Law / Best City in Poland for Expat Starting Business [9]

Oh my God, some of you guys really need to educate yourselves. Europe stopped being the land of opportunity long ago, and now America follows. There is an increasing need for people from other countries to invest in Europe and America now, especially the Asians. Please, stop dreaming. The only way forward for Poland when the european union money stops coming in (which by the way is not far off), is to have investors come in. And ding ding ding... investors are foreigners. It so happens that the biggest investments around the world today are carried out by the chinese.

Lastly, Poland, Europe and even America cannot win the war on economic protectionism. You need third world countries to buy cheap stuff; ready made products from Asia and raw materials from Africa and South America. And you also need to sell your products.

One could write a whole thesis on this topic...

Life / Im a Black American Moving to Poland. Worried about adaptation. [47]


Mr. HandsomePole, For you information, Poland is one of the last options for Africans who want to go abroad and most of them who come here don't stay. Secondly, about 75% of Africans who come to Poland are students. Which mean that their families back in Africa are not miserable (As you might think). Same as only well to do polish families can afford to send their kids to go study in the US or other places out of Europe. Africans don't have easy access to free education and scholarships and you guys do.

On the other hand, if African should shut their doors to the world, and demand the reimbursement of more than 200 years of mass embezzlement of it's natural resource wealth, then the future of the world's supply of oil and minerals (diamonds, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver etc... ) is in doubt, because it is a fact that Africa has more natural resources than all the other continents combined and these resources are being robbed even right now under the disguise of economic aid and poverty reduction.

I wish africans would wake up, but that is another topic.
Please, do your homework. Europe is the one continent in the world whose natural resources are almost completely non existent today, and you depend on the outside world more than others to survive.

One could write a whole thesis on this subject, but that was not the point of topic.

Many of the writers above are right. Poland is a beautiful country to live in, (if you have an open mind) and understand that you will need other foreigners to truly fit in. I have been here for three years now, and I love my polish friends and my wife's family, but I still don't find their jokes funny. Bigger towns in Poland like Warsaw and Krakow have a large expat community, and you will fit right in, but moving to a smaller town will definitely be a challenge. People will stay at you all the time, (kids and adults alike), and walking on the streets will sometimes disrupt traffic... (almost). Some people will want to talk to you, (just to be nice) and others will think like Mr. HandsomePole.

This post is 2 years late... I know... hope all went fine for you...