News / GDP of Poland.. 338 billion pop-38.5mil Cali GDP 1.7 Trillion pop-37.7mil [70]

If you take 500,000 emigres out of the available labor pool, you still end up with about 450,000 jobs created in order to give a 3% decline in unemployment. That would only work everyone that emigrated was unemployed. Looking over the longer term, to get from 20% unemployment to the current 10%(ish), there either were a lot of jobs created, or 1.7million million unemployed poles emigrated.

Do you know if the majority of the emigres were officially registered as unemployed in Poland?

Law / How will the Zloty be against the British Pound over the next 6-12 Months [45]

scroll down in that thread

Law / How will the Zloty be against the British Pound over the next 6-12 Months [45]

And I'm not sure what your criteria for meaningful is, this thread might still be needed :)

Law / How will the Zloty be against the British Pound over the next 6-12 Months [45]

https://polishforums.com/law/zloty-british-pound-next-months-30345/

Law / Polish Cop Took My Car Registration :S [143]

You're only allowed to tint to a certain percentage, I think they do the same in Canada.

News / GDP of Poland.. 338 billion pop-38.5mil Cali GDP 1.7 Trillion pop-37.7mil [70]


I saw that too in the wikipedia link.

The reason that I ask is, lets take 2006 for example. Unemployment fell from 17.6% to 14.9% with the creation of 31,000 jobs (this may be off, got it from E&Y, up for better sources). From a labor force of about 17 million, 17.6% is about 3,000,000 unemployed 14.9% is 2,500,000. Do you think that half a million jobs were created in 2006? It seems like something is missing.

Just seems kind of strange, the only thing that I could think of would be some sort of changes being applied to unemployment criteria.

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

What makes a municipality a city in the Netherlands?

van wikipedia:

"Het wettelijke verschil tussen stad en platteland is na de grondwet van 1848 en de Gemeentewet van 1851 definitief komen te vervallen."

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

haha, the illustrations are great

News / GDP of Poland.. 338 billion pop-38.5mil Cali GDP 1.7 Trillion pop-37.7mil [70]


Do you know of any changes in the criteria over the last couple of years that may have effected unemployment numbers? Has land ownership always been part of the criteria? Or underemployment?

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]


no?

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


Do you honestly think that? In what way? Is it just a problem of execution being the reason that it's not happening? The will to do so being there, but for some reason, it's not being done?

News / GDP of Poland.. 338 billion pop-38.5mil Cali GDP 1.7 Trillion pop-37.7mil [70]


I was using the IMF data, which was a bit kinder to Poland

Eurostat has Poland dead last in PPS

epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&plugin=1&pcode=tsieb010&language=en&toolbox=data


Keeping comparisons with the 2004 accession countries is probably a better gauge.


i was thinking what is the criteria for someone being "unemployed"?

youtube.com/watch?v=Ulu3SCAmeBA

Language / Problems remembering Polish vocabulary [20]


Magazines and comic books helped me quite a bit.

tvp.pl/strony/przegapiles-w-tv-zobacz-w-internecie

TVP online.

Language / Does anyone know where I can learn Polish for free? [35]

Yea, they learn faster :)

Was thinking more along the lines of who the free courses are for (if they take into account immigration status for instance)

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


It's more of a question of application. Inviting you to Warsaw in 3 months for a meeting could be considered compliance. The document is very vague.

News / GDP of Poland.. 338 billion pop-38.5mil Cali GDP 1.7 Trillion pop-37.7mil [70]

As long as that growth translate into real gains to PPP. Right now, that doesn't seem to be the case. Of the 2004 ascension countries, Poland is right above last place in PPP. Poland is also carrying a fairly high public debt load. With the unemployment rate dropping (except for 2009, of course), are there really that many jobs being created? How does Poland calculate unemployment?

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

This is new for 2010, we welcome our new friends parking on the street and creating a clusterf*ck at the intersection. Bonus points for the use of snow covering the no parking zones to support "out of sight, out of mind".

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]


and you know, the real strange thing about that is that most of the europe destined gas just passes through russia from the 'stans.

Language / Does anyone know where I can learn Polish for free? [35]


Isn't that geared more towards refugees?

Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]


Good ole Deutsche Bahn :)

News / The Internet totally uncontrolled in Poland? [19]


As long as one can go to the corner shop and buy alcohol and a pack of smokes, your argument makes no sense.


Good luck trying to trace onion routing. Just don't go to the sites that you have issues with, and stop trying to press your hypocritical morals onto others.

Love / Do you think that Polish should stick to Polish? [128]


If it ever comes to that, we've got 4 between us. You end up proud of your heritage(s), but never bound to any one in particular. I think it's given me personally a much more open approach to the world, and people in general. There is no 100% tie to American, Slavic, or German culture, but at the same time, you get to be a part of all of them.

Travel / When is the best time (month) to see Poland? [31]

I've gotten the most from places in Central Europe during early to mid fall. The tourist hordes have generally already left, and the weather is very agreeable. Football is just kicking off at that time, every teams supporters will still have hope at that point (except Cracovia, the season is usually depressing for them from the start...).

Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]

Apparently, USPS will not ship alcohol under any circumstances (which is ok, because I don't trust Poczta Polska with pillows, and wouldn't be real comfortable with them handling beer).

UPS and FedEx ship it, no major questions asked if it's labeled as something else. Let me check on the legality of this, worst case scenario, I have a military APO address that I can use...

News / Freezing weather in Poland, 42 people dead in winter freeze... and no-one cares? [140]

Apparently there are a bunch of people trying to claim it as their dog :)

Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]

ya drunk, brew some beer. I'm sure Paz and I can help you out.

If anyone wants to do some trading, let me know. We should get a nice trade up program going. I'll start putting a bit of the good stuff aside if you're interested in trying some of my babies. (Ron, if you do end up making some good Krupnik, I'm willing to make the mighty sacrifice and drink some of your moonshine :) I have some sloe gin going that might be right up your alley...

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]


amen, gotta love the tasty bits...he's a bit dickish every once in a while, but usually delivers.

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]


No reservations is hands down the best food related tv out there :) Apparently, you can skip Namibia as far as bbq goes :)

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]


Your wastefulness was fixed. Two words with the same meaning, pfft!

grilling - flames, two beers and you have your meal

barbecuing - smoke and indirect heat, a case of beer and you have your meal (or something resembling jerky because you managed to fall asleep and leave your chunk of meat smoking over night...)

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]


Kvas is one of those drinks that I really want to like, I mean, it has everything that one needs to make a good drink, but I just can't make the connection. Maybe it's just been bad kvas, or maybe there is a beginner or baby kvas to start and work your way up to street vendor kvas... Kvas tour in Moscow this summer?


Grilled deer burgers is where it's at. Good lord, nothing better. A nice slab of brisket is also up there if you have the time :)