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


From what he has said, economy there is dead and the high street is full of dodgy lending places.

Please tell me why I should be interested in a place that he has describe as a dump?

Why should I lie about something of no relevance to me?

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

We had a boom and now there is a crash.
Whats different?

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

milky:What sort of mortage deal are available in Poland.

Earning multiple, interest rates, deposits. I only see the main banks offers, which i assume are not the best

I beleive that if you own the land, no deposit is required

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]


Its 99pln, one hour flight.


Right.


Only his personal experience counts, apparently.

My brother reckons he can buy England tickets for 50 euros. No demand, who wants to goto the Ukraine??

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


So why are you complaining about it ? I have no interest in the place and why should I?

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]

Well we will see how many fans come to Krakow, obviously none will be coming for the matches. But its a 2 hour flight from the UK.

Warsaw is a 7 hour drive to Berlin, you can drive from Holland in 12 hours. But you must be right. No tourists visit Poland, never will.

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


Obviously I don't have any idea of the places you are talking about so I gave you a streetview link. Why did you chose that town in particular?

You realise if you decided to live in some godforsaken town in the UK half the shops would be charity shops or pawnbrokers.

Maybe we are judging by what we see, I live in Krakow and this place is booming. Quite obviously that is not the case elsewhere in the country. Which is why we rely on national statistics.

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


I can't get my head around that


Can you give a link for these figures? Krakow prices are going down, its noticeable. But Poznan and Lodz.. Thats an incredible fall.

You should be well on the way to winning your bet.

The fall in Spain was 3-4% in one month.

Milky, check your IM
"Message sending failed. Reason: The maximum number of stored user's messages is reached. You may try to contact this member by email."

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

Got a link?

You should look at Spain

tinsa.es/n-pages/np-files/1/18/ficha_Imie_Abril_2012-.pdf

Prices down 37%. More to come, if devaluation hits it will be 40% overnight.

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


Disprove it.


If this the main street?

maps.google.com/maps?q=gdynia&ll=54.514007,18.540115&spn=0.060388,0.209255&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Gdynia,+Pomeranian+Voivodeship,+Poland&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=54.513864,18.54009&panoid=O2m2PaSV7ooQdTKHjBjxEg&cbp=12,211.82,,0,11

Show me where the money lenders are.


So why are you here?

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


You obviously don't live in Poland or read these forums much, so leave the personal insults out of it.


Thats how it works.

Ireland for instance is a dirt poor country with low wages and poor infrastructure. This will never change. The Irish are doomed to be forever cheap labour for foreign companies. The Average wage in Ireland is half that of the rest of the EU. There are no motorways, few airports in Ireland, and most educated Irish will have to emigrate for a future unless they want to farm potatoes.

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


Make up your mind, you do wants stats... so would you prefer we simply insult you?


Yup. Apparently so.

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


Umm, yea, because I started the thread about how bad Polish health-care is and my wife is a Nurse, so I know. And I go private in Poland.


I'd love to agree with you, my experience of the NHS has always been good. But UK came 12th out of 34 in Europe. No where near the best.

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

You are allowed to call someone that as its accepted that all Poles are anti-semitic. Pointing out thats someone is uneducated or plain stupid is a no-no, so think it as a swappable insult.

Real Estate / Is an inheritance decision by the court automatically registered in Poland Land Registry? [8]

You should have already got the paperwork from the court. It is automatic, my wife got a letter, but without going to court I don't think you own it.

Do you have a will? And because you have waited so long there maybe a big tax bill.

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]

When I went to the French world cup in 98 there were no hotels withing 15km ( Toulouse has 15k beds for a 40k stadium). After the match we had to walk to the hotel as there was no transport of any kind. French hooligans were roaming the street, we had bottles thrown at us from passing cars. The match was England Romania, the problems were from the French not either team.

I spend two weeks in France and did a lot more than simply visit football matches. We had tickets to sell (you couldn't buy tickets to watch you own team so you had to trade.) and sold them for a lot (most to an Iranian couple in Paris, $2000 delivered by eurostar to Paris by my brother )

In Germany I went to the Australia matches, most people didn't go to matches but went to fan zones. It was like one massive festival, with football, and it was a great party and showed Germany in a great light.

I bought tickets just before the match and they were much cheaper than the online pre-sales. Is it worth paying ten times face value for a ticket? Yes. But watching it for free in a Fan zone is as good......

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


Which is why we have reports like this.

My personal experiance of the NHS is very good, however, my local hospital is the Kensington and Chelsea. Located in the richest council in Europe probably helps with the quality.

Real Estate / Is an inheritance decision by the court automatically registered in Poland Land Registry? [8]

You have to make the changes yourself. If you don't do it properly you will end up with a big tax bill and other problems.

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

I despair.

Couldn't forums put a test on topics, something like, "answer this simple mathematical Question".
Obviously if its a compound interest question 98% of the general population is going to fail it. Sorry, thats a joke you won't get. The vast majority of people don't seem to know how to do junior school maths.


Poland got the six billions the previous year and every other year for five years. So quite obviously you would have to take off last years figures as well because its a constant.

Increase in GDP is the increase in the constant base value, the EU money isn't added as growth, it adds to growth which is calculated on the whole of the GDP.

And yes, the EU help makes Polands GDP grow. This is what you give up independence for and Poland did it willingly.

Once the GDP grown it will allow Polish people's wages and the country's standard of living to be the same as other western countries. It will be able to spend money increasing the quality of health care and building its armed forces to defend against invasion.

Absolutely marvelous, and the Poles are very happy about it.

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


I've lived in Krakow for three years.

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


Who are you talking to?

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


Poland spend little, as a percent of its GDP, on health-care and with its small GDP its a double problem. Grow Polands economy and there will be more money to spend.

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

Here's the report. UK (12th) has risen above Germany (14th) for the first time.

healthpowerhouse.com/files/Report-EHCI-2012.pdf

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


wbj.


You do realise the the Poles are the most pro-EU country in Europe and for a good reason - they want to part of Europe and not Russia, They want the military security of being allied to NATO and the west and piffle the British have about the EU is way, way down the list of priorities.

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]

>>Coming from a country that regularly hold massive international events (olympics, world cup, euro cup etc)

1948, 1966, 1996

pushing it to call it regular, don't you think?

So the purpose of your visit is to tell us how crap it will be and not, as your title says discuss the benefits of the Euro 2012.

Great, another ******* Troll.


Because they will pay £2 for a beer and think its expensive

News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]


wbj.pl/article-59137-poland-could-gain-zl4-bln-on-return-visits-after-euro-2012.html?typ=pam

I suspect the affect on Krakow will be quite dramatic as three countries TV stations will be broadcasting daily from the city. In effect it will be a very long, intense publicity show for the city.

"Barcelona effect," olympicstudies.uab.es/pdf/wp084_eng.pdf

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

It variable. You can get ok service and you can also be given ridiculously long waiting times, like so long that you will be dead.

Individual hospitals can have very different standards of care, apparently

We pay for treatment as its affordable.

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


Yes, thats right. Investment (by the Polish government as well, EU funds less than half) helps the economy grow. But thats my point, it helps. You can build roads and railways but without the fundamental desire and ability to take advantage of it its pointless. Poland has cheap labour, a very large amount of agricultural land a useful geographical location next to Germany and even some natural resources. Its people are proactive and positive toward capitalism, employers look at Poland and get the impression that the people want employers and investment. E.g. Shale gas .. come to Poland we want the money, screw everything else.

All these things together are attracting business.


Best to take advantage of other peoples ignorance and move on. In ten years time they will go, duh, how did I miss that???

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


The book is about communism and how the communist talk the talk while taking over the role of the farmer/slave driver.

My point is, that those who complain about being exploited are really complaining about not being the exploiter.