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jon357   
4 Mar 2013
News / Poland's population on the rise [24]

I don't see a baby boom in that curve; just a constant growth of the population.

These guys do, among others. All those long dark nights at home

Two main groups account for the rise in births in Poland. One is the people born during the baby boom of the early 1980s.

This young man got married a year ago when he and his fiancee were 21. Today they are awaiting a baby.

"We have each other, we have jobs to support the two of us, so we can afford a baby. This is natural and we are very happy."

networkeurope.radio.cz/feature/why-is-po land-going-through-a-baby-boom

Have a look here too. Quite interesting reading.

ier.hit-u.ac.jp/pie/stage1/Japanese/seminar/workshop040220/Fratczak.pdf

This one's interesting. The graph on p. 7 shows the boom in live births between 80 and 85.

demographic-research.org/volumes/vol19/22/19-22.pdf
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
Travel / Any Halal Restaurants in Krakow? [34]

Europeans get angry

Most don't.

In any case, all killing for food is unnecessary in Europe where we can eat a good diet that doesn't involve animals. No matter how nice they taste.

BTW, opinions differ on which methods are more or less cruel. Having seen animals being slaughtered on farms here in PL, the method used seemed about the same as I've seen in Muslim parts of Africa.

To the OP, these websites may be useful to you:

krakowmuslims.webs.com/apps/forums/show/6862279-halal-food

crescentrating.com/ar/poland-city-guide-for-muslim-travelers/item/3082-krakow-an-overview.html
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
Law / Divorce in Poland - fault - rights to property predating the marriage [34]

I remember one half of a couple I knew who were divorcing getting worried about a threshold round about the three-year mark which affected the percentage the ex-spouse would be entitled to. The house and land was a substantial family estate held in his name that his family were worried his spouse would have a claim on however it was a while ago and my memories are vague about it all. I remember that crossing one threshold meant the ex would get half rather than a third. This was some years ago and the law may well have changed. Nor was I paying much attention to what they were telling me at the time - too much information from them really.

Worth mentioning though that the person in question was a lawyer so would presumably have had accurate information, though the website below seems to contradict what I remember.

The link below mentions ten years in relation to accrued gains in property value during the marriage.
coupleseurope.eu/en/poland/topics/5-what-are-the-consequences-of-divorce-separation
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
Law / Paying tax on UK I.S.A. in Poland? [20]

You can trade on the Warsaw Stock Exchange online - the Halifax offer a good service however you'd need a UK address to use them. Any broker should be able to help you.
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
UK, Ireland / Buying Polish cigarettes in Manchester. [4]

Hehehehe.

In fact there are very few 'Polish cigarettes' now, most production here has switched to international brands. The OP's girlfriend may well be reassured that most cigarettes sold in The UK are now produced in Poland by Philip Morris down in the south or BAT Up in Augustow.

Better still if she gives up. The health warnings on the packet are not a joke.
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

import polish goods into our stores there fore sending profit to the polish companies and not english companies

Who do you think owns those companies? Look on the labels the next time you're in a Polish shop. You may well find that many of the products come from UK-owned companies like Unilever.

b) why many of you have not a willingness to learn our language (which should of been done before deciding to immigrate)

300 language schools in Warsaw and thousands round the country suggests that people are very willing to learn English.

and my own identity

Why would somebody else's identity affect yours?
jon357   
4 Mar 2013
News / Poland's population on the rise [24]

There was a huge baby boom a few years ago. Those people are now starting families. Simple, really.
jon357   
3 Mar 2013
Work / Future Centre Warsaw - Has anyone worked for this company? [4]

They used to offer a rather unusual pattern of training with longer but less frequent lessons. They were certainly cheap but many of their 'teachers' were in fact university students working for peanuts and few if any were native English speakers or had any teaching qualifications. They had a reputation for being better at sales than service delivery. That was the situation a few years ago - it may have changed but probably not radically.
jon357   
2 Mar 2013
Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]

The university he suggested is The University of Euroregional Economy,Jozefow. seems it is 22 kms away from Warsaw.

Its head office is in Josefów - it seems they actually do the teaching in various small places, not just there. It ranks at 167 among Polish HE establishments which is not a good sign.

webometrics.info/en/detalles/wsge.edu.pl
Having said that, the website looks promising and they must at least meet certain minimum standards to be accredited.
wsge.edu.pl/pl/
jon357   
2 Mar 2013
Language / Secret to the Polish Rolling R [40]

The only time I've ever come across that double d thing is in American literature, trying to represent standard English speech - in reality you just don't hear it. The Polish rolled r is extremely easy to get right though.
jon357   
2 Mar 2013
Language / Secret to the Polish Rolling R [40]

Imagine if you've ever heard some of those hoity-toity Britcom Brits pronounce "very" as "veDDY" or "terribly" "teDDibly", and so forth.

Never, actually.

In any case, quite a few parts of the British Isles use the post-vocalist R.
jon357   
23 Feb 2013
UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]

Processing/locking the difference is what exactly?

In one they're trying to get you to leave and in the other they're locking you away.

Is there any reason asylum processing centres should be in the Home Counties?

warszawski wrote there in no differences in society and advancement comes directly from the will to achieve

Without the will to achieve there is no achievement. And many, many people do succeed against terrible odds where others sink even if they're born with a silver spoon in their mouth. That isn't often down to just look.
jon357   
23 Feb 2013
UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]

that fabled sense of decency and fair play

Which certainly exists.

Locking people on a remote island will do what exactly

Warszawski actually talked about processing asylum seekers - don't twist his words. Personally, I feel the UK has been extremely generous giving asylum over the years and it's now someone else's turn for a decade or so - much more practical to return people on the airline they came on.

Its a lovely classless society that you have in your own mind, on the one hand there are uncultured "bottom feeders" as you called them, who are the same class as the Covent Garden opera goers the only thing that separates them is the will to succeed nothing more. That is a really self congratulatory twisted Triumph of the will view of the world

Leaving out your bitter way of phrasing it, what you've described is the way of the world - some people do better in life than others. BUt remove the rewards for doing well, remove the luxury and the status and you also remove the incentive for showing initiative and seizing opportunities before your rivals.
jon357   
22 Feb 2013
UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]

There is a money divide, we do live in a capitalist society after all.

Basically that's all it is nowadays.
jon357   
22 Feb 2013
Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

It is rather funny - or would be if those jerks weren't getting paid for teaching. Thailand's a bit the same. Nevertheless there are decent jobs and professional teachers in both places.

The market in Poland is a strange mix - in Warsaw it's getting like Western Europe with higher standards expected and fewer jobs. In the countryside, they'll still take anyone. Provincial cities are a mix, but more and more there are plenty of people chasingthe same work with the obvious effect on wages.

I was dismayed to read here about English lessons sold by something called Groupon which means that the language school in question is charging very little and packing as many into the room as they can.