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peterweg   
26 Oct 2011
Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]

I'm not predicting anything specifically, but other than that, I just like a preacher whom predicted the end of the world. And no, your comparison isn't a bit stupid.
peterweg   
25 Oct 2011
Real Estate / Banks in Poland selling fewer mortgages in 2011, down 49% [285]

Would you care to ask the other members if there are buildings going up in their vicinity, I know they are in my town. I seem to remember somebody saying the other day that there was a huge amount of new building works in Wroclaw?

You are very sensitive aren't you? I was simply pointing out that building will can stop if it is not profitable. From what you are implying, falling sales prices do indicate that the costs to build are still less than the sales price, so we have a long way to go before that happens.

Perhaps you live in a quite area? I mean, normally, there is not a lot of development around a farm, and did you not say that they were going to soon put a new road next to your land?

For the record I am agreement with you that there is potential upside for new building and sales due to the inherent demand and availability of cash from the parents. All I know if the world banking economy says lending will go down and prices with, when it stops, nobody knows. I will care in 5years.
peterweg   
25 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

And remember that last time I checked fewer than half the people in Poland actually pay any tax.

2% of the spend (28billion zloty) on healthcare is PRIVATE not public wbj.pl/article-52858-is-polish-healthcare-largely-private.html

The remainder, 5% is public. Which partly explains the confusing figures.

The UK is 8-12% depending on who you believe, so per capita spending is at least 4x poland and its still considered crap by some.

I wouldn't be surprised if the GP's over here make about 10% of that.

Student nurses start at 2000-2500 per month. Senior Nurses are going to earn double or triple that.

Doctors earn several times as much again, so 20k per month seems probable; and its the figure my wife quoted.

I just find it disgusting that a foreigner would be critical of the public health system

Seems to be a commonly held view amongst hospital staff that Poland's system is very underfunded and a bit **** as a result. Poles are quite welcome to criticise the NHS, along with the rest of the British who also like to complain about it.

However my wife was shocked on how good British hospitals were in comparison to Poland.
peterweg   
24 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

BTW, do you get really angry at your Polish friends when they use the NHS?

I live in Poland and no I don't care if my Polish friends use the NHS, they are taxpayers and have been all their lives. Newcomers pay taxes too, of course they can use the NHS.

No.
No.
Are you deaf?

The response is a bit like the one received by that Colombian American who along with his Polish wife, were assaulted in Gdansk.

Never said anything what they deserve. If find it very difficult to believe that Poland is spending 7.1% of GDP on healthcare, I'll look further into. I know the money isn't going on wages or new hospitals. My own experience of healthcare in Poland is that its basic but ok-ish.

Poland may deserve better, but the country is, if you haven't noticed, still poor. Not surprising that healthcare is underfunded. The UK has almost as much difficulty and its GDP per capita is twice Poland.

I won't bother responding to your second post as its incoherent and irrelevant, assuming it was directed at me..
peterweg   
24 Oct 2011
Real Estate / Banks in Poland selling fewer mortgages in 2011, down 49% [285]

Sorry.

Assuming property is built, it perfectly feasible that building will be unprofitable.

Hence there is no new building because its unprofitable to do so.

As I said, the loan was for the second stage of building. The house was up, with internal walls and a roof, plus 4600m2 of land. All worth more than the loan.

Maybe Avalon can tell you if those sort of terms are normal for what is, effectively, development work.
peterweg   
24 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

Yawn. Please don't pluck numbers from the air to support whatever rubbish you're banging on about now: according to the Economist Intelligence Unit Poland spent an estimated 7.1% of GDP on healthcare in 2010 (source).

Didn't pick them out of the air, but I cannot understand how the figures are so off the mark for many countries, UK and Poland. UK is quoted at near 12% in Eurostat and 8-9% elsewhere. Its was 2.4% in 2008 for Poland according to one source. If the 7.1 % figure is correct then the service is pretty crap.
peterweg   
24 Oct 2011
Real Estate / Banks in Poland selling fewer mortgages in 2011, down 49% [285]

The market will always adapt, but, at the end of the day, profit still has to be made.

Assuming property is built, it perfectly that building will be unprofitable.

Here are the reasons why I refused the offer of a mortgage a few years ago. My wife and I had applied for a loan to carry out the second stage of building our house, and had been granted 110 000PLN, to be paid in two tranches.

You applied for a loan to build a house. Give the complete lack of security from you for this loan, I'm not surprised they set strict conditions. You could have simply take the money and ran and what would they have left? a empty space?
peterweg   
24 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

Not having toilet paper or soap or paper towels is not a mistake: it is a symptom of a health care service that simply does not work.

Its a sign of a country that spends only 2.3% of its GDP on health against the 7.5% average in the First World. With GDP per capital half Western Europe's levels .

(The USA spends 14-16% (I believe), not that it seems effectively spent).

Buying health insurance is probably a good idea in Poland, anyone got a recommendation?

For those critical of the Polish health system a simple solution, stop freeloading on the public system and get private cover full stop. Foreigner4 sorry to say but Poland is not for you with your attitude.

Agreed, after all, the Polish system does really cost anything in taxes. You are not paying for the public system.
peterweg   
22 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

Yeah, scratched my head about that one myself.. or a big bag of chocolates? For a damn operation

According to my wife doctors are earning 20k per month, even nurses find it a bit perplexing to be offered sweets and they only earn 2k.

I think the real problem is the attitude the public has, they assume that this is required. Politicians are are a different matter, apparently, becuase thats the whole point of being a politician - you don't get elected to help other people.
peterweg   
22 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

And you missed very important point. Its a very small minority.

How small? Well, ONE student nurse.

"I had a 10-minute debate with a student nurse who said 'I do not wash people's bottoms, there are other people to do that'."

peterweg   
21 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

I was referring to English nurses being too posh to wash

Yeah, and its sounded like Daily Mail bollocks.

I'm taking a punt at this, but I'm guessing the care of the elderly is a lot lower in Polish hospitals than in the UK.

Most of the elderly die quite young in Poland.
peterweg   
21 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

only because the nurses were chasing bull**** degrees and got so far up their own arses rather than breaking out the carbolic

Polish Nurses all have to do a degree, the wife is now doing a Masters degree, which means 5 years of study. A nurse is not a cleaner edit .

as there is heehaw practical work in their degree programme and they they lack the ability to do practical tasks when unleashed.

Polish student nurses do **** load of practical work and they are tested on it. They don't have summer holidays and study/work the entire year, 12-14 hour days are not unusual.

I once had a girlfriend who was a nurse and she was positively filthy.

Thats my mother, sister and wife you are talking about. Although possibly accurate.
peterweg   
21 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

Dude please, stop making it complicated.

Yeah, because nurse love to be given sweets. My wife is a nurse and the attitude is they they don't want sweets, you may as well not bother. I get the impression that doctors do take bribes, however. She and her nursing friends feel bad when people offer money as you don't become a nurse for money, if they did they would leave for the UK .
peterweg   
19 Oct 2011
News / What do PO voters expect from the new Polish government ? [32]

as a result (of a much to heavy toll) plenty of truckers now use country roads instead of the motorway - the roads are being destroyed - even houses that stood for dozens of years by the roads now break apart because of the heavy truck traffic

You do realise that vast area,s of the country don't have any sort of motorway to use? Warsaw and Krakow are the first and second cities and they are joined by a country road (E77) passing through small towns and villages with no alternative. There is no plan to build the replacement (which was supposed to start two years ago) because the government didn't even apply for the funds. Maybe from 2014 they will start. And the railway is even slower.

Its still quicker to drive to Germany to get to the sea from Krakow.

Look at the non-progress: martins99.za.pl/npd.swf
peterweg   
19 Oct 2011
Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]

Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities

Apartments anyone? That's a question being asked by a group of six large Polish municipalities, including Warsaw, Kraków, £ódź and Poznań, after the stock of unsold apartment buildings shattered records developers would rather not know about.

Rzeczpospolita reports that more than 48,000 newly built apartments in Poland's largest cities are still sitting unoccupied, awaiting eager buyers.

The next logical question asked by analysts is whether this flooded market will cause residential prices to drop significantly. At present, prices have only fallen slightly.

wbj/article-56556-demand-for-apartments-low-in-polands-main-cities.html

And there is this, Polish 2012 growth forecast slashed:
peterweg   
19 Oct 2011
History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

Although I have mixed feelings about this topic, as a Polish American, I don't know if I could blame Britain for Poland becoming communist.

The blame is equally American, they agreed to Stalin's request for Poland without a comment, at least Churchill protested.

How much blame there is to give is another issue. The UK and USA could do anything, the allies had a grand total of seven nuclear bombs at the end of 1945. Not much use on a battlefield as the blast area is tiny, knocking out a few dozen tanks will count for nothing when the Russians had tens of thousands of them, and Japan was completely undefended remember.

But hey, if its any consolation to Poles, at least Britain let in quite a few Poles right after WWII and in recent years. In my opinion, I think that was a kind British gesture and Poles should not take it for granted.

Not so much 'let in' as unable and unwilling to kick them out. Even if the British had tried the army officers and men would have refuse to force them out. The public wouldn't have stood for it either. There was also a labour shortage that resulted in German POW's being kept working as slave labour for several years after the war.
peterweg   
18 Oct 2011
History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

Their greatest blame was deceiving Poland. France had no capacity to attack Germany and win, if they did they would had done it. Having low morale and plenty of ww1 kind of airplanes does no good vs morale boosted with a bit of experienced German troops...

So basically deceived themselves in signing a pact that it would be of any use. Even today, with modern transport the UK would be very hard pushed to defend Poland. Even after Poland has moved closer and shrunk. The current NATO plan is for a couple of thousand, lightly armoured, British troops who would probably arrive on the third day of an invasion.
peterweg   
17 Oct 2011
Study / National Louis University Nowy Sacz [18]

Does anyone know any student at nowy sacz please??? I want to contact a school

An employee lives near there, he is a ex-student of National-Louis University.

What do you need to know?
peterweg   
17 Oct 2011
Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]

discussions are waste of time about this topic.

Then why do you Serbs persist in posting crap about a country nobody here gives a damn about? Serbs and Poles are not brothers, the Turks are Serbia's closest genetic match. Poles do not want anything to do Serbia and Russia, everything they have done since gaining independence makes that quite clear. Why don't you find a Serbian forum and discuss it there, this forum about Poland and Serbia is nothing to do with Poland?
peterweg   
17 Oct 2011
Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]

Furthermore Poles are traditionally (and with a very good reason) suspicious of Russians. And such Orthodox Serbs are often seen as some sort of iffy thuggish wannabe Russians who would like nothing more than to see Balkans under their boot much in the same way as Russia, over the centuries, had denied freedom to numerous countries in Eastern Europe.

Yes, that right on the nail.