Real Estate / Just by gauging the interest in this forum says all about property in PL [36]

No links, just my friends have these mortgages. In my area they are quite popular.

German banks are Franchises, maybe its only certain branches do these mortgages. I don't live near a big city.

Real Estate / Just by gauging the interest in this forum says all about property in PL [36]

Sparkasse, Volksbank.

All my friends with a German Mortgage have 100 year mortgages. In UK its mostly around 35 years.

Real Estate / Just by gauging the interest in this forum says all about property in PL [36]


No, i did not read it. I live in Germany.

Majority are 100 year mortgages.

Love / How to convince English boyfriend to learn Polish? [39]

I still cant speak Polish or understand people speaking it but I can read and write it a little.

I've been trying and it upsets me that I can't do it, I really want to live in Poland so I must learn soon.

If he can't be bothered to learn a few simple words you should ask him why he can't be bothered.

My girlfriend speaks very good English but I want to speak very good Polish still. I don't NEED to learn, I WANT to for my girlfriend and her family.

Real Estate / Just by gauging the interest in this forum says all about property in PL [36]


Once in 3 lifetimes. They pass their mortgages on to the grandkids in Germany.

History / How was Poland compensated after World War 2 [47]


Yes, their war finished in 1989.

The Nazi's tried to wipe Poland off the map in 1939, Poland is still here and the Nazi's and the Soviet Union are gone so I guess Poland beat the Nazi's and Soviets too.

History / How was Poland compensated after World War 2 [47]

Reparations and compensation. Why?

The people who caused the war are dead, the Nazi party and the Soviet Union have gone. Why should people pay for what their ancestors did?

Not every German was a Nazi, not every Russian wanted to be communist.

The English want compensation from the French for the Norman Invasion in 1066.

Note, the last statement is not true, its sarcasm.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

No I don't teach English but I am English.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Sorry, i should not have wrote that about earning 1300zl.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]


There is nothing wrong with this English.

Blind assumptions? I think below are blind assumptions too.


Please stop slagging each other off, this is Polish Forums and not the Fuzzy and Delphi show. You are both as bad as each other.

Median Salary is the best way to judge salary in Poland. I know some who earn a lot, some who earn a little. I earn 1300zl for 2 days while in Poland every weekend im there.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

If you are baptised into a Christian religion you are a Christian, you cant be a fake Christian. You don't have to believe in the religion anymore but you are still a Christian unless you renounce it.

I believe in God but not in religion, religion is man made and controlled by man. You can follow what Jesus and the other prophets were supposed to have said without following the religions. Religion just causes problems, having no religion does not cause problems.

The Soviets and Nazi's abolished religion because it was a threat to them. Not having religion did not cause Nazism and Communism to begin.

Anybody who takes offence to any religious symbol is just crazy.

Christian schools should be allowed to have crucifixes displayed but if someone asks for a different religious symbol to be displayed that should be displayed too.

The Bible is not lies its just "Chinese Whispers" The old testament talks about things that are pre written language, before writing everything was passed orally as stories.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]


I think you missed the time difference here.

I just drove the A2 on Friday and was stuck in a 2 hour 14km traffic Jam before Hanover.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

I should have been clearer.

Sometimes its awesome. When you drive it every weekend it is not an awesome road.

I was mainly trying to say its A2 to Magdeburg not A2 to Berlin. I drive to Lodz via Wroclaw sometimes to see a friend in Polanica zdroj and its the route I take. Now the A4 motorway is open it will be a better drive.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

The A2 is not an awesome road. Wait until some idiot has smashed his car and you are sat still for 9 hours. You hear it on the radio about 25km Stau (Traffic Jam) A2 Dortmund to Hanover quite often.

I have been stuck on the A2 a few times when it has come to a halt.

However, from Rotterdam you head for the A1 at Amersfoort (E30). This takes you to the German border near Rheine an the A30 (E30). Follow the A30 to Bad Oyenhausen, watch out, the A30 ends on the edge of Bad Oyenhausen and there is a 50km/h speed limit, its still 2 lanes. There is a speed camera about 100m after the sign. The other side of Bad Oyenhausen get on the A2 (E30) to Hanover. Stay on the A2 to Magdeburg (Not Berlin) at Magdeburg join the A14 towards Leipzig and Dresden. At Dresden join the A4 to Wroclaw.

Berlin is another 100 mile from Magdeburg and will take you onto the A18 which you dont want.

I drove the A2 last Monday.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

I drove over the border at Zgorzelec in June last year and the Motorway was not open.

In April the A18 was 2 lanes but very bumpy, are they resurfacing the road now?

If the A4 is open and all Motorway now the best crossing would be to Hoek and then follow the E30 until Magdaburg. Just before Magdaburg switch to the A14 towards Leipzig then join the A4 before Dresden.

If its a sunny day it is a very nice drive, going over the Minden Ridge on the A2 is a great view. Watch out speeding in Holland, I've been caught a few times. They have sneaky Camera's on the Motorway and Unmarked cars.

They are known to close motorways and make you drive through the services to check for anything illegal. Every car is stopped by a Policeman when they do this.

Don't do anything illegal and you will be fine, don't worry.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

As I said, the distance is irrelevant.

The speed limits in Holland means you take 6 hours to get to Berlin.

From Esbjerg its 3 hours to Berlin.

I have tried every Ferry to the continent, I like to miss out driving in Holland. There is way too much traffic on Dutch roads.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

Personally I think I would rather pay extra on a ferry to drive less.

I would not call it hideously expensive. The Harwich to Hoek overnight ferry is very poor.

Dutch speed camera's and unmarked traffic cops are bad.

The dutch can impound your car and sell it at auction if you cant pay your on the spot speeding fine.

Germany does not have this.

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Its not being used by NATO at the moment, I think its being left for a couple of years to recover, let more trees grow and the tracks to get grassed over.

I think thats why the bars are closed.

I'm trying to get a permanent posting there but i think its just a pipe dream.

It would make trips to see my gf easier though :)

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]


most of the Poles I have met and are my friends are not ruled by it. My ex gf was thats why she is my ex.

Krakow seemed to me a lot like it was a money grabbing haven but all the other cities I have visited are not.

Parking machines give change or give you, say 1 hour 15 mins, in Poland.

In UK they don't and you will only get the hour even if you pay the equivalent of 1.5 hours.

This is one example of why i say people in uk are ruled by money.

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

The stuff that repels mosquitoes repels skin too, it just falls off.

The new stuff just attracts more. I nearly went crazy lying still for 1 hour with constant buzzing and biting.

My legs were swollen so much they would not bend. After 5 days i was used to them and the swelling did not appear.

I did not fall in love with Poland from visiting that area :(

Has the area improved in the last few years? I was last in Drawsko in 2001.

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Not Ex.

The mosquitoes there are deadly. They bite through trousers and shirts.

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Drawsko Pomorskie aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

don't mention that place.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

Ive driven both numerous times. Denmark is less driving than from Rotterdam.

Speed limits for a start.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

E30 goes to Poznan, Lodz and Warsaw.

Wroclaw is on the A4 which is the E36 from Berlin.

Esbjerg is a shorter drive to Wroclaw than driving from Rotterdam.

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

I would get ferry to Hollyhead then A55 across to the M6.

Down M6 and onto the A14 to Harwich.

Harwich to Esbjerg in Denmark.

Get on the E45 south to Hamburg

A7 Autobahn in Germany to Hamburg

A24 to Berlin then go round the A10 Berliner ring towards Dresden.

A13 towards Cotbuss which ends up as the E36 on the A15

Cross the border into Poland and stay on the A18 into Poland.

The A18 merges into the A4 to Wroclaw.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]

Most move to a more developed country to earn more money. This is just greed.

My gf and her mum live in Poland and have hardly any money, they wont let me give them money when I stay with them every weekend. They don't want to leave Poland, they are happy with their lives in Poland.

While there are free jobs in UK foreign people will come. If there was no welfare state there would be less free jobs for foreign people. Too many people in the UK would rather rely on the welfare state than get a menial job.

Here lies the problem

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]

Show them that the UK employers are exploiting most of the Polish who work in England. I know a lot of university educated Polish people working in UK as waitresses and in coffee shops.

Poland has a chance to develop and not turn into a **** pit like the UK, I think Poles should stay in their own country and help the economy improve.

I spend most of my earnings in Poland now, I prefer Poland's way of life to the UK. Its NOT because Poland is cheaper to live, its the People in Poland are not ruled by money.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


Ok so MENSA is wrong and you are correct.

I don't like UK so i'm not intelligent. hmmm

I will not live in UK ever again if I have my way but I will take my pension that I have earned with me.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


I'm British and also i'm intelligent.