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ssoass   
8 Jul 2013
Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

I just got back from a trip to Germany (mainly around Berlin) and Poland (Gdansk area). In 3 years when my youngest child starts college, my wife and I have been considering selling our house here and living in either Poland or the Czech Republic for 6 months or so.

My work allows me to be remote, so I do not need a job there. I just need to be able to be in the country for 6 months, get health insurance, rent a place to live, and probably lease a car while we are there. I would think this would be a positive for another country as I would not be taking up a job and spending my money there .. like a long term tourist.

With those parameters, would I need a work permit as I would be working for a US company still?

We really enjoy Eastern Europe and would like the opportunity to immerse ourselves there for some time.

Thanks
ssoass   
8 Jul 2013
Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

I should have been more clear, I am a US citizen. I am glad I would not need a work permit, but I would probably like to stay longer than 90 days. I guess I can look to extend it. Our purpose of temporarily moving there is to really immerse ourselves in the culture, study the history of the area, and pick up the language. I do not think 90 days is long enough to do that considering I would still be working 8 to 10 hours a day during the week.
ssoass   
8 Jul 2013
Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

Yes, I have a job in the US with a US company, however my job allows me to work remotely ... I actually go into the office at most 6 times a year and can cut that down to twice a year if I want to.

So, it does not matter if I am working from my house in Texas,an apartment in Poland, or a base on the Moon. The only reason I am not doing this now is my youngest child is still in High School

To get around the 6 months, I suppose we could stay 3 months .. return home or go to some other non-EU country for some period of time, then come back again for another 3 months. Obviously that adds an additional expense of more plane tickets.
ssoass   
8 Jul 2013
Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

Once you land here on tourist visa it might get difficult to change your status.

That is a good idea, even though I work in the computer field, I do have a degree in European History ... if both my wife and I got jobs/volunteered to do English tours at a museum or something like that, are you saying that would increase our chances of staying longer?

If that is all you want to do, just have lots of Polish lessons in the US. Seriously, moving to Poland is not easy, going through all that hassle for just six months would be bordering on insane.

My thought was to just bring ourselves and some clothes, laptops over there and leave our stuff in the US in storage and rent a furnished apartment there. The language part is moreso to make life there easier ... it is mainly the culture and being in Europe for a long period of time that holds the most appeal.

We have been saying we would be selling our house around this time, so it seems like the best time to do it as we would not have many ties here, I have somewhat done this before, only it was moving to a different state in the US and living in an apartment for some period of time before settling in.
ssoass   
8 Jul 2013
Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

Not in the slightest: you'd still need to get residency permits and would still face the problem of convincing the local foreigners office that you can support yourselves in Poland. And that's even assuming that "a museum or something like that" would be in the slightest bit interested in working with you full time (I somehow doubt they would).

Yes, I suppose a museum would have no interest in someone working for free with a degree in their subject matters giving English tours ... and as mentioned, I have a job in the US that I can work at in Poland that is sufficient to pay for a family to live pretty nicely in the US ... supporting myself is no problem and I can provide tons of documentation that it is not.
ssoass   
12 Aug 2013
Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

US papers generally will not use any non US characters, be it an "ą" or an "ö" (which is usually translated to "oe"). I think in part it is because of typesets, but mostly because they are not part of the English language and the audience for these papers are English speaking readers.

Papers do use the Polish names for cities .. Gdansk is Gdansk, not Danzig.