Life / Living Costs and life in Poznan? [70]


I said the bare minimum and it would be just about possible if you ate cheap produce and could cook.


Not daily but I do shop there,

Life / Living Costs and life in Poznan? [70]


That would be based on the op being able to cook and then freeze stuff and eat the most basic stuff you could think of, I have argued this point on here before and I'm still not convinced 300zl would be possible but apparently it is!

My partner and I don't eat anything special and yet we spend about 1000zl per month.

Life / Living Costs and life in Poznan? [70]

You are not very clear about anything in your post but maybe this will help a little.

Rent (small studio flat) aprox 1000zł
Bills (electric, cable tv, internet etc) 200zł

Litre of beer in a pub 8zł
Cheap meal out for two 50zł

Can't really help with food shopping as I don't have a clue if you can cook or what you eat! But I would say for two people absolute minimum would be 300zł per month.

In regards to looking for work I don't know what kind of work you are in but if it is teaching then this is one of the worst times of year to look and also from what I have been told it is getting harder and harder to find teaching work in Poznan. What do you do now maybe if you let me know I might be able to sugest some places you could look.

Your savings may get you through two months at a push but if you have to find somewhere to rent don't forget most places will want a deposit which take a large chunk out of your savings.

In short you will find everything more exspensive in Poznań than in a small town.

Work / Job prospects in Poland (Poznan)? Good academic background, bilingual. [7]

Cue Delph. . ..

Travel / How expensive is it to live in Poland in one week? [28]


Yes but that is about 35zl per day and as you were on holiday you didn't have all the day to day expenses that someone who lives here would have. Please explain in deatail how 14zl per day would be enough for someone to live.

Travel / How expensive is it to live in Poland in one week? [28]


No but you have to buy most of them at least mothly.


Do you still live in Poland? Things are getting more expensive here all the time. 100zl a week is about 14zl a day please break that down into buying food and socialising.

Travel / How expensive is it to live in Poland in one week? [28]

Who said anything about buying petrol?

Travel / How expensive is it to live in Poland in one week? [28]

250zl a week is 35zl per day, after you take away money for public transport, phone credit, toiletries, clothes and other expenses that pop up how is this enough? And that doesn't even include food or socialising which the op asked about.

Travel / How expensive is it to live in Poland in one week? [28]

Could you break that down because I don't think that is enough.

Travel / Long weekend in Wroclaw - tourist sights to see (waterpark?) + Polish food + soccer game [8]

Do they have sky in there? Because if they don't I doubt it will be on seeing as it is not on Polish TV, why don't you phone ahead and ask I'm sure they speak English.

UK, Ireland / What do you like about living in Britain? [134]


Used to have pickled egg eating competitions with my mate after a night on the lash, managed five once!

BTW cheers for the heads up Seanus will be popping in on Wednesday as well!

Life / Do I have to do something to start receiving mail in Poland? (moved from the US) [33]


The postman doesn't always leave a slip, you need to find ourt where your local post office is and go with your id every couple of week and just ask if they have anything for you.

UK, Ireland / Websites for Poles to benefit from Britain! [210]


an example of all that is wrong with the UK today!

Life / How much money did you spend today in Poland and what did you spend it on? [33]


I can think of two places in Poznan where you can, obviously they are not high end places but both pleasent enough little Italian places especially in the summer as both have gardens.

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]


these are not charity shops in any sense of the word!

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

Seanus you are spot on, it is going to be long hard slog here before the whole idea of charity catches on. As for the idea of charity shops it will simply not happen here and I'm sure I don't need to explain why!

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]


This is the thing, just because it works somewhere else doesn't mmean it will work here.

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

A mixture , originally came here because of a chick. I do live the expat lifestyle, play golf and socialise with mainly expats etc. I would say though that mainly I'm a contributor i own a business which employs around nine people and I'm currently working with a large charity/foundation in regards to helping them with a new model on raising money based on an existing UK model but don't get me wrong if the money dried up I would probably be off1 I don't see this as greed though more a need of survival.

Life / How much money did you spend today in Poland and what did you spend it on? [33]


I normally get it at the supermarket and for whiskers for example it's about 3zł but today I had to buy from a small local shop, hence 4zl!

Life / How much money did you spend today in Poland and what did you spend it on? [33]


lol

Life / How much money did you spend today in Poland and what did you spend it on? [33]


To be honest there is tram stop about ten minutes walk from me but I prefer to take a taxi, I don't run a car so I don't have the expense of petrol or anything.


I drunk three beeers and had a jd and coke to finish the night off with!


I thought someone would comment about that sooner or later!!

Guys thanks for posting as I said this could be useful for someone who wants to get an idea about day to day living costs.

Life / How much money did you spend today in Poland and what did you spend it on? [33]

i hope your having a drink after a day like that!! Last time I spent that amount in one day I had a few stiff ones in the evening!! Was there awoman involved?

Law / Starting a car junkyard in Poland [27]

I listen to loads of business ideas every week and this is one of the best I have heard recently. It sounds like you have the land you need and in a good location, the Poles love stuff like this i.e a cheaper option. Good luck if you decide to go for it and keep posting here with any questions you need answers for.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]


You are right in what you say but it only makes the market better for people like you, because I'm guessing you are well known and respected. I would say that for a lot of people the average "backpacking idiot" is making life harder especially as we are talking about a declining market

Law / Is running a business in Poland very profitable? [33]


But thats just the thing that is cheap for here and to be honest everyone knows that you can pick up jeans for next to nothing in the states

Law / Is running a business in Poland very profitable? [33]


It's funny because I was going to mention this store, they are cheap and good value for money, the one in Poznan is out of town though. I think if they were on the high streets competing they would take a big market share from the likes of Intersport.


Yeah and also because it is cheap. For example you can buy a pair of jeans in there for about 120zl yet in somewhere like Zara you will pay 200+

Law / Is running a business in Poland very profitable? [33]

As someone who know a fair bit about retail I can tell you this, Primark is coming to Poland very soon and there are a lot of other chains watching to see how they do. Primark will clean up over here because while there are clothes shops everywhere there is a severe lack of budget stores. This is also true of the sports shops which have been mentioned. I would never describe Intersport as a high end store they tend to sell end line products at very high prices and this is the problem most of these retail chains just don't get it. A large percentage of the market want cheap product (especially here where disposable income is so low.) There are going to be some tough lessons to be learned by Polish retail chains very soon.

Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]


Try The Sheraton if you have a decent CV, website is here: sheraton.pl/poznan/

Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]

You would think that they would just design them with a screw in each corner. Apparently they don't do this because it doesn't look nice but if you ask me it would look a lot nicer than it does with them all hanging out the walls!!

The guy who does all the odd jobs in the block where we used to live said that half his time was spent putting plug sockets back in walls only to have to go and do the same thing a couple of weeks later! Doesn't make any sense to me maybe someone can enlighten me?