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convex   
17 Feb 2010
Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

For the Berliners my family was "die Polen" as they came to live here after the war as my mom remembers!

haha, that's awesome, we're the amis
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

exactly my point. money are not that important, but the traditions are. polish think this way: 'why to go to this restaurant when i can eat the same food at home at half of the price'. and again its not because they cant afford it. values you know...

The problem I have is, why go eat at a decent place when I can eat a crappy place and save 25%.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

I can't eat in Polish restaurants of any brand as they push the tables so close together you can't move the chair to get up and have to deal with your neighbors elbowing you all the time. Couple that with the crappy service and it's not fun at all to go eat out.

There are some great places to eat here though, but they are struggling. Price reflects quality, the majority of people would rather eat out multiple times at a crappy place than a single time at a decent place.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

I eat "Italian" food there and it was of a very low standard....didnt see any Greek restaurants, or I would have been in like a shot!

You have places like ready's and sphinx that you can eat at, but again, the quality is dreadful. Whenever a decent restaurant pops up, no one goes to it because paying and extra couple of zloty for good food and good service is out of the question. Same people that pack the malls and buy 200zl blouses.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

Then go back home and shop there.As simple as that.
You really made me laugh with the whole "oreo" thing mate. It's like me living, say, in Italy for some time and whinging that I can't get my favourite Flipsy with toffee flavour and calling them "decent food".Hilarious.

You're right, that was me just spouting off some of the things that I miss. Now please let me know where I can get decent cuts of beef, and good fruits and veggies?

Oh right...back home.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

and my question is do you really still telling jokes about Poles??

I never heard a single Polish joke while I was in the states, then again, we're dumb hicks and don't know about the existence of Poles.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]

It doesn't help Poland that much, but it sure does help the Poles that are working overseas. You should come over and work for 1/5 of what you'd make over the border and see if that greed of making more money pulls you over the border.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

You get fresh fruit and vegetables throughout the year

Where? I tried, oh lord have I tried. The fruits and veggies just aren't good. Here in Wroclaw you can go to Epi, Alma, Hala Targowa, Piotr and Pawel, it's just not there.

The cheese sucks.

There just isn't much demand for quality products here...Probably a direct relation to wages, but nonetheless.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Life / Why do you choose to stay in Poland, why not other country? [152]

Lot's of cheeses that are considered normal everywhere else are marked up "luxury" items in Poland. If you love cheap, white plastic tasting cheese like the Polish version of gouda you are good to go however.

Yes the cheese... The big problem that I've had with cheese, is that if the wheel has been cut...you can be fairly sure that it's been sitting in that display for a good long while.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

All countries have dumb people but a lot of Americans know of nothing outside of America.

Don't confuse apathy with being unintelligent. I know plenty of Europeans that have never heard of Belize.

What kind of dumbass people are you hanging around with?
convex   
17 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

Europeans in general really want to feel they are smarter than us Yanks and cite some stupid TV piece they saw or something they read online. I can find just as many stupid people in Poland.

You take a Leno sketch that has been edited for comedy, and people over here take that as definitive proof that Americans are dumb.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

Its just not practicle unless mum and dad are going to support.

BS. There is a stipend for people that can't pay, and student jobs for those who can't. And like you mentioned, the support network of mommy and daddy are usually there as well.

What about average Poles?

As for your average Poles living around here, what job do you have in mind? How about these, interestingly enough, not in the major cities..

this?
kariera.pl/oferta/praca/154563/tapicer

maid?
kariera.pl/oferta/praca/155161/pomoc-domowa

building inspector?
kariera.pl/oferta/praca/154415/inspektor-ds-remontow-i-administracji

standing in front of a copier for 20 hours a week?
kariera.pl/oferta/praca/154644/operator-kserokopiarek

Are those average jobs? How about "adwords support" at google? Accounts receivable at IBM? I know how much those entry level jobs pay in Wroclaw...

There not though, im sure youre going to paste some links, but sorry i just dont see it or believe it. For every link stating poles are returning home theres another contradicting. I believed two years ago but not anymore.

Can't argue with your gut feeling. I wouldn't want to throw tangible things out here like numbers.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Love / How to please Polish women? [216]

Typical female, this one is Romanian. It's okay for her to slap a cop but when she gets slapped then it's all crocodile tears and suddenly she is the victim. I've seen this sort of thing played by women several times in a variety of similar venues.

Uh, the cop should have arrested her. That's the extent of his job. He's not there to punish. They're both idiots.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]

They already have access to a database of employers, and they already have a network. How hard can it be to tell people to sign up if they're looking for a job?

You're absolutely right. There's no reason not to. It would also allow for better of tracking of things like paying taxes to the proper authority.

I'm for solutions. I wouldn't mind a federalistic superstate, as long as it keeps its democratic values. I wouldn't mind a union either. I happen to think that it's not about what type of system we have, but more about the values we keep. We need to be more co-operative, and more effective.

You've got a Union right now, with a number of treaties binding the countries together. Right now the problem is that the powers that be have brought the EU into limbo between countries bound together in certain aspects, and a single entity with common laws across all countries (which removes the need for national governments). It should be either-or, being stuck in the middle isn't really helping.

Investments and infrastructure always help, but you'll need to give your workers some perspectives aswell. You can't expect skilled workers to sleep in a tent, can you? Or even expect them to be happy about living in a bungalow or a house, together with twenty other people.

By losing all of your skilled workers to foreign markets, you lose the chance for knowledge transfer in the workplace back at home. I think it would make more sense to build up the individual countries first, and then implement full movement of labor once equilibrium has been achieved (which is happening, albeit slowly...which is better, allows people to adjust to the unintended consequences better).

I think we should make it attractive for workers to work abroad aswell, instead of expecting them to arrange everything on their own in a country where they can't even speak the language, which probably is the biggest obstacle for a lot of people who would consider working abroad. I know some of us are smarter than others, but you can't possibly expect people to study every European language first?

I think without being able to communicate, you just create an opportunity for exploitation. The jobs that those people could get are labor jobs, which can be performed by people in the target country. If they're not being performed by the residents of the target country, it is because the wages are too low, and the employer will be forced by the market to increase wages.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

Is it SOOOO expensive, I agree with you there. So that brings up back to the reason for the migrants to move. Was it because they were starving at home, or because they could make much more money than in Poland? The UK was more attractive because you could make twice as much money than in Sweden.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

So you admit to ^: but not

Yea, just read it again. Good risk management reduces the effects of anything negative that might come up. So what required luck is needed to make it here?

Ive also told you that the reason they flooded to the UK was because of the lack of emigration control, not better money or work opportunities. If Germany, Italy, France etc imposed no restrictions think how may more millions would have fled. Thus highlighting the lack of opportunity in Poland even more....

Again, why didn't the immigrants go to the Scandinavian countries? Why are there more people returning to Poland now than leaving? Why aren't they flooding into France, Holland, Belgium, Italy?

Looking at per capita migration, Poland is about equal with the Baltic countries, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria... There is a direct correlation of PPP to migration. The incentive to migrate is higher.

You like hypotheticals, what would happen if the minimum wage in France was €25 an hour, median wage of €50 an hour, do you think that Brits would migrate?
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]

I would like to see job offices with registered people (Qualification, marital status, age, gender, along with the motivation to work abroad yes or no.) I would like these job offices to communicate with other job offices.

Sure, as long as it doesn't cost working people any more money. Unfortunately, individual countries can't even make this effective at home at the moment.

I would like to see complexes with affordable appartments for temporary foreign workers everywhere, so that they won't flood the housing market all at once.

This creates ghettos and keeps labor costs artificially low.

Most Europeans are for a union, against a federalist superstate.

The current approach is more organic, but it has its problems. I think that opening up the labor markets completely was detrimental to immigrant host countries and home countries, and was the cause of many of the problems that you mentioned.

Process should look a bit like this, FDI and grants provided to build infrastructure and create jobs where needed. Make investment attractive enough to bring jobs, which raises salaries. Wash, rinse, repeat until prices and wages increase to become more or less equal.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Thinking of buying an offplan Luxury Property Wroclaw [79]

The triangle isn't the nicest of neighborhoods... very central though. And the company building Angel Wings has built a lot of nice places.

Might I suggest living in Wroclaw for a couple of months before buying a place? That way you can get a feel for the place, and the part of town that you would like to spend an extended period of your life in.
convex   
17 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

Sorry, missed your reply

ahh the old crystal ball technique. What if everybody chooses a career that is in high demand at the same time like nieruchomosci?, (using your own techniques against you). Let me know about those lottery numbers as well.

Sure, science and technology. As a percentage of studies, it's fairly low here in Poland. Doctors won't have any problem finding work, bio engineering isn't going away anytime soon, marketing is good, law never hurts, mechanical engineers are needed, computer science is a good bet.

For bonus points, here are some studies which will make getting a good job...well, difficult.

Philology, Psychology, Anthropology, History, Art, Pedagogy, Philosophy...

Do you want to talk theoretical, or about the here and now? It's not a static system, but changes don't happen overnight. If things are moving in another direction, you can gain knowledge in that area. With the rate of change in technology, if you don't adapt, you can't take advantage of new opportunities.

Bribes are common place in Poland, the bigger the illness the bigger the bribe. Would i bribe if my child was in hospital and i didnt have the spare cash - yes.

That wasn't the question. I asked you if you trusted the health care system? Would you be comfortable bringing a child into the world if you couldn't fall back onto the NHS or private health care?

The point is bad luck falls on everyone everynow and again, we cant forsee it, in Poland the support is not there. Im sure youve had your fair share of bad luck. So dont give me that above crap.

There's bad luck and bad risk management. Basic risk management skills are missing for a lot of people.

Im still waiting for you to explain 3,000,000 Poles abroad over the past 5 years, highly skilled and professional young Poles that studied in demand professions. According to you they should be here living middle class lives.

I've already told you time and time again. If the minimum wage in France was €25 an hour, I'm sure that you'd see millions of Spaniards moving across the border as well. You simply make more money there, which is why more Poles are moving to the UK than all other EU countries combined. I don't want to use the mail as a reference, but come on.

The financial benefit isn't as big as it used to be. Poles are heading back home.
convex   
16 Feb 2010
News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]

There's already a socialist alliance.

Anyway, regarding the changes you're advocating, it takes time, it's balancing out. There are some countries like Germany, Austria, France that saw the danger to both countries of opening up their labor market to countries with median incomes which were 1/5th of theirs. They were demonized for it at the time, and praised for it now.

Do you want it all to happen over night? Give it 30 years and get back to me. Some countries are quicker than others to figure it out(Slovenia comes to mind...).