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jonni   
16 Jan 2010
Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

My friend from the tax office just told me that here in Warsaw the average salary is 5400 zl (gross) and in Poland as a whole it is 3200 zl (gross).

Apparently this is the very latest figure.
jonni   
15 Jan 2010
Love / Is she genuine? - I would like some advice please re a Polish girl. [130]

Several of my friends have told me online dating is the way of the future.

It's getting popular, and I'm doing that later tonight. We haven't chatted for ages or anything like that - but if we click when we meet that's great, if not, it isn't a big problem.
jonni   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

he comes from some place so backward that he can't even bring himself to say it on here, wow that place must be bad :X

I strongly suspect Ukraine, which isn't all that backward, but still not quite the developed world.
jonni   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

why people like me are opposed to let in more immigrants from 3rd world.

Aren't you from the third world?

Clearly you have something to hide.
jonni   
15 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]

It's up there with the all American " HOT DOg "

Some nice American hot dogs in PL. That hot dog stand in Galeria Mokotow.

A world apart from the normal European ones.
jonni   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

jarnowa

I'm asking too. We're all interested.

You seem to think it's important where somebody comes from.

Where are you from?
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]

also what about the supermarkets tampering?

Supermarket meat is injected with water to make it heavier. Support your local butcher!
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

us Scot's are quite renowned for our chippy's.

Is it just me, or is the fish always larger in Scotland? And no fish butties.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

is not as good as what you get in the UK but then fish is like that in Poland

True, but they cook it very well, still soft and flaky. I was expecting it to be fried to buggery.

The batter on the fish is superb, really good.

Today maybe they weren't on form, or had the oil too hot. It was crispy but not quite as it should be. Or maybe I'm too critical.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

I dont know anyone who has even tried one of those...so its not like its a totally English thing.

Delicious! A northern staple. My Polish ex almost fled in horror on seeing a jar of them in the pub, but grew to like them. Easy to make, and go down in PL almost as well as home-made Scotch Eggs.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

My clothes were reeking of the cooking smell from the shop though for a while after - they need better ventilation.

I noticed that too, but I suppose it's worth it.

I wonder what fish they use? They seem to have two prices, one for 'fish' and a bit more expensive for cod. I had the basic and it wasn't bad.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]

giant plates of nachos with chilli too;)

That's what I have if I go there. Delicious.

There's a rumour it's closing, but to be fair there have been such rumours for about three years and it's still open.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]

Is there anywhere in Poland where you can buy a decent burger made from beef?

Champions Bar at the Warsaw Marriot does excellent burgers. At a price. The ones from burger stands in PL are just plain disgusting.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

I've just got back from the new fish and chip shop (Koszykowa 45, through the arch from pl. Konstitucji, behind Bar7) and it was actually OK.

A bit surreal to be eating fish and chips here. Nice though. Large fish and chips for 20zl, small for 17zl, very small for 10 or 12ish. They also have battered sausages and pickled onions (though no pickled eggs). Real malt vinegar. Also deep fried Mars Bars for the terminally unhealthy. The chips are real potato, not frozen, and everything is about the standard of an OK-ish chip shop back home. Also trout and salmon.

As well as that, there's most flavours of British crisps, twiglets, fruit pastilles, Yorkies etc.

Interesting - maybe it's the first of many. I thought of doing that a couple of years ago but decided there wasn't a market unless it was in a prime location with correspondingly high rent.

I hope it's a success.
jonni   
13 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Proof of Address (my Polish gf moving to the UK) [14]

Also, she was able to get work immediately with an employment agency even before she'd got her NI number through.

The employer just makes the payments to the emergency NI number and then corrects it later. Same here in Poland with ZUS.

Mind you, some employers in PL are too lazy to do that (or have other motives, but that's a different story).
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
Work / What jobs pay 10,000 zlotych per month? and Where can i find one? :o) [101]

What jobs pay 10,000 zlotych per month

After tax?

Prostitution (providing you're very good looking and are prepared to make yourself sore from turning a lot of tricks), cocaine dealing (providing you're not at the bottom of the food chain and have a very solid client base), a member of the Polish parliament, a lawyer working alone with a decent-sized practice and good client base, a doctor who works plenty of overtime, a middle manager with a good career in a multinational, the proprietor of a good corner shop who isn't swamped with competition.
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

I have tried to tell the mods to discourage thread tittles like this one

I agree. It doesn't do justice to this forum. Or move intelligent discussion about Poland forward.
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Poles leave Britain to return to Poland [89]

I hope I can eat Fish and chips

You can do that in Poland! There's a new Chip 'oil opened in pl. Konstitucji (by returned Poles). The person who told me about it is a Southerner, from Kent (whatever that is) so not used to really good fish and chips, but he said it's OK.

I'll go tomorrow and see if it's any good. Hope they have pickled eggs and meat pies too.
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Poles leave Britain to return to Poland [89]

Gay nation as we call them in Balkans.

Remember the Greeks invented it.

oh, c'mon look at these negro children having fun on her majesty's ship:

And we were among the last major nations to get involved with slavery and among the first to abolish it!
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
History / Have Poles blood on their hands? :) [496]

The problem with this thread is the title. Have Poles (in general) got blood on their hands? No, no nation has. Have some Poles done dirty deeds? Of course, this isn't in doubt. No single nationality of any size is made up 100% of angels.
jonni   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

"Polak" is as offensive a term as as "Amerykanin".

'Polak'is just a normal Polish word, Amerykanin too. 'Polak' is not offensive here in Europe.
jonni   
11 Jan 2010
Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

It's a nice place here on the whole. The income gap here is large though, especially in the provinces. Sometimes it seems there's a very primitive form of capitalism here - some people out in the sticks surviving on potato soup and others, businesspeople in large cities living a style of life so affluent it crosses a certain line and becomes very, very vulgar consumption.

PL has a low wage economy (though not so low as some of the posters here claim - GW publishes the official average salary figures each month and they should be findable on their website), but Warsaw has fairly low unemployment which forces salaries up here in the capital, and plenty of people have a second income, either from extra work or investments, often a second flat.

Old-age pensions are poor, there isn't the same sort of company superannuation as in the 'west' - just an 'otwarty fundusz' operated by private companies that you can switch some of your ZUS to. Many people's alternative to a private pension scheme is a mortgage on a second buy-to-let flat.
jonni   
11 Jan 2010
Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

I must say that living in Poland you get something which money cannot buy,

This is very true. Even here in Warsaw there's something special.