Travel / Rollerblading / Inline skating in Wroclaw [4]

Think right now its windsurfing and water skiing

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

Worst since 1997 but thankfully much better prepared and better equipment compared to 25 years ago.

Some really dramatic storm surges - mini tsunamis in some towns

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

I'm not a DT - very rare for me to hold a stock less than 2 years. Taxes and fees are high in Poland on stock trading.

News / Ryszard Czarnecki - Poland's politician and Member of the European Parliament [30]

Should be prison for this dude. The fake degrees are proper 3rd world behavior and a terrible example to young people spending their own money to get real degrees.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Thanks JR - I am reviewing my stocks next at quarter end. Will take a look. Problem is my wife gave me only one rule for investing our money - she has to have heard of the company, and 50 percent of our stocks must be things we use (apple, visa, orlen, nestle etc).

She does agree to a handful of midcaps though!

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Here are 5 for you JR

ORLEN
Mercedes
Diageo
Harley Davidson
Duke Energy

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]

Good luck with the job - I think you will do fine on that money and get back on your feet. Might be possible to push that rent down a bit by negotiating - there are quite a lot of empty apartments and wannabe landlords in Warsaw right now.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Correct but a healthy supply of private capital through the stock market is certainly positive for the country.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

All parties have used boards of state owned companies to support their Partitocrazia - problem is that under PiS it went crazy, lots of appointees had literally zero business or management experience and were not just party loyalists but rather fanatics.

PO has swept them away efficiently but the new appointments are not always great, and of course the first job they have it to clear up 8 years of mess.

But yes logically there should be some opportunities for growth in the Polish stock market as I feel quite optimistic about the economy in general.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Yes - one way of looking at it. I basically stopped investing on the Polish market in 2015 when they started using all the profits as a piggy bank for PiS voters !

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Well in that time the Polish stock market has moved 15 percent - blame it on Covid, PiS, Putin or whatever it's not been an easy time in this region. So that gain isn't great but no catastrophe.

If you have some spare cash you could always stick it on the US stock market or on a mix of German/french

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

I think PPK only available if you are in formal employment - not if you are running a dzialalnosc or a Sp z o.o.

If you are on umowa pracy and think your job is secure then why not go with a PPK, I am sure it would pay off over a long period even if it looks marginal at first ? But you are better off talking or reading from someone who really knows about that :)

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Santander - but mainly out of laziness, I am not good at shopping around for those things.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

How did you manage that ? Last time it was that price was about 20 years ago when SA still had currency restrictions. I tried to buy a few myself in Joburg but had to fill out quite a lot of declarations

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Only one Polish politician has seriously proposed to allow gun ownership - Pawel Kukiz.

A few days later there was a mass shooting at a concert in Vegas and he dropped the idea.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

What "social programs" ?

I shudder to think what an unemployment office in Omsk looks like

History / What do Poles owe to Romanians? [16]

Allowed remnants of the Polish army to escape in 1939 and carry on the fight against the Nazis (and stopped thrm being murdered by Hitler's Soviet Allies)

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]

Or tractors

Travel / Driving in Poland without a driving license? [4]

They are unlikely to come to your house if they were too lazy to arrest you.

If you are involved in an accident without a driving license then that is a serious offense - you might do jail time for it.

You are our guest here - follow our laws, take some lessons and get a license, just like we all had to.

Omg, I didn't realize this was one of Pawian's zombie threads.

Real Estate / Build a house Wrocław area [18]

News to me that you need monthly tax records of CFCs.

I am filing once per annum, form I think is called PIT-CFC and its a 2 page job. Certainly manageable if you have a genuine business in the UK (which in any case has a higher CIT rate than Poland right now, so no extra tax to pay ?)

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Yes but there is obviously a difference when we are talking about kids (too young to work) or pensioners (already worked, many of them in the most difficult years of communism). I am not so fussed about the benefits as the fact that the taxes fall too heavily on small businesses

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

That's not the problem here in Poland - unemployment benefit is very small

But there have been big increases in child benefits and pensions and that has meant increased taxes. Add to that inflation on fuel, higher wages etc and it's not an easy time to be running a business here.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

The storm before the storm !

I am not too heavy into tech stocks so I should be ok. Going to buy a few consumer stocks when I have some spare cash, but basically going to continue doing nothing. Concentrating on running my business for a while as been a rough 2024 so far - costs going up but difficult to pass in to my customers

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Well that's been a strange week - I ended up about one percent down on my US stocks, about 1 percent up on Europeans. A good week to be on holiday !

Think there will be some falls over the next few months though. Seems like the market is not reacting negatively to a possible Kamala presidency which os good news.

Real Estate / Looking at land to purchase to build a house - big difference in prices? [3]

It is possible but not straightforward to see historical prices - you will need a Polish speaker to help you navigate the websites.

Reasons for difference might include

- connection to water and electric
- planning permission
- road access year round
- grade of the land if it is farmland
- configuration (if the plot is square or misshapen)

Travel / Bus in Kielce (schedule) [5]

If you are intending to doorstep the girl you have been chasing (from your previous posts) then think that through. It would be a huge surprise for her and maybe not a good one - it could be a long walk back to Kielce if it turns out she has other commitments

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Hope it can keep going, don't mind sticking in a few zlots for running cost but buying it would be crazy.

I think most forums are a dying medium - younger people prefer social media doomscrolling and we just get left with grumpy old men. Almost every thread is quickly spammed - you could start a thread about the new trams in Torun and within 3 posts it would be about faggots, the Mexican border and Kosovo.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [748]

Cheer up and watch the Olympic action - women's time trial cycling is on right now plus awesome Rugby between Fiji and France

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [748]

Poles in Poland had a clear preference for Biden - no idea where Kamala would poll but for sure higher than moron Trump

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-07-21/wybory-prezydenckie-w-usa-kto-korzystniejszy-dla-polski-najnowszy-sondaz/

But anyway the only poll that counts is in November - now looking very close though obviously Kamala will get maybe 7 million more votes than Trump

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [748]

Amazing how a normal 60 year old politician is triggering so much anger and misogyny.

She will win the popular vote by 7 million plus. Don't know about the outdated and dumb electoral college - that has always been Trumps only route to victory