News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

I think the biggest problem here in Poland is that there is no concerted effort from the authorities to make people aware of energy-saving. In Belgium you are bombarded with it. Subisidies on local, regional, federal level...

You get penalties for not saving energy...You are literally forced to do it. If only because you feel the effect in your wallet.
Try to build a house in Belgium without an effort to save energy and you you get huge fines (in the form of not being able deduct mortgage costs from your PIT). That is the way to go.

It goes from segregated waste collecting (try in Belgium to put everything in one bag and you are, rightfully, marked as an outcast)
to hefty subsidies for hybrid cars.
Here in Poland the problem is that there is no civic society as such, no public awareness "for the common good".
As for Rydzyk...That is of course a scam. A laugh really that the most fanatical anti-European in Poland wanted to get subsidies for something planned to make him only richer.

UK, Ireland / Holding a British passport. Married a Polish woman. Applying for Polish passport? [21]

Since you are a EU citizen and live in Poland legally, what would be the added value of obtaining Polish citizenship?
I have been offered already twice by the people at Długa 5 to go for a Polish passport, but I do not see the neccessity of it.

As EU citizen you have all the rights (and obligations) as Polish citizens have.
What you cannot do is vote in national and presidential elections, and I think there are some limits still on buying agricultural land (I could be wrong here, perhaps somebody else can correct it).

But for the rest?
Interesting to hear you have a blue residence card..I have a salmon-pink one. First time I hear about blue cards for EU citizens.

If you want to go ahead with it, I think you need to have a permanent residency in Poland and have to live here (meldunek) continuously for the last 5 years.

News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

I would think that in this country there is so much open space but nobody lives. It should not be that hard to put windfarms there.

At the coast: I am Belgian, and in my very much built-up country they built windfarms in the sea where they hinder nobody (except for some seagulls perhaps)

Travel / Help! Want to take the train from Warsaw to Amsterdam! [7]

I think if you look at the price, it would be better and safer to use of the low-cost carriers.

Life / Which cities in Poland have the most expats, and why? [34]

Yes,let us get back on topic :)
The thing is - how do you define an expat? What is the difference between an expat and an immigrant?
I came to Poland 8 years ago with the intention of staying here. What does that make me?

Study / A Cooking school or institute in Warsaw? [10]

schelleracademy.pl/en/

"The Academy was established in 2002. It is a place for both professionals and amateurs alike, who wish to train their culinary skills".

Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]


Actually here in Warsaw I have never encountered this kind of behaviour. What works far more on my nerves is these criminals who put graffiti on almost every single building in town. They should, when caught, be put with face down in a can of their own paint.

Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]

It has to be a Kraków specialty, because here in Warsaw ( and I live here 8 years) I do not remember seeing any stag groups.

What I saw a few years ago was the local Robocops smashing up a yob fight on Plac Zamkowy. With the help of German sheperd dogs :)))) Great initiative and in need for a repeat :)

Life / Only the poor Poles are buying at Biedronka? [32]

I actually prefer Lidl, if only because you can pay with a debit card there.

Study / An electrical engineering student from Turkey wants to study in Poland [17]

Another one who is looking for a backdoor into Schengen. Long live Vienna 1683 !

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]

Father Director can pay it from his geotehermal funds :))))
I read somewhere that there was going to be a referendum here in Warsaw for this monstrosity. Good. I guess 80% or so will be sensible and tell "no". Why can't the cross loonies pay it by themselves and put it somewhere on some church ground?

Real Estate / Buying a flat in Krakow; prices are still falling? [200]

Good. If the prices are really going down, that means that ordinary Cracovians will have the chance to stay in their own city.

Law / I want to run a Persian (Iranian) restaurant in Poland! [46]


You have to admit this sounds like a cute effort to get into Schengen.

Law / I want to run a Persian (Iranian) restaurant in Poland! [46]

You mean you would like to get into the EU (even better the Schengen area) by a back door ?

News / New Polish Light Tank - Anders [74]

Tanks are a wasting of money. I do not think the Wehrmacht is going to invade Poland shortly. (Although Nazi flying saucers may have downed the midget plane). The Russians...Give me a reason why? To conquer the FSO factories in Warsaw? To take over Manafaktura in £ódż ?

Of course they look good on Army Day. The midget loved to parade in one of them. It keeps the Polish armaments industry happy. But besides of that ?

History / In a German encyclopedia Poland is represented as: [30]

The crossist midget part of the country are not known for their talent of taking things lately :)

News / Pubs in Poznan kick out Roma? [256]


It means you define Pol;es as being of pure Catholic blood? Preferably living outside Silesia / Kashubia / Mazuria / Górale areas?

News / Pubs in Poznan kick out Roma? [256]


Not really. I only see what kind of problems gypsies cause. I hear the stories from first-hand experience. They simply have no morals. They are social parasites posing as "refugees". In my native Flanders there are massive problems with them in simply every place they concentrate.

And yes I think many Poles are antisemitic into their very core...but "these camps" were Nazi death camps.Important difference.

News / Pubs in Poznan kick out Roma? [256]

My brother-in-law lives in Kędzierzyn-Kożle where there is in Kożle an unhealthy concentration of gypsies. Social-wise, crime-wise.
Nobody knows how they earn a living - apart from plundering the town's meagre social budget.

Travel / Alcohol prices in Poland (Zakopane). [Off-Licence / Store] [20]

For sure here in Warsaw the police takes a very dim view of "lad" garbage. Saw two years ago on Plac Zamkowy a Robocop squad with nasty-looking German sheperds hacking into Legia hooligans. That made my day :).

That said and done, wódka can differ wildly between supermarkets and for example Żaba stores.
Max price for a bottle of wódka 30 PLN ??? For sure not Finlandia or another of the better brands.

Life / Expats, do you use Polish language for most of time when you are in Poland? [12]

How do you define an expat :)
I regard myself as an immigrant, meaning came to Poland to stay here :)
At work I am the only Flemish between Poles...Most of my friends are Polish...So at work between colleagues it is Polish all the times..external French, Dutch, German, English.

At home "Pinglish" :) . And my social circle is almost completely Polish, so no English there.

Law / Lived in Poland on temporary residency, now getting married. My status in Poland? [6]

I always getting a work permit has no relation to your marriage status?

Language / According to scientists when learning language it is necessary to look in face [14]

I think to learn a language you need lots of evening classes and gruelling cribbing of grammar...That is how I learned Polish :) And it paid off :)

Law / Lived in Poland on temporary residency, now getting married. My status in Poland? [6]


But this would not give you a presumably backdoor entrance to the EU.

News / 10 km of a road in Poland costed... 2,3 bilions of PLN! [13]


That is true. If you see where the road was built, it was inside Warsaw. Which does not make things exactly easier and for sure more costly.

Travel / A business trip from Warsaw to Bialystok - transportation? [26]

I got rather more confused in Katowice station lately, but I am not the only one I guess. They managed to change the platform for my Warsaw-bound train 3 times in 25 minutes...nothing on the boards of course :)

One consolation here, the new station promises to be a gem - if only they will be able to keep the smelly pondlife out of it :)

Travel / A business trip from Warsaw to Bialystok - transportation? [26]

In the end they went by train. I am still wondering how they ever found their way around Warszawa Centralna :)))

News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]


Perhaps there is a much better explanation. The polish church is almighty and any policeman, any judge, any politician bringing pedophile cases to light can kiss goodbye to his/her career.

News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]

I watched again the investigating committee on Church crimes against young people in our Belgian parliament.
Last week again revelations of young boys raped by nuns. Today the top Jezuit guy in Belgium apologizing for the horrors committed by members of his order in the past and asking for forgiveness. Last week the archbishop got grilled by a hostile committee.

This will never ever happen in Poland. Any politician doing this...probably would get shot by the crossists.
After all all Polish priests (especially the RM kind) are pure as snow.