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21 May 2013
Travel / A four days vacation, where to go in Poland? [39]

If you like hiking/biking then Jura Krakowsko Czestochowska is very nice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_Krakowsko-Cz%C4%99stochowska

bing.com/images/search?q=jura+krakowsko+cz%C4%99stochowska+galeria&qpvt=jura+krakowsko+cz%C4%99stochowska+galeria&FORM=IGRE

but I don't know about romantic :)
You could say where you live now and weather you want a place on the other side of Poland or rather closer.

In order to blend into crowd your girlfriend could cut hair short and wear baseball cap to hide it. Traditionally only old women have hidden hair in a cloth. For an young women it doesn't feet well. You shouldn't expect any troubles in Jura.
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21 May 2013
History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]

"the guys who started "rioting"" had more time to forget what they taught him in primary school and because of European Studies he has heard about the existence of Republic of Macedonia. Combined name Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τρίτος ὁ Μακεδών with Republic of Macedonia and this is how mistake occurred. If he has read official history of Republic of Macedonia then he could even read from them that Alexander the Great came from Republic of Macedonia.

I think that's why Greeks are fighting with Macedonians about their country name. To stop such mistakes.

And actually who knows what they teach children now. It could change a lot since my time. You could go to an library and check yourself. Although EU is not influencing content of text books right now, Greece is EU country and FYROM not, so perhaps Greek version is still in our books :)
Monitor   
21 May 2013
History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]

from polish wikipedia:

"Aleksander III Macedoński (stgr. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τρίτος ὁ Μακεδών Aleksandros ho Tritos ho Makedon) zwany też Aleksandrem Wielkim (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας Aleksandros ho Megas) i niezwyciężonym (άνίχητος); ur. 19-20 lipca 356 p.n.e"

So (stgr. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τρίτος ὁ Μακεδών Aleksandros ho Tritos ho Makedon), Aleksander III Macedoński is his other name. Perhaps the second one Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας is now more popular for some reasons, but in Poland 1st name is more popular.

People now shouldn't mistake Macedonia with the country Republic of Macedonia, which usurps heritage of Ancient Macedonia (although they speak different language and are Slavic people which came to that region after the time of Alexander the Great).

"that it's not about the modern country named Macedonia, but the greek kingdom of Macedonia." As little as I remember about teaching of that part of history, they were saying that he was Greek and not many children in Poland even know where Republic of Macedonia is, to mistake that the ancient Greek hero would come from other country than Greece.
Monitor   
21 May 2013
Study / Inexpensive study in Warsaw for international student [8]

"There is - it's a common term applied to non-EU citizens." - then the person who invented it was lacking better ideas.

"EU citizens pay the same as Poles." - this is another way to say what I said.

"really? but i saw and compared that their fees for the Non- Eu students per semester are much less than compared to other universities in Warsaw.. and if not then which university i should choose ? iam really confused i don't find options :("

- where is the problem? you know ranking places, you now prices.
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20 May 2013
Work / Salary of Windows / DBA Database Administrator in Poland [4]

Check this hays.pl/prd_consump/groups/hays_common/documents/digitalasset/hays_465124.pdf
The line:
It's min, median, max for: Woj. Mazowieckie, Woj. Małopolskie and Woj. Dolnośląskie ( Warszawa, Krakow, Wrocław ) - there are top salaries in IT.

Analityk Systemowy [8 000 6 000 15 000] [5 000 4 000 10 000] [8 000 7 000 12 000]
Monitor   
20 May 2013
Study / Inexpensive study in Warsaw for international student [8]

I think that here you have 90% of courses taught in English [study in poland /en/]

There is no such thing as international student. From which country do you come from? EU citizens have discounts in Poland. In Germany studies are free or just 1000 euro per year and cost of living in Berlin not much higher than in Warsaw, so you may want to check it out.
Monitor   
16 May 2013
Work / Salary 'under the table' in Poland? [15]

but you wrote it yourself: "Master Card and Visa rocks :D :D. "
I think Visa is less popular in USA than Mastercard and in Europe opposite.
Monitor   
16 May 2013
Law / Visa interview next month and I was rejected before; Accepted at the Jagiellonian university [13]

You can say that you want to study in Eastern Europe, because you're not poor, but not extremely reach, and cost of living in Poland is a lot of cheaper than in Western Europe and Jagielonian Univeristy is the best in the country according to international rankings. Actually it's good for the application that it's Jagiellonian and not any other.
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16 May 2013
Work / Salary and cost of living information - Krakow [257]

when working in Poland for a company registered in Poland for more than half year, then you're not consider foreign worker from tax point of view. Otherwise read agreement with your country.

Net salary you can calculate with: money.pl/podatki/kalkulatory/plac/

Write gross salary to "Wysokość wynagrodzenia", click "Dodaj do miesiecy", click "Oblicz"
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16 May 2013
USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

You will always find somebody speaking English, but many times you will have to search. All people younger than 30 know some English, but minority speaks fluently. Most of older don't know even basics, because they were learning Russian in school. Also knowledge of English is higher in bigger cities, because there is higher proportion of younger and longer educated people. So to answer your question. No most people don't speak English. Wikipedia says 28%
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15 May 2013
Work / Salary 'under the table' in Poland? [15]

Banks have various policies regarding Credit Cards, In the past Polbank offered me one without asking for job prove, only because of my transaction history in the account. Search for it in the Internet or ask in banks. Or as here was suggested go without it and stay with your Debit Card. I don't know where in Polish online shopping credit card would have advantage over debit. Usually it's other way, because credit card transaction costs shops more.
Monitor   
15 May 2013
Work / Why companies in Poland don't answer back sent work applications? [2]

In Poland there was always (since Russians have left) employer market, so companies didn't have to care for good appearance in order to still get hundreds of applications. Thus answer to inquiry is in their eyes something excessive.
Monitor   
15 May 2013
Australia / Partner Visa Australia [3]

there was article on wykop.pl that many people go to work in Australia on fake student visa. There are some fake schools which for a fee give you paper that you're student, so you can live in Australia and work 20h per week legally.
Monitor   
13 May 2013
Life / Why are Polish so obsessed with Russia [46]

Albert, you didn't understand what I wrote. You lie that you're Polish, and you write whatever is on your mind, so it's hard to read it.
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13 May 2013
Life / Why are Polish so obsessed with Russia [46]

Albert, why do you mistakenly write names of some nationalities? Polish dislike Russians more, perhaps because of our media and historical rhetoric. People can be controlled by that. Also contrary to post soviet countries we were less brainwashed by soviet propaganda. We also don't speak Russian and don't go work to Russia. And simply because Russia is currently only country which could endanger independence of Poland. (but that's is true also for other Russian neighbors)
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10 May 2013
USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

@Meathead: according to Eurostat Germany has 6% and Poland 10% unemployment. 14% is according to Polish measuring system which not comparable with German. For comparisons use Eurostat data.

To answer question, there is always space for good business. In Poland knowledge of Polish language is required to work, except of IT maybe. And university degree in Poland has lower value than in USA, because close to 50% people are studying, so to get graduate job it must be wanted specialty. On one side we have more graduates than European average and on the other less advanced economy, so less jobs for specialists.
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9 May 2013
USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

I don't know if Europe has more credit frauds. We use debit/credit cards here, but there are places where cards are not accepted: small convenient stores when shopping for less than 10zł, bazaar, small hairdresser, bus driver.

Universities and polytechnics do have dorms, but nobody is forced to live there. Actually in biggest cities it's hard to get place in one, because they have cheaper prices than free market rooms. When there is less space than applicants, then priority is given for students who are poor and have farther to home.

I don't know if it's possible to transfer your credits, because America doesn't have European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.

Application deadline for new year will be soon. For example Jagielloński has earlier deadline for students in English:
( 13th of May )

We remind to all candidates who have a confirmed registration in the third additional call and apply for admission in the academic year 2013/2014 on a single master's degree and postgraduate of first and second degree on principles other than those of Polish citizens held in Polish and candidates for foreign languages studies, that on Monday, May 13, 2013 there will be conducted interviews for all courses of study, for which the basis for determining the ranking list is the result of the interview.

rekrutacja.uj.edu.pl/start?p_p_id=56_INSTANCE_1c3Nc8bwnKc0&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-3&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=2&groupId=1458734&articleId=19193780

For polish students it will until end of September I think.
And new ranking if you are interested: static.presspublica.pl/red/rp/pdf/kraj/ranking/Ranking-Uczelni-Akademickich-2013.pdf
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9 May 2013
USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

In USA prices usually cover food and accommodation? Here not. You should expect so pend from 1000zł in smaller city to 2000zł in biggest for all basic needs ( accommodation, food, transport, cheap beer in pub ).

In Europe we have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Credit_Transfer_and_Accumulation_System and there is 60 points per year to gain. University gives you list how many points you need to have each year to pass to next one. The list shows also value of each class. If you don't gain enough than you have to ask the dean for repeating last year (although you don't repeat classes which you passed). In my public politechnika there was only 1 free course to repeat per whole bachelor. For the rest you had to pay according to price per hour. (if course had more hours then it was more expensive). But it could change now and could vary from school to school.

If you've ever had Polish passport, then technically you are citizen, so you can look at lower prices for EU/Polish citizens. Another difference Poland vs America is that here public universities are better than private. Are you planing to study in Polish or English? There is bigger choice of courses in Polish and many English courses in public schools are lower quality as in Polish (easier to pass).

or maybe you're only asking theoretically and not planning to move here ?
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9 May 2013
Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

@Grzegorz For some employers in the world it's also important from which country somebody graduated. For example Ukraine is famous for corrupted Professors, so many people out of Ukraine would not care that someone graduated best University there, knowing that he could simply buy his way through, and would prefer 2nd league British university graduate. And somehow Ukraine doesn't have any top 300 university. Also most of top 100 world universities are the best in their country. And people know them.
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9 May 2013
Polonia / Polish people in Greece [2]

Poles mostly left Greece, because there is no Job for them. Even the biggest Polish - Greek forum stopped to exist few years ago. But you can try your chance here:

facebook.com/groups/404202302934115/ (Facebook group "POLACY W GRECJI")

forum.gazeta.pl/forum/f,37196,Grecja_i_wyspy_greckie.html?t=1368054130940 (Polish forum about Greece)

couchsurfing.org (maybe there are some couchsurfers in Thessaloniki speaking in Polish or you can host Polish tourists)

In Catholic church in Thessaloníki you will see probably only older people with they small children perhaps.
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9 May 2013
USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

Studies here are free in Polish for EU citizens in public schools. Courses in English are mostly not free.
Prices of studies in private schools usually differers for EU citizens and not.
They range from 1000 to 15000 eur per year. Average is around 2000 probably. above 10000 costs only medical studies.
Here some example:
eng.vistula.edu.pl/Admissions/Bachelor-s-Degree-Programs/Tuition-and-scholarships