Life / Need Some Advice about life in Poland (vehicle, fuel) [24]

MOT the car in UK and tax/insure it in UK...expensive but you can afford it and it is less hassle than Polish paperwork (expensive in stress and grey hair). This car will have a bigger engine than my U1300L Unimog (same vehicle as Australian army use)!!!!! I daren,t let my wife see this thread or she might work out how many miles per gallon the Unimog does/doesn,t!!!!!! the one bugbear will be having to go to UK once a year to get a fresh MOT, re-tax can be done over the internet as can insurance (there are threads on here concerning UK insurers that will give extended all EU countries insurance for surprisingly little extra money. Onc other small annoyance unless you have plenty of time to talk cars on your hands, is that you will attract guys every time you park anywhere who will want to know/tell you all about your 'different' car. Good luck...enjoy.

Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]

All you people who think it will be great to have all these people from India etc..etc... coming to Poland are living a dream. The truth is that although these people can make a good life, Doctors, Lawyers,Chemists etc paying taxes etc.....they will be the 'foot in the door' for all sorts of undesirables......Indians and Pakistanis have 6-8 children to your 1-2....they will out breed you and they won,t all be Doctors/chemists etc, some of that huge family will be bad people (don,t forget grandma and grandad and a couple of cousins that they will bring from the old country as well). It is just so hard to go into, but in UK since the early 60,s these people have turned parts of my country into Ghettos, little Indias etc where no English is spoken only foreign clothes are worn and no white people are to be seen. They tend to move into a street then slowly but surely buy up all the houses in that street then it becomes a neighbourhood and everybody indigenous moves out because they are not made to feel welcome in their own country anymore. Like I said....some... a very small percentage are an asset, but it is the baggage they bring that will destroy everything around them.....you will enjoy your curries as the English did in the 70,s........your children will ask you.......why oh why did you let so many of them in?????...this is not my town anymore...just as has happened to swathes of UK.

Love / Married in Poland, now wanting divorce, does she have rights to half my earnings? [67]


Jeep it....Jeep it........UAZ it in Russia...

Law / Divorce in Poland - fault - rights to property predating the marriage [34]

I think the moderator means......why do you think that Polish men are different.....or even how dare you suggest that Polish men are different....or even please document your theory that Polish men are different to other european/worldwide men and in what way. They are just guys like the rest of us. or did I misunderstand and confuse this argument entirely, probably by missing posts?

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Whoa....lots of trailriders here....trails galore for them and hunters? we have deer in our fields right now, I can see them from my window, you can,t move for hunters certain times of the year....this is not the big city that most of you know neither is it the village of your grandmother that you sometimes visit, this is the real wilds. I would also like to discuss the problem of the guys 'chopping our heads off' well I don,t think so...(and yes they will work a days work for 10 Zl for beer money, but in truth we like to get the more sober ones and will pay them 20-40zl for a days digging/general labouring.... (to be honest I could also do it with my tractor, but they work out cheaper than my time - could be doing other things and diesel...plus it gives people some work where other wise they would have none....and you all know how much they would get on social security) back to 'chopping our heads off' We have heard this before from a Polish friend (very well educated and holds one of the highest qualifications in his university....an erudite and well travelled man!!! damn nice guy as well...... He like you may do??? laughed at us when we told him our plan (be ready to laugh at our plan for when we get old!!!) We have no heirs, we both have daughters who are terminally wealthy and would not have even the slightest interest in this place because of its position in Poland. (were it a nice apartment in an upmarket area of a city then one of them might have an interest) We are trying to adopt here in Poland but who knows if it will happen?(bureaucracy) our original plan was to keep our eyes and ears open over the years and when we get decrepit and too old to work the farm, we would invite some young couple that we know and trust, to take it on...(we have a spare 5 bedroomed house (more rooms than the one we live in) and they would provide us with food from the farm and it would be a base for them to work from.....they would inherit the farm houses and land when we die. Now whats wrong with that???....in UK it would/could work!!!!........ our friend roared with laughter until he cried!!! They are Poles...... they won,t be grateful.....you won,t get to die of old age...THEY WILL POISON YOU or worse!!!! When you stop laughing.........is he right?????

Study / Is it possible to study, work and do sports training in Poland? [7]

In a word.....EU passport.......doors are closing quickly now in other EU countries...so these chancers see Poland as suckers who will let them in.......just see the numbers of guys from these other world countries who are asking on this Forum: 1. can I get study visa, 2. can I get work visa, 3. how can I marry Polish girl so I can stay in Poland and get EU passport, 4. How can I buy an invitation letter to stay in Poland so I can get EU passport.......etc etc....... Please do not encourage them, they have no intention of enhancing Poland in any way whatsoever. They are easy to spot because in their countries buying your way into things like wives/ passports/degrees/certificates of any kind/driving licences....etc etc..... is just a natural thing and is done every day, so they have no idea how much these things are frowned upon here. Easy to spot also is their desperation.....which can make you feel sympathetic.....try not to....as I said they have no interest in this country other than to obtain a passport.....they will probably have posted on all of the forums for the newer EU countries.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Keep an eye on Lidl...when they have an English week (if you ask they will tell you when) they do some really good strong English Cheddar, god knows who makes it but it is nice. We buy a couple of trays because it only happens a couple of times a year and it freezes just fine. Also try Turek blue cheese, I find that stuff quite nice.......especially nice stuffed in checken breasts.

Travel / Do I need an invitation to enter Poland as a tourist? [53]

UK is really tightening up on Passports/student visas etc....other EU countries are the same....this is just a fishing expedition for passport grabbers before the door shuts. Sad thing is not one of them is looking to stay in Poland, it is just the EU passport that attracts them. If Poland closes the door (actually one thing I like about Poland is that the door is hardly ajar anyway), you will see them congragating on (maybe they already are) other EU forums. I have no respect for this particular type of economic migrant.

Life / Polish Positivity and the Myth Of Middle-Class Pretense, or "Everything Will Be Fine." [27]

All I know about this so-called pretense is based on what people hope to drive what they do drive and how they look after it, which is not much of a pointer. But I can say that as an outsider living in a village one 'wonderful', or different thing I have noticed is that everyone knows their place in the village 'pecking order' they know who they have to talk up to and who they can talk down to. It is........different and interesting......and I,m not going into a long argument with someone who will insult me and tell me I know nothing.....but from what I see and hear this phenomena is simply because nothing ever happens in villages and people have to have this little bit of 'something' so that they can feel better about their situation. It works (unless you are at the bottom I suppose) and they get by with the system......maybe this has some bearing on what has been discussed? When things perk up everywhere, maybe everyone, towns, cities and villages will discard these constructs as no longer necessary to the way they feel about themselves?

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

This is a different part of Poland, but it is just like the rest of Poland (so I am told) there are people with the money to give their children extra education and there are the ditch diggers who earn very little or nothing. We teach two children for free (yes yes I know you won,t believe that either because it,s not a Polish thing to give your time free is it, I have found that the shrivelled Polish soul struggles with this most Western of concepts) eventually even my wife came round to the idea of loss leaders, she was in sales and marketing...it has paid off in the end. You would be surprised and maybe proud though of your countrymen (actually it,s mostly women) even the poorest here will sometimes go without to give their children hope for the future.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Ha ha...My wife pays them 1 Zloti an hour and around here trust me they are glad of it, there is just no work at all, so if I don,t employ then they have no work and not even a single Zloti. But don,t worry we do play a little psychological trick and at the end of the day, I will have a beer with them and give them a 20 Zloti bonus for good work.....the word gets round how good an employer I am and what a nice guy. Go away and think about it.....I know it makes your blood boil ha ha. (It is getting so I do it now just to wind you all up...I,ll tire of it soon!)

Love / My reaction to a thread against foreigners marrying Polish girls [37]

ha ha....good sense of humour ......my daughter lives in UK and is MD of a company that is doing quite well....she is proud to have produced two white babies with her UK white husband. Please educate your daughter to the danger that lies out there.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

You see I said I like the funning and jokes on here as well as the venom and bile.......My wife is a bit foreign, she was brought up in Silesia (they claim to be more civilised, but I am not so sure...all those coal mines?) and yes my bookshelves do have an adult section...one book on fetishes etc....I use it as a talking point and to surprise the unwary. I have adopted many rural Poles but not as pets, we teach English/German to some delightful children and I keep several adult males for digging ditches etc (they will work for 1 Zloti per hour and glad of it......I told you this was a poor area.)

Life / Grass is always greener? Poland experience. [69]


Tusk simply proved that he is good at kissing ass better than some......he went to the people and said "vote for me I can beg for money better than the other parties" I would have hung my head in shame rather than say that......in fact I couldn,t believe it, I thought Poles were too proud to do that on a national scale.

Life / Grass is always greener? Poland experience. [69]

I,m with phtoa on this one but predictions for the future? Those in power now are preparing the Polish people for 'The Euro' why do you think Poland was given such a big handout???? Yes it was a bribe.....(and this is the last handout for many years) there is no reason to expect that Poland will do any better on the Euro than other economies that are failing with it......a lot of people will suffer and many may even die as a result of the Euro in Poland. Why the Euro?....watch the fat man 'President' and Donald Tusk get nice big fat jobs in Brussels that will make them millionaires and give non jobs to their families in perpetuity, thats how big the stakes are to these people, it has happened with British traitor political families, they have been happy to sell their country down the river for money and jobs on an industrial scale. They won,t have to suffer the wrath of the people though because they will live in a mansion in some other EU country.

Love / English girl moving to Poland with my Polish boyfriend for the first time [69]

As I read this thread more and more I got to like this Bizzilizzi she has balls and I don,t think she will put up with any old rubbish they throw at her. Go for it girl I think you sound like you can handle it and you will come out of it even stronger no matter what. Me? English guy probably an old geezer by your standards, married a Polish woman 5 years ago bought a farm in a small village so far away from Kracow you would think I,m not in Poland at all. I knew Germans very well and I thought Poles might be like Germans...Nope nothing like!!! but I get on fine here. I did at first worry that your predicament may be like someone I knew who came to live with a g/f in a big town, but!!! her family lived in a pokey flat with only 3 rooms!!! and also living there were 2 other sisters and their husbands and children and they thought nothing of bedding down everyone in the living room at night!! (make your beds up on the couches) If his family are wealthy it may be different.......you see in England they would have said "look sorry we just don,t have room for you to stay" in Poland they will do as I said and cram you in......if you are not used to it then it comes as a culture shock indeed. Like people said, keep your ears open for English voices say hello and you can make friends that way.......jobs? unlikely, about the same chance as a good lottery win, but not impossible, just find things to occupy the mind...I have a farm and live the 'good life'. Additional...in Polish families there is often a 'pecking order' among the women, if you do not establish straight away that you will not be 'treated like dirt' you may find yourself at the bottom of the heap and be put upon.....they do not understand English politeness and will see it as weakness to be exploited.....Be nice but firm.

UK, Ireland / Moving to Poland from UK - how to watch English tv? [7]

Agree..Filmon.com is great so many channels to choose from, spoilt for choice.

Additional: don,t try to watch in HD or it will tell you that your trial period is over and you will have to pay......be content to watch in SD and it will let you watch forever.

Law / Getting married to a Polish woman - paperwork? [5]

Good luck with it all......I am also from UK married to a Polish woman and have been living in Poland for nrly 3 years now. Great place, nice people (but I do live in a village, have a farm and don,t need to work). I have been told that it is a completely different experience if you need to find a job, have to live in a pokey flat with outlaws and god knows how many of their other offspring in a crappy town. But If conditions are right for you it will be a great experience. Weather totally different to UK....winters cold, snowy but dry snow not the wet nasty stuff of UK...summers (especially where I live...South East Poland) long and hot.....bring lots of suncream........unless you are living on the North coast...you will miss the seaside...I do.....got to build that swimming pool I keep promising myself.

Genealogy / Tunisian living in Italy married to a Polish Woman - Obtaining Polish nationality. [8]

Yet another non EU married to a Pole and desperately trying for an EU passport......spot them a mile off.....not interested in Poland at all or the wife and children....just out to grab a passport.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Of course it is illegal!! but this is a part of Poland that is a place apart.......bit like the wilds of kentuckey where the people have illegal stills...same here, it is highly illegal, but because it is part of the culture it is overlooked...almost every farmer makes his own 'bimber' here. This area is poor and is not as well Policed as a big city, less police, because less money....plus you have to live here to see how it is situated..loads of little farmsteads up hidden in the hills anything could be happening there, policing nightmare!!!......but crimes here do not tend to be burglary (the odd drunk tries to break into a sklep now and then, just seen it today, door jamb all broken on our local village shop, done in January apparently, but a woman here even a young girl can expect to walk around at night in the dark (few street lights) without being molested, no one will mug you for money or a mobile phone worst thing is a drunk will try to tap you for a zloti for beer and they are so polite about it too...I feel much safer here than I have in many other parts of Europe where I have lived..

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

You make my point for me.....hanging out in the forest is a guy thing....its a guy thing In Germany but with g/fs it,s a guy thing in UK but with g/fs it,s a guy thing in just about every other European nation....but with g/fs and wives...here it is always just men, like there is some cultural exclusion of women. I may not have made myself clear about this squatting in circles, but like I said earlier, it can be in the forest, it can be along side a track (many dirt tracks here, used by all and sundry to cut miles from a journey due to the many hills and valleys) It can be in the height of summer (and we do get long hot cummers here in 'The Pod') so even when the ground is dry and the grass is soft and warm....they still squat in circles like Afghan peasants, whereas a group of guys in say Holland or America or Denmark would be lounging on the ground, maybe sat or sprawled out...not here...... they squat. I will accept that long, long ago much nearer to the time of the Tartars peasant farmers were poor in the material sense of not having money to buy things....but I don,t buy that people who were talented in the use of wood and had very good wooden artifacts even in early times all ate from one bowl because they only had one???? Horses??? loads of horses here every other farm has a horse and people here use them for all sorts of things....I have to admit that riding horses is not popular among the farmers they see them as tools nowadays. Bows?? oh yes....bows and crossbows are kept here because a gun makes a lot of noise and cartridges are expensive nor do you want the Police or the forestry guys snooping around.....and an arrow can bring down a deer quietly, venison is very tasty. (Just a footnote: year before last we did see a man and his son ploughing....apparently the horse had died and they couldn,t afford another so they took turns pulling an old single furrow plough up and down the field...won,t see that very often though.....funny thing was in the next field was a guy ploughing with a tractor...he could have helped them and done their little field in 15 mins.......I,m willing to bet they were too proud to ask him....we wondered why he didn,t offer though.)

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Ah how wrong you are.....I like the rural Poles in this area they are fairly honest and simple people, the only Poles I have found not to be so nice are city types. Look all I am simply trying to find out is why no one talks about 'the elephant in the room' I know Berliners who have gotten over the fact that anything above the age of 3 was raped by Russian soldiers so their blood is full of Russian blood, but many people on this forum have a terrible fear of admitting that the Tartars were here long term...they brought eastern traditions and some of them have stayed. what is the big deal?...nobody is going to kick you out of Europe or think less of you because of a few eastern Traditions? The Romans were in Britain for 600 years all told....we don,t try to hide the roads or Roman ruins, some on the East coast are proud of their Viking heritage.....But eastern traditions here are anathema and something to be denied, by patriots?? I hope it is a strong sense of patriotism that drives you? and not fear or shame.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

I,m not going into it with you, because personal insults are never productive, but visitors always comment on the size of my bookshelves...no Reymont though! I will now give an example from my past....I once met a guy in Greece, (this was way back) he said to me "I not Greek... I not Greek..I spend 5 year London......I full modernised" I will say that I have never seen so many people gathered on a forum who are so scared of geing grouped or identified with Eastern societies... and so vehemently desperate to be 'Western'..... you can talk around the truth and be afraid to confront it......make of that what you will.....but Geography and history you can,t argue with..you are what you are it,s in your genes.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Moderator...I have in the past been 'moderated' for less than this. Short haired thug gives no reasonable argument why these traditions may or may not be, just his own opinions......surely the venom and bile and personal insults should be curtailed? I obviously cannot post pics, but there are several families around here who do honestly have this tradition of eating that special meal from one bowl with their hands no amount of venom or bile will change that.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

When I first came to live in Poland I didn,t think that any Poles had a sense of humour......now I know they do....but it is so subtle sometimes. Seriously though this is after all 'The Podkarpacie' a backward but very beautiful and relaxing (if you are on holiday) part of Poland...with it,s own culture and traditions.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

My wife is so good to me, she just reminded me of another tradition that they have here in the Podkarpacie......I have no idea whether this has any bearing on the 'squatting in circles' that so many of you insist is not an Asiatic trait and even is only a figment of my deluded and drug addled mind!!! But lets discuss Wigilja.......now in this area they (not everyone but must be quite a few families) eat this meal from one bowl in the centre of the table using the fingers of one hand only.....no knives and forks, no plates just pick from one bowl with their hand....and I am not talking peasants here......we were invitied by some friends of ours, very nice people who live in a modern house, Electrician and a Nurse, to partake, but they did warn us before hand that they follow the older traditions and if we liked we could be served on a plate, but they would eat with their hands. We later learned that many families also serve this meal in a big bowl in the centre of the table but they serve themselves with spoons...again no plates involved. My wife was astounded and tells me that this is in no way the tradition in Silesia etc......So is this an asiatic trait or am I completely deluded and 'off my meds' as some of you so succinctly put it. I have seen this family meal things and hands only (in fact as here... one hand is kept behind the back and the other is used for eating) in muslim countries? in what could be called Asia.....how did this tradition arise in Poland and how is it still here. (those who ask for 'pics or it never happened' will have to wait a while....obviously!!)

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

I think (though I,m not sure) that Biesganski and I agree on something at least. I tried to tell my wife that because I don,t smoke maybe we could buy a crate of Zywiec now and then instead of Tatra!!! she said you want diesel for that giant truck of yours you drink Tatra!!! ah well.

Classifieds / Meeting / English Club in Rzeszów [21]

Ha ha...today we came out of the house and the big melt is just starting, roads are getting better fields and everything that hasn,t been touched is still covered with 6 inches of snow.....just been out clearing the snowfall off the roof of the barn which had piled up half a meter deep in places, couldn,t get the barn doors open!! give it a week and some rain and it will be business as usual....time to get the tractor out.

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

Hear hear.......Just a case in point......back where I used to live, my wife and I would shop for cheaper brands in some areas ( tinned food etc) so that we could have a better car, better clothes etc.....It was not to be flashy, indeed my clothes are not flashy at all, just very good quality same for my cars. I think we (sensible people) do this all over the world......its just an extension of....if you want something you can,t afford, you save up for it by economising in other areas (unless you are mega rich). But I will say that here in (this part of Poland) my wife is always amused by the looks she gets after working all day on the farm and we go to the local shops to buy something, still in our working clothes, the other farm women all look at her in disgust, because to go to the shops they will all go and dress in their best clothes and vie with each other to be the most fashionably dressed in the village shop!!! men here are not so bad at the dressing up thing. (I love weddings here...always a good excuse to get out and dust off my dinner jacket and cummerbund....does that make me a bad person?)

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

Hey rsavy sorry I didn,t read into it that you are in America, I have to admit that the English of some of even the most abusive Poles on this forum is very good. (don,t let them get you down when you tell the truth, they are very nationalistic and almost oblivious to their faults... gotta love em.... even thought they may sometimes seem...almost... as bad as the crazy muslims!!!) A car collecting family?? what is it with America, my big sis lives in California, when she left UK she couldn,t drive, now she has some strange collection of Mustangs and I drool constantly over her pristine 72 (I think) Roadrunner which she shows. I am more into offroading and have a fully restored UAZ 469 (Russian Jeep) which is the wifes shopping car, a 71 Pinzgauer and a Unimog U1300L not the usual stable of cars, but it is so funny here when they all ask why I didn,t buy an Audi??? My next car will be an UAZ Patriot just to annoy them.