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Last Post: 16 Feb 2014
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16 Feb 2014
Work / Is 6500PLN/month enough for 2 people from India to live on in Wroclaw? [40]

It may be a good idea for her to occupy her time taking courses at the Wrocław Institute of Technology.

Studying is the most sensible of options for your wife, the obvious thing to study would be Polish. If your wife were to enrol in a Polish language course, aside from the obvious of learning the language, it would introduce her to other expats and would help create a social circle outside of just your work place, which would be healthy for both of you.

en.polish-world.pl

Just as an example and the first hit on google. The link is above.
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12 Feb 2014
Work / Is 6500PLN/month enough for 2 people from India to live on in Wroclaw? [40]

4500zl netto

Apartment from 1000-2000zl pcm depending on location
Bills including ground rent anything from 400-1000zl pcm
Food for 2 people 800-1200zl a month depending on what you buy and where you shop

Travel. How are you going to commute to work?
Do you intend to run a car?

Clothes.
Entertainment.
Savings.
Medical treatment.

These all clock up the money.

For two people a comfortable life in Poland IMO costs around minimum around 8000zl netto a month.
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11 Feb 2014
Law / No residency permit or PESEL number - worried that I'm here illegally [15]

everything is normal except that I don't have a residency permit or PESEL number or anything of that nature.

um...that sounds like standard normal practise, the no-one giving you a definitive answer, that is normal..... it's Poland....

If you are an EU national then I wouldn't worry, if not, well that is a different matter.
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28 Jan 2014
Law / Value ( € or PLN) of handmade painting on clothes [10]

How long does it take to make ?
How much are the material costs?
How much will your distribution cost be?
Are you selling online, from a shop or both?
Who are your target market?

A t-shirt that was hand painted in the UK you would charge anything from £50 to the skys the limit, depending on location and you costs.

I have seen a pair of converse hand painted by Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) and they were on sale for £2500!
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27 Jan 2014
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

It could be argued that the Judeo-christian tradition is an epiphenomenon in Western civilisation, not it's base.
I would argue the primary causality was and is and ever will be the weather.
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27 Jan 2014
Life / Public Masturbation now allowed in Sweden, Would this work in Poland? [43]

I remember years ago when my wife and I were on the SouthBank in London one evening and as were returning towards Waterloo Station an IC3 male was standing in a bush furiously w@nking with his T shirt held up under his chin. At the time both of us thought we were hallucinating and were in total disbelief at what we had witnessed and just carried on walking.
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16 Jan 2014
Law / What do I as a foreigner need to know before setting up a business in Poland? [16]

Location, location, location. If you are going to open a Moroccan cafe you need to be in right place.

There is an Indian restaurant/bar/club in Gdynia near the beach.
plus.google.com/109404917972990768538/about?hl=en
Please note I don't mean to be crass by drawing a comparison between Indian and Moroccan cafes, rather since they are exotic to Poles, my point is they need to be in a location which would be sympathetic to something outside the norm. i.e a cosmopolitan area.

If you are looking for other investors or partners it might be worth approaching smaller hotels and look to partner in their restaurant business.

Secondly, having visited Marrakech and absolutely loved it, my wife went crazy for the scarfs, jewellery, pots, pans ornaments, not to mention carpets. If you have solid trade contacts in your home country importing such goods it would in my opinion be a winner.

Selling such goods on allegro as well.

A Moroccan restaurant, which also sold traditional pottery, carpets, jewellery and scarfs, an Aladdin's cave of treasures, now that might work.
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12 Jan 2014
Australia / Australian citizen wanting to go to Poland for as long as possible - needs Polish Visa [49]

Cold call sales/marketing or low-level collections in a call-center. A truly lousy job that pays too little to survive on. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I second that.

olish women are notoriously mercenary, and have little cash registers in their heads that keep a running tally at all times. They will know exactly to the penny where you stand

This is very true, however, it can be used to your advantage if you are smart.

Polish girls and "in-laws" are fine as long as you are bringing in plenty of cash, or at least enough cash to stay safely in the black. Once you dip into the red, the love withers and the hospitality dries up.

I don't think that it is a purely Polish phenomena, I think it is more a universal rule.
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11 Jan 2014
UK, Ireland / How has Polish immigration into the UK helped Poland? [48]

From my personal experience I have many Polish friends that have worked and continue to work in the UK and who have bought properties, land and businesses back in Poland. I think the remittance factor is huge, the knock on effect has improved the standards of living for a huge number of Polish people. Those Poles who have sort work in factories or in agriculture, who earn the minimum wage are still able to send money home. £200 sterling can make a huge difference a month to a poor family or elderly parents on a state pension. At the other end of the spectrum professional Polish people in IT, Banking etc in the UK are able to help finance property and businesses for friends and family back home. This all goes along way to explain the big BMWs and Mercs and large properties and luxury flats that have sprung from nowhere over the last 10 years.
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10 Jan 2014
Work / Teaching English in Poland? I am American and I have the CELTA certification. [42]

When I taught English in Poland on average I cleared 3500zl a month in the hand for 25 hrs a week at school, working in the evenings and 2000zl a month as a part time Business Development manager work for a local Polish company for 20hrs a week.

So every month I had 5500zl, my wife earned around 4000zl a month teaching (she had more hours) and no mortgage nor rent.

Having said that, I defected back to the UK because I became so incensed with the idiocy I had to deal with at both the language school and the other firm. I returned to my previous profession back in the UK. Now, however, I am returning to Poland on a part-time basis because I will be living half the month in Poland and half the month in the UK working. It is a perfect balance. The beauty of this is that my wife no longer has to work and can concentrate on being a yummy mummy and I only have to work for 6 months in the year.

@OP go for it and good luck, but be warned the EFL trade is a cowboy business riddled with charlatans and foreign chancers.
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7 Jan 2014
UK, Ireland / How has Polish immigration into the UK helped Poland? [48]

What have been the benefits to Poland of the mass emigration to the UK and EU?

1) Reduced unemployment in Poland, thus reducing the number of benefits the Polish government has to pay.
2) Remittance of wages earn't abroad, this has boosted the consumer economy in Poland, thus creating more jobs as a result in Poland.
3) With so many young Poles travelling across Europe, this has raised the young peoples awareness of other cultures and languages.

What other positive benefits can people think of for Poland?

And what negative benefits have there been for Poland?

1) A brain drain many of the brightest and best have left Poland, has this resulted in skill shortages in Poland?
2) The division of families across borders.

This post is NOT about the positives or negatives of Polish immigration into the UK, it is a post about the positives or negative for Poland.
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30 Dec 2013
Work / Going rates for Staff, housekeeper, nanny, driver, gardener in Poland? [4]

Would like to ask, (I'm not trolling). What people think the going rates for the following jobs( in Poland).

1) Housekeeper 35 hr week
2) Nanny 40 hr week
3) Chauffeur 50 hr week
4) Gardener 15 week

Also would people, pay cash in hand or would it be more sensible to open a company and employ the staff as employees, i.e paying zus etc.

I am trying to collate the info.
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25 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Almost 100% guaranteed is that alcohol played a part. Sadly people get stabbed at house parties all the time all over the world. Que sera sera
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22 Dec 2013
Study / How difficult is to be accepted as an international Undergraduate student in University of Warsaw? [6]

I assume the majority of foreign student who choose Poland do so out of economic society. The foreign students in the UK, comprise of wealthy Russians and Chinese. Same goes for other European countries cost of living.

1000 Brazilian real gets about £250 Sterling
1000 Brazilian Real gets about 1270 Zloty

Conclusion 1270 Zloty in Poland goes further than £250 in the UK. So if you are a foreign student on a tight budget, Poland is the cheapest European country to study in.
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21 Dec 2013
Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]

Also, the person whom I stabbed and I got back together after I stabbed him.

that's alright then.......

Listen Uglywoman, 1) Don't call yourself Uglywoman, you need to love yourself first before you can love another
2) All this violence, stabbing etc... violence is ugly.
3) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
4) Stop chasing after the man, if the man is being chased, it is because he wants to get away
Maybe   
21 Dec 2013
News / Poland, The Starbucks report. [42]

slideshare.net/kels/poland-report

This links to a report compiled by business analysts on Poland. a few years out of date but never the less, for the hardcore Polish forum members who like to stay well informed here it is.

This report is massive and covers huge amounts of research and data relating to Poland, a great student resource.
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21 Dec 2013
Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]

F*ck, I thought you were being sarcastic, which makes me the as5hole... and you must be American. <sigh> I'm going to crawl back under my stone now....
Maybe   
21 Dec 2013
Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]

How about, are you smart? Funny? Interesting? Talented? Ambitious? Creative?

The OP answers this in her only other post, I Quote

"The other day when I was applying a Dior foundation that I had just purchased, I realised that the colour was too light for me. I had asked the sales associate to get the right colour for my skin.

Therefore, I went to the mall today and asked if I can exchange it and gave her my receipt. However, she said that I cannot exchange it since it was already open.

I was annoyed about it because the salesperson made a mistake about the colour. In fact, when I lived in England, once I bought a blusher from Dior and later realised that it was too light. I had been using it for 2 weeks but I brought it back to the store and the salesperson immediately exchanged it and he was very polite about it as well.

So after asking to speak to the manager but she said no, I exchanged my foundation with one of the tester foundations in the display that was the right colour. It was pretty much full. No one saw me and the security guard certainly did not notice. I feel that I did nothing wrong because I paid for the foundation.


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20 Dec 2013
News / The EU's plans for Poland. [10]

Well Fracking seems to be on the agenda, although the progress seems very stop start at the moment.