Travel / Driving in Poland, are there any rules at all? [149]

My two-pennorth is that driving standards aren't always great here - especially the aggression shown buy some drivers but really there are many places in the world worse and I'd say driving in Warsaw is on a par with London.

Travel / Driving in Poland, are there any rules at all? [149]


What puzzles me is the question in the thread title.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

Same with the food. It isn't that expensive in the UK and is slightly cheaper in Poland.

Study / Where are the best Make-up Schools in Poland? [5]


In make-up?

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


That just doesn't seem right, with the cheapest vodka still around 20zl.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Very true.

One thing about Poland is that a lot of people are asset-rich but cash-poor.

Real Estate / TRANSFORMING AGRICULTURALLY USED AREA TO FREE TIME AREA IN POLAND? [8]


And since the concept of a restrictive covenant doesn't exist here, there's nothing to stop someone from turning it back into farmland or building on it later, providing they get a change of use permit.

Life / Secrets of Poland - what makes it so special? [13]


Oh dear.


They still use it for upset stomachs and sore throats, dissolved in vodka.

Another thing that's special is that Poland (Konin in Western Poland to be exact) is the geographical centre of Europe, if you take the western edge to be the Portugese coast and the eastern edge to be the eastern side of the Urals. There is a marker post to commemorate it.

Law / Poland has too much redtape [14]


Once the paperwork's done it's done. A one off and provides work for myriad civil servants.


This is true. And the less they know, the more they swear they're right.


Poland isn't yet a Eurozone country.

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


Yes - I meant the other way round. Ovid referred (as he did so often) to Herodotus. Check out the alcohol connection.

Fraser in The Golden Bough also touches on the east European lycanthropic legends but locates them further south than Poland.

And indeed, most werewolves in Poland are in the south, with the exception of a couple in Warsaw - one just round the back of pl Narutowicza and a few working for Tesco in Kabaty Mall...

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


In German too.


That which divides us from animals is a very thin veil which is easily broken...

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


Vodka came into it somewhere.

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


I prefer to try and forget.....

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


He does briefly, but he doesn't pretend it's new and refers to Ovid whose writings are the key to this.


Human.

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


From near my town. Check out the Sabine Baring Gould Society.


No he's just a pest in the bushes at the cruising ground.


Actually yes, in a way. Those old legends have an honest basis in the way people interpreted events and yes, I have seen a werewolf.

Life / Secrets of Poland - what makes it so special? [13]

Plenty of those round the world.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


The RCC is very involved in politics.


I wasn't around during those times and I don't have millions of followers.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


The poor have enough to worry about making ends meet, never mind investments.

Work / Cost of Living, Average Salaries and Job sites in Poland [263]


They're increasingly popular. In London, there are still bedsits, but I don't think it's possible to make a new one - many are being changed into small studios.

I notice they're popular here in Warsaw and very easy to rent out.

Work / Cost of Living, Average Salaries and Job sites in Poland [263]


In the UK it would be called a Studio Flat.
Plenty of new ones round Europe, including Ireland.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

@Wulkan
Not quite as bad as that, but when an expat charity started providing meals in village schools in Zachodniopomorski before EU accession, their biggest problems were (apart from being condemned from local pulpits for being secular) that the thin soup was too rich for some of the children to keep down and they were smuggling home the slices of bread they were given, at the behest of their parents.

There are still several million people in Poland in receipt of EU Food Aid.

Study / Secondary education in Poland [20]

It used to be that private schools could set a lower school-leaving age. Is that still true?

Genealogy / Strzelecki, Gajewski, Letkiewicz, Piatek surnames - tracking my Great-Grand-mothers Family [10]

Krepowieckiego is in Wola. Your best bet is to write to the parish church (kosciol parafialny} on ul. Szczecińskiego 5. 01-113 Warszawa. This is their website:

dobrypasterz.waw.pl/parafia

UK, Ireland / The secret Polish gay men in the U.K [133]

sign up to gayromeo - plenty of Poles use it, including in the UK.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


A lot (and especially their tolerance of the atrocities committed by Croat clergy) was to do with Dollfuss's Austrofascism. Dmowski was a big admirer of that, as are the Giertychs today.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


Very true. The Vatican did save a lot of Jewish lives in Rome and individual German bishops did courageously stand up to Hiltler from the pulpit, however they were even more of a dinosaur in those days than they are now and as a cerebral gentocracy with decidedly fascist elements within was unable to effect any real public opposition to the evil of those times.

Law / Setting up small business in Poland? [191]

Check out some of the other threads on this.

USA, Canada / Poles and American Poles. What do you think about those two groups and their interactions. [85]

The officials in those days (and sadly often since) sometimes saw their job as saying ''no'' in order to come to a discreet arrangement for saying ''yes''. Their rationale would be that anyone who could afford to ship a luxury car back should be good for a few hundred.

Law / About Tax ID Number (to set up a company) [5]

What do you mean by Terms and Conditions?

Travel / Hostels in Poland (Oki Doki, Flamingo, Yellow)? [8]

akademikigdansk.pl/en/gdansk-en

The ones in Wrzeszcz are probably better than the others and nearer public transport and shops. I spent a nice summer a few years ago staying there every weekend. The Oliwa ones are is a lovely area though.