Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

I am looking at building a web based application at the moment. A friend and I have been working on it and well it is still a long way to go, but.. once it is complete if it takes off we will be looking at multi-lingual support as well as general upkeep.

I am wondering how much we would be looking at spending to get 'work from home' resources in Poland, so there would be no office only programming from your own home.

Technical resources with skills in PHP/javascript/programming flash & mysql etc as well as web security. Graduate type people would not be appropriate.

So for example if we were to look at hiring someone for 20-40 hours per week, how much would it cost approximately? (I would prefer to get a rough estimation of what the "hourly" costs are)

We are looking at a number of countries to compare prices, though price is not the only issue, quality of work is far more important. The costs in Australia are far too high and we would not want to do full support ourselves the whole time.

Please remember this is just high level stuff, we are not actually looking to employ anyone just at this moment, just to get a feel for the marked

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.

Travel / Recommendations for Krakow and Myślenice [80]

Yeah the camera sucked, insured.. but it is the contents that are a pain of course.. but that happens.

Btw I told my friend we would be riding to Myślenice, they were not very impressed, but I am hopeful they will do it in the end :)

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

Some of these meals look fantastic, I do have one question though and forgive me if it sounds like a ridiculous one, but I have not looked deeply into the cuisine.

How easy is it to get good Polish meals all over the countryside and avoid cabbage/sauerkraut and beetroot? I am not really interested in just going the pizza/kransky route as I can do that well enough here.

Also are there nuts used in many things? Just something I need to avoid because of an allergy.

Love / Nice Polish women photos [329]

I must say that the most beautiful women I even seen was a Polish girl. I usually prefer brunette women to blondes personally, but when i was at the Krakow airport about 3 or 4 years ago I seen the only women that has ever literally made me stop in my tracks, indescribably beautiful and "just a normal girl".

As for beautiful women in general, really they are everywhere. I have never been to a place where there are no beautiful women yet. Usually though you find better looking women in the streets than you do on the television set I think.

Travel / Recommendations for Krakow and Myślenice [80]

I absolutely loved reading through this, you have done a brilliant job Sean and I cannot wait to get back over there.

The bicycle ride to Myślenice is exactly the type of thing that I would love to do as well.
Also need to go back to the Salt mines because we had our camera stolen in Amsterdam and it had most of our Polish pictures still in the camera.:(

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]


Whilst that is a far stretch, I reckon a large portion of people are still ignorant as to what life was like and communist rule and I think and even larger % forget that 20 years has passed.

There is of course another % of people who really just have no clue and a reasonable amount of these tend to be Americans. I am not anti-American, I think the reason for this is that they probably have the highest number of tourists in the world, with 300 million people, there are going to be some real dumb ***** with enough money to travel. I am sure this is not the majority of the population by any means. I also get the impression that studying international cultures is not high on the agenda in the US and so some people are gullible to believe any wives tale. I know of Americans thinking we ride kangaroos to school in Australia as well.

I hope I did not offend all the US people on this site, was not my intention at all.

Language / Polish Lessons Units [189]

I have gone through all of these in the last two days and loved doing so. This is a wonderful piece of work that Janusz has put together.

Australia / Thinking about moving to Australia [39]

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

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.