Love / How to Make (Polish?) Women happy? [96]


Really: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita#WHO_statistics]


More a Polish than a British thing.


Likewise.

Polish women have to put up with a lot. Dead-loss men meaning they have to do all the cooking and cleaning as well as work. The so-called


makes it even harder for them. No wonder that so many are so quick to choose foreign husbands.

News / Poland's fight against paedophilia [277]


Yes. And the bigger issue is that in Poland B they have a lot of authority in the community. That and scandals being swept under the table.

I also cringe when I see adverts for summer language camps for kids with no mention of CRB checks etc.

Love / How to Make (Polish?) Women happy? [96]


Anyone who's spent time in both countries knows they're more likely to find a man with a drink problem in Poland. The women here in Poland are the victims even more than the men.

Good the divorce rate is higher in the UK - it shows people are prepared to move on rather than stay trapped in toxic relationships for the sake of form.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]

If they'd pulled their finger out and built the third line of the metro it would have been ideal for you to get from Stara Ochota to Willow (or anywhere else from the station on Narutowicza) but that will be a long way off.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]


Dreadful road - quicker to walk during rush hour. A case though for a Wilanow tram to go parallel to it and end at Metro Sluzew. I used to use the 503 a lot when I lived off the top bit of Sobieskiego & worked often in Ursynow/Woloska and it was murder. Once or twice I did actually get off, have a walk (and a cigarette) and get back on at the next stop.

Thinking about it though, a good way to Willow is to get on the 503 at Nowy Swiat or plac Trzech Krzyzy and change at Dolna for one of the others like the 116 - that goes the back way to Wilanow and sort of follows the proposed tram line. Or just use the 116 (or the E2). When they announced it before, my heart sank when I heard it was due to go on Spacerowa, however Belwederska is just too steep by the Russian Embassy and in any case they wouldn't want trams on Ujazdowski (although there was a tram line there pre-war).

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]


That will be much the same with the tram - according to the route (or the planned route when they were going to build it in 2007) it went down Spacerowa - I said Gagarina by mistake earlier . Dunno how they're going to find room for it at the junction at the top. The difficult issue is the hill - presumably Spacerowa's the easiest gradient.

News / Kopacz wants PO to hire more professional PiS-bashing haters [66]


He doesn't run it. And is in big big trouble for leaking confidential documents.

Premier Kopacz has dealt with it well though.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]


If only. The third line is decades away. The proposal (pre-proposal? pre-pre-possible-proposal?) goes nowhere near Wilanow or Ursynow either. Though one of the options is to take it parallel down the other side of the river using existing rail lines.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]

I do think you mean well. I'd also say that Poland is a great place to come and live.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


Done the first two and now happily facing the third. And have never for a minute regretted coming to live and work in Poland. I think a lot of the posters here (most with families and careers here) would say the same.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]

That seems very unlikely, and worth mentioning that a lot of the people you try to put off come from countries in or near Europe with high unemployment.

As I say, Poland is a very pleasant country in which to live and work, no matter how you try to pretend it isn't. And accumulating money or following a US-style career path is not the be all or end all in life. Happiness comes first.

These 'abundant' jobs of yours (if they're a. as 'abundant' or b. as good, as you pretend, are doubtless not exactly short of applicants.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


Nope. Many people (including those who post here about job offers they've received in Poland) have doubtless tried elsewhere and do not have offers for all these 'abundant' jobs you claim they would all be given. Poland certainly doesn't 'suck' and many people originally from abroad have very happy lives here.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]

Aging populations, and those with kids tend to have just the one. Still, better transport links to Wilanów (and remember that the tramline ends there - most of the stops will be elsewhere, Stegny, Dolny Mokotów etc) are very badly needed and long overdue. It will also benefit those who live and work further out than Wilanów, somewhere that's being heavily developed now.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


Who? Is that someone from


?
Remember that the pursuit of money is the root of all evil.


Or might just find that they're very happy in Poland, as tens of thousands of people who've settled here very much are.


There's abundant and better ice in Antarctica - not everyone has the chance of an offer to go there and put it in their drink. If you don't have a job offer from Germany, the UK, Sweden etc but want to live abroad, Poland is a very good opportunity.

History / Location of Radwau (town in Poland) and its church? [14]

Radziszewo (there are many and used to be more) is a possibility. There's a record of a Mr Radziszewski around Lviv using the name Radwau back in the 1880s, however this could be a misreading (OCR) of Radwan or a variant of that.


Nothing you've write worth seeing, either above, below or sideways. This is normal.

History / Location of Radwau (town in Poland) and its church? [14]


See above. Plus the existence of the surname, but barely a trace of the place apart from optically character recognised sources and one wartime record, doubtless transcribed from a handwritten document....

Love / How to Make (Polish?) Women happy? [96]


I suppose that for the most desperate skanks on the council estate: the Traceys, Staceys, Laceys, Sharons, Chantelles, Donnas and Kelly-Maries etc., anything slightly exotic (and earning rather than living on the dole) is a change from all the lads on the estate that they've had before. Much the same in Poland, except the stakes are higher.


Which is part of why foreign men are so appealing to Polish women (or men). When the nagging starts, they are more likely to just say "whatever" rather than get into a loud and violent argument and go off and drink.

Cynical? No. Realistic.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]


Indeed - plenty of stories of delay - just look at the Metro.

I wonder if an easier solution would be to make two lateral lines. One from Wilanów pętla by the palace, past Miasteczko Wilanów to the metro at Kabaty, and another from the Stegny estate to Metro Służew.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


Interested usually in getting a job - any job - because they live in places with even higher unemployment than Poland.


Tosh, as most of the people on this forum (who have come to Poland from elsewhere) can tell you. They are generally happy with their decision.

News / Tram line to Warsaw's Wilanów finally to be built. [35]


2017 or 2018, though that does sound a bit like a 'Polish promise'. Nevertheless, there's EU funding this time so the project will be carefully monitored and worth remembering that laying a tramline is very different from building a vast (and heavy) cathedral. Plus of course the fact that the line is to Wilanów and therefore mostly not in that area.

The central reservation on ul. Sobieskiego was built to be wide enough for a tram line. The hassle would be the ul. Gagarina bit.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


That just doesn't wash. Plenty of people go abroad for much more than just a stop on some sort of career path.


I've been both rich and poor, thank you very much and yes, there is much more to life than accumulating money.

Now stop trolling posters who want to come to Poland.

History / Location of Radwau (town in Poland) and its church? [14]


Only a few references online to it being a place rather than a German surname. The most reliable is to a German soldier dying there in 1944. It just lists it as Eastern Front.

Some possible references to it being near Lviv (now in Ukraine) here:
google.pl/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Radwau+lwow&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=vyiAVYCkIe6v8wfty4DgBQ

There may of course be (or have been other places) with that name. There's also the possibility that if it was a Jewish shtetl, it may have been razed to the ground in the war.

By the way, Bob, are you sure the word is 'Radwau' and not 'Radwan'? An easy mistake to make if it's (or was copied from) a handwritten document.

Travel / Visit to Krakow and Warsaw [12]

[Moved from]: Warsaw's Soho Factory - amazing art space in the Polish capital (Praga district)

This place is amazing - great to visit. Warsaw needs more of the same!


seattlepi/news/article/Decaying-factories-transformed-into-culture-6303780.php

Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

This is amazing - some of Warsaw's most characteristic buildings available to by as cut out paper projects:


wired.com/2015/06/warsaws-brutalist-buildings-dutifully-recreated-paper

They've even included the graffiti!

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


That doesn't make sense.



This however makes a lot of sense. Not everyone follows the same career paths as corporate America - there is so much more to life.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]


Indeed. People sometimes come here, meet their life partner and settle down. Happens a lot in Krakow. Poland is a good place to live and getting better all the time. And that salary for Poland is decent.

News / Kopacz wants PO to hire more professional PiS-bashing haters [66]


Quite. They are both electorally toxic. Fortunately neither is good at keeping their mouths shut if there's a reporter with a microphone (and even better a film crew) anywhere around.

Interesting, given the topic of the thread, what sort of online activism the PiSuarz opposition are trying. Only one thing is a given: that they are doing it already.

News / US military hardware coming to Poland [76]


I agree with you on that one, however edging ever closer to mutually assured destruction is never a good idea, nor is Russia in any sense stable.


NATO chickened out of that one due to Russian sabre-rattling.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Society does exactly that - you've said yourself here that drinking vodka in the morning can be acceptable and many times during the evening there are beer adverts on Polish TV. Heck, visitors to the Presidential Palace even get a a glass of champagne.


A largely redundant phrase.


Probably. The world is becoming a better place and as Poland matures and casts off the horrors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries we are already seeing a return to its enlightened, tolerant and pluralistic roots. Very few people (and getting fewer) want a return to the values of the1950s. The 20,000 happy and positive participants in Saturday's Parada Równości as opposed to the 20 or 30 weird protestors is as good a sign as any.