UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]


Poland is exports a lot of food due to its abundance of agricultural land - three times that of the UK. Hence its in Polands economic benefit to export Polish food which is bought by British people as well as Poles.

Lets have a winge about Tesco's HUNDREDS of shops selling BRITISH food in Poland shall we?


+1

UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]

You havn't seen the number of British Food shops catering to expats around the world have you? Sad as it is, the British are just as bad when it comes to their food comfort zone.

UK, Ireland / Sooo many Polski Sklep in the UK, LOL [64]

There is far more Poles than any other minority nationality in the UK, so if there is a market, it will be fulfilled.

News / Polish baby boom, but not in Poland [40]


Indeed. Of course the health system is free here to.

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


How about they are Icelandic sources, from journalists or bloggers who speak and read the language, who live there and know what is happening?

Rather than some twit with his own personal agenda. The media outside iceland has some very starnge preconceptions, because of their own agenda and storyline.

For instance the referendum about the Iceave deal. The UK/US media decided it was a vote for 'freedom from bank oppression' against 'bailing out the banks', when it was, in fact, a vote on accepting the repayment terms - Iceland agreed to repay the Icesave debt, it was a vote on the interest rate for the loan. The delayed the deal so long the bank restitution committee repaid most of the money and now the legal case is just about the interest debt.

icenews.is is another excellent Icelandic news/discussion site.

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


No, Iceland did not default on its debts and 'walk away with a level playing field'.
The Government did not have the debt, the banks did. The Icelandic government separated the banks into good bank-bad bank and re-capitalised them to the tune of 1.5 billion euro's.

They had considerable problems which are un-resolved, they failed to protect savers in the banks unless they were Icelandic. This is illegal under EU and the EFTA-SA are prosecuting the government, however, most of the money has been paid from the sale of bank assets.

The current situation is that Iceland is under legal threat from its debtors., its economy is frozen due to the (again illegal) capital controls that preven money being converted/removed from Iceland. There are billions of euro's of bonds than the Government has to keep paying interest on with hard currency.

All importer/exporters have to convert money via the government control banks system and are give half the real world exchange rate, because of this there is no investment from abroad because its impossible to move money out again. Iceland's economy is on a knife edge and the people have no hope anything will ever get better, it could take a decade for the capital controls to be removed. In the mean time, Iceland is ******.

Argentina is teh usual country they use as an example of how to walk away from debts for a clean start. 11 years later they still are fighting the consequences of the default and have a currency thats fallen from parity to 4.5 to the dollar, 30% inflation and a breakdown in society.


If you are going to try to have a discussion about something you obviously don't understand, try and cut and paste something without changing it to be so fundamentally wrong.

Hint:Poland has complete control of its currency because it is NOT in the Euro.

History / Help identifying military uniform in Kraków [10]

Polish Army Dress Uniform, a doctor I think

mon.gov.pl/en/strona/138/LG_98_99

There is a Military hospital in Krakow.

News / Polish baby boom, but not in Poland [40]


I'd prefer to look at official figures rather than use your method of making it up as you go along, aka useless guesswork.

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


Yes, typical claptrap from non-Icelanders promoting their own stupid agenda that has nothing to with Iceland. And bright sparks like you swallow it.

Iceland is comprehensively ****** and they know it. There is billions of euro's of bonds they have to keep paying interest on because they are desperate to borrow more money. The capital controls prevent their currency being converted, the Krona is worthless. It violated the basic EU law on free movemnet of capital, but they violated the equal treatment of EFTA citizens, so **** the EU. However, they are/will be prosecuted for this.

This journalist has a good view on Iceland and she isn't scared to say truths that the Icelandic mafia wouldn't like to be heard.

uti.is

IWR used to be quite good before she 'found a new job' and stopped blogging about the political situation and now its an occasional travel journal. From the best know Icelandic blogger in the English speaking world to.. silence.

icelandweatherreport.com

If you want to discuss Iceland, I'm quite happy to setup a thread about it.

News / Polish baby boom, but not in Poland [40]

I'm quite aware you won't actually have an source of valid information.

News / Polish baby boom, but not in Poland [40]


Right, because apparently you have your own census organization, will that be part of your economic analysis department and pay-check verifying company?

Located in The Sun Don't Shine Alley?

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


Corrupt, bankrupt, mafia run country that doesn't even have a convertible currency.

Iceland is great as a justification of whatever **** you want to promote. Eg.

- Iceland has never had the Euro and its go nothing to do with the Euro - get rid of the Euro and be like Iceland (bankrupt and up to your neck in debt)

- Iceland bans Black people, it works, lets do it here!!
- Sex with animals - Look... its great in Iceland, try it!

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

1996 avnhp: €87,202.00 , avindw: €20,692.2 , ratio: 4.214
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2006 avnhp: €305,637.00 , avindw: €37,477.1 , ratio: 8.155

I don't know how your maths works, property doubled in relation to wages

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

I don't know how you think it would be a good thing. Unless you have a lot of money in safe assets. Like gold.

You financially secure with a good job?

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Your own figures show the HP to wages multiple went ballistic, 8:1

Thats 100% bank lending. Average in the UK is from 2.8-4. In the boom I think it peaked at 7.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Well thats your opinion. The fact is Poles are still sending about the same back and prices are falling. So I'd say it banks not lending causing the crash, one they restart prices will recover.

And Ireland's crash was caused by bank lending not wages.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

The difference is your understanding the figures are calculated. You could get screwed if you don't understand it. 95% and 258% is a big difference in numbers

If prices fall at that level then its obviously significant. They fell 4% spain, so its quite possible.

Travel / Wroclaw Euro 2012 - how much zloty I should be taking with me? [16]


Is that a joke? What rate give a better rate than a Kantor, at less than 1% spread?


You sure about that? By taking the rate given its fixed at that. However if you allow it to be calculated it can go up or down.


Actually its more like 700 pints at what i paid for last night,

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


Normal trading, nothing to worry about.

Travel / Wroclaw Euro 2012 - how much zloty I should be taking with me? [16]

I'd be very wary about using a cc in some clubs. Two places in Krakow were accused of taking tens of thousands of pounds off credit cards without the owners approval.

They failed to get the money back as they were present during the transaction.

Note also the credit card charges and exchange rate are much worse than converting cash

Life / Health system in Poland one of the worst in Europe: report [78]


There is a lot of money being put into it. UK has a very high GDP and is putting a large part of it into health care

bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11686396

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Avalon.

You, and everybody else for that matter, really must learn how to calculate compound interest


No, its an 258% increase based on Milky's figure. You don't add the rises, you multiply. Here

1 x 1.23 =1.23
1.23 x 1.28= 1.5744
1.57 x 1.45= 2.28288
2.28 x 1.13= 2.579

so 257.9%


Again you multiply the annual falls by the previous year/months figure

1 x 0.99= 0.99
0.99 x 0.99 = 0.9801
0.99 x 0.9801 = 0.970299
0.99 x 0.970299 = 0.96059601
0.99 x 0.96059601
etc for 12 months
.
.
end of year fall = 0.886384872

Which is 11.36% fall per year. Calculator..
stoozing.com/mon2yr.htm

To get back the 258% rise it would have to fall from 3.58 (100%+258%) to 1, so a fall of 72% (2.58/3.58=0.72)

at 1% fall per month, 11.36% per year APR, it would take about 11 years to fall 73% to lose the 258% rise.

However, this ignores inflation. If you assume 4% inflation from 2004, by 2017 the inflation adjusted price would be 170% up. So you would need a fall of (1.88/3.58=0.53) 53% which should come in 6 years.

Inflation target and actual is probably less than that, so the actual date would be 7 or eight years... 2019-2020

Travel / Wroclaw Euro 2012 - how much zloty I should be taking with me? [16]

Take pounds and convert in a Kantor for the best exchange rate, something like 1% spread is generous, anything more a rip off.


Not enough for a strip club, but more than you could ever spend on food and booze. Its about... 500pints of beer.

Life / Health system in Poland one of the worst in Europe: report [78]


An US doctor explained it thus: US has good treatment but not any sort of healthcare system (funny, my US spell checker doesn't recognize healthcare as a word).

To explain, the US treats symptoms and diseases, what they don't do is have a system to prevent and predict those diseases and prevent them killing you.

Boston hospitals are, no doubt, great places to die.

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


In fairness I've never called him stupid, or any poster for that matter. There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance.

Stupidity is the inability to understand or deal with something due a incapacity of the brain. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, in this day and age thats due to a laziness or refusal to get that knowledge. Most peoples IQ is high enough for them to be able to educate themselves if they want to (IQ tests are bullshit to a large extent as they are too maths orientated). But they don't want to, preferring the lazy option, ignoring it or pretending it isn't true.

Apparently its worth a massive amount of intellectual effort not learn maths.


So has Ireland. They live off potatoes and are un-educated. They will starve when the blight comes.

Funny, Ireland managed to turn its economy around and make it population rich. It did this without Polands advantages; large amounts of top quality agricultural land great geographical location and a large population.

Life / Health system in Poland one of the worst in Europe: report [78]


Its 34th in the world because its a disorganized mess, the US is throwing away half its expenditure due to inefficiency. As a result American suffer health problems and die younger than their foreign equivalents.

And, its not personal wealth that determines quality either, it was published a couple of years ago that the richest 50 year old American was in significantly poorer health than the poorest British person.

The US health system is a failure at keeping American's healthy and its doubtful spending any more money will ever correct it.

Before you get into the US is best at anything just remember the US is not best, not even in the top ten, in anything to do with health, education, development.


Well put.

Law / Poland's Economy "Outpacing Germany". Gratulacje. [20]


Analysis of the Euro suggested only those countries physically joined to Germany should join. Well, Poland is actually sat on a big chunk of German infrastructure, you can't more single market than that.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Yes.
Was that a question?

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


It is a small town which I have no interest in visiting, especially now I've been told its a miserable, depressed.


You will take any excuse to, slag me off. You guys can't add up, but I've never been to the Polish Seaside. Well, a 99pln airfare will sort me out.

Are you going to re-do your maths 'O' Level (or wtf its called these days)?