Real Estate / Buying a flat in Krakow; prices are still falling? [200]


They're not falling like a rock at all, and they aren't going way way down. All the evidence shows that the tightening up of mortgages is causing a decline in prices, but nothing major and nothing that could signal a crash. Mine has gone down around 7-8% from the price that I bought at - really nothing to even blink an eyelid at, especially if it stops problems down the road.


Slightly exaggerating? I'd say you're making an understatement. They are absolutely awful in general. I've never met one that actually had half a clue - my place was found (and bought) privately with no idiotic agents sitting in the middle trying to collect money. And yes, the clowns who try and demand money for even seeing an apartment - what planet are they living on?

I suspect things will improve for the better once the need for them to be licensed ends.

Anyway, a good trick and common in Poland - if you want to buy an apartment, don't be afraid to put letters into the postboxes of people inviting them to sell. I got quite a few people calling me that way.

Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]


I think it's the same hormone that causes him to stay in on Saturday night writing crap about black people rather than getting laid.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]


Also - contact the UK Border Agency and inform them that he/she isn't to be taken out of the UK without your consent. That should stop him/her boarding flights/ferries/etc.

Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

Don't you get the feeling that he was bullied by girls?

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


Astute? The guy has made his money from exploiting the concordat as well as exploiting elderly, vulnerable people. That's not astute, that's criminal.


Is that really what priests should be doing?

Rydzyk lost sight of what it means to be a priest a long, long time ago.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]

Not necessarily - visas are cheaper for Belarus and Russia with a Polish one than a British one.

Travel / Via train or bus: Berlin, Germany <> Gorzow, Poland [10]


Berlin Schoenfeld S-Bahn station.

Take the S9 to Ostkreuz, change onto the S7 towards Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Then -


Make sure you buy a ticket to Kostrzyn, not Kustrin-Kietz. But - as is likely, they refuse to accept that Kostrzyn exists - tell them Kustrin, but not Kietz.

Life / E-books in Poland? [10]


You live in Poland and have done for many years - why don't you ask them?

Or could it be that you don't actually know anyone to ask?

Language / Is it possible to learn Polish while not living in Poland? If yes, how? [37]


Hahaha, TVP has nothing but bad ripoffs of American/British shows.

Life / Multiracial Poles [154]


books.google.com/books?id=NCOEYJ0q-DUC&pg=PA14

A book published by OUP is far more credible than your racist rantings, that's for sure.


What is there to question? EU proponents normally support the idea of everyone being entitled to self determination. Then again, I guess you were also against Slovenian, Slovakian, Montenegrin, etc independence then, right?


You'd be first to volunteer for executing the "consequences", wouldn't you?

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


Sure, let's talk about France.

You also forget that the EU organises much more beyond the structural funds. Erasmus and EVS has done so much for Poland in recent years.


Except that the numbers are much more in favour of Poland than that.

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


Could it?

Who would pay for all those lovely renovation works throughout Poland? Poland certainly doesn't have the cash to pay for it alone.

I was looking on Google Street View yesterday - many Polish villages/town centres now look better than UK ones thanks to the EU.


Poland is a net recipient of EU funds. Don't even attempt to pretend otherwise.


You do realise that editing quotes in order to give a false impression is banned on PF?


There's a little thing called "global crisis", you know.

Study / Polish universities for economics that teach in English [26]


EU students pay the same price as Polish students. But if you don't speak a word of Polish, you're not going to get far in the Polish university system.

There are a handful of courses which are in English and free to PL/EU students - but - well, let's just be honest here and say that there is intense competition for entry into such courses.

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Yawn.

As much as you want to try and turn this into the usual "boo hoo Tusk isn't supporting my peasant family with their unproductive farm and their wooden shack where they kill Jews" thread, it's not happening.

The money will certainly find its way to the needy, probably with quite a bit distributed through Caritas. Nothing new there.

Study / Polish universities for economics that teach in English [26]


Wrong. It depends on the course and where.


Wrong. Most courses in Poland for Polish citizens are in Polish, and are free in public universities (with some exceptions).

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


I think you'll find that there are very few people in Poland who haven't benefited in some way from the years of growth.

And it will be spent where it's supposed to be spent. No doubt there will be plenty handed out to those who drank all their money and left their wives to pick up the pieces.

As I said - anyone who studies the EU in any depth will know exactly why Poland is getting this cash and when it started. It's nothing to do with hungry people and everything to do with history and politics.

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


No, it's based on the ability of politicians to get as much from the EU budget for their own people as possible. Anyone who has studied the EU in any sort of depth can see that the funding arrangements are dreadful and subject to intense lobbying from member states. And that's speaking as someone who supports EU integration.


No, Poland is going to use the money to avoid spending their own. It's rather simple.


Again, more sensationalism. They're going to spend it in the right way, just that they were able to use their clout to get it in the first place.


Yawn. This money has little or nothing to do with a country's finances and everything to do with how skillful their politicians are at getting money for the country. Poland always has been rather good at getting money from the EU since 1989 - nothing new there, move on.

Anyway, use of "Tusk regime" tells us exactly what you are. Nothing but a typical PiS supporting foreigner who doesn't even live here.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


Interestingly, the opinion polls at the minute are all over the place. I don't think any of them are particularly reliable.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


And still bad news. Anything less than 45% is not going to return them to Government .

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


Anyone who knows anything about the EU knows that money handed out usually isn't on the basis of need, but rather how good their politicians are. Trying to claim that Poland needs "external aid" is factually incorrect at best.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


There's plenty of Ukrainians and Belarusians to go around.

Love / I'd like to get married with my girlfriend in Krakow. A simple ceremony place? [16]

Another one who doesn't understand that things are different here.

There is no such thing as a "willing official". They will not - repeat - will not do anything to legitimise such a marriage if the paperwork isn't completed to the satisfaction of the Polish authorities. The Polish authorities demand a "certificate of no impediment", which for you as a UK citizen, costs 716zl as a result of needing to pay for the Embassy in Warsaw.

If you want someone to say some random vows and to say "right, you're husband and wife" - that's easy to get. But it won't be accepted as a legal marriage in Poland.

UK, Ireland / I'm currently living with a Pole who has been claiming benefits in the UK [35]

Your familiarity with benefits (as well as being able to post rants like this) suggest that the only one -


is you.

UK, Ireland / I'm currently living with a Pole who has been claiming benefits in the UK [35]


Because it's an outlet for his fantasies?

It's pretty obvious he's just another one that was dumped by a Polish girl.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Shouldn't you put pressure on people to stop idiotically cycling when hammered then, so they can change the law for the better?

I must admit - I don't like the law personally. It sucks. But when you consider the vast amount of drunken old morons on main roads cycling, it - sadly - has to stay. Going to prison is the only language those people will understand.

Love / TRAVELLING to Poland - Girl Advice! [29]

Why don't you just tell the truth and admit that you met some girl online and you're going there with the sole purpose of getting laid?

Spare us the rubbish about actually wanting to go near Tychy, Katowice, etc.

Language / What has been the hardest language for you to learn? [81]

Sure, but wouldn't that require the Pole to also know Russian to a very decent standard?

I know quite a few Ukrainians (living in Ukraine) who learnt Polish very easily - they don't even treat it as a real foreign language because of how similar it is and how easy it is to pick up for them.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


I love when you read a Polish emigrant talking about the 'cure' for immigration.


What about grabbing others with an iron hand? Why would you, for instance, treat someone differently because of an accident of birth?

Food / Organic fruit and vegetable - delivery (Warsaw) [33]


I've heard one argument that a lot of land is actually organic in Poland, just that the farmers don't have money to apply/comply with certification - or they simply don't see the benefit in doing so.

Whether it's true or not, I don't know.

Language / What has been the hardest language for you to learn? [81]


I can introduce you to several with pleasure.


It actually doesn't make sense - why would a Pole and Ukrainian communicate in Russian if the Ukrainian speaks Ukrainian properly?

What's more likely is that the Ukrainian girls you're talking about are ethnically Russian and don't actually speak Ukrainian well/at all.