UK, Ireland /
Polish community in Northampton (any success stories / bad experiences?) [20]
I think it's ridiculous to form Polish communities in a country that is not Poland, and of course this goes for any group of people, belonging to any nationality, who reside in any other country than their own
Have you ever moved to another city within your own country? I have and I know that first thing people do is to form a sort of community with people they know - usually the ones who come from the same place. They may later change their friends, they may even not make freinds with their countrymen at all, but they form the community in the strange place because it helps them survive. Nobody says that Polish communities are communities of friends, believe me, they often dislike each other, but they do what is natural to humans. I'm not saying that the human nature isn't ridiculous, but it's common to all of us :)
and then pretend you didn't want to leave Poland?
AJ, do you only do what you really truly
want to do? If so, you can consider yourself one of the luckiest person on earth :)
may be a touch of paranoia on your part
It may be :) I was a proper stranger in Northampton, probably also a bit scared, so a paranoia was by all means possible. And not like I've never been backstabbed by a Pole - maybe I'm just more familiar with the Polish way of backstabbing, so it never comes as a total surprise
