History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]

You're best bet is to contact polishveterans association (USA Canada eu etc), polish home army veterans association (pl), The Polish ex-combatants association of great britain (uk), institute of national remembrance (pl), polish resistance foundation (uk) and other such groups

Life / Cost of converting cars in Poland to left-hand drive [58]


Chick car. No man who considers himself a gear head would own one. You might as well sell the boxtser and Get a real sc with a v8 not some some sub 300 hp coupe that barbie would drive. Also that's one of the worst cars imaginable for polish roads.

No one is going to pay 30k euro for an old boxster... an 06 with low mi/km is worth 15, 20 tops.

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]


Yeah sparingly. I tend to roll my own with natural tobacco or when at home smoke hookah with coals imported from turkey. The nicotine content in cigs like Marlboro camel etc have 1.5, 2 mgs plus all of it boosted due to the addition of thousands of chemicals. The nicotine in hookah and natural tobacco is a fraction of that because it doesn't habe all the additives.


Yeah I noticed that once I started reading labels more closely. The lowest I've found so far are oikos triple zero which have no artificial stuff, no added sugar and only 6gs of sugar ehich is a fraction compared to other ones. There's an Icelandic one that only has 9gs which is pretty good.

You Also have to be careful because a lot of the zero sugar drinks and foods have sucralose or some other synthetic ****. Stevia is okay though.

I still do a lot of things that aren't considered healthy or safe but simply just working out and eating well, reading labels has made a drastic improvement. I was on the verge of getting type 2 diabetes a few years back as I never worked out in college and then when I started working office type jobs I was getting eben less exercise. Plus i wasn't watching what I eat and consuming tons of sweets. Eventually my big toe started feeling numb and I could feel the circulation to my legs wasn't as good. That was the wake up call. I was never fat or even chubby as i always had a good metabolism but i could tell.my body wasnt healthy. I went to a few docs, one told me I already had diabetes, another told me I had pre diabetes that would turn into diabetes any day, all told me id need to take insulin and there was nothing I could do. I refused to take insulin and said id change my lifestyle - every doc told me it was impossible and I was risking getting seizures and serious problems without taking insulin. Well I started slow, walking around during lunch breaks and when I got home, cutting out sweets, reading labels, and rhen started working out more and more and really watching what I eat. The numbness went away, my circulation is good again, and my blood work comes out all in range again. When I was in high school and first year of college id work out constantly - id run 5 miles a week and work out 4 to 5 days. I'm not in the same shape I was then but I'm getting close. My goal is to get back down to 8% body fat and bench 350 plus. It'll take another year or two but I'll get there.

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]


You're right about that. It has a much harder time replicating.


Id say sugar. Stress won't give you diabetes and all sorts of other sh1t. Problem is every food and drink almost is loaded with sugar. You have to read every label if you want to avoid sugar. Out a whole aisle of drinks at any super market so far I've only found two drinks with no sugar - water and pure leaf black tea. Everything else has a **** ton of sugar. It kind of amazes me in a way though. Idk how a company manages to fit 20 leg alone 30 40 even up to 50 grams of sugar in a little can or bottle. Even fruit juices have a ton of added sugar so I just started juicing instead of buying ready made ones. It's a ***** to clean the juicer each time but whatever. Better than getting diabetes in the long run...

When a European comes to the us they can't believe how sweet/salty everything is, and many Americans can't understand why Some foods are so bland. Unfortunately that's changing now tho and Europe including Poland is acquiring many of the high sugar high salt content foods. I just hope that gmo vullsh1t doesn't get pushed on the eu...

Life / Are foreigners welcome in Poland? [305]

Indeed. Man I couldn't stop laughing when Merkel said then people trying to get to Europe were 'doctors and engineers'.... I thought to myself more like witch doctors and mud hut engineers! I was right, Merkel was wrong.

Notice also how now these countries are trying to get rid of the 'cultural enrichment - even Germany rofl. The EU has gotten so desperate as to give 6000 euro for every migrant a eu member takes in. Italian pm told them to shove it as obviously the cost for housing and feeding just one of these migrants for a year is several times higher estimates at 40k 50k euro. And that's just 1 person for 1 year - as we know these people multiply exponentially.

The eu gave up on convincing people that Muslims will culturally enrich Europe, but sadly sweden is still brainwashed and cucked and following that line. If these migrants were such a benefit and such a cultural enrichment why are they trying to send them away to other countries? If they were so wonderful and such an asset then Merkel would jealously guard then and keep them for themselves instead of criticizing countries who don't want to take them. If they were such a benefit, why does the eu have to give incentives for countries to take them in and threaten to fine and sanction those who don't want them?

Notice that this is only the case with african and Muslim migrants, never with European or asians. The European countries welcome European migrants like ukranians with open arms. They don't need to be given bonuses for taking them in or fined for refusing. Same with Chinese, Koreans, etc. That's because these people actually do enrich the culture - they work, pay taxes and assimilate. They don't cause terrorism or rape.

Thank goodness Poland hasn't fallen for this madness. Id be in tears if wroclaw looked like marseilles or warsaw like paris. **** is scarier than a mosquito in magic Johnson's home.

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

Atch is right... then again you'll pay a fat premium on most imports especially from the us. That's why the jeep Cherokees are considred baller cars as they cost 100k. But hopefully Trump will soon change that...

But as eith Guyana food rent public trans etc is cheaper. Although there's still quite a few restaurants that charge similar to us prices even in the market you won't end up paying like 30 40 50 bucks for a steak. At a nice restaurant you'll spend maybe 10 to 20 a person depending what you order. And there's also places where you can grab a good meal for even 3 4 5 bucks

Also speaking of imports, a good way to make some side money is exporting small amounts of high end goods to Poland... gold especially, watches, golf clubs, certain clothing brands etc

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

A colloquialism that lyz and I are are using to describe how poor Americans work their whole lives till yheyre replaced by a younger cheaper worker, get no retirement, get cancer, get basically no healthcare, a measly social security check and Medicare which won't even cover their pills, which said younger worker will experience too.. although without the social security...

That's why I believe unless you're making good money, just leech all you possibly can off the government/taxpayers and work for cash on the side. They ain't gonna **** for you so get it while you can if its there for the taking. If i didn't habe the intellect to make it though business school and make half decent money doing b2b sales and consulting id be on disability and hustling and grinding all day everyday

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

@BuckeyeInPoland

Poznan is decent I have family there - one uncle who's a retired major and a cousin who is a judge. Lodz isn't that pretty. Warsaw can be hectic. Krakow, wroclaw (where im from) and tri cities are my favorite in terms of work life balance. I love the zakopane region but it's not a good place for a corporate business type... maybe for retirement tho...


You can live off that no problem but honestly that's not a big sum of money for Poland for 2 people esp if you want to save some cash. That will be a bit dofficult unless of course youre talking 5k 6k netto (after taxes). The average salary in Poland is around 4k zs brutto (pre tax) and closer to 5k in major cities. Imo, a good upper middle class existence starts at a min of 10k zs plus.

However depending on your qualifications, education, business experience etc you can land a job that pays 10k plus

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

@Lyzko

Personally I think the death by attrition is more cruel. But at the same time it's survival of the fittest. Like my OG told me when I was growing up in a bad neighborhood - you're either play the role of dopeboy, athlete, gangster, thug, hustler, college student.. otherwise there's only one left - victim.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


In Germany yes. Poland, Russia, Ukraine etc not so much. German Jews were much more secular.

Many Jews even refused to send their kids to polish orphanages even know they knew their kids would've had a far higher chance or survival. Some Jews like perechodnik, who was a ghetto policeman, explained how the Jews isolation and insistence on be9ng the chosen people didn't help their cause at all during ww2 in his memoirs 'am I a murderer?' A quite famous story in Poland and Israel

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

You may want to also explore options like restructuring your company so that you're officially paying yourself a small salary that way you'll save on the zus and Obama care if the exemption isn't available. There's also the 3rd country option i.e. funneling through lithuania which has lax banking laws, especially with crypto for whatever reason, or sending money as a remittance to your wife while claiming no income abroad or setting up a 2nd company in poland if the tax breaks or potentisl for grants and funds are worthwhile. I'm not an expert on this so definitely consult with someone who is. There's several corpprate attorneys and cpas that deal with expat taxes. There's quite a few in Chicago where there's a ton of poles with dual citizenship who more often than not work in the us but send money to Poland.

Anyway good luck. Hope it all works out. As im sure you're aware the lifestyle is way different outside the us. Imo it's way less stressful, way more culture, you don't have the bogus daily grind, there's way more vacation days, there isn't masses of low iq unsophisticated fatasses more often than not living on benefits - what upsets me the most about the us, and you have all of Europe open to you. Visiting another European country is easier in most cases than visiting another state in the us. But the pros of the us, imo, are more business opportunities, far easier to 'get rich quick,' and more stability. It just depends what you want out of life. Btw when are you planning to make this move? What cities in Poland and Bulgaria are you looking at? Also if you ever need to change dollars into zloty or vice versa let me know, I am a silent partner in a currency exchange right outside of wroclaw and can do large amounts for a flat fee as opposed to some crazy commission even as high as 48% (most I've ever seen, was in czechy).


On that note there's one former pf member dude should speak to about this as he's been living in Poland for quite a while and knows every loophole there is when it comes to us expats living in Poland... hes been there since rhe 90s. I think you know who I'm talking about joker ..


Best to just ignore them. If you don't feel the troll they go away. What is funny though how he talks about people posting here a lot when he's got something like 15k posts - under just one username alone lol. Oh and talking sh1t about 'contributing' to Poland when the only thing he adds to is the obesity rate.


I didn't go to OSU but I went to several of their games and partied there a lot as my schools party scene kind of sucked. But those stickers are like accomplishments like when they got into playoffs, rivalries they won, championships etc.

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

Ah is that harry I see lol

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


Definitely rent at first.. Even once/if you decide to buy you have to be super careful. Unfortunately there's many agents title companies etc that try to scam foreigners buying property and you can easily be left high and dry. With renting though you won't be tied down and can always leave and at most you'll lose a small security deposit. You can get a pretty big apartment for 4k a month which is around 1.2k usd. Most decent sized apartments in cities start around 2.5 3k zloty

Yes unfortunately the US is one of the only countries which seeks to extort taxes from expats working/living abroad. But there's ways around that. One nice thing though is you can collect us social security while living abroad.

Id get a second opinion on zus. You may not have to pay it as a self employed person who's getting an income from the us but you wouldn't get the benefits which isn't a big deal. Plus good private healthcare is cheap in Poland. I'm not too familiar with zus as I pay into krus but I do know there are certain exemptions for zus.

Btw your username has 'buckeye' in it. Are you from Ohio (buckeye state)? I use to live out there and went to college there.

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

That's understandable. You have eu citizenship so basically all of Eu is open to you. Although with brexit the situation may be a little different.

Still though I think that the op would find way more pros than cons living in Poland. More so than Bulgaria anyway. Bulgaria is far poorer and less developed. Lot of corruption too. Poland is a good middle ground between having the wealth and development and economy of a w European nation while still retaining it's homogeneity and culture like much of e Europe

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


No They dont. Pis explicitly stated that they don't want to leave the eu, what they seek is a better relationship with the eu and want them to respect Polands independence and sovereignty and not meddle in our political and domestic affairs.


Some Yes they've been planned for years - many of them since 2015 when pis was democratically elected. Others like the Mercedes factory or Ryan air are recently. And companies don't care about whether the government doesn't want to take migrants or changes it's courts. What matters is the bottom line and as long as there aren't significant threats to that companies will continue to invest in Poland. Foreign corps spend millions determining the pros and cons of opening a facility in Poland. Clearly they see more pros than cons which is why fdi has dramatically increased since 2014 2015 and continues to be very strong.


No ****. Precisely why 80% of poles and the current government don't want to leave. In UK it was a different situation and the economy was in a different spot. Poland doesn't have the migrant problems uk does and isnt paying in billions so the people don't see much reason to have a polexit.

If you feel Poland is such a bad backwards place that isnt developed and 'European' like WE and it's currency is failing, it's government is going back to it's commie past, the people are xenophobic and all that, why do you continue to live there?

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


Right, guess all the pics in wroclaw Czechy and dortmund i have from last summer, this winter, and a few months back are all photoshopped... I'll be going again this winter between semesters


Great then you can explain how poles want to leave the EU, how FDI is collapsing and how the economy is stagnant, write it even in polish bad grammar and all.

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

The mere fact that you'd say Poland just became 'European' after joining the EU shows how little you know about poles and polish society. Tell that to any pole, even in English, and they'll school you on Polands thousand year European history.

As If the eu membership determines the 'europeanness' of a european country.... pfffttt... I guess Serbia Belarus Iceland Norway Switzerland macedonia ukraine vatican city and several others are all not European countries then

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

If it's a fact can you prove it? Because I don't believe you can. How do you know I'm not in Alaska right now, or Malaysia? The fact is, as I've stated before, I do own a home in Poland and spend months at a time there. Yes I live in America far more than Poland as I make more money here than I would in Poland and have a degree to finish. Like i said, a person can have more than 1 citizenship, more than 1 passport, and spend their time in different places... idk why thays so hard to grasp

And I've stated


Suuuure you do... and stating something like nie man czas na to would be acceptable and depends on context.


Nope. Both are pretty acceptable I.e. the song by strachy na lachy - Żyję w kraju w którym wszyscy chcą mnie zrobić w chuja... now do you know what that means

But fine go ahead and attack me instead of citing sources to prove the claims about Poland you wrote above.
You can start with how poles want to leave the eu or how investors are getting cold feet and FDI is plummeting, how the economy is stagnant etc

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Yes the different religions have leaders with different duties and responsibilities and the place of worship served different purposes many of them secular. Whether you take a church, synogague, hindu temple, mosque they all serve different community roles. Synogauges are places of worship but also trade, business, negotiation, etc. Not as much as before like say 60 years ago or during ww2, but still many synogagues are places for things other than just worship. In The orthodox sect many marriages are arranged there. If an orthodox family needs a loan for some emergency the rabbi vouches for them and they receive money from a fellow member. Your standing in the community and your references and rabbi are your credit check. This is why jewish community life revolved around temple and for the orthodox it still does.

It was similar eith the Christian faith. When a village was built up the church would always be in the middle and it would be the tallest building. The priest held mass but would also get involved in .or a secular affairs like a marriage problem, a dispute with neighbors, helping people who are poor or habe problems with alcohol or mental problems or whatever.

That's why i say that jews weren't exiled or forced to live outside of the community in the early 20th century and the years leading up to ww2. The culture was a lot different and the church was the center of your life regardless of faith. There wasn't internet or even good roads nor a car for every family member so people we're more involved with their immediate community and their faith with the priest rabbi or whoever is leading it. The priest rabbi etc was the intermediary who spoke and acted on behalf of their community. Unfortunately though some rabbis and Jewish leaders, same with Christian ones, abused that position to enrich themselves at the detriment of their community

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

Doesn't change the fact that everything I wrote above is true and can be backed up by a variety of credible sources including ones I posted about FDI and Polands economy. your claims, eh not so much... But feel free to cite some credible sources about poles looking to leave the eu, investors getting worried and pulling out of poland or FDI levels going back to pre eu days or even the p.o. days...

Oh And far as the 'commie vestiges' that's funny you mention that because that's exactly what the government is cleaning up in the courts. Yet you seem to view both the commie vestiges and current regime and situation in Poland as negative.


Exactly. You are viewing Poland as a western European, not a Pole or even a Polish speaker. Hence by default you have a different worldview than a Pole would have.


Same. I have a home in Poland and all my paperwork shows I live in both Poland and us. A person can have 2 passports, 2 citizenships. 2 or more homes - which the OP and his wife will.undoubtedly also have. And unlike you I speak fluent polish, was born in Poland and most od family lives in poland with rest in germany UK us etc.

How can you claim to understand Poland and polish society when you can't even speak the language and communicate with Poles? Your worldview is based on a western European looking in who only receives English language news in regards to poland and can only converse with poles who speak English which automatically prohibits you from socializing with the majority of polish society

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


Joining the EU has NOTHING to do with being European. Poland was a European country long before the EU, about a thousand years. Poland was a european country before, during, and will be regardless of the eu.

And stop saying that poles are trying to leave the eu that is complete bs. Something like 80% of poles wish to remain in the eu. Only a tiny minority of poles are calling for a polexit. Poland will remain in the eu for the foreseeable future. There's many other countries like France or Czechy where there's far less support for remaining in eu.

There's many countries that are European by geography, culture, Christian heritage, lifestyle, etc that aren't eu nations. Being an EU member doesn't make one European. Just as if Turkey joined the eu it wouldn't make it a European country as it does not even lay in Europe nor does it have a European culture.


Rofl So not true.... The level of FDI is constantly growing. Every week there's a new multi million or even billion dollar factory office or other facility that foreign companies are opening up.

euronews.com/2018/01/23/why-poland-is-a-top-fdi-destination
financialobserver.eu/poland/poland-is-the-leader-in-the-fdi-inflow-in-central-and-southeast-europe
tradingeconomics.com/poland/foreign-direct-investment


Among the older generations yes. Definitely not amongst youth. Poland hasn't been a commie country for 30 years. A huge chunk of the population never even experienced the commie system. Also about 1/4 To 1/3 of the population speaks English. Amongst younger people in citirs it's nearly everyone.

But it's not necessarily a bad thing. That leftover mindset and attitude is what has allowed Poland to not have a single, a big fat 0 terror attacks. France uk Belgium germany etc can't say that. Plus there's no such thing as no go zones, no thousands of people praying outside, no buses plastered with crap about subhan Allah and Ramadan, no ninja women - our women our drop dead gorgeous and show it off, and your wife wont have to worry about being sexually assaulted like in sweden or germany or other w European countries. I'll take vestiges of communism

Oh And also the economy is growing and regularly exceeds 4% which is far more than just about every w European country. At The same time unemployment is going down and wages going up. That may not matter to you as you'll live off a US income but should you or your wife decide to enter the workforce you'll find a decent job.

euronews.com/2018/03/13/poland-a-rising-economic-star

Europe's growth champion - Poland
ft.com/content/3b7e3428-8525-11e8-a29d-73e3d454535d

Read this article yesterday - even irish Ryan air planning to.move to Poland lol
arabnews.com/node/1348706/business-economy

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


Do it!!! You will live like a king in Poland on a US salary. Even $65 $70k a year which would be a top salary of like 20k zloty that very few people earn will allow you to rent a huge place (or save up and buy - some homes can be quite expensive though in the cities, but there's also plenty for like $100k, a really nice place for $200 $250k), go on lots of vacations, eat out all the time, and still be able to put some money aside. I am a dual US-Polish citizen and am quite a similar boat minus the married part.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]

Rich here's the thing - it really depends on the muslim terror group what their aims and goals are. Fortunately, we live in the U.S. where there's still a semblance of free speech, press, etc. An American can download al-qaeada or isis propaganda whereas in the uk or germany it would result in a huge fine with likely jail time/probation and constant monitoring from the government for good. In the US, such research is actually encouraged so that people are more informed - especially against an enemy like radical islam and Islamic terror. Anyway, al Qaeda and isis regularly produce propaganda articles - i.e. Dabiq which is a magazine isis published but I don't think they do anymore.

Al Qaeda, at least under Bin Laden, believed that American citizens were guilty and hence he had no problem killing innocent Americans - in fact he targeted them on purpose. He believed, incorrectly, that although there's a congress, president, senate, etc. all those people are put into office by American citizens who voted for them. So he felt that the citizenry is far more responsible than elected leaders and the military for invading and occupying Muslim countries. His biggest beef was when U.S. troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia so close to the 2 holiest sites. So Al Qaeda targets civilians to kill because basically he feels they are the most responsible party.

Now ISIS is a little different. In their magazine, Dabiq, they constantly cite passages from the Koran to kill 'unbelievers' and 'infidels.' However, Mohammed meant pagans, polytheists, etc. of which there was a ton during that time. Mohammed did not tell his army to kill 'people of the book' meaning Jews and Christians and the 'book' being the Bible. He saw them as sort of cousins in religion since many of the beliefs in the 3 religions are very similar. Muslims revere Jesus, Mary, etc Also, the Koran tells muslims to prosthelytize. ISIS follows all this stuff but in an extreme version. Their terror is more focused on converting people - at the end of a gun if necessary, capturing more territory to expand their Islamic state. The attacks in Europe by ISIS sympathizers or members was justified as revenge for America, UK, etc bombing ISIS.

So really in most cases is boils down to revenge. The reason why a good chunk of muslims support terrorist groups and don't really care about dead Europeans or americans is because we've bombed the sh1t out of their countries and killed a lot of their people many of whom were innocent. For example, there were tons of reports of drone strikes in Afghanistan that would kill entire families by accident or a drone strike that hit a police officer's wedding. I can kind of understand them because if someone killed my family I'd be pissed off as **** and seek revenge too.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]


That's because they don't come from a continent where the average iq is below 70.. which puts a person in the upper range of retardation. So when i say things like the average african is retarded, it's actually a true statement that can be backed up by facts.

The only terrorism Poland ever had that could even be remotely considered terrorism is when passengers on polish planes would gang up on the pilot and demand that he or she land in a western country out of the iron curtain. They'd put their lives at risk and even be possibly put in jail for a decade so long as they got the reward of not being under commies. That just shoes how far people are willing to go to get out of a commie country. And it's like that today with tons od people risk death to leave north Korea or people abandoning their homes and possessions in Venezuela to move to a non commie like Columbia.


Yes and I'm trying f to explain to rumcajs that if there's no violence there's no attack. It seems he's being an apologist for islamic terror and deflecting by saying Poland has had terror attacks. In reality, which many have a hard time grasping, there is no terrorism and hasn't been since ww2 and the prl years. He's say basically well there's other terrorists besides just muslims. Nonetheless data on terror attacks show the vast vast majority of terror atracks are perpetrated by Mu slimes.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]

Then what it a terrorist attack by your definition? Because to me order for there to be a terrorist attack there must be someone that is attacked, victims, by a terrorist. No terrorist and no attack, no terrorist attack... if there is a different definition where terrorist attack doesn't involve any victims than the count would be 10x 20x higher as it would include all foiled attempts, all attempts where the terrorist was too stupid to hurt anyone but himself - like the one uzbek or kazakh uy who tried to blow up a bunch of people.recently but only blew off his c0ck.

And yes Poland is free of terrorism... And if you want to be a douche and get super specific about it poland is free of Islamic terrorism - the type of.terrorism that has been occurring all the time in Europe and kills over 20k people around world annually.

Complete list of Islamic terror - thereligionofpeace.com

No other groups ethnicities religions' terror attacks come close... certainly not any type of.terrorism caused by others especially Christian europeans... unless you consider the us or Zionists to be terrorists which is an opinion as one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Damn straight. And it's been the same way throughput human civilization for thousands of years all around the world. That's why crooked Hillary isn't in prison much less indicted while a person like Sharif browder sits in rikers island for 3 years, never receiving a speedy trial and once the prosecution realizes they have no case (he was accused of stealing a backpack and adamantly denied he didnt - even when the prosecutors offered to reduce the charges and let him out of riker s that same day he refused to plead to.a lesser charge as he was innocent and refused to let anyone make him guilty for something he didn't do - now that's a real SJW not these green hair pierced lesbians making a bunch of noise and antifa basement dwellers shutting down free speech) they offered to release him - no harm no foul... Aside from the 3 years spent in jail over half of it in solitary...

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Yeah I'm a few classes from graduating im about 2/3 3/4 done now with the summer coming to a close. Depending on how I schedule my classes I'll graduate either this fall or upcoming spring. I have a bachelor in business with double major in international biz and marketing and mba with a concentration in management (switched from finance). So yes when i say education is overrated irs coming from a person with 6 years of college education. And I didn't go to some community college or some cheap no name school.

I learned next to nothing in my bachelor's aside from theory and definitions. Aside from a few accounting classes there was hardly anything that is actually transferable. The sad thing is I could've learned 10x as much stuff reading marketing/accounting/finance etc for dummies books but without that useless bachelor's it means nothing. Even though my school is regarded as one of the best for business, I didn't learn anything about Google analytics, web design, Seo all the stuff that is actually used in a marketing career. All that I learned on my own. The irony is that most marketing jobs require a marketing degree but even the best schools don't teach that stuff even though most employers look for people that know that stuff. So it's a double edged sword. To some extent I learned things that are practical in the real world in my mba classes. The only reason why I even pursued an mba is a just in case so if my business or side ventures don't go as planned I can atleast get a decent paying corporate job with some American company in Poland.

This convo should really be moved to random as it has nothing to do with Israel and poland...

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]

Lol are you talking about the one time where son e dude left a small bomb on a bus? It was probably some punk that made a harmless works toilet cleaner bomb or something, which a bus driver casually threw out..

That's not terrorism... terrorism is ramming 70 people with a truck, terrorism is massacring over 100 people in a coordinated attack, terrorism is detonating suicide vests and blowing up crowded airports and train stations, terrorism is releasing sarin in subway... Poland has no terrorism...


By definition a terrorist attack has to have a terrorist attacking people. If we considered every 'terrorist attack' that was foiled by security forces or where no one got hurt the count would be 10x higher if not more.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


I know the cost of living is different as I've been to both countries and am a polish citizen and homeowner and have family in Dortmund. So I'm well aware of the differences in living costs. A simple trip to the supermarket or a cab ride shows the differences in price.


No one cares about how many kids and dependents an employee has. That is of zero concern to an employer. A person is not paid by how many mouths they have to feed (except for turd world migrants, but theyre not working and providing labor so thags another story) but by their skill and their value. The more value you bring in, which more often than not is tied to your skills, the more you are compensated. There's plenty of fry cooks who provide little value and hence are paid pennies while there's far fewer petroleum engineers who provide far more value and hence are paid far more. Same with business owners - if your business sucks and is uncompetitive and provides no value you'll go bankrupt, of your business is co.petitive and provides more value than competitors than you'll be successful.

The whole reason why germany is spending 25 billion a year supporting migrants is because third worlders are being rewarded for popping out kids and refusal to work while native Germans have 1 2 at most 3 kids since they realized decades ago that you shouldn't have more kids than you can provide for - unless of course your a third world migrant who came into germany since 2015 illegally and refuses to work.


I've answers every question as a person with experience working in publically traded companies, a co owner of a 1-2 mil a year business and as an MBA. A wall street trader would give you the exact same answers explaining supply and demand in markets


Not at all. No one is going to pay you $1000 or 1000 zloty per sq ft as it's a totally uncompetitive price. At the same time no one will pay a fry cook $50 or 50 zloty an hour to work at McDonald's. Nor would a surgeon would work in a hospital that pays him the prevailing minimum wage for that market/country. Every capitalist country, and even modern communist amd socialist states, have a prevailing market range for every position there from a welder to a waiter to a air traffic controller to a fortune 500 executive. And if you want to be in that upper tier for your position you'll only get it if you can demonstrate that you have the skills and can provide more value that those at the bottom tier. Thats how an open market works. You are paid what you're worth, not more not less - unless of course a person is foolish enough to accept a position that pays less than the prevailing wage range in which case their employer would be ecstatic.

A person would only consider the labor market 'rigged' if they feel they aren't being fairly compensated for their skills and the value they provide.


Yes were alk human being. But equality is b.s. there is always a person that is more/less intelligent, good looking, educated, charismatic, skilled, more athletic, taller, shorter, etc etc etc than you or i. No two humans are alike, even twins, and hence no two humans are perfectly equal. Even in the eyes of the law in most countries two people charged with the same crime may have entirely different results based on the amount of money they can spend on a lawyer, whether they can basically 'bribe' the courts who often strapped for cash rather give a huge fine instead of a custodial sentence, and even their position in their community and who they know as a judge will be less likely to throw a hard working family man in jail for say drug possession or theft or whatever than a dude with no job

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Because the cost of living in Poland is cheaper and they are paid the prevailing wage. Differenr countries different markets, different supply and demand


Most blue collar jobs involve risk of injury or death. That doesn't mean that a roofer should be paid more than a CEO who's bringing in hundreds of millions or even billions in value for shareholders or an air traffic controller. Its about skill. I can teach a person to install shingles within a few hours. I couldn't teach a person all the nuances of consulting, managing b2b relationships and 7 figure accounts, crm software, alk the stat functions in excrl all the accounting finance and legal bs that goes with it in a few months let alone a few hours.

And no most people don't want to be surgeons. Most people for one are too stupid and lack the perserverance to pass 12 years of medical schools. Thats why surgeons in the us make 300 400k plus a year