Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]


Try The Sheraton if you have a decent CV, website is here: sheraton.pl/poznan/

Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]

You would think that they would just design them with a screw in each corner. Apparently they don't do this because it doesn't look nice but if you ask me it would look a lot nicer than it does with them all hanging out the walls!!

The guy who does all the odd jobs in the block where we used to live said that half his time was spent putting plug sockets back in walls only to have to go and do the same thing a couple of weeks later! Doesn't make any sense to me maybe someone can enlighten me?

News / New road taxes in Poland? [13]

Yeah I think that's exactly what it's to do with. I currently have a load of stuff being delayed because of this and I'm sure a nice extra sum on the shipping companies bill! Any idea how much this tax is or why they have done it?

Travel / Off to Poznan in July - what the beer prices are like? [24]

@ Harry the place you call the k-hole is a bit crap now not so popular I don't remember the address though

@ Maxim this place will show the boxing for sure inyourpocket.com/poland/poznan/bars-pubs-clubs/barspubs/Kri ek-Belgian-Pub-and-Cafe_56244v you should phone and reserve a table in advance though as it is small and gets busy the owner speaks English so you shouldn't have any problems. I will be watching the fight in there myself.

Travel / Off to Poznan in July - what the beer prices are like? [24]

Beer is between 7zl and 9zl in most places.

As you are coming in the Summer your best bet is find the main square where there are loads of pubs with gardens, most of them are good for sitting outside. Two pubs you should visit are Dragon it is on Ul. Zamkowa 5 and Meskalina on Stary Rynek 6. With the two I have mentioned you are better off heading there later (around midnight)

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

No, did I say you were?

Just out of interest how much are you hoping/claiming the property prices are going to fall within the next few years? And do you think you will be able to afford to buy when they hit this level that only you seem to believe in? Have you ever owned property anywhere?

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


You my son are living in a dream world! I have read your tosh on this forum for so long now you are like a broken record and not one thing you have predicted has ever come true. In ten years time you will still be claiming that there is this big bubble and you still won't own a property, sorry to say but you are really boring mate.

Work / I am currently 75% through an on line TEFL course & moving to Krakow [35]

No probs, I know that one of the Irish bars had a foreign chef at some stage so maybe you might have some luck.

I wasn't trying to be really negative about the teaching thing I just know it's hard nowadays, if you are coming in August you are coming at a good time because alot of schools will still be recruiting then for the coming term. The sooner you can get here and start walking into these schools the better, the Poles are not good at responding to emails and also everyone is very easy to forget via email!

I sell some English products and if we have a chat providing you don't turn out to be some sort of idiot! I would be happy to send you some stock on a sale or return basis and if you are inventive enough you wouldn't even need to rent a premises to sell these products

Work / I am currently 75% through an on line TEFL course & moving to Krakow [35]

Yeah you are right there are start up costs and whenever you open a business you have to expect that there can be some losses at the start. I have my own business here in Poznan and I started with hardly any money so I know it is possible. If you want to have a chat about stuff you can pm me your number or skype username and I would happy to go through some ideas with you.

In regards to the whole teaching thing it is a declining market and in somewhere like Krakow it is also a saturated market. Also if you want to try and get into it I would say emailing a school is a waste of time you will struggle to get any reply yet alone a positive one you really need to be here on the ground getting in these peoples faces. Do you have money to tide you over for six or so months while you are here looking for work? No one here has mentioned that there are a couple of irish owned pubs here one is called the Irish mbassy and they serve food, you mentioned you were a chef so maybe thats worth a shot?

Work / I am currently 75% through an on line TEFL course & moving to Krakow [35]

You are right you need an original idea. It doesn't have to cost a fortune to set up a small business and it could be your best bet in the long run. I don't know krakow to well but just for example what about opening an all things English/Irish shop there must be enough expats and tourists in krakow for something like this to work.

Work / I am currently 75% through an on line TEFL course & moving to Krakow [35]

Have you not thought about opening your own business over here?

Polonia / SHIPPING HOUSE CONTENTS: from Poland to Moscow. Suggest a company? [17]

Good point Grubas, forgot to factor that into my calculations!!

Polonia / SHIPPING HOUSE CONTENTS: from Poland to Moscow. Suggest a company? [17]


By the time you pay for your flights as well that is going to be about 7500zl I would be surprised if that would not be enough to get someone from Poland to do it. Don't look at removal companies look at independent guys with vans there are loads of them here on gumtree

poznan.gumtree.pl/f-Firmy-Uslugi-taxi-transport-na-lotniska-przewozy-osob-W0QQCatIdZ9147

Law / ALLEGRO fees - I can't find them anywhere. How much it costs to sell something on ALLEGRO? [8]

I sell thousands of items each month on Allegro so if you tell me what you are trying to sell and how you are listing it i.e buy it now or auction then I can give you some figures

I guess if they are new items you will be selling them on buy it now, roughly the listing fees for each items will be about 2-3 zloty (this may be more if you put lots of photos and choose to promote your item.) Just try listing one item and before you hit the button to confirm the listing it will tell you exactly how much it will cost you. One thing you may want to consider is that if you are planning on selling lots of items it would be in your interest to open an Allegro store. It makes listing a lot cheaper, for example the items I sell without an Allegro store it costs 30gr per item to list with an Allegro store it costs 5gr so it's a big difference

Law / ALLEGRO fees - I can't find them anywhere. How much it costs to sell something on ALLEGRO? [8]

Yes they will take some money if you sell your item expect to lose about 7% of your sale price. If your item doesn't sell they will just charge you the listing fee. This fee is different depending on how you list your item and what it is. If you let me know what you're trying to sell I can give you some figures

Work / Moving to Poland: is 100 000 PLN good for a start? [12]

To try and answer the op's original question then yes 100k would be a good start even if you used half of it to keep you afloat for the first year (just over 4k a month is more than enough to live ok for that period.) It would still leave you 50k to set up a small business, finding a viable idea would be the challenge but it is possible.

If you are a native speaker of Arabic with a degree in English lit then it is possible you could get a job at a local uni teaching Arabic.

I can't believe that half this thread has gone and half my post has been changed by a mod. The amount of Racist s**t on this forum that doesn't get removed is beyond a joke and yet me simply saying that this forum can be quite negative is worthy of being edited? It's an absolute joke.

your post was not changed. other than the off topic part being removed.

the content of all the other removed posts was also off topic.

Life / Water from wells in Warsaw - Safe to drink? [24]


Rubbish I've been drinking the stuff for six years and never had any problems

Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]


That's not true, it takes between 0-4 days

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

isthatu2

Not sure what point you are trying to make here but BBC prime doesn't exist anymore. Just to clear something up YOU pay your tv license so YOU can watch tv not so people in Poland can watch it! Strange post, oh well it takes all sorts!

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

You should try filmon.com it costs 10 euro a month but you get real time streams for most UK channels including bbc1, 2 itv1, 2, 3 c4 e4 more 4 five fiver and a load more.

I have been using this for about five months now and the stream is always perfect never any problems and 10 euro is not much.

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


Fair play!!

Law / Any good business ideas - what Poland needs? [114]


You could start selling them in Poland, almost every pound shop sells them back home I'm guessing when buying in bulk unit cost would be about 40p

Life / What's up with the trains in Poland (the whole system in complete chaos?) [25]


Now I know you are still drunk from last night!!

Life / All Saints' Day in Poland - Commemoration or Carnival? [44]


I don't think it is a celebration, more a day of reflection and remembering those we have lost. There are a lot of traditions and values in this country that Polish people are and should be proud of and just maybe if we had some of these in the UK the country wouldn't be in the state it's in now.

Life / Picking up BBC television in Poland [41]

Does anyone have any good links for watching English TV at the moment?

Thanks in advance!

Life / My own thoughts about life in Poland (have lived here for two years) [133]


You've hit the nail on the head there! Every Polish person I know has a whole cupboard full of medicine. I will never forget an ex flatmate of mine who produced a large suitcase full of medicine when I complained of a sore throat!

If you want to get rich in this country open an Apteka!

Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]


We were talking about renting not people who own and how many couples who earn 4000zł per month qualify for social housing?


Nowadays probably wouldn't find them full stop :)


Personally if you are talking about a two person income I would even say a bit more, I live in Poznań and I can't imagine it is any cheaper than Krakow.


And how long ago did they buy this land and build the house? You can't honestly tell me that now on a combined income of 1800zł per month that they could do this?

Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]


Please post some links for flats like this. I bet if they do exist it will be a minimum of 1200zł plus administration fee of about 300zł plus bills which will bring it up to somewhere around 2000zł per month :)

Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]


Ok so now I understand you are talking about renting a 1 or maximum 2 room flat (probably horrible.) So you would have 4 people sleeping in the living room/bedroom, maybe people like this should think a bit before having kids.

Edit: I don't mean any offence by this and I'm not trying to be narky I just think that these figures you are throwing around are ridiculous. 750pln for a flat anywhere in Krakow is not going to be suitable for a family of 4 :)