Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]


Tap water is safe to drink practically anywhere in Poland, except in a handful of small rural communities where shallow private wells have been contaminated by agricultural activity, usually nitrate-containing fertilizers.


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Love / What do you think of Polish girls? [40]

I second that.

Law / Help regarding Poland's National 'D' Visa Appointment at Mumbai Consulate! [719]


No. They won't even let you in unless you have an appointment. All you can do is wait until one opens up and book it as soon as it appears. Apparently, they all get reserved within a few minutes, so make sure you are ready to go at the times listed by Curryguy above, and move fast.

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]


Amway is much worse than average It's the absolute bottom of the barrel. You should do your research. There is tons of information on the net about what a bunch of total scumbags they are.

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]

@Lili lili.lua

Amway is one company that you want to stay as far away as possible from at all costs. It's basically a giant scam that operates on the thinnest edge of the legal ice. On top of that, the mind-control cult aspects are downright scary.

Why would you want to work for total scum, helping them rip off innocent people?

Law / Getting Married in Poland without a visa? [23]

@Phillip 1958

Yes. Get married in the UK. Whyever would you want to get married in a country in which neither of you resides? It doesn't make much sense.

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

@Kcn

Try this place:

J.M. Spychalscy
Ludwika Solskiego 15
85-125 Bydgoszcz
+48 793 597 027

As you know, Poles don't each much lamb, and practically no mutton or goat, so there will probably be none available in the store. But they can order it for you and butcher it as you like. A warning: it's not going to be cheap, and you might have to buy large amounts. Chances are that it will be frozen. But they will get it for you if you give them plenty of time to order it.

Genealogy / Need help finding a place in Suwalki region (from Russian times) [14]

@Suwalki1882

Good luck with that! As for Facebook, be aware that not everyone who has an account checks it regularly. I check mine every six months or so.

Work / NOC Letter Format to be acquired from Last employer; Poland's D type visa query [2]

@khan001

Here are some examples: documentshub.com/certificates/noc-format/

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

@PawelR

This isn't that kind of forum. Most posters with genealogical questions post once or twice on a specific question, and then disappear forever, never to be heard from again. This isn't like genealogy sites where people create an account and monitor the site for years on end, and are able to send and receive e-mail notifications as a matter of course. Also, very few of the regular posters here are interested in genealogy at all. It's just not a genealogy site.

Genealogy / Need help finding a place in Suwalki region (from Russian times) [14]

@Suwalki1882

Move fast before that biologist dies. His memories are irreplaceable. His name is Algimantas Bujauskas. The contact above knows how to get in touch with him.

Genealogy / Need help finding a place in Suwalki region (from Russian times) [14]


Possible, but not likely.


Much more likely.

There are two people with that surname on the Lithuanian Wikipedia, one a biologist who was born in Delnickai (still alive at 84 years old), and the other an architect born in Marijampolė (now deceased). Both places were in the Suwałki gubernia. The surname is so rare that you are closely related to them for sure, and anyone else with that surname.

Try contacting:

Karolis Bujauskas
Vilnius University , Vilnius · Department of Business Economics and Management
Business Administration

Work / Business ideas for Poland [63]


Like what, pray tell? Anything worth importing from the UK to Poland is already being imported.

Study / Question about studing Polish history and culture [20]

@jon357

Just looked at my copy of Lalka, the paragon of good style in Polish, and the whole book starts with "W". As does the next sentence. There's not a single page in the whole book that does not have a sentence that starts with a single-syllable word.

Study / Question about studing Polish history and culture [20]


I highly doubt you were, unless, perhaps, you had a teacher with some pretty bizarre ideas of their own. And no, it is neither "easy" or desirable, to follow those rules without sounding very odd indeed. Nor is their any possible motive to do so, in Polish or in any other language on this planet. There isn't anything "neat" about it. I can guarantee that will not find mention of your "rules" in any Polish style guide.

Study / Question about studing Polish history and culture [20]


Wherever did you get that idea? No Polish writers I have ever read seem to know about those rules, and writing according to those rules would result in some rather bizarre reading. Can you give an example of even a single writer who follows your so-called rule? Of course not.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]

@dolnoslask

Not quite. The Vietnamese community is rather long established in Poland and the Czech Republic. Polish and Czech born Vietnamese took over operations from Balkan gangs around the turn of the millennium, and the market is probably dominated by third or fourth generation Vietnamese by now. Recent migrants are at the bottom of the food chain.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]

Oh, and marijuana is not legal in the Czech republic. Possession of "small amounts" for personal use is decriminalized (not legalized). Production, transport and sale are all illegal.

The Czech system still has many problems. If you're looking for a successful model, that would be Portugal.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]

@jon357

Production, import, export and sales at all levels, even at the street level. And, if anything, they are consolidating their stranglehold. Contrary to what you might think, "homegrown" makes up only a tiny portion of the total. It's just not economical when compared to the large Vietnamese grow operations.

If you can read Czech: zpravy.idnes.cz/vietnamci-zacinaji-ovladat-trh-s-drogami-ffk-/krimi.aspx?c=A120517_150802_krimi_klm

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Quite the contrary. Marijuana production and trafficking in the Czech Republic is very centralized and strongly dominated by Vietnamese criminal organizations, as it is in Poland. And they also dominate the supply market for "harder stuff" as well.

Genealogy / JARENTOWSKI [17]

@Maureen

You're rather lucky, because there are only about 100 people with that surname in Poland, all of whom are closely related to each other, and all of whom have close ties to one township, Września.

moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/jarantowski.html

So if you do find someone with that name, chances are that you don't have to go back too far at all to find a common ancestor. I'm guesstimating that your husband's mother's grandfather or great grandfather is the ancestor of all persons with that surname.

Real Estate / Economical room by the month in Lublin? [24]


It sure does, especially to lawbreakers, meaning those who work without a permit and evade taxation. We used to have an American poster here who was deported and banned for overstaying and working.

Real Estate / Economical room by the month in Lublin? [24]


If you are found working or staying in Poland without permission, you will be deported back to your home country at your expense, and will be forbidden from entering any country in the Schengen zone for one year. You may lose your visa-waiver status, and will have to apply for a visa to enter the Schengen zone after your year is up. However, since you are in the database as already having been deported, it is unlikely that a visa will ever be granted, so it works out to a long-term, if not lifetime ban from the EU, as well as from any other country that uses the database.

If the US embassy pays for your return, they will confiscate your passport and not reissue another one until you have paid them back in full the cost of returning you to the US.

If Poland decides that you owe them taxes, they have the right to detain, convict and even imprison you for tax evasion, or to detain you until you pay off your tax bill and fines. They can even confiscate all your belongings and whatever you have in your pockets or bank account. That will earn you a criminal record and a place on the dreaded Interpol database, which means that you will probably never be allowed to travel outside of your home country ever again.

Real Estate / Economical room by the month in Lublin? [24]


Perhaps the administrator will be so kind as to change the title of the thread, as "Lubin" is a typo, and the OP wants to know about Lublin.

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

There is no English form of that name.

Real Estate / Economical room by the month in Lublin? [24]

@Mark199

I assume you are talking about Lublin. No, you won't be able to find even the smallest studio/bedsitter for that little, especially when fees and utilities are take into account. Not anywhere near the city center, or even in the city,

Even finding a room for that little will be a challenge, if not impossible, since you cannot speak Polish.

Also, as far as teaching English is concerned, that ship sailed long ago. It's practically impossible to break into that field now unless you are super-qualified and a natural businessman and aggressive self-promoter. Someone looking for a 500 PLN room probably does not have what it takes.

Also, the winters in Lublin can be quite harsh. Much harsher than anything in the UK.

Sorry, but based on what you have written in your post, you won't last long in Poland.

Study / Poznan Medical School [8]

@scaredtodeath12 3.

It's not that easy. If you graduate from a medical school in Poland, you will have to pass the rather stringent USMLE exams. Most graduates of foreign medical schools have to prepare for a year or two to pass, usually by taking (expensive) supplemental courses.

Then there's getting a residency. Graduates of foreign medical schools are at a major disadvantage here compared to US students. About half that apply fail to get a residency. You have to be certified by the ECFMG, which has rather stringent requirements.

In any case, your post indicates that you are not a all prepared to enter studies this year. Not by a long shot. Do your research on the topic and on Poland and apply next year. Learn as much as you can of the local language.

There was a time when studying medicine abroad made sense. It still can, but you really, really have to know what you are doing, and you are completely clueless.

My advice, though, would be to do everything you can to study in the US. The quality of education and the ease of finding a good residency would be much, much higher.

Law / Work permit + national visa in Poland for India citizen [91]

@Pranav79

It doesn't work like that. First you find a job, and then your employer in Poland applies for a work permit. If it is granted, then you go to the Polish embassy and apply for a visa.

You can't come to Poland unless you have a job already, and you will not be able to find a job in Poland.

Unless you are have good experience in IT or finance/banking/accounting, chances are next to zero that you will find a job in Poland. There are no jobs for unskilled workers.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

@Scorpioqueen61

Twp possibilities: The first from "kord", an old Polish word for for a type of short sword. and the other from "korda". the old Polish term for the rope that monks wore around their waist, from Latin, from Greek, and ultimately from a Proto-Indoeuropean word meaning "intestine", and related to the English words cord, chord and yarn.

Real Estate / How much would it cost to build a house in Poland? [23]

@MajaKochaMuminka

If you have the money to build such a home, you can easily afford to pay a qualified architect to do a proper cost estimate.