Life / Is it possible to rent a mailing address in Poland? (to forward me a package to my address abroad) [7]

Hi Aleksander,

Try and talk to seller about paying him by BACS and arranging the collection, loads of well known companies will offer the service like that. I had to use it few times when I was living in UK.

dhl.co.uk/en/express/shipping/collection.html
tnt.com/collection/collectionInitial.do?navigation=1&respLang=en&respCountry=ag
ups.com/content/de/en/resources/ship/how_to/pickup/schedule.html

And I'm sure there is even more...

Have a good one!
Luke

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Hi Looker,

I can have home broadband, mobile is good as if there is no electricity I can still be online... but I have mobile already so as a second one home would be fine. Any recommendations? It's Chrzanow so I'm not sure if you can have anything better than 10mbs at the moment, download it's not so important at this time but I would need big upload - around 10mbs!

Cheers

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Thanks a lot Looker,

I must admit that I have never heard of them, but just contacted them in their chat... Thanks again...

Unfortunately SBL just get back to me saying they cannot provide their service - ouch...

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Thanks Looker once again.

If you would have a choice between Orange and Netia? Which of these two you would pick?

Real Estate / Buying property in Poland [41]

Braveheart16,

This is not true, you can buy any property in Poland the same way you can have Polish bank account. I know there is a problem if land you are buying is for agro use or it is a forest. Then you will require a special permission of MSWiA.

There is one little thing which you need to check - your pension as this is form of income and if you are in Poland for over 183 days within a year you are required to pay tax in Poland. I'm not quite sure if you still need to pay it if you have retired hence why this need to be verified. That would be the best sort of information: mswia.gov.pl

And to be safe it would be sensible to obtain the permission from MSWiA as you stated if something happen to your wife in future you don't want someone from her family taking your family house. I know that this is less likely to happen but we are in Poland where everything can happen.

Real Estate / Buying property in Poland [41]

Maybe you should share the name of that agency with others so more of us can be aware of it. Sometimes it's a lack of knowledge but more often this can be read as a clear sign of jealousy... Which town have you picked? We didn't had any problems buying in Chrzanow and this was few years ago, we bought house which looked like a tradegy with excellent land, went through all building permissions, bureaucracy, etc but was worth it. Maybe you can consider that sort of scenario.

Work / What would be a good salary for an MBA graduate in Poland? [27]

Hi KatowiceRelocat,
12K PLN per month is not much, that is around 8.5K PLN per month, as a single person you would be able to maintain a good life in Poland but with your other half it would be hard. I don't know your exact situation, do your employer is going to find accommodation for you? Would that be paid for as well? I believe renting itself will easily swallow about 2.5-3.5k per month, that should be with all house bills paid off, you have mentioned cars, here it will depends on what you want to do, renting won't be cheap, buying brand new car- depends of your taste but this can easily be 3-5K per month, you are better off buying a car for cash(if you are planning to be here 3-5years, with saving from that amount, no it won't be possible unfortunately, is your second half is also planning to have some job here?

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Hi Adam,

To be honest some circumstances has changed recently as one of my big contracts will be cancelled end of April so I would no longer need fast upload and static IP address. However we had a battle with Play, wrote loads of complaint letters (my wife did - so no credits for me), and we have discounted rates till end of the contract form 89.99 to 59.99, yes true, 100GB per month this is their unlimited limit ! Poland is an amazing country and ideas these people have are beyond the measure!!!

My suggestion is complaint, complaint, complaint, until you will get sick and tired, call them thieves, call them liars, end of the day you are right by doing that so...

The descent provider - tbh not such a thing in Poland, but the best out there is Orange, the cable one of course, stay away from LTE scam...

Are you using that purely for work - there is an option but this need to be a business lease - it's not cheap thought, you will be looking at around 300zlots per month through Orange, depends if you need static IP address and how many, the 300zlots option was a full with 10mb upload and 5x static IP addresses...

Any questions you may have just pm me as I rarely look at the forum these days...

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Hi Adam,

No worries, I just looked if there is any messages and seen your post here. I can tell you that this forum is extremely useful, it will help adopting within the country!

Have you considered buying a NAS box, it may help you keeping all of your media at one place. In regards to VPN I use Hotspot Shield and they are pretty good, not expensive at all, cannot recall how much I paid but it's extremely useful, you can browse through different countries and can watch+enjoy most of US TV as well as regular UK stuff!

Unfortunately I cannot protect this country from what you are saying, I'm here since July last year, sometimes I have this feeling that I need to pack all of my bags and just go... It's hard to find any professional here which is very worrying... I'm not saying there is no Polish professionals but the numbers are pretty low!

In regards to your remote work - be careful, one of my clients/partners decided to take advantage that I'm not there anymore so he is secretly bringing someone over to "replace" me, what he doesn't know yet is that acknowledged that fact already. If you can try to find more jobs which you can do, and try doing it now, create yourself a safety nest that way. Even if you spend more time on that now it will all pay off in future.

With play - fight with them, get your missus to write nice complaint and send it to them, don't waste your time on telephone, they are useless, keep all communication in writing...

Life / Best broadband supplier in Poland [19]

Not sure if UPC offers static IP, as far as I know only business account in orange offer that option