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Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]
pam: and living in inferior accommodation compared to what she is used to in nyc(if she is as successful as she claims to be).
What is that mean "inferior accommodations"? Are you suggesting apartments/flats in Warsaw are dungeons? I live in New York City, but I don't live in a glass house with gold door knobs, and I don't drive a Porsche to work.
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What is this obsession with presumed *inferior accommodations* in Poland???
1) I am a real estate agent here in the USA in the Washington, D.C. area. I can tell you from my personal professional experience that some rental homes are shockingly low quality and severely over-priced for what they offer in our current short sale/foreclosure market.
2) I would swap homes anytime with some of my relatives in Poland because they are simply gorgeous quality homes.
Nanna asked for an advice and opinion. Instead, some commentators here changed her thread into personal EGO trip. Every country and every state has its share of beautiful well designed homes and its share of ugly inferior homes.
Nanna, Poland is beautiful and Polish people are very generous and friendly (with a few exceptions, but exceptions can be found everywhere). Even if you decide to come back, it will be a great experience. What is one year in a lifetime?
Good luck to you :-)
A key difference here is that I've actually paid taxes in Poland, held a job, paid for overhead, dealt with Polish business people.....what adults do. You were taken care of by mom and dad, went to school, goofed off, maybe played a sport or two.....what kids do. Your view of Poland has expired. You know what it's like to be a kid in communist Poland. I know today's Poland and that's the topic at hand.
I could provide goods and bads about staying in NYC and going to Poland. But, when I read your OP, I made logical deductions and formulated opinions. If that's not what you want, if you just want more and more people on here to tell you "good luck" and "just give it a try!" then you're not here for advice, you're just looking for a pep rally. Feel free to PM me, you just might be surprised.
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What is wrong with wanting to go back and live for one year in Poland???
Since when one must own a business to visit a country of his/her ancestors? She may meet a successful Polish businessman and get married in Poland - her single years are over :-).
My daughter was born here in USA - currently a computer engineering student at Virginia Tech - and she wants to do internship in Poland ..... mostly because she loved her vacations in Poland and has only good memories of Poland.
Traveling is good, especially traveling for ancestral patriotic reasons.