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SeanBM   
29 Sep 2010
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

Let`s compare prices

I think this is a very interesting topic.

There are some shockingly disproportionate prices here for certain items when you look at them against salaries i.e. Cars, domestic appliances, technology...

Labour is cheaper comparatively but imports are much more expensive, especially with the drop of the PLN currency, which has had a positive effect on the Polish economy i.e. higher internal consumption due to lower number of imports and higher exports due to them being cheaper on the international market.

So what Poland doesn't produce is expensive.
SeanBM   
28 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

There is very little social or religious stigma associated with divorce today. Turn back the clock 50 years and there is a huge difference.

This really depends on where you are from.
I am from Ireland and divorce has only been legal since 1995 and that did not change the psyche of the people overnight.

were in fact single. No strings attached. The fact we are married makes me strive to make it work even in the poor times.

I'd go with that.

Is this only because there is some economic deterance involved with getting divorced or is it people still try harder when they are married?

I would think that it is people try harder to make it work.

An important aspect of marriage and divorce is to look at why people get a divorce.

I am a monogamist by default, I think most people aren't and infidelity, is one of the major reasons people get divorced. Anther reason is because of financial difficulties.

markskibniewski:
Duty and self sacrifice is an integral part of a succesful marriage.

Agreed. They're necessary - but not sufficient. I see too many cases where duty is the sole justification for a marriage to continue, and that's unacceptable in modern times.


If you are talking about, a young couple marrying only because they are going to have a baby, then I agree. Duty is not always enough.
SeanBM   
28 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

I guess I'd rather just be happy in life.

There is a beautiful quote by Douglas Adams: 'I'd far rather be happy than right any day' :)
SeanBM   
28 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

The relationship has become more of a "habit" than love.

Jazus Avalon, I think you missed your vocation as a marriage counselor :)

Although you have a point and 'kids' should try to realise what kind of contract marriage is.
If you look to the other corner of said bar, you will see an old fella, sitting alone, with a pint in front of him and a far off look on his face. He has one cup, plate and a spoon he uses for a fork at unkept home.

My point is you can look at the miserable side of anything.
SeanBM   
28 Sep 2010
Law / Your experience as a foreigner running a small business in Poland [43]

how difficult is it really to register and run your own company in this company?

Easy enough.

I knew what my business was doing (in regards to PKD codes)

It's a funny thing because if you tick box of what your business is doing it costs nothing but if you want to change it in future you have to pay for the courts to change it.

And sure who knows what the future holds, so I went through the list ticking possibilities.
SeanBM   
27 Sep 2010
UK, Ireland / Ed Miliband, new Labour leader, talking about Polish immigrants yesterday [62]

But at least they didn't try to treacherously overthrow or undermine the state like his communist ancestors who fled central Europe to try to deliver Stalinist freedoms to the huddled masses. 2 known KGB agents in the family plus an "illustrious" Marxist father. Not bad going.

What about Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, his father was in the Nazi party and The Sturmabteilung (Storm Division or Battalion) and he's Governor of California.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger#Early_adulthood

Should we blame him for that?

I don't think you can but hey.

leftist, marxist, islam politics

Hey, Crow will argue that it is in fact the @Germanic, Islamic, E.U., U.S. mujahideen Politics.
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology

When you put it like that you make it next to impossible to agree with you.

I think a child is best off with a mother and father as a family unit, I am not an expert on this nor do I hold a degree in what makes the best environment for a child. This is just what I think.

Although it has become more accepted to come from a single parent family, I still think that the best environment for the child, is to be brought up in a secure family environment.

Marriage, as has been said on this thread, does not guarantee a happy family but I think there is at least a certain level of commitment that doesn't always exist when such a contract (marriage) is not agreed upon.

With the distancing from the church, marriage has become unpopular and other contractual methods have been devised, I know people who have had atheist marriages.

I am pro-marriage and bringing a child in to the world in a family unit but I would not be so judgemental to say that anyone who doesn't is diseased, that's just silly.
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

SeanBM Here you go you will the information on Poland at page 13

Thanks for the link, it's interesting.

If you check with any of the head hunting company's in Poland, salaries decreased across the board by 30% on new hires 2008 into 2009. Most company's have used the F C as a reason not to increase salaries, in the meantime the PLN sunk and the price of imported goods increased.

I didn't see where this was mentioned on page 12 or 13.
I have not heard about new hires but I am sure I have been reading that wages have been going up across the board.

Just out of curiosity warszawski, where are you from?
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

No not really, if schooling teaches you to invest in over priced housing.

But it doesn't.

SeanBM:
In my opinion schooling.

SeanBm, in an ideal world " yes" in reality " no" if you have invested your capital or bust your balls for an International or you sit on the board. You want to get paid your carve, nobody cares about the rollover, jackpots are for the lottery, why take the gamble twice.


I am not sure we are on the same page, I was talking about having business studies in school, to learn about E.U. funding, risk analysis and risk management.

I am not sure what you mean, could you elaborate, please?

never trust an Irish land owner.

Come again? I don't know about myself but the rest of them are alright.
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

I'm not talking about who's the biggest, U.S.A. is the superpower not Europe, for sure.
The fact that Euros are excepted in South America when I was there and basically all over, it is a major player now.
It's established and not going to give in to the fluctuations that Poland has been undergoing the last few years.
I mean a 30% devaluation is a bad thing, like the PLN has had but it was just lucky when it had it, no government incentives, just luck.

Internal consumption went up and exports went up, win win.
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

Maybe I'm wrong but I see the EURO as a posh currency, one of chic. It just has this air of superiority about it.

Growing up my whole life, it was the "all mighty dollar" (U.S.) that was the symbol of money.
But when I went to Cambodia and the local currency is hardly used, the cash machines spit out Euros, that was a bit of a shocker.
SeanBM   
25 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

If you check with any of the head hunting company's in Poland, salaries decreased across the board by 30% on new hires 2008 into 2009. Most company's have used the F C as a reason not to increase salaries, in the meantime the PLN sunk and the price of imported goods increased.

Have you any links for these, please?

No control of money supply = bad times.

It depends, now of course you are correct, more control over a more risky currency has helped but that is mainly luck of timing as regards the PLN.

The Euro is more stable and has less fluctuations, more control over a more risky currency is not the same as more stability on a currency overall.

It still is cheaper but the EURO has a spiral tendency.

PLN has much greater spiral tendencies.

Trust me, everything would shoot up under the EURO and the poor would suffer greatly.

I come from a Euro country, it literally happened overnight.
SeanBM   
24 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

Just give whoever wants to start a business enough money

I could not agree with you more.

As far as I am concerned, matching a good business plan's money, is definitely not charity (and there I was, enjoying your posts convex (:

I have always found that one of the best incentives in business, is when the person has their own interests in the results.

I think this can be achieved best through (DTaylor's) lowering of tax.

An alternative title to this thread could be, "If you were the government of Poland, could you think of better things to spend money on than bringing people back?"

Posts should read "Yes I can, how about a hot-tube"
Edit*

maybe you didnt miss my point

I think you had a good point, unless I missed that? :)
SeanBM   
24 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

Lowering business taxation for new start up business' in Poland. Not forever but for enough time for them to become competitive.

So rather than give them money when they have it, you'd give them money when they have it?
That amounts to the same thing, the government giving you money or not taking it away from you, no? Have these Lech kicked in or what? :)
SeanBM   
24 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

To be honest, the best way to deal with this is simply to require them to present a full set of books (including all the invoices) at the end of the year.

We could have a "dragon's den" for E.U. funding and make a fortune or we could go completely commercial and have a "mam talent now give me the f***ing money!" special.

whatayathink Delphy? we could run with this idea 50/50? :)
SeanBM   
24 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

Sorry for that.

No problem, I will take a look.
It still seems silly, I have read about Spain paying Romas to leave but under E.U. law this is discriminatory and has no legal weight. In other words they can take the money, go on holiday and return, I guess when things "Don't work out".

Spain "the biggest building site in Europe" during the boom times, now sending their workers back to whence they came.

I am sure Delph will have it, all in black and white by midday on monday.

Or else.... :)
SeanBM   
24 Sep 2010
News / €11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there. [110]

IMO religion is very good for giving younger children the foundation for what is right and what is wrong. The vast majority of parents have good intentions,but somehow with all the good intentions there is still the rising crime.

Each family has their own belief system,the beauty of living in a democracy is freedom of thought ,speech and action. It is only at the point of extremism of any belief or lack of, it then becomes a problem.

It reads like a contradiction, first you blame rising crime on non-religious folks and now you say any extremism becomes a problem.

€11,700 to every migrant returning to the Polish capital and starting a business there.
Would smart arses not come back claim the money and head off again after it "didn't work out"? ;)