Life / Polish rock bands from the 70's and 80's. [16]

Do you mean that they did a cover version of 'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley? Or is it a completely different song? The lyric in the Bob Marley one goes: I shot the Sheriff but I didn't shoot no deputy.

Life / A move to Poland - where to live? What city would you recommend? [32]


Just be aware that Poles add a tremendous amount of salt when they cook so if you're health conscious.......


Poles don't think in terms of bedrooms. A two bedroom flat is a three room flat in the Polish way of thinking ie three rooms, kitchen and bathroom. So go to any 'nieruchomosci' website and take a look at 'mieszkanie' for rent 'na wynajem' ' and under 'liczba pokoi', put 3. You'll get an idea of costs :) That's a family sized flat in Poland. Single people usually live in a studio (1 pokój) flat.

Law / LOOKING FOR HELP AND INFORMATION TO OPEN INDIAN RESTAURANT IN POLAND..... [80]


Poles will not generally respond to emails and many of them don't speak English well enough to communicate via the telephone.

Hardev, I suggest that you contact the Polish Indian Chamber of Commerce:

en.piig-poland.org

It's a fairly new organisation but they might be able to provide you with some useful information or start you off with some contacts/introductions. There is also the Embassy of India in Warsaw:

indembwarsaw.in/index.php/en/economic-commercial-services/general-information

Good luck!

Work / Moving to work in Poland from Turkey - monthly gross income will be 12500 PLN [13]



We agree :))

Work / Moving to work in Poland from Turkey - monthly gross income will be 12500 PLN [13]


That's true. Lamb can be difficult to obtain and it's very expensive. Beef is easy to get, it's in all the supermarkets and meat shops but they butcher it differently, they don't let it hang, and the quality and flavour simply don't compare to the Irish beef which I'm accustomed to. I wouldn't touch pre-minced beef here. I buy a piece of decent beef and get the 'butcher' to mince it for me. I say 'butcher' because they're not proper butchers such as you find in England and Ireland but never mind!


You can get fresh prawns and crab and so on fairly regularly but you'll pay around 50zl a kilo for prawns.


That's improved. You can get salmon, trout, cod, bream, halibut, tuna. But I miss plaice and hake.


At the moment you can get lovely forest mushrooms in the street markets. There's plenty of pumpkins, aubergines, zukini, asparagus etc. and not too pricey.

You're right that cooking seasonally is the way to go.

Work / Moving to work in Poland from Turkey - monthly gross income will be 12500 PLN [13]

Hi there Thursunamy. Re the food, if your wife is a good cook (and I'm sure she is!) and she knows how to shop, then 1500 - 2000 would be plenty. Also if she uses a lot of spices and rice and so on there are places that sell those things in bulk for restaurants but they are also open to the general public and it works out cheaper. Like this place:

habibi.pl

Here's a link for one of the big supermarkets. They have branches all over Poland. You can get an idea of prices and try planning a week's shopping for your family with your wife, and see how much it comes to:

auchandirect.pl/auchan-warszawa/pl

Also there are street markets where you can get fresh fruit, veggies, nice bread, meat often better quality than the supermarkets.

Don't forget to include non-food items like shampoo and toothpaste and washing detergent etc, That will push the bill up a bit.

As for adapting, I imagine you'll be ok, but it will definitely be tough for your wife if she doesn't speak any Polish and not even much English. And it will be tough on you because she won't be so independent and will need your help for very ordinary everyday things for a while anyway.

Work / Moving to work in Poland from Turkey - monthly gross income will be 12500 PLN [13]


Good grief! Who spends three thousand a month on food??? My husband eats like an elephant, hot food every three hours when he's at home, and I don't spend that much. We have meat, fish, seafood, mountains of fresh fruit and veg. 1500 is more than adequate for a family of three to eat well if you cook proper meals from fresh produce, two thousand tops.

Work / English-speaking IT companies in Poland [4]

Hi Sysadmin. There's an English company called Mobica who have branches all over Poland. They're really an outsourcing agency so although you're retained by them you can be sent to work for any company such as Intel on a contract basis. Sometimes though you might be working in the Mobica offices in Poland but on a contract for a foreign company. However Mobica is your employer and pays your salary. They tend to send people abroad quite a bit so you'd need to be ready to travel but you wouldn't need Polish language to work for them. It's quite a nice company with more of a UK work culture and fairly good terms and conditions of employment.

mobica.com/careers

They seem to have quite a few clients in Germany and they also send staff to the UK and America. The only snag I can see is that if you're not an EU citizen it could be a bit more trouble for them to organise your visas etc. but I really couldn't say for sure.

Life / I am moving to Warsaw. (Could anyone tell me about life there?) [49]


Oh I understand that.


I know two girls from Thailand who never use their 'given' names. One is called Moe and the other is Nine! Her real name is Navorat and one of her Irish friends calls her Ratty (in an affectionate way of course) which she doesn't mind at all.

Life / I am moving to Warsaw. (Could anyone tell me about life there?) [49]


Not just Polish. It is basically a man's name in the West. However it can be feminised to Maxi which is quite pretty and would allow Huyen to keep the basic form of her name rather than changing it completely. I certainly wouldn't want to do that myself.

Life / Can a secular muslim live in Poland? [24]

Yes, you're absolutely right about the Jewish women wearing wigs. I remember seeing quite a few of them when I lived in London, around the Golders Green area. The wigs were sometimes very obvious depending on what their budget was!

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


Unfortunately as they are juveniles they're not likely to serve much of a sentence at all. Many years ago there was a terrible case of two young boys aged ten and eleven if I remember correctly who lured a toddler away from a shopping centre, tortured and murdered him. They were detained until the age of eighteen and then went free with new identities. One of them was back in prison recently on child pornography charges. What can one say Johnny.....

Life / Can a secular muslim live in Poland? [24]


Agree. The photo shows a very old style of veil which is rarely worn by nuns these days. Even in Poland nuns wear far less elaborate concoctions than the one depicted and in holy Catholic Ireland nuns mostly dress in ordinary everyday clothes and certainly don't cover their heads. As for Catholic lay women I don't think they've covered their heads in church in Ireland since the 1970s and even then it was rare enough. Mostly it was a practice followed by elderly ladies who wore always hats or headscarves, not just in church, or by younger women who had a fancy lace Mantilla and wanted to show it off.

Work / Finding work as an EU citizen (Polish) in another EU country [21]

Yes, but that can happen anywhere in the world. I mean it's quite common to go for a job interview and not get selected for the job.

Life / I am moving to Warsaw. (Could anyone tell me about life there?) [49]


Hi there HuyenNguyen (is there a way to shorten your name? :)). I remember you from when you were worried about getting your Visa. So you got it sorted out, that's great!

As to clothes, H&M would be one of the cheaper options for young women like yourself. The quality is ok, they have an ok range of styles and they have lots of branches all over Warsaw. There's also a shop called Reserved which is fairly cheap, nothing special in terms of design, but ok for basics. They also have numerous branches. There are a lot of secondhand clothes shops all over Warsaw. Some of them sell clothes by the kilo. So you pay by weight rather than per item.The market they're aimed at is people who can't afford to buy new. It can be fun for a young person because you can pick up something a bit different or vintage. The outdoor markets have clothes stalls too. The quality varies, sometimes it's quite good. The big hipermarkets like Carrefour and Auchan also sell clothes but the quality in my opnion is not good.

For shoes, you'll need a decent pair of boots for the snow with a good grip and that will be expensive. They sell lots of boots here that look good, but they don't always grip that well, especially for someone who's not used to the slippery surface. There can be patches of black ice that you don't see until you hit the ground! I'd recommend the brand North Face, you'll be safe in those. It may well be cheaper to buy them on Ebay and get them sent from the UK. There was only a few weeks of snowy weather last winter and it wasn't heavy snow by any means but you still need those shoes! You should buy them in October just in case winter starts early. The snow probably won't arrive until January or maybe even February but you can never be sure. You don't want to wake up one morning and find yourself trapped in the house because you don't have shoes!

If you want any electrical or computer stuff you could try here:

oleole.pl/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwr7S-BRD96_uw9JK8uNABEiQAujbffDPcmvR8yQkAO3JPYquHeNm_NviQcO0w1TETG6dMshUaAkHW8P8HAQ
They often do things cheaper than the retail stores and you don't have to use your credit/card, you can pash them cash on delivery. We bought a microwave from them and had no problems.


Yes, like most students who can't afford to do otherwise.


No, they're reserved for idiots or for local criminals and their lady friends. Or for the vulguar nouveau riche who reject everything Polish in favour of imported rubbish. I was in Promenada one day recently and the tat in the windows of the so called 'exclusive' shops.... The tackiest looking leather jacket for something like 2,500PLN and a dress for a thousand made from cheap synthetic fibre with threads hanging off the hem.


And you thus prove beyond any doubt that you've never been to the UK, let alone do you live there despite your moniker. Not only do Poles living abroad look for Polish food shops, they go to Polish dentists, Polish doctors, Polish hairderssers, the list goes on. It's natural. When living abroad, as opposed to going on holiday, people seek out the comfort of the familiar if they have the option to do so.

Work / Anybody know about Datainvest Company in Torun? 4500 PLN net salary. [4]

Good C++ programmers are as rare as hen's teeth in Poland. There is a shortage of them so hold out for a better salary. (My husband is a software engineer and that's his language.) If you can't get it from this company, you'll get it from another. Tell them that you won't take less than 10,000 gross and let them bargain you down a bit. 9,500 gross would give you about 6,500 take home pay I believe. Good luck!

UK, Ireland / Polish passport - Can I apply from the UK? [51]

Having checked the website of the Polish consulate in the UK, yes it looks like you do:

Here's the information you need regarding the application process and it contains a link to the appointment booking service:

london.mfa.gov.pl/en/consular_information/passports/4/

Love / Polish guy and courting? Confusion. [35]


This, from one of the forums most active trolls whose main contribution has been comments about the size of Polish mens' genitalia.

I'm not sure why the OP, a professional woman in her 30s would take advice from a supposedly pregnant teenager who doesn't believe in using birth control because Polish men don't like it. I, on the other hand am a grown woman who has been married to a Polish man for many years so I'd say I have more business here than you.

@Myself, Paulina is a genuine person, you can trust her with her advice, it's sincere. As a Polish woman she's the best person to advise you and you won't do better on this forum.

Bottom line is the guy likes you and you like him. To be honest at your age, you shouldn't really need advice about 'how to let a guy know I like him'. You've known him long enough at this stage that he's not going to think you're a tart if you respond to his tentative advances. The pair of you will have to stop this faffing around or you'll never get together. As Mafketis says, he'll eventually just move on. While you're trying to make up your mind and trying to keep him as a friend until you're sure, he may meet somebody else who'd like to be more than friends. You don't by any means have to sleep with him if you're not ready for that, but you do have to move on to the next level of being a couple. If the pair of you are really too shy or awkward to get that far, then you'll just have to forget about it and take up knitting, simple as that.


Yes, you do, we all do. You can't possibly know when you begin a relationship with somebody, how it's going to work out. There's always an element of risk.

Love / Polish guy and courting? Confusion. [35]


I'm sorry, but really, come on woman, you're in your 30s, not your teens. Men don't differ that much from each other from culture to culture. When a man kisses you on the lips he means business.

Law / Dog Import laws in Poland - Help! [10]


Yes I was wondering about that. That's a good idea.


Best place to try would be here:
old.wetgiw.gov.pl/index.php?action=szczegoly&m_id=33&kat_id=2075

They deal with regulations regarding import of animals/pets into Poland.

Law / Dog Import laws in Poland - Help! [10]

Yes Chemikiem, but you know how embassies are not always that well informed!

On a related issue, I know that Aer Lingus will not carry the Dogo Argentino breed on their aircraft, as well as several other breeds. The reason given is the amount of damage the breed can do if it gets loose in the hold. So it would also be a good idea to check with the airline you're flying with to make sure they'll accept your dog.

I found a website that says specifically that Dogo Argentino cannot be imported in to Poland. The site has a team who answer queries so it might be useful to you. They seem very professional, they even have a section on Brexit so they're up to date with their info:

pettravel.com/immigration/poland.cfm

They also have a section on pet restrictions from various airlines:

pettravel.com/airline_rules.cfm

Food / Gluten Free - Celiac available in Poland? [4]

If you're self-catering then yes, you should be able to find gluten free products in the larger supermarkets. Here's an example of what you can get from Auchan, a chain with branches in Krakow:

auchandirect.pl/auchan-warszawa/en/natural-store/gluten-free/c-12009

Gluten free in Polish is 'bez glutenu' easy to say! You'll also see a lot of products with 'bez konserwantów' which means without preservatives and 'bez dodatku cukru' without added sugar. Hard to get things without salt which is 'bez soli'.

Love / Polish guy and courting? Confusion. [35]


People are always asking that question here, just have a good old rummage around in the Lerv thread and you'll find that no satisfactory consensus has been reached.


Yes, she definitely couldn't do better than getting Dozy's unique insight into this matter.

Love / Polish guy and courting? Confusion. [35]


Don't try to. Stop agonizing. You can drive yourself demented trying to figure out what another person is thinking. Never mind what he wants, what do you want?


You'll have to put that behind you and take a chance on somebody else at some point or you'll be alone for the rest of your life.


Yes, she'll be in like Flynn on this one. Just in case Myself is genuine, I thought I'd throw a bit of sisterly advice her way.

Off-Topic / Alternative households breed misery and are hell for the kids [11]



No Polly, research shows that's not the case.

'Parental alcohol problems are associated with negative outcomes in children, e.g. poorer physical and psychological health (and therefore higher hospital admission rates), poor educational achievement, eating disorders and addiction problems (West & Prinz, 1987; Girling et al., 2006), many of which persist into adulthood (Balsa et al., 2009)'.

A Danish study (Christofffersen & Soothill 2003) studied a group of 85,000 children of alcoholics following them from the age of 13-27. The study concluded that such children were at greater risk from factors such as premature death, suicide attempts, drug addiction, mental illness and teenage motherhood. They are also more likely to be subjected to parental violence.

The most extensive study to date in the UK was carried out in 1992 and found that over one-third of children who experience problems with alcoholic parents carry these problems into their adult life.

So, no, being raised in a household with an alcoholic parent is not less harmful to a child than being raised with one stable, caring and loving parent.

Off-Topic / Alternative households breed misery and are hell for the kids [11]


So you thought you'd post it to annoy them. I suspect the stats are from the USA again.

There's no doubt and nobody would argue that growing up in an unstable family of any kind is damaging on some level. The child with a violent or alcoholic or mentally unstable parent or parents will suffer, even if those parents are married. Most of the ills you mention such as school failure etc are also associated with poverty and social disadvantage, which is not restricted only to single parents. There are plenty of married couples who are struggling financially,earning very little, unemployed, living in poor housing conditions in bad neighbourhoods etc. and their children experience the knock on effects of that.

Food / Where to find a good bottle of wine in Poland? [18]

Have you tried Alma? They have a few branches in Kraków and they're a bit more upmarket than the average supermarket. Na zdrowie!

Food / Where to find a good bottle of wine in Poland? [18]

If you're in Warsaw, Carrefour in Centrum Handlowy Willeńska has a huge selection of wines and there's also a specialist wine shop in the shopping centre. I think wine was always seen as a 'ladies' drink in Poland and even now when my husband and I visit older people, they always trot out a bottle of wine for me which they assure me is lovely and sweet! It tends to be very bland. Dessert wine is definitely favoured and wine is still often sold simply as sweet, semi-sweet, semi-dry with no reference to the grape used. However it is changing and you can get a decent Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet etc in most supermarkets now. There won't be a huge selection but you should be able to find something. It's usually a safe bet to go for any Argentinian or South African wine if you want good quality and taste. They're my own favourites :)

Genealogy / Zawadynski - herb. Rawicz / Rawa and herb. Dolega [26]

Canute didn't have any veriable descendants. He had four children,three sons and a daughter. One of the sons died young, another never married and had no known children, and the third son is believed to have had only one illegitimate son who disappears from records without any known issue. The daughter married and had one daughter who became a nun so no issue either, at least if she had, she certainly wasn't admitting it!

The nearest relationship I can think of is that Canute the Great is said to have been the grandfather of Mieszko I of Poland.

As for Henry the Fowler, I haven't a clue but he had several children and granchildren. Those Royal lines are fairly well documented.

You need to take everything on Wikipedia with not just a grain of salt, but an entire salt cellar if not salt mine! The accuracy of the information there depends on who wrote the article and some of the 'facts' on there are very poorly researched. Also be careful with genealogical resources as amateur genealogists often publish incorrect family trees and unverified information, in good faith, thinking they're accurate.


Woops! I meant grandson, see how easily it happens!