Law / Importing my American boyfriend to Poland: residency, marriage, work, etc. [16]

No sign of them being racist if they are. Just yesterday saw a chap of African appearance with his probably Polish blonde partner and their huge baby carriage (yes a big one) get off a bus in Krzyki - no one gave them a second glance. And I see lots of black and also Far East looking people around - I've never seen anything in reaction to it. All I saw here once was a swastika on a big estate's kiosk. I have subsequently discovered the area has anti social yob problems anyway. I saw more swastikas et al in Essex.

That said, I do recall someone once saying to me he here that he'd left London because he didn't feel comfortable living among black people as they worried him, but he didn't say anything vicious or use any bad words etc, it was more "scared of the unknown as never met people from that community" sort of vibe to it rather than racism.

Law / Importing my American boyfriend to Poland: residency, marriage, work, etc. [16]


The most professional post ever on PF - complete with tags for Google search?

FWIW I would have thought getting married in the US makes a bunch more sense.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [161]


+1

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]

Is there a reason you can't go to a branch? Probably could open one there.

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]


True. Here I notice people walk at others on the pavements/sidewalks, in the UK (at least where I frequented) people make room for each other and it's more "After you....no, after you..." sort of thing. Here it's a mad scramble for the pavement, the buses, etc. EXCEPT I see a lot of younger people here giving up their seat for elderly or infirm individuals on trams and sometimes on buses. Sometimes those elderly or infirm actually utter the word for thanks too, but not always of course. I also notice people here bang into me or hit me with their baggage as they walk past, and I'm yet to ever hear an apology. It was of course my fault for being there...

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]


I can't think of anyone like that...

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]


Noticed this a few times, obviously not all Poles are like that but enough to make me take note. :o)

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


Sometimes I think that, and sometimes I wonder if that's what people are trying to get me to think. I really don't know. But at least I know that I don't know.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


Sounds like the UK, where many can't even do basic maths or spell everyday words (according to many employers).

Might be work for them as teachers in some small Polish towns, apparently.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

Thanks CMS

FWIW in Wroc, I believe they are to massively expand the Bielany retail park here. The retail park is part of Wroclawskie but its catchment area is Wroclaw itself as its only on the boundary. New cinema, bigger Ikea etc.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

Thanks for posting that observation, would you be prepared to say whereabouts these jobs are, perhaps state the region if not the town?

I hear the same thing about jobs being scarce here in Wroclaw yet the shopping malls are really busy and everything seems quite "buzzing". Some of the entertainment venues have been doing cheap tickets to fill seats. They still had a disappointing response if my visit was anything to go by. Around the city, am seeing a fair few for sale signs on property. I think a bit more than before. The mall tenants might be doing more sales to encourage footfall, of course.

The English teaching ads here - you see posters at bus stops and ads on websites - hourly rate in one case is now 20. Just a few weeks ago I'd not seen lower than 30.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]


Yes, I said it a few times as I stood angrily staring at the blank screen saying "No signal".

Or possibly my ale jaja was so loud and scary that the man who had unplugged the TVP transmitter so he could recharge his mobile phone woke up and plugged the TVP transmitter back in again.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

Thanks for the bump and yes you are witty.

The channels are all back now, must have been an outage or someone at the transmitter plugged their toaster in to the wrong socket.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

You'll have to go on wondering then won't you.

TVP Wroclaw and TVP Opole both gone, Wroclaw went when they changed the MUX, I assume Opole and Historia etc have now done the same. What I am left with is a list of channels when I do a scan but next to all of them, even Polsat, is the euro symbol, and if I select the channel the receiver says "scramble channel" (not scrambled but scramble, don't know if that makes any difference, ale jaja).

If anybody has any experience with this, please post.

If your only contribution to this thread is a wisecrack - please don't bother, although granted the bump may prove useful.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

Have you recently purchased a flat or property, btw?

Food / Poland's best cheap beers? [72]


Thank goodness for that! Will avoid it for sure.


Not a bad price even in US$ :o)

Food / Poland's best cheap beers? [72]


In zl ?

For 4 x 500ml?! Where? Incredibly cheap!

Food / Poland's best cheap beers? [72]


I will look out for that one too - so far I haven't found one I didn't like ! :o)

Food / Poland's best cheap beers? [72]

So far I have found it quite hard to go wrong with Polish beers that are in the lower price bracket, but if you buy the really cheap ones in cans although it seems their ingredients is pure with no chemicals in many examples, the taste is fairly bland usually. Nevertheless they are still good for a party where there's also food and people pay little attention to the quality of the beer they drink.

Love / Best, safe Polish dating sites? [95]

Now that I find myself single in Poland, wondering if there's a good internet dating site for my area for 30s singles. I have searched the forum and unless I have missed a link the sites don't seem to have many singles in my age group, certainly not in Wroc. Any tips to a good site or venue to meet someone genuine and not too young?

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]


Are you able to reveal what you do, and whether it's self-employment or work for someone else that you personallly knew beforehand? How do the language barriers get overcome - workmates never tire of translating you to others or others to you, etc etc? No need to deal with Poles who only speak Polish? How does it actually happen? Every employment agent I spoke with said that 99% of work requires me to speak Polish and the 1% who said otherwise have failed to deliver even one interview. And that's in a big, bad city like Wroc.

Edited to add - if I had a specialism it would be different where there are firms needing such skills where English is the office language. There are also a few call centres needing English if you can stand that sort of thing but I don't like that sort of work and in any case they weren't offered to me.

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]

Do you get customers from that website? I'd be interested in knowing if you do. It charges for premium etc. Looking at the listing for this area, nativespeaker.com.pl/native-speaker-poland?voidvod%5B%5D=405&langs%5B%5D=1&agaes%5B%5D=7&avail=All&invoice=All&weekend=All

several have not logged in there for 10 weeks or 40 weeks in one case. So many customers they don't need to login to renew their sub or use the site at all to change ads or prices or email addresses??! Or maybe it's that they have made a couple o'million and retired?! Wow, I've been wasting my time poring over the job ads paying 25zl an hour.

So I can just join that site and soon I'll be on 8000zl a month, able to move to a decent flat away from the noise and pollution, and can shop with my head held high, instead of having to buy the thumbs up basic brands at Auchan! Eureka! It really is as easy as that when you work smarter and not harder ;o)

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]


You certainly have, matey.

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]


In another thread, that poster has trouble with spelling and thinks the plural of life is lifes. The poster thinks brought means bought. Need I go on? How would that level of knowledge achieve 8000zl per month as a teacher of English? Shirley shum mishtake. I smell BS.

Look:-


Moving to Poland - what is the most important thing I need to do, once I'm in Poland?

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]


Sounds like BS to me. Which website? I have read of people who were unable to get work even asking just 30ph in Opole and Krakow.

Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]

Well, it's certainly a challenge unless somebody has some specialist skill that is in demand. For a typical office job or working in a shop, of course Phtoa is completely correct, unless that office or shop is managed by a friend or relative who puts you to work in such a way where your inability to communicate is a non issue.

News / Wrocław to increase police patrols on public transport [6]


AFAIK there are no public transport division police in Wroc - but someone else may know more on this subject.

In the UK, there's the British Transport Police or BTP and a division of 'City Guards'-alike uniformed support officers solely assigned to help BTP police constables police the railways, buses, subway trains etc.