Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]


I have greatly exaggerated the tax - it is 2 per cent of the value of a flat (property) when buying

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


'ćma' is 'ciemność' in Kurpie dialect just as Lyzko stated (my guess is it is the same in North Masovian dialects)

Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]

yes, you can - there is no council tax in Poland on flats you only pay rent (council tax is already paid in rent) - there is a onetime tax payment when buying a flat (it's about 20 per cent value of the flat)

real-estate-poland.maxon.pl

oh wait - now I am not sure - I know for sure that EU nationals are allowed to buy flats in Poland just as Poles but I am not sure about non-EU nationals

but you can surely rent a flat - it does not matter if you live there or not

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


you are completely wrong - they would have been out of business already if they went around and slandered people

UK, Ireland / Polish cities and their UK twins [34]

even though Edinburgh lacks Nowa Huta :P

UK, Ireland / Polish cities and their UK twins [34]

Katowice is a city of coal

Opole will be Leicester ;)

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

bagged milk was a nightmare :) but at least it was unpasteurised unlike the milk we buy now in cartons - fresh milk in glass always the best

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


zakluczyć is not even colloquial - must be some kind of local neologism - I haven't heard zakluczyć where I live - but I am aware that Russian has 'zakliuczit''

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


travel in time is impossible - and capitalism is not much better than communism - workers share little in the profits of their companies - this system will collapse eventually

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


oh, please - can't you remember the atmosphere at school where noone was better than his pals - there was little violence in schools - look what is going on in schools now with violence even against the teachers - look at the situation where some children go hungry to schools and the segregation it produces when giving out meals in school cantines

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


yes they were bought,, i don't if there were market prices for flats but you needed to save for a flat which most working couples could afford (waiting for a flat was another thing though and it sometimes laster for a good couple of years - it depended on lots of things - in our case (we got a flat from local Housing Cooperative (Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa)) there was no bribery involved - we received a flat in 1981) - lot's of things were better under communism - like safety on the streets (much less crime) - safety of jobs


but the housing system worked somehow, new flats were built - I was seeing it with my own eyes

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


enkidu oversimplifies things - and there was free market of used things - we bought an old Fiat 126p for the money we have earned growing strawberries (which is a lot of hard work) - there was a lot of free market in Poland actually for a communist country: like ice cream shops, florists, private bars etc. there were private car mechanics too, lot's of private services.

Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]


hehe this one's good :)

robiła babcia na drutach, przejechał tramwaj i spadła ;)

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


tuberculosis is not much affected by pollution from what I can gather - and there are anti tb jabs in Poland

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

what about your rent pawian, or the council tax??

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


the real thing that is a true menace is not some still elusive crisis but very real inflation which is two digit for poor people - the whole method of calculating in Poland is screwed and does not reflect the true inflation (especially the food prices) - we are constantly paying more for lower quality products

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

berni ask yourself where do you put Czechs, Slovaks and especially Sorbians (I guess you know who Sorbians are) - are they Eastern Europeans or something else

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


East Prussia is no longer Germany jon :P

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


jon - is Germany central or western Europe ?

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]


this is being oversensitive - and it implies that Eastern Europeans are somehow inferior

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]


if Rzeczpospolita was an independent daily and not government's cronie's possession it would have been just an article and no shot in the foot

News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]

you have definitely misunderstood Varsovian - explosives on the plane and TNT on the wreckage can be two different things

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


Chałupowski with Ch pronounced like 'H' and ł (pronounced as 'w')

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


maybe you are right - but to me it is perfectly clear that our monarchs have lead to the disasters that befell Poland

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

the whole idea that we had to have kings was a bad idea - Saxon dynasty in Poland was one huge mistake - and Leszczyński kingship was good - why they didn't come up with a president-like figure for government serving terms and not lifelong rule is beyond me? - many follies of our so called kings could have been avoided this way

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

Dembińska is a place-name derived surname - the place name is probably Dembiny or Dembina which is a non-standard form of 'dębina'/'dębiny'

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

don't say Sigismund Vasa didn't have ambitions in relation to the Russian throne and that the Swedish-Russian alliance was due to the dynastic policies of the mentioned Sigismund Vasa (regaining the control of the Swedish crown)

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


it was the Sigismund Vasa policy making - he wanted to plant his son a tsar of Russia we have paid dearly for his ambition because the offensive wars with Muscovy created hatred among the Russian population against Poles

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

Potop one of the best military films in history

History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]


no pawian, it was only pospolite ruszenie - these were not experienced soldiers - and their leaders betrayed Poland