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Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
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peterweg   
24 May 2012
Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]

No address, but I can point..

maps.google.com/maps?q=krakow&ie=UTF8&ll=50.063649,19.934825&spn=0.000938,0.00327&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Krak%C3%B3w,+Krak%C3%B3w+County,+Lesser+Poland+Voivodeship,+Poland&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=50.063649,19.934825&panoid=vxFpralMxtAAVgq c-GVrDQ&cbp=12,203.56,,0,-0.07

Dent America, its upstairs..
peterweg   
24 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Check out the Commonwealth and take a look at the old British Empire countries.

Do you know how the average India views the British Empire? As a bunch of thieving, raping, murdering bastards. They won't forgive or forget, note how little they buy from the UK. They hate the British.

But you keep telling yourself how ******* great the Empire was for its subjects.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

That will be 200 years hence. These old communist blocks are solidly built, besides its the land of value, so rebuilding will be a small part of the total cost.

Sorry that life in Poland doesn't live up to a rotten wooden hut in a godforsaken American suburb.

Almost everyone in Krakow lives in apartments, some people have cheap houses in the country, some both. I've got the choice myself of which to live in town or country to bring up the kids. We are swinging. towards living on the Farm
peterweg   
24 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Poland is Europes biggest apple producer and producer of apple juice but doesn't make cider!!! i rest my case!

Some case. You can buy Polish Cider,

Mind you, I'll be making some myself this year - there is a market for it.

Poland's agricultural section is vastly under utilized, the potential exists to increase it several fold.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Declining population puts strain on local budgets

Only three regions (mazowieckie, pomorskie and malopolskie) will record population growth by 2035, according to the Central Statistical Office (GUS) data.

This trend could explain why some peopel have such differing views of the situation

ahh the "everybody i know has been given a flat by their grandparent" guy, you have no credibility here.

What do you do in Poland again?

Your poor thing.

What you fail to understand is the amount of foreign investment that the UK has abroad. Unlike Poland

Poland isn't the UK. The Uk is a top 5 economy, Poland is 20. Comparing it is ridiculous, it will take another 10-20 years before Poland has moved to Western European standards or living.

Poland near bottom of OECD quality-of-life index

When it comes to quality of life, Poland was ranked eighth to last among 34 countries rated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reported Parkiet.

Poland fared marginally better than Greece and Portugal, but lags behind countries such as Slovenia and Israel.

In particular, the country performed poorly in terms of income, which is below the OECD average, as well as life satisfaction and quality of housing.

Australians enjoy the best quality of life, according to the OECD's second annual Better Life Index.

wbj/article-59221-poland-near-bottom-of-oecd-quality-of- life-index.html?typ=pam

Plenty of way to go..
peterweg   
24 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

I especially liked the lady who gave her property to the handy man story.

I must admit this shocked me a bit. She was very old and the guy offered to look after her until death, which was about 5 years. They moved in for a couple of years and are now selling the place.

My wife looked after her grandmother after she got cancer. Gave up school and delayed entering university to do it.

These two people not have any family? was it a care home? no children? where they bad people to be abandoned by their own families at old age? did they both write wills?

Think about it, tens of millions of communist apartments were just given to their tenants. There are no real social services and these people lived through grinding poverty in the war and then communism.

Did EVERY single grandparent have an official will, standard law in Poland is that the deceaseds wealth automatically gets shared out between the children not grand children.

The family members (well, the other son) agree to it. The mother has 1/20ths share and its agreed we can never sell it.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]

I would look around because price vary wildly. And I mean four times as much with one dentist as another.

We have used a dentist in Krakow and its been good value so far although its not an extensive history.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]

As opposed to non-foreign Poles I guess?

Well, obviously if he spoke to any of the hundreds of thousands of Anglo-Poles he would have idea that we were not 100% British .

Ironic that a lot of the middle class British look at his sort as illiterate Chav scum and welcome Polish immigrants as kind of Saviour.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
News / Polish children boosting standards among English pupils, study suggests [16]

The US doesn't have a a 'melting pot' as different nationalities and cultures live in ghettos.

In the UK immigrants are expected, and usually do, to integrate. There is no such thing as Polish ghettos in the UK and you would never identify an Anglo-Pole unless he told you his surname.
peterweg   
24 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

I thought you lived here? Dole is far less than that.

Average rent for a room is less than 1000pln, usually shared, so <500pln in Krakow, so just over 100 euro's rent. Live in a small town and it will be far cheaper. Students are paying less than 400pln in the Krakow suburbs, we rent our room out to two students for 1000pln/month and its a ten minute walk to the center of town.

comparable to earnings? what scale are you basing this claim on?

Based on the EU cost of food survey, not relative to earning.

Well then you are the lucky one.What about others?

My wifes Grandmother gave her this apartment, now worth about 100k euro.

Downstairs an Aunt gave that apartment to a repair man who promised to look after her and keep her company for her final few years. She died recently.

My sister in law was given an apartment from another grandparent. Her boyfriend was give an apartment by his grandfather.

Parents-in law bought a one bed flat in a small town. 20k pln ($6k, £4k) and gave it to their son.

Virtual every one of my Polish family were given/bought property for figures around 20-40K pln which, due to inflation and currency appreciation is now a tiny sum which means they are debt free owners.

One family I know paid 3000pln for a large house with a 3 ha field surrounded by national woodland. $1000.

Similar situation with friends. Mid twenty's in age and owners of property through inheritance/gifts. No parents I know have any mortgage debt unless its second properties.

I bought a farm for 175Kpln which the owners had paid 37K in the mid 1990's.

Wife's Parents bought a 1ha farm, house and large stone workshop for 70kpln

Polish people have a remarkable small amount of mortgage debt compared to western European countries, even in relation to wages/gdp. The fact that the entire social housing stock was give/sold for peanuts to almost everyone in the country has something to do with it. So you have a very large number of Poles who have large assets and low living costs, coupled with competitively low costs of food.
peterweg   
23 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Booming economy means plenty of work ?

Debatable. All economies seem to be able very good growth and large unemployment at the same time. There is many reason for this, for instance the unemployability of some sections of society due to lack of skills and lack of physically mobility (not live where the jobs are), or the black market economy (which is huge in place like Italy, near 30% of the economy).

and people starting families. Am I wrong ?

Maybe, probably but it depends on demographics - for instance - old people don't have babies.
peterweg   
23 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Interesting, there was an article in a newspaper saying the US was on the edge of its won recession, regardless of the rest of the world.

bbc.co.uk/news/business-18170291

Sorry but you completely lost me. So you mean that if only small businesses set up up that's good but big ones are bad. Are sure you weren't tired when you wrote this, perhaps a bit sleep deprived, all of your mental faculties working in order?

Its the mental gymnastics required to deny the obvious.
peterweg   
23 May 2012
UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]

Actually almost everything Biedronka sells (and yes I know it is a Portuguese outfit) is Polish -

I never buy food there, lust look at the jumble sale of crap they sell.
peterweg   
23 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Exactly. Poland has growth woopdy doo, yes it does have growth but the people are still inherently poor. Thats my argument.

Poor? Do you understand how F***ing poor people were in Poland 20 years ago?
peterweg   
22 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/22/11805670-viciou s-circ le-europe-crisis-threatens-world-economy-oecd-says?lite

Interesting, there was an article in a newspaper saying the US was on the edge of its won recession, regardless of the rest of the world.

Which is true?
peterweg   
22 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Dear me, arn't you a sorry thing who has to find time to slag me off. I guess I'm lucky to get to paid to do very little.

gdyniaguy:
...the bloke doesn't live in Poland so has no idea!

You know as much as me as you do about economics and maths.

.

In Poland theres plenty of people in the shops but hardly anybody buys stuff other than essentials.

Doesn't reflect what I cans see in Krakow. Full on, Buying as much crap as they can.
peterweg   
22 May 2012
Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Tesco have Kerrygold mature

Auchon have 2 different Irish Cheddars, 10 or 13pln for 200g. The price is the maturity

Carefore had the same cheddars for a bit more plus a few other English cheeses. I buy several Kg of Cheese in the UK and bring it back. I even had a cheese party, but there is a limit on how much I can eat.

"Mexican" places. It's not the right.. anything.

Mexican in Poland.. yuck... they have no clue, even the UK is miles better.
peterweg   
22 May 2012
Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

(applies to Wroclaw branches I know of, both Tescos for example)

They have just started selling Cheddar in Krakow.

Thanks, but the Almas here don't have it. Been to both that I know of.

My local has in on an occasional basis. They have an ordering service - ask them to get it for you.

My local shop started selling sliced cheddar (Polish company) and also some sort of cheddar cheese spread. Look among the other sliced cheeses and you maybe surprised.
peterweg   
21 May 2012
UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]

No self-respecting Polish person would ever eat food not originating from Poland

better tell that to the millions of Poles who shop at Tesco (British), Carefore (French), Bierdronka (Portuguese).

Polish supermarkets are dominated by foreign companies and their food is sourced most often from their original countries.

I needed to get some *Proper* tea there

You will find a better selection of tea in Poland than the UK
peterweg   
21 May 2012
News / Polish baby boom, but not in Poland [40]

For the Polish Nation in Exile, it basically is free.

Tax payers contributing to the British economy.

Seen as the vast majority of the 100 Billion £ NHS Budget is paid for by British people, working in Britain, using British resources and Infrastructure -

The vast majority will be used by the elderly, who are British