Law / Polish Permanent Residence (want to start a life in Poland) [13]


No

Yes.

Tłum, bless him, doesn't live in Poland or the U.K. He's an American in America and helpful though he's trying to be, Polish residence for U.K. citizens and dual taxation etc are outwith his experience.

The best place for sound advice from people who have done this or are doing it is a page on Facebook called "Brits in Poland". These questions are asked and answered daily and some of the people there have done what you're planning to do. There's a lot of shared knowledge and experience there.


No, it's not quite like that, more the reverse. The dual taxation treaty means you'll be taxed where you live but won't have to pay it in the U.K. if you've paid already in Poland. There are a few pitfalls though (a lottery or premium bond win isn't taxable in the U.K. but is in Poland) and issues regarding inheritances and certain assets and I strongly recommend you have a look at that FB page which is genuinely helpful.

It's also strictly moderated (the page's admin used to post here a lot but doesn't nowadays) and is a civilised page and great for advice in residency, tax, and real estate.
facebook.com/groups/373470989454357

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]


Quiet. Known as that by everyone except nationalistic Greeks who have an inferiority complex because they know in their hearts that their sewer of a country has little or nothing to do with the Greece of Sophocles, Plato and Alexander.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


None at all. There is no doubt.

Don't vote for that fascistic tit head.

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@Torq
Indeed. Though colonialism isn't wholly negative (despite the shoddy behaviour of the French and omg I've got some stories to tell about them) since without it we'd all be half nude, painting ourselves blue and worshiping tree gods.

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And smaller than half the countries in Europe.


Interesting that the people who oppose it most are from your country which has the highest level of migration.

I don't apologise for being a Turkophile (I'm in Istanbul right now and when I'm in Berlin next week I'll enjoy a döner).


That's beyond strange. Even first time posters get it. A cynic would say that it's to do with your work however of course no government ever does PR, do they...


Friends there used to call it the "Teuro". It's a drag to have your currency shackled to the economy of other countries.

It's also appallingly hypocritical of France to use it when they have two other currencies. Every single foreign exchange transaction from the African CFA Franc (both of them since there are two such currencies) makes money for the French cünt government. Basically they have the euro themselves yet at the same time they profit from the labour and meagre exports of some of the poorest people on the planet.

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [112]


Does it?

Perhaps you should read articles before commenting on them.

If you'd read the article, you'd not be making such a fool of yourself now.

That quote was from an address he gave to world leaders at the official commemoration of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz earlier this year.

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In a way yes. Have you been to Istanbul, especially the suburbs? Very different people from those from
Anatolia who emigrated and became Germans.


Yes, PiS the same thing to one of their opponents, Piotr Ikonowicz, one of Poland's better politicians.


Less of the faded. We aren't degenerate east European 'szlachta'. And not so faded that almost a million Poles went there for jobs and to settle there.


Rubbish. It had a larger population than half of the current member states.


You're doing it in an unusual and over complicated way.

To quote a poster, all you do is select the text you want to quote and press the quote button.

Did you really imagine that everybody else does
It that fiddly way, trying to paste in a tiny spot the typing an equals and the username? On a phone, it's literally two quick finger movements.

It must have taken you ages. At least now you know the normal easy way.

Unless there's another reason.....

Don't worry, when many more Germans are of Turkish and Syrian roots and clued up on tech, such mistakes will be rarer.

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Well, BB, Türkiye was the only country in Europe that refused to recognise the partition of Poland.

And of course there's Polonezkoy and Adampol there, as well as a small Polish district in Istanbul just past Sultanahmet, before you turn off to go to Alsaray. Plenty of r*SSians there too.

I was once waiting at a kiosk to buy some tabs and there was an old lady in front of me chattering away to the young man in the kiosk in rather old-fashioned Polish. this was the area of town where Polish people have been living for centuries. I thought great, I can order some things in Polish rather than just pointing at t( Marlboro so spoke to the guy po Polsku. He didn't understand a word and the old lady had just been talking at him rather than to him.

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Yep. Known knowns and known unknowns.

There's one fairly likely explanation though (ask Velund and Bobko...) and an alternative one which is just banal and stereotypical.

It's definitely deliberate though, and he takes time to do it given all his quotes.

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It doesn't, and they weren't a founder member of the EU.


You can say the same about East and West Germany uniting, and although it's not been a complete success, it was still done.



That is untrue. A quick look at your posts suggests you have been doing this since your first post, years ago.

Unless you use a phone with an entirely unique operating system that no other poster has ever used and isn't publicly on sale, I call BS.

This however is off topic. An alliance (though not in the shape Ironside suggests) will have to be built, however there's no reason that the EU should be involved (and the membership of Hungary and others every reason that it shouldn't) and no need to restrict it to Europe.

As mentioned already, we now have the Coalition of the Willing, with clear leadership and openness to new ideas and new members.

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [112]


He wasn't a 'preacher'. He was however one of the most respected historians of his age.

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It is irrelevant. Conditions can easily change as required.


Hard to know how that's relevant since I don't live there.


The U.K. was a founder member in 1992, as well you know,


President Honecker would probably disagree strongly with you.


It's confusing and you do it deliberately. You have been posting here for quite a few years and you certainly haven't solely posted using the same computer or phone for all that time.

You do this deliberately. Why?

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Indeed. That is what needs to be done.

And then we can look at their other borders.


Not relevant, however more new Germans from Türkiye is hardly a problem.


No, that is not true.

The founding members of the EU are those countries who founded it in 1992. Rather more than the six you mentioned.

Perhaps you're thinking about one of the forerunners to the EU, in which case you're also wrong, since Germany wasn't a founder of that. West Germany of course was...


One reason to end the librerum veto.

Perhaps you can suggest other ways of ceasing all trade with r*SSia and isolating them on the international stage.

@Tacitus

Why do you remove posters names from your quotes? You once pretended it happened automatically, which was a lie.

Then again, it's very clear that like 'Velund' etc, you're more a Tacitus than a Suetonius...

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It really is and no they aren't.

And why do you deliberately remove posters' names from the quotes?


Wise actions have their rewards. Foolishness means that countries lose out.


If she loses, all the better.


As were the U.K. who left and most other major members. Founding is irrelevant and a Poland (who joined after) are not.


Let Greece compromise. Türkiye is more important and more stable. Plus it's a growing economy rather than a tourist kleptocracy.

Of course there's no reason to link the Coalition of the Willing to the EU. After all, the country leading it isn't a member any more...

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Growth, not birth rate.


Finally you're beginning to grasp it.

Gas from North Nigeria to Western Europe willl never be more than it is now. Only less.

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@Tacitus
I suggest you read up on how Türkiye is a thriving democracy and how other European countries sometimes have chaotic politics too.


Not 'relatively'. That is sufficient and when the most stable major country on the continent as well as those who border r*SSia are firm on this issue, others who have a less ethical approach to r*SSia should heed this. If they want to avoid sanctions, that is.

We're supposed to be moving away from fossil fuels anyway and there is no excuse to prop up our continent's biggest enemy by buying from them.

It will doubtless cause economic hardship for countries which foolishly chose to buy their gas from r*SSia however you win some and you lose some. Those countries lost.

Forget r*SSian gas.


You mean those countries sensible and decent enough not to source from a pariah state like r*SSia.


They've had as long as the rest of us, and perhaps if they hadn't behaved so badly with Libyans in the past, they'd have a nearby source of near unlimited energy rather than begging for what Libya chooses to sell them.

And yes, Italy is unstable, rotten with corruption at every level and has massive levels of organised crime, so why are they in the EU and not Türkiye?

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He has around 59% support and there is a thriving political scene in Türkiye.

And of course there are EU members who've had coups d'etat, leaders assassinated, fascist and communist regimes and civil wars all in my lifetime and yours.


It needs to stop and cheap gas from r*SSia is a thing of the past.


"Only"??? That's plenty. And those countries are the adults in the room.

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Normal enough.

The pace of growth there is staggering. These are people we want on side and there is a huge liberal intellectual elite there. Turkey is us not them.


Closer to zero.


People don't always get what they want, and if course resuming trade with r*SSia is a betrayal of Europe and our values.

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]


That's Warsaw for you.

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]


There was something similar in a smalltown nightclub in r*SSia. Many young people died and it looks as if the fire escapes were locked shut.

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Even very. It's as if those people paid to anticipate things for some reason anticipated things.


I remember him suggesting that his country would be buying hydrocarbons from r*SSia again once the war ends. It won't, and Nordstream has gone for good.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


Makes a change from novichok and Polonium 210.

About wild mushrooms in Poland, one thing I've noticed (and this is probably more good than bad) is that they pick them when they're still tiny. Very different from the ones on sale further west which tend to be as big as possible.

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [112]

Very sad about Marian Turski, perhaps Poland's best known historian.

"Auschwitz did not descend from the sky," and the eleventh Commandment should be "Thou shalt not be indifferent," he said, adding: "Because if you are indifferent, before you know it, another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants."

thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/marian-turski-obituary-jewish-historian-and-holocaust-survivor-5dzjm5crj

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]

@Alien
The Mordor district of Warsaw has, if only in a Fritz Lang sense...

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I wouldn't take that too seriously. Nobody really thinks about them, and although they'll need replacing soon, nobody wants to talk about the cost of replacing them.

One little known fact is that the previous generation (nothing to do with American companies) all still exist and are kept in good condition ready to be primed if needed. Their precise location is of course presumably secret, and of course the Trident nukes are hard to find. They're all on subs which could be anywhere in the world and are undetectable and when not on subs are of course looked after carefully. I doubt even the Yanks know where they are at any given time.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


A friend (who through the week worked at a liceum) did 11 end to end identical listening lessons every Saturday at a university. He must have been on autopilot from about number 3.

With teach8 g, you so times need a sabbatical to come back with renewed enthusiasm etc. It should be an integral part of the job but nearly never is. Sometimes sick leave is the best and most realistic option.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


I'd go with that (if the pickled cabbage leaves are anything like Turkish pickled cabbage).

Definitely kasza, plent6 of herbs and some chilli or at least black pepper inside. Possibly no tomato at all for the sauce. Ajvar could be a base, or those tubes of Czech pepper paste that works nicely instead of tomato paste. The sour cream would work well.

Red cabbage could work (I prefer it to other types) in which case some finely chopped apple would go well as an ingredient for the filling.

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It isn't; that's a common myth.

They're on a service contract with the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin and go back in small batches now and again for maintenance. Neither the Americans nor any other foreign country have any sort of control whatsoever over their use and no idea where they are at any given time.

It is unlikely that the next generation will be from a manufacturer over there.

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The one with the big red button with Trident written on,


It is likely that they will have taken the lead before any invasion.


Except for the significant number of individuals in the government and military there who appear to support r*SSia. And u til recently there was still gas co i g from r*SSia. Hopefully that's stopped now, never to restart.


Yes.

Although the EU is floundering, it's strange that Turkey isn't a member. They're one of the few countries in Europe (at least part of Turkey is in Europe, unlike Reunion, Curacao, the Azores, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon etc which are bizarrely in the EU but nowhere near Europe) which like the U.K. has a growing population.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


That happens. Doing kids would wear me out.

Have you thought of teaching adults?

Teachers', Lecturers', Psychologists' and Social Workers' pensions kick in about a decade or so before statutory retirement again the U.K. and I could actually claim mine now but am leaving it for a few years so it grows and I get the full lump sum on retirement plus a larger annual amount than I'd get now. Is it possible to do something like that in PL?