Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

House Hunting in ... Poland

nytimes.com/2010/02/10/greathomesanddestinations/10gh-househunting.html

A TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT IN LODZ'S CITY CENTER

910,000 POLISH ZLOTYS ($306,000)

This 130-square-meter (1,399-square-foot) apartment is on the second floor of a three-story tenement building built in 1923. Staircases and other portions of the indoor common areas are original and have been restored recently.

Poland shows signs of real estate recovery

For central and eastern Europe's crisis-hit property markets, the year could not have had a better start.

In the biggest regional property deal since 2007, MGPA, a real estate company backed by Australia's Macquarie Group, last month acquired two Polish shopping centres and took an option to buy a third for more than €235m ($341m).

For investors it is evidence of a recovery that began late last year, following a revival in west European prime commercial property and gains in global financial markets.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Russia orders halt to Tu-154B flights

cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/02/russia-plane-fire.html

Russian transport officials ordered the country's airlines on Sunday to stop using Tu-154B aircraft while they try to determine why one of the planes caught fire on a Siberian runway, killing three people.

Tupolev Tu-154 - Incidents and accidents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

You know what would be an interesting experiment if Poles on this forum living in Poland lived in another country in the EU or outside the EU for at least a year to get a perspective from the OUTSIDE! Sometimes you become none impartial and blinded by your own thoughts and responses. If anyone on this thread thinks that Poland did not benefit from joining the EU needs to give their head a shack. I see and hear and watch the political gaf’s coming from the government figures and it amazes me they are in power. Mind this happens everywhere but not to the same extent as it would seem from Poland. The problem I see if the people trying to make the changes still think like it was 30 years ago and we all know it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. YES they have the right idea and everyone would admit that Poland and Poles try there hardest at everything they do and will not give up without a fight. Poland needs young people in politics with fresh ideas and energy that is not spun by thinking constantly in the past. The part which is so frustrating and down right annoying is reading the stubbornness on some of the topics in this post, reminds me of this thread….

The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?)
The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?)

and for all those who like to play the statistics games, please back it up with an actual government site, respected news outlet, Wiki article (which was not created yesterday), something. You know they say 60% of statistics are made up on the spot ….