British tourists as well as other nationalities there too, so I doubt that imaginary hatred of America that exist only in your head is everywhere you look, you're just being paranoid.

not at all. Outside this forum, I've never (almost never) experienced any hatred toward Americans in Europe.
As far as you sht, well look how you're describing America and the Americans, bad smell and poverty everywhere, don't you think that one has the right to get the "impression" that you (being really nice here) dislike it here?

I did see poverty on a scale I never seen in Poland

unless you count the junkies in some parts of the big cities I can't confirm it. I've seen many really poor people in Poland (at least what I consider poor) too.

like a gas station attendant in Mississippi who overheard our conversation (we did converse in English) and couldn't help himself so he just asked "where are you all from? Wisconsin?"

wow, he made you a real compliment then, a guy from Poland comes to the US and is being mistaken for an American. I wonder if he really meant what he said?

You never know sht, as you've mentioned above, we have many friendly people here.

There, does that make you feel better now that I wrote about couple of positive impressions of America? Lighten up a bit it's just a forum.

you just said what I was always saying on this forum, America is still America outside the big cities and especially in the South.

Btw sht, are you Polish? The reason I'm asking you is because you kinda sound like a Brit.
guesswho   
26 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

Chicago is the most American of America's big cities.

never been there, tell me about it please. What makes it very American?

You're too sensitive.

what was so sensitive about my sentence you replied to? All I said was that it would be a nonsense to go any deeper into this subject as we (SHT and I) will definitely never agree to anything anyway.

But it's not America

Geographically it is but other than that I fully agree with you. This is how I feel about many big cities in the states anyway.
guesswho   
26 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

American as America can be and what a sh!thole it was.

matter of taste. This is how I felt visiting some places in Europe too.

There’s nothing wrong with staying in your gated community and shutting yourself out from the rest of the world

you have to admit that you're very anti-American. What you're describing is maybe typical for some big cities here but in the country I can't absolutely confirm your statement. Nothing smells around here and even in the poorer communities I don't see as much trash laying around as I saw it for example in Poland (Poland is just an example). There are quite a few European countries that I personally don't consider clean.

Let’s be honest though, for every bad you point out in Poland a similar can be found in U.S. or worse.

is that why you said

If it was do you honestly think that so many young people would have left?

lol

America ain’t all that, been there, seen it, let me tell you not impressed.

How much I was impressed of Europe shows the fact that I'm back home and really happy about it too. However I don't complain about my years in Europe, at least I have a chance to compare and to discuss about the differences with people like you knowing what I'm talking about. When you live in one country you get a totally different feeling about it than when you're just visiting it.

Once you have the financial means one place is as good as the other.

agree only to the certain extent as one place can be still way more comfortable to live in than the other. Matter of preference too.

You on the other hand either really live the sheltered life or have the tendency to isolate yourself from the reality by staying in your golden cage (your gated community or that all inclusive resort when on holiday), in reality you surround yourself with artificial bubble and you refuse to recognize that the myth of that all elusive American dream is just that - A DREAM for the vast majority of your countryman.

but the undeniable fact is that the vast majority of "my country men" still lives better than yours, even you said it

If it was do you honestly think that so many young people would have left?

If you have the financial means it don’t really matter where you choose to stay, if you don’t even U.S can be a third world sh!thole, I know - I’ve seen it.

I replied to that one above. I have an idea why you're so negative about everything American but there's no reason to talk about it since it won't change anything on both sides anyway.
guesswho   
25 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

One thing I’ve noticed is that usually just couple miles down the road one encounters a totally different world in the US, a contrast so pronounced that even a blind man can see, perhaps you should get out more and see all those American Kiosks. Very disappointed with what I’ve seen, not only that the grass is not greener on the other side of the pond but virtually none existent.

non existent in the Polish meaning of it (drunks hanging out at the door all day long). Maybe in Chicago or in one of the big cities but not where America is still more or less America. You just probably never got that far.

Beg to differ, perhaps 10 years ago one might have seen a High School kids behind the counter, these days vast majority are well beyond that age group.

again, in my town (actually just about anywhere in NC and SC) about 90% of people employed at the fast food restaurants are young.

Exactly; just another indicator of the state of your job market but good enough to lower the unemployment statistics.

let's talk about employment in Poland SHT, do you believe that your situation is better?
I know it, I was there.
guesswho   
25 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

Like you don't have "winos" in every Indian or Pakistani owned 7-11 on every corner.

I'm very honest with you, not where I live but in general of course there are winos here too but I'm not complaining about the fast food restaurants :-) They employ many young people. Even though what they pay isn't great but in many cases, it's better than nothing.

Besides, it's not like you guys will have a choice, if they decide to have them, you'll have them anyway.
guesswho   
25 Feb 2011
Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]

You don't want a Taco Bell on every corner, this kind of stupidity.

Nor a Starbucks or McDonalds for that matter.

none of them but a whole bunch of winos on every corner (at the kiosks), lol
guesswho   
22 Feb 2011
History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]

IMO they should have been rounded up and/or shipped out.

How can you guys be so hateful toward the Jews? You both went through the same hell, I don't get it.
guesswho   
17 Feb 2011
USA, Canada / Expat Poles swearing allegiance to the US - how did you feel? [157]

reason to keep calling us traitors.

if they call you traitors, they have to call all Americans traitors. This is what this country is all about, everyone was (at some point) a foreigner before he became an American.

What a utter bs.
guesswho   
15 Feb 2011
History / If Poland didn't exist, how did citizens become Polish? [57]

They are all well and happy now, but missed Poland dreadfully for many years.

most likely they missed the part where they once used to live, not necessarily Poland as a whole
(my assumption but I might be mistaking here).
guesswho   
15 Feb 2011
History / If Poland didn't exist, how did citizens become Polish? [57]

It is the best proof of Polish magnanimity of spirit that Germans who stayed in Poland after WW2 weren't slaughtered (like Poles were).

well, no one is denying it but there was enough abuse on both sides

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II#Poland.2C_including_former_German_territories

now, the WWII is over and it's time for forgiveness
guesswho   
15 Feb 2011
History / If Poland didn't exist, how did citizens become Polish? [57]

(all
of which is denied to a much larger Polish minority in Germany.)

I hope you don't count the Germans who became (whether they liked it or not) Poles after the WWII and then within time finally made it back to Germany?
guesswho   
14 Feb 2011
Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

on a short chain

OK, I have to admit that it is very a common picture in Poland. I hated it too but it's good to see that people are trying to put an end to the animal cruelty.
guesswho   
8 Feb 2011
Travel / Is Gdansk worth a visit in Poland? [33]

No one mentioned weather though, is that likely to be an issue.

I was there in the Summer but knowing Poland, yes it might be an issue.
guesswho   
7 Feb 2011
Travel / Is Gdansk worth a visit in Poland? [33]

I was wondering whether it was worth a long weekend at the end of Feb

if anything at all, Gdansk is the most beautiful town in Poland, you won't be disappointed. We loved it.
guesswho   
6 Feb 2011
Australia / Difficult situation with moving (Australia-Poland) [37]

Well that's mean. She came here looking for advice, and you give her grief.

no I don't. I actually gave her the best advice one could really give her and that is to keep her privacy to herself. It's not like anyone on PF will really try or will be able to help her.
guesswho   
6 Feb 2011
News / Poland building an empire (instead of a nation)? [67]

Poland and Ukraine, partnership for new Slavic alliance`

jeez, if it was up to you, every other word should be "Slavic", lol

....what do you think Germany is for Poland?

a member of the same Slavic family? (lol)
guesswho   
3 Feb 2011
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

And as for China, they have bigger economic problems than you think.

oh yeah, much bigger. I was trying to explain it to everyone here but not too many people seem to listen because it's not about our American problems.
guesswho   
3 Feb 2011
Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]

Here you can see EVERYTHING ,men and women vomiting all over the place,AMERICAN WOMEN TAKING P I S S IN THE MIDDLE OF PARKING LOT,doing crack in cars,having sex in cars,fights.You name it we got it.You didn't see anything girl.

well, you're right, where I live there's nothing like that, not even close. I feel sorry for you having to live in such a bad neighborhood.

I am only assimilating with natives.

who knows, you might be even "better" in it than them.

Class-ay! Everything in the car with you Yanks... ;)

America is not all about "slums" Ash. He stays there because he chooses to live in a Polish community, that's all. Whoever can afford it, doesn't live in the "jungle" like this in the states.

In smaller towns or in a countryside you don't see the kind of scenes he described.