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Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
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peterweg   
26 Mar 2011
Real Estate / Poland house prices recovered faster - Summary of 2010 [89]

Since when have you allowed a little thing like statistics and facts to influence your comments. Still waiting for the 60% crash in prices? What has happened to the predictions Milky?

Already down 15% this year, so thats a significant step. Let the crash continue for a couple of years and it won't be far off...
peterweg   
26 Mar 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

When prices rise by 70-80% over a 2 year period and then fall by 10%, it is not a "major fall", it's a correction. Ask anyone that bought prior to 2006.

Ask anyone who bought at the beginning of the year. 10% is a major fall in prices. How many people bought after 2006, lets ask them and see what their attitude is.

That sort of collapse stops people buying and locks in negative equity which is damaging to a housing market, when people stop buying, prices fall further, its a negative feedback loop. Banks respond too and cut down their lending exposure, prices fall further.

10% plus inflation is a 15% real world fall in value.
peterweg   
25 Mar 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

The asking price for new apartment units across Poland fell by 10 percent last year, reports Rzeczpospolita.

Increasingly, supply is starting to outpace demand, with a number of finished dwellings sitting empty, no takers in sight. Customers have learned that flats still under construction are usually cheaper during residential pre-sales.

"The supply of new apartments amounts to some 44,000 units," Maciej Dymkowski, president of Tabelaofert.pl, told the newspaper.

"We are seeing a comfortable situation for the buyer: a wide selection, large pool of ready units and new projects arranged with an emphasis on smaller spaces."

wbj/article-53836-polish-apartment-prices-continue- to-fall.html

if asking prices fell 10% then the sales prices must have fallen more than 10%.

And looks like there is some bullshitting estate agents on Polish Forums, 10% is a major fall.
peterweg   
16 Feb 2011
Life / Winter in Poland? [160]

A wool cap and a half decent coat is all I bother with. -5C isn't much to worry about.

Thermals? I'd wait until its -15C or colder before considering them. When I go skiing I wear thermal long johns and a thermal top with a wind proof jacket, no further clothes and its good for 15minute lift journeys with alpine winds and -15c temps up the mountain.

Krakow doesn't get much wind, I was shocked when I can back to London as the wind made it feel far worse.
peterweg   
17 Jan 2011
Life / The rising costs of food and fuel in Poland and the effects on disposable income/economy [177]

Petrol prices in Europe are insane it shouldn't be more than $2-2.50 per gallon for regular.

Its not really an issue as you don't have to drive very far to get everything you need. In fact you don't need to drive at all in most cities. In the US, you need cheap petrol and most of the money goes to the petrol companies. Europeans prefer the money to go in taxes and stop the Oil giants and ME countries taking the profit.

Petrol in the UK is cheaper than the USA, the difference is entirely tax, the oil companies make very little profit.

Personally i live in Krakow and don't have a car. Every week I take a Taxi, 11-13zl. So the petrol price is irrelevant.
peterweg   
14 Jan 2011
Law / GBP to PLN: Best way to get good exchange rate? [22]

There's no such rules for intra-EU transfers - you only have to declare entering/leaving the EU with more than 10k in Euro.

Not true. I got pulled flying UK to Poland with just under £10k, they told me I had to declare anything over 5000 euro.
A bit of a surprise to me, but they were adamant. I got questioned and searched. However, a bank statement and ATM withdrawal slips satisfied them that it was legal.

The Kantor I use only takes 0.3%, for any amount, so I can't image you could get a better deal. I take the money in £1000 lots - I took £10k once and it came up short £130 when they counted it. They ripped me off.
peterweg   
14 Jan 2011
Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]

Ni it's not. It's what it is where I'm am. Property tax is included however and it's what kills people here. Our town has a lot businesses so we pay $700 dollars a month, but in the neighboring towns you would pay $1,300 monthly on a property like ours (which is nothing special BTW).

Where on earth do you live? $8400 usd per year in property taxes. Thats outrageous, ten times what I pay in London for instance.
peterweg   
14 Jan 2011
Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]

s2ggod2, if you go to Poland, just make sure you buy all the clothes you need in the US. They are very expensive there, especially the kids wear. I guess you can also have all necessary furniture shipped to Poland, maybe even your car, but I'm not sure about it. If you don't have to start from scratch you will be just fine on the money you have.

I move to Poland just over from the UK. I found it painless to be honest, even though I can't speak Polish.

I have my own internet business so I work from home and earn $7,500 and that is not just a lot of money, its a massive income.

You should be very able to live on $4000 per month, its fours time a Polish average wage.

Many things in Poland are much cheaper than the UK. However, somethings like clothes are cheaper in the UK. I simply fly back and do shopping there for the stuff that is not available in Poland. You would probably do best to ship as much from the US as you can. There is a lot of things that you may miss from the US, especially food. You can get steak and good fish, but its very rare in Poland, you have to goto specialist suppliers and its very expensive. I taught myself how to cook my own food that would be difficult to get in Poland. I bought a breadmaking machine to give me the best pizza's, learnt how to make India, Mexican and Thai food and sourced/shipped over the specialist ingredients from the UK.

Again, Poland is not a jail; you can travel to other European countries and buy food/goods there. The internet makes everything much easier as well. Skype and other services give me a US phone number with unlimited US calls for instance.

Petrol prices in europe are high of course, but you should not need to do much if any driving. Getting a LPG (propane) powered car will help - its half the price of gasoline. Propane is 12.5 PLN per US gallon, which is just over $4.
peterweg   
29 Dec 2010
Life / Has anyone in Poland that you know been affected by H1N1? (swine flu) [44]

Yeah, 95% of people have not gotten the swine flu shot and

Ok, misquote me to justify your stupid reply. Its an internet tradition.

I said 95% of people have not had swine flu. They will either get swine flu and find out if its fatal .

Or they will get a vaccine shot and not get swine flu or suffer reduced symptoms. Severe swine flu can kill you straight off or vastly reduce your life span if you survive with damage lungs.

Yes the politics of fear, I wonder what was in the H1N1 shoot, what kind of goodies that will make you sick later.

Your choice. You will also want to skip other vaccines for you and your family.
peterweg   
29 Dec 2010
News / Polish twins have different fathers [67]

Its estimated that 10% of children are not fathered by by the man who believes they are the father.

One in Ten.

Thats not bad luck, its systematic cheating by women. If you have a child get it tested soon after birth and kick the bastard out before you get too attached.

You can also attempt to sue the woman for the cost of bringing up the bastard.
peterweg   
23 Dec 2010
Life / Has anyone in Poland that you know been affected by H1N1? (swine flu) [44]

I have not been to a doctor in years, never got a swine flu shot and ....wow....I'm still alive.

You must be the lucky 95% who havn't caught it yet.

Unless you have some sort of resistance (i.e you are over 60) you will probably get Swine flu over the next few years. Its nothing to worry about unless you are over weight, pregnant, have an existing illness or are young, although it can make even healthy people very ill for months.

I swab my keyboard, mouse, cell phone, door knobs and other stuff once or twice a month with rubbing alcohol to keep them clean.

So you are happy to let them be filthy for most of the time? cleaning them everyday would be hygienic, anyone who touched that stuff in the following month could get infected..
peterweg   
19 Dec 2010
Life / How do the Polish feel about air pollution in their cities? [35]

The air quality in Krakow is terrible, I avoid leaving the apartment. It regularly exceeds the EU safety limits, but as has been said the biggest danger is people burning rubbish and plastic (releasing cyanide etc). The small quantity of plastic burn is significantly more dangerous than the coal burning.

Poor air quality reduced lifespan, there is no question about that. One thing that has shocked me is the number of people with health problems, there is cancer everywhere it would seem. Maybe its just who I'm hanging about with (nurses).

The long term solution is the cheap gas that Poland will start producing. The EU will start enforcing the clean air laws and Poland will have to tax coal more heavily and subsidize the switch to gas fire heating.

Gas is so convenient compared to coal but coal is cheaper. I did a comparison, 1tonne of coal, produces 6666Khwr, which would cost 1250 zloty (£264) in the UK using gas (I'm uncertain about Polish gas prices). Last year I paid 700zloty for 1 tonne of coal, someone claimed they paid 1000 this year; if so the difference isn't too big.
peterweg   
18 Dec 2010
News / EU SITE PRESENTS ROSY POLAND (high level of a secondary education) [10]

No, if the government gives you a house and an income that exceeds what you can earn by working then of course unemployment is a better option.

There a a very large number of people in the UK who swear by this concept. To much anger from working parents of course.

At present, the more children you have them more the government gives you, although the new government is promising to limit a families income from benefits to £25K per year (which not taxable of course). Average wage is £27k. A single unemployed person gets about £70 per week plus their rent.
peterweg   
18 Dec 2010
News / EU SITE PRESENTS ROSY POLAND (high level of a secondary education) [10]

The UNICEF report on childrens well being is indicative of how ridiculous surveys like this can be.

UK and USA come out badly on the overall wealth report, mainly because many children are below that countries average wage; of course when you look at the actual material wealth for UK/US and then its completely reversed. Having the population all equally poor is judged just as good as having them all equally rich, but having a population where the rich and poor are relatively(in absolute terms) rich is dismissed as 'bad'. That stupid.

Another issue, they use the number of books in a household to determine child well being. Books... you know those things they used to print the last century before computers replaced them

Another thing, having unemployed parents is market as a negative. So the UK scores badly, because having children while unemployed is in reality (in the UK) a better financial state to be in than having a job (plus staying at home while looking after your children is surely better than abandoning them ??). The fact is unemployment can be a comfortable life of baby making rather than abject poverty in some countries.

Health and safety has other issues; in some countries like the UK, parents refuse to immunize their children because the diseases are considered so rare that the vaccination is perceived as more dangerous. Child infant mortality in the UK is so bad because 50% or births are by recent immigrants from much poorer nations with a lower level of health.
peterweg   
17 Dec 2010
News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]

The US military is reportedly highly critical of the competence and capabilities of Polish forces serving in Afghanistan.

"It was as if the [Polish] were waiting for us to come back and release them from their base" one anonymous officer told Time magazine. "[the Poles are] just kind of hanging around," he added.

According to Time, the Polish top-down approach is an ill-suited strategy for fighting a counter-insurgency campaign.

And in the Deh Yak District the Afghan security forces were equally critical about Poland's effort: "The Polish did nothing for us," said district police chief, Lieutenant Faiz Muhammad. "It just got worse day-by-day until the Americans got here."

wbj.pl/article-52503-us-military-slams-polish-forces.html?typ=wbj
peterweg   
14 Dec 2010
Real Estate / Poland Housing prices in July 2010 [129]

I have just arrived back from Spain ( Barcelona/Malaga) the price of property has gone down 30-50% on villas and more on apartments. Now thats what I call a real bubble.

Yes. 1.6million unsold properties, sales at the lowest level ever. Banks accepting back more repossessions than properties are sold.

There is going to be a blood bath in Spain. Hundreds of thousands of apartments where there is no jobs and the only people interested are going through their own house price crash (90% of buyers in Spain are UK/Irish).
peterweg   
14 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Not everyone that lives or comes from America is RICH! [300]

more second, third, fourth chances.

There was a study comparing UK and US health, it found that the poorest people in the UK were in better health than the richest Americans.

The reason is simple, the British get preventative medical care starting before birth, whereas the US get reactive medical care after problems occur. By the time you are getting emergency medical care its too late, your ******.

Personally I'd prefer a healthy life than to spend it in ill health knowing an ambulance would save me a few more times.

The OP has to realise that he is a Pole, not an American. With his criminal record he won't be able to set foot in the USA again. Going to a country as a guest and committing multiple armed robberies, being a member of a criminal gang etc there is no way an official would let him in.
peterweg   
8 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / Why British men move to Poland [63]

Oi, what idiot moved this into the Polonia forum? It's nothing to do with Polish people in the UK - unless you count the reason why Polish men don't date British women ;)

Are you saying that Polish women don't look like that? becuase they do.