Just visited Poland - here is my random rant

A nerve has been struck. Where, why and by whom needs to be established

It's different, yes. Neither better or worse, just different.


Yes, this is Europe. Things are different here. For what it's worth, I've rarely seen police hiding just inside city limits - unlike in America which seems to be commonplace.


The evidence suggests otherwise.


Normal practice these days. Perhaps not in the US, but again, in Europe, quite normal. It prevents cheap alcohol being sold to internal EU travellers and also allows the airport to collect anonymised data on the shopping habits of travellers.


I think you've led a sheltered life. Let's take one example - Croatia. The bureaucracy there is designed to prop up Trudjman's theories of state ownership - which means that private companies attempting to get into areas where there exists a dominant state operator face all sorts of obstacles. A great example - motorway service stations. You cannot operate one if your company doesn't also refine oil. The end result? They are dominanted by the two state owned oil companies.

People might talk about Polish bureaucracy on PolishForums - but I imagine it's the same story everywhere.


We all know how this one is easily dodged.


Hasn't rained in almost two weeks, it's consistently above 25c - what's not to like?

Then again, you weren't here in summer because you had to go back to the US.


You're right - living in a modern European city with everything that you need at your feet as opposed to living in the desert far away from any entertainment or otherwise...night and day indeed.

you've never been there which means your judgement on this topic is no better than the next guy that reads the internet. additionally, I'm not discussing "better or worse", just how different it is. so uhhmmmm.....yeah, it's different. like night and day.


Agreed. But I was talking about the "radar boxes".


"seems" huh? what are you basing that on, again? Why don't you just take my word for it. Because i know what i'm talking about.

I'm still waiting for you to make a point here. So far it's like you're typing for the sake of typing.


I traveled plenty from 2007 to 2011, in Europe, and you already know my experience.


ha! holy random information, Batman!


we do? PLEASE go ahead and let us all know.


haha! you are truly like stand up comedy. you keep typing that garbage and you have absolutely no evidence of any of it.

Piece of advice: you need to be more careful typing to people that know vs. what you're going off of, which is speculation, internet jockeying, and your own bias. You're a perfect example of that poster that wants things to be true so you type as if it is true.

The worst part is that you always insist on coming at me with personal attacks which ruins the discussion. Just stick to the topic, Delph! A rebuttal using just personal attacks is not a rebuttal. ,

You were just a young pup when you first came on this forum, telling people how much you know about the world, and apparently nothing's changed (don't worry, I won't bring up the failed website you set up after being just a few months in Poland, designed to give newcomers to Poland advice on......Poland......from a guy that didn't even speak.....Polish....who had just graduated from college, with zero work experience....the website was called lindenia.....imagine a 23 year old kid fresh out of college about to tell foreigners everything about a country he had just landed in....and charge them money for it.) oh damn, did I just type that? oops.

It doesn't have to come to this Delph if you'd just stick to the topic and stop slinging mud for no reason.

What's funny Fuzzy is that you will say absolutely anything to prove your point that America is somehow superior to Poland.

But don't worry - I'll just leave it at this -

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23373066

Night and day indeed.