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Nice to read your story. I came to New Zealand for my boyfriend who is now my husband.
I read a lot about New Zealand after I met him online. I loved him a lot, but I also had a wish to leave Poland when I was a teenager. I don't like the way my town was dominated by old and arrogant men who have very closed view on life.
I can start but will never be able to finish. Just read through this thread and you will find exactly what I mean. They are greedy, and have very low self esteem. They would kill to go to USA, UK, Australia or New Zealand and then when also make poor comments about the lifestyle and social structure of those countries ~ as if Poles got it better, as if they have any right to do so. They've created a patriarchal, homophobic, xenophobic system which breeds in a depressed version of Europe in perhaps the 30s.
Its a sad country outside its big cities, and even its big cities are nothing in comparison to a small town in New Zealand. The society, community and people, the rich culture and food and drinks, the space for love and freedom - its all missing.
I came here only to say to myself and my mum a "Goodbye" ... nothing else. As I can't find her again. I feel sad for her, and I remember my childhood in Poland. However, if time was rolled back andI had another opportunity to make a decision, I would always make the same decision I made then.
By the way, Polish women will always have a better life with a non-Polish man. Thats for sure.