Reasons for moving to Poland

[quote]wonka
I'm Polish, living in UK for 4 years and planning to move back with English bf in about two years. I see UK as a good place to be when you're a student, you party a lot, drink yourself stupid and have sex since you're 12./quote]

Hi I dont know how often you've been back to Poland recently but thigs have changed since u lived here. The fruit is no longer totally organic as EU law dictates that it must now contain additives to prolong its shelf life. There are also markets in UK BTW.

Second, just the other day some racist Polish **** spat in the face of a black girl who was getting on a bus here, so it happens everywhere.

Thirdly, have u ever been out of the cities of the UK? Britain has some absolutely breathtaking places to see, especially in Wales with all our castles, rolling hills and dense forests.

Fourthly UK doctors are very good and sometimes cant do their jobs properly because of the financial limitations imposed on them. The health system in poland hs let me down too many times.

Basically ur moving back here cos of the drop in the pound. But think of ur hubby before u come here. There arent really many openings for him here except teaching.

Good for you!

Hi,

I'm visiting family and friends every 6 months so i think i know how things are at the moment. Where i'm from (Warsaw) veg, fruit, meat etc. is always organic because i get it from one of many markets in the city (there are two 5 minutes away from my parents).

Markets in UK tend to be demolished or just abandoned. I have never seen a market in UK where you can buy different type of cheeses, veg, meat, fresh bread etc. I think the best proof would be my bf who was shocked to see so many different items sold on the market, which are fresh and cheap - goes to show this type of establishment is nowhere to be found here.

Yes, Polish are racist and you are not inventing the wheel by saying that. But then again, you would probably be if your country was to be run by the church. Incidents i am referring to are not racist attacks (believe me i saw these here), they are attacks on people who are performing their job and being attacked because those plonkers feel like it.

I have been to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, North East of England so i know there are beatiful places in UK. The only problem is that most of the seaside towns look the same, proper mountains are in Wales and Scotland so overall diversity isn't great. Oh and if you do want to go somewhere nice, you have about 95% of possibility of getting drenched.

Not to mention that should you want to visit any of your neighbours on the mainland you don't have that many to choose from.

British doctors very good? that's a good one! Last year when i've had pneumonia and was coughing my guts out, one of the symptoms was that i was very weak and dizzy. I was told to lie down and take paracetamol which is definitely no. 1 drug in UK and heals all sort of things. If it wouldn't be for me going to visit family at that time and being checked by a doctor in Warsaw, i would probably end up in the hospital or something and get MRSA to top it off.

As for a pound dropping in value, i couldn't care less as i didn't come here to work my guts out.

You said you lived in Manchester, surely you went to Bury market? Stop talking sh*t.


Again you are talking rubbish, we have the Lake District and the Peak District! Are you sure you lived in Manchester???


So you got bad advice off one Doctor so they are all bad, I can only imagine where you lived to get such a shite Doctor.


Good for you, when are you going back since you hate it so much?

hello everyone i moved to poland it is grat over here i fownd a job and im happy here

Hi Shelly,
Great to hear from you again.
And you sound like you've made a great start to it here :)
If you don't mind me askin, what are you doing, for work?

I moved to Poland last week from Ireland!

Why did I come here?

I guess this city of Wroclaw just captured me on my 2 visits here this year!

Also I like Polish peole, I have done since they began to come to Ireland - yes ofcourse the women are beautiful also...but you can't depend on women to keep you here!

I just got a job here in architecture - I couldin't get one in Ireland! f... the money difference...

I mean what is it all about anyway?/////?????

What is what all about? The money difference? Yeah, at one level it gets to me when the Poles call the Scots stingy. The level of stinginess is much higher here from what I've seen in 4 years than in Scotland.

Some Romian scumbags pulled me over today and tried to scam me out of some cash for fuel. WTF.

I just got a job here - in architecture, after only one week looking, compared to 3-4 months in Ireland!!!

? what was the scam WB?
were they trying to sell you some petrol?

Yeah, bleedin gypos. They conned my fiancee's grandma to the tune of 30k.

Rule no 1: Don't let a gypo into your house.

I saw some at the local Tesco today. They even look like crooks

What is life all about? money? me arse! The more of that ya have the more ya spend...

If I can make a living here without having to scrape by...then I have hit the jackpot!

Ceard a mile failte stormhorse,
i am from Dublin and I live here in poland too.
I am very curious because of the extreme temperatures, different needs and materials here there is a completely different way of building.
You have your work cut out for you.
I would be very interested to hear what you think about the construction industry here, from an architect's point of view.
Best of luck to you!

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How'd they do that?

They made out that they were some clerks from a local office and she let them in. She's deaf so she likely heard nothing.

oh hi seanBM im teaching english its great i like it alot:) was that you told me you were 19?

Ah, my internet connection went when I was writing a reply.

Teaching is hard work, I am glad you enjoy it Shelly.


No I was 19, 12 years ago.


Well dressed scumbags

Teaching is hard work, you can say that again

They were flashing be from behind and had hazard lights on. I assumed my back bumper was hanging off or worse so i pulled over, checked the rear view mirror and noticed a car full of lads. The driver got out and came to my window asking directions for a garage, i told him not for atleast 5 kms. He looked p1ssed off and started banging on about his credit card not being accepted something about a pin number and blah blah... he then asked me to help him and pulled of a crappy ring saying he would reimburse me, by this time id had enough and just stuck the car in drive - accelerated and that was that.

Teaching is hard work


With a car full of lads, it could've got nasty.

You can say that again ;)

yeh who knows it was quite a remote spot, i think they targeted me because of the UK plate. Cant trust the Romanians.

Probably.


There is a big mis understood thing going on in Europe, Romas or Gypsies aren't Romanian.
In fact most Romas don't live in Romania and the Romanians HATE the Romas.
It is easy to get them confused.

We have some rotten scumbags over here too and they not only force their way into the homes of old people but they beat them up as well. One way they get to know when the oldies have money about is when the elderly fetch their pensions from the Post Office and someone hangs around until they come out and follow them home. They know they have at least one weeks pension in the house. As one of the younger generation we try to educate our relatives about not opening the door to strangers but of course they forget and if someone looks official they think that it is all legal. To all drivers out there just keep your car doors locked and if something is odd just keep going - there are some terrible scams especially this time of year. Keep safe everybody!!!!

I just came home from Poland for xmas break to my homer Dublin in Ireland after finding a flat, a job and an experiexnce in which I would like to talk about: Polish peolple in Wroclaw can be nice, good people and down right ignorant also...the ignorant part hurts me as their are over 100,000 Poles livin happily in my Country? and I am probably the only Irish man living in Wroclaw.....

ignorant epsidoses: I walked into an internet cafe and asked for a computer - I was looked at as if I came from MARS - or maybe ENGLAND!!! or maybe I am been paranoid? maybe not as the polish word for computer is Komputer their does not seem to be much diffeerence in the pronunciation here?

Come on you poles - live and let live and keep that small mindedness to your self!

You will encounter ignorance virtually everywhere.

i can live in poland for a year but if i am going to live with a loved one, i can live there for long.

Histormhorse sorry to read of your experience but have you tried to learn a few words of Polish? Maybe if you could communicate a little in the Polish language it would help. Although I cannot spell the words I can say please, thank you, excuse me, sorry - I do not understand etc. Just maybe to show that I am trying hard to integrate. My efforts have been greeted with a smile and appreciative words, then also to my surprise I have been spoken back to in English.

Polish is a very difficult language to learn but it is possible with some effort to pick it up enough to get by.

Much to my benefit today, actually.

I was getting the bus to the school with two of my fellow teachers - but as one of my friends had got there way before me and the other one, she ended up with some dour businessman-type sitting next to her. Of course, we get there and start talking in English about all sorts of nonsense (which probably really did sound like nonsense to him). After about five minutes, he clearly had enough and got up and sat elsewhere, which was nice :)

Although my pet hate is when people on buses here will try and sit next to you on one of those slightly-too-big-for-one-person seats. I'm developing new ways of irritating them as we speak, grrrr!

Yeah, English tends to get them going

ya its hard but i like it thats the mean thing:) im going back to ireland for christmas i miss it there:(