Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

RE: "It's very expensive country. Flat. Windy. Boring nature (in comparison to Poland). Would not live there for any reason (I had a chance) Sorry"

Hmm that is a strange reply.
Australia is not at all expensive, in comparison to most western countries it is cheap. For example it is less expensive in Australia than Most mainland European cities, it is cheaper than the US and it is cheaper than Scandinavia and the UK..

You are right it is flat and if you wanted to come to Australia for mountains you would be disappointed. It is not an overly windy country though.. I am not sure where you ended up here or what was going on when you were in Australia, but that is wrong.

In what way is the "nature boring" Do you mean the landscape etc? That again is strange as Australia has more native species that most other countries due to it being such a large island. You can also go from countryside to rain forest to surf beaches in the space of 45 minutes.

Prefer a desert? Yeah they have those as well.

In regards to these questions from the original poster.

How much do I have to spend on food every week?
Do you want to live in the city and if so the biggest city or are you happy to be out of the city?

In Melbourne my last house was $260 for a 3 bedroom, two-story townhouse. The average wage in Australia would be somewhere around the 50,000-60,000 mark for an office worker. Specialists in accounting/IT etc would be looking at between 80-150k. A labourer that is unskilled would earn maybe 40-45k per year on average.

In the area I am now living houses rent from around 170-300 depending on the house you are after. A unit would be around 100-120 per week.

Food. It might be easier to list the price of a few things. It assumes the person is shopping smart, not buying everything in a 24-hour convenience store.

2lt Milk 3.20
24 slice cheese 4.50
bread 2.00
Margarine - 1.50
600ml coca-cola 3.00
ham - 10-12 per kilo
eggs - $3 per dozen
cigarettes are a lot dearer (say $10 for 20) as they have heavy taxes imposed
Fuel is about 1.15 per litre at the moment

Eating Out - Breakfast/Lunch Cafe
Cafe latte - 3.00
Toasted cheese/ham sandwich $5-6
eggs/toast/coffee $10
Fruit Salad - $5-7
Lasagne & Salad - $10

Eating Out - Dinner
Pasta - $13
Rice Dishes (ie Risotto) - $13
Pizza - $13 for largest size
Fish/Steak (at medium restarant) - $25-30
Chicken Parmigiana - $15-17

Obviously that is not comprehensive but it gives you an idea of the approximates.

How much can I earn each week in normal job. How much will I pay for house?
To make my decision I need to know everything about it.
Second place where I can go is Canada. We got 21st century. The world is open and I want to use it. I don't want to spend all my life in one country.

Places I think about are Sydney, Perth or Alice Springs. I'm not sure.

Tak to wyglada.

Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

I think you will find that Sean was being facetious. Australia used to be a penal colony.

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]

Just on the steak comments at the start...

I will take an Australian steak over anywhere in Europe, but in particular a lot of the food in England was absolutely awful, no offense to the English or anything, they like that food and I had a great time in that country, met fantastic people etc.. The food and the beer however was just something I could not stand.

In regards to what I would take from this country.. hmm it is tough, but in a strange way nothing.. the good and not so good things about places are what makes traveling so much fun imo.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]

When I was in Krakow the guy who owned the hostel told us that he hates having English people there. He also told us that as long as we do not act like English guys on a party weekend that we would have a wonderful time... he was right, we did.

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


Is this really the case? If so I am quite surprised. I would have suspected that the generation X, the kids born in the 70's would have been the people at the forefront of change, that living through the transition during their formative years and now be 30-40 year olds that they would have led a totally different direction.

I was discussing this very topic with a Polish friend the other day and I asked what they thought about the legacy, how long until it becomes a distant memory? He has been gone many years now, but thought in many ways it would be rooted out of society already and I tended to agree that this seemed a logical likelihood.

If it is still so deeply rooted, when does it become a memory? When does it just become something that is taught as school but is distant from reality for any person? I was actually bemoaning that it would get to a stage where it would soon enough be hard to find people to recall the state of affairs when the country was under the stiff arm of the Soviets (not for a second am I suggesting that it should ever have been or that I wished it was longer). Just that it would be interesting to speak with people from that era about how the era actually was. That is one of my main interests in all of the former Eastern Bloc countries... How was life truly during the years after WWII and up until the break from communism and even the 5 years directly after that.

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [339]

This is the best thread that I have read on any forum anywhere. Only ruined by the ridiculousness of Constantine. I am not sure why his posts were not just deleted and the thread left to run its course.

You have done a sensational job Powian. I know a fair amount about this time, but there is a lot of information in there that I did not know and it has left me looking up links, chasing up things to read up on later etc.

two thumbs up on an exceptional thread!!

Life / Are foreigners welcome in Poland? [267]

I loved Poland, hence there reason I am still so very interested and why I will continue to be interested. No we had an interesting encounter with an absolutely massive bloke there who lets say appeared to be "connected".

At first he wanted to kill us just because we were sitting near his friend, then he realised we were Australian and had not been involved in any of the happening.

Invited us to come out to a club (despite us being dressed out in nothing but t-shirts and tracksuit pants :P) and even though we go way to drunk, was extremely tolerant and a fantastic host.

Every single person I met in Poland was friendly, from the person trying to show some idiot (me) where the bus out to the Salt Mines was, to the waitress that brought us pizza and tomato sauce (wtf is that about???), to the guy at the internet cafe etc etc.

I hear stories like a couple of stories in here and that is so terribly disappointing. No doubt at all and if they had happened to me the chances are that I would not have ever gone back, but I can only go on what I seen and I am dying to get the time off to go back again.

Classifieds / Asian community in Poland [113]


That is not actually true Pawel, there are still far more anglo/europeans in Australia than asians. I happen to agree that there is probably too much immigration here, but your comments are not actually accurate.

[quote=Learner]Also, poles are immigrants in many parts of the world, and would definately loved to be seen and treated equally and with respect[quote]Why is that relevant? If your family has lived in an area for 150-200 years and have contributed to making it a fantastic place, then they are the real "Australians/American" etc. The aborigines of Australia were here first, the Indian in America were the first there, that does not however lessen the fact that the country as it is now known was build by the settlers and those that come after then.

Afghan has no idea at all. He starts off with Australia is a shithole. I am biased, I am an Australian.. however... Australia is a fantastic place, it is a place where hard work is rewarded, be that hard work in an office or out on the land. It is a friendly place where people would rather help than hinder. I have been living in my latest address for 12 months, within the first month everyone had stopped and said hello. Education is free until Uni and then subsidised, medical is free to those who cannot afford it, same with dental. A single mother has a kid who needs braces... no worries. An old person has nowhere to live or no one to look after them.. no worries. Now not all Australians are great or even good, but it constantly ranks very high in regards to standard of living polls and has for many many years, there is a good reason for that.

By all means Afghan bag the place... but I wonder why it is that there are so many people that immigrate to Australia and not away from it?? hmm... must be a desperate horrible place to live.. I would much rather you keep that thought and stay the hell away.

rant over..

Language / NAMES POLES GIVE THEIR DOGS [76]

Of course it is not Polish.. but my first dog growing up was..
brown dog :P

Language / NAMES POLES GIVE THEIR DOGS [76]

Yes I think we must have.. We probably got the whiteboard out and had a phone-conference with the cousins and all... or one of us kids who were about 2-3 probably just started calling it that and it stuck..... not sure which is the more likely scenario.

Life / What's the best Polish radio station? [36]

Merged: Popular Polish Radio

Hi
My girlfriends mother is in the country and I am taking her for a drive tomorrow whilst my girlfriend runs a marathon.
Unfortunately I don't speak any conversational Polish still and she doesn't understand any English.
I would like to try and make the drive as comfortable as possible for her, so I was thinking of putting some Polish Radio on in the car and I was wondering if I could get 3-4 popular radio stations for say the 50-60 year age group with music a bit of news etc.

I will look to connect to it via Tunein Radio.

I have so far connected a couple in
RMF FM
Radio ZET

I don't know if they are appropriate or not?
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated

Dziękuję

Life / What's the best Polish radio station? [36]

Thank you very much
I went with the two I had as I was running short and she loved them, I had to explain that no it wasn't on the radio in Australia, but through the phone and bluetooth,but it was really great

I am going to add the other stations suggested here for later.

Thank you so very much!