News / Damien Perquis Football player granted Polish citizenship insulted by the PIS ? [30]


Exept when Gazeta Wyborzca and main Polish French and German newspapers write about this...

Tomaszewski also insulted another player E Polanski who is Polish but raised in Germany.

Anyway the PIS will not win the elections in my opinion but the damages on Poland ' s image are big.

News / Damien Perquis Football player granted Polish citizenship insulted by the PIS ? [30]


No sorry i would have done without this Polish guy on the political scene insulting someone who got Polish citizenship just because he had Polish roots and was not born in Poland and who did the same against someone who was born in Poland and raised in Germany.

I don't prefer at all people like that to speak their minds and express their hate and hostility for no reason, i would prefer them to shut up . They are an embarrassment for Poland. As for Kaczyński spitting on this football player he is just lucky he did not do that with Zinedine Zidane!

Real Estate / Cost to build in Eastern Poland - Ideally per m2 [71]

Honestly Teflcat now after so many years of endeavours in builing your own house in Poland and eventually achievement and with your experience, i think you could offer your services as a consultant for Englisih speaking foreigners who want to build a proper house in Poland.


You should consider it because i am sure you would get a lot of clients.

News / Damien Perquis Football player granted Polish citizenship insulted by the PIS ? [30]

Well if you had said that Jean Marie Le Pen burnt a Polish woman alive because she was not French i would have believed you too! Lol

News / Has there been an influx of Polish people into Germany? [21]


And so what? Are these older people bothering you? and if they live in the UK with their working Polish families it means that they also spend money in the UK in British supermarkets buying their wodka but also food etc.

Some old Poles are drinking wodka on British benches and some English young men are also just drinking wodka in Polish bars and pubs in Poland!

C'est la Vie!

Real Estate / Cost to build in Eastern Poland - Ideally per m2 [71]


You said that you sacrificed your holiday for 6 years but never mentionned having gone through" a nightmare."
What were the problems you had to go through ?

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [441]

None of my Polish friends are racist antisemitic homophobic because they are well educated, love meeting other cultures and beyond all they are good human beeings.

As for the stereotype of Poles beeing anti semitic just read the magnificent novel from Daniel Mendelsohn called"the Lost"(Zagubieni. W poszukiwaniu sześciorga spośród) and remember that the majority of the Righteous among the Nations in Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem were Poles.

I think that racism takes place when ignorance is fuelled by hard economic times and that we blame the others for everything bad happening to us, we look for the usual suspects the usual scapegoats. let's hope that History will not repeat itself.

News / Has there been an influx of Polish people into Germany? [21]


Yes absolutely, it is the story of the Ant and the Grasshoper.


Given the Polish growth maybe it will happen one day ! We ll see the Polish workers behaving like primadonas and wealthy enough not to want to do the dirty jobs, you might be among the 1 million low payed working class brits happy to find work in Poland! Lol

Food / Orange Roughy in Krakow? [9]

Well to be honest with you , Krakow is not the place for Fish,it is too far from the Ocean.
When you are asking" is it popular in Europe"?Europe is Big And Diverse! Germany is Germany Spain is Spain Norway is Nrway Poland is Poland and we are all different and don't know what everybody eats or like.

Poland does not have a huge choice in terms of fish from my experience , the Baltic sea is very polluted and too cold to have a wide variety of fish species.

Fishmongers are scarce, there is a kiosk on Starolwilsna looking like a stara babcia place , it has a few herrings and salmon ,"the sausage of the sea".

The biggest choice for fresh fish i found is at Alma Supermarket , i can buy Salmon( but no doubt it is not Wild Salmon like in Alaska!) Sole sometimes, maquerel, and herring .+ carp and trouts but no halibut, no snapper and no sea food!

BLS i found this website selling food and your favourite fish, maybe you can order it on line.

niam.pl/pl/produkty/4054-gardlosz_atlantycki

Life / Racism in Poland - the future [441]


Rozumiemnic I am not saying that Racists do not exist in Poland because you have idiots everywhere on earth but to always have Poland associated with Racism and Antisemitism is wrong.

There are millions of Poles outside Poland living and working all over the world in different cutures.Do we hear that the Polish Community in Chicago US is racist? No.

Do we hear that the Polish communities in Germany France UK Dubai etc are racist ?No.
Were or are those famous Poles: Ryszard Kapucinski, Kieslowski ,Zulawsk etc racist or antisemitic? No

Yet we keep hearing about Poland beeing xenophobic as if all the Poles were that way and the question of the first post speaks for itself: Racism in Poland-The Future.

So yes there are racists in Poland but they are not the majority and if it was forbidden in the Polish Constitution to publicly express racism in any form against any ethnic group or to express ethno centrism publicly it would eradicate the association: Poland equals Racism and Antisemitism.

Real Estate / Cost to build in Eastern Poland - Ideally per m2 [71]

Good question, the cost of this project over 6 years must be at least 20% more but since Teflcat and his wife built from scratch the psychological reward is enormous.

But apparently he does not want to do it again, even as a consultant !

My friend who built her house had the same experience of going back and forth all the time dealing with details: from her work to the house site, from her flat to the house site, adding more money for this and that, changing this and that, meeting plumbers painters electricians etc beeing asked to make decisions which were a headache, the whole thing was horribly time -and energy- consuming.

Real Estate / Can a Non-European buy house in Poland? [14]

yes of course you can buy your friend's house in Lodz( Agricultural land and historic buildings are protected but individual flats or houses are for sale for anyone who wants to buy them!) but Lodz is not Krakow or Zakopane. Do you want a holiday house or a permanent house?

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

With 67.3 Billions of Euros for the period 2007-2013 Poland is the country in Europe which benefits the most from the European Union structural Funds.

Who is paying ? the European Union is.

The Warsaw metro will be half financed by Polish taxes I assume.

If it is a public service like in Paris France not like in London UK it means that all of Poland will finance the Capital 's metro even cities which will not have any metro lines.

I think it is money well spent because our cities in Europe have to develop public transportations to avoid traffic jams, car pollution etc.

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


Warsaw would indeed deserve a direct fast public transportation to and from the airport.

In Krakow the Balice shuttle was also financed by the EU and it is working extremely well , the journey is 20 mns and at a cheap rate ( about 10 zl 1 way from the airport to Glwony Dorzec the main Krakow station in the center).

Food / Orange Roughy in Krakow? [9]

On Wikipedia they tell us the most common fish in the Baltic Sea and the problem of the alga /bacteria coming from agricutural waste ( under the Biology section of the article)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea
Apparently there isTurbot in the Baltic Sea which is a delicious fish ( never had it in Poland), BLS if you have a crave for Orange Roughy i advise you wait until you go back to the US on holiday to have it .

The choice of Frozen Fish is also somewhat limited in LIDL supermarket you can buy plaice, cod, salmon but no orange roughy.

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

Not a very practical ROOF when it SNOWS in Winter!

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


I find these Metro entrances really tacky and unpractical , can't they commission a good designer for the money which will go into the project?

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

Grzegorz( Beautiful name by the way) what the heck are you talking about ?


Draconian limits on C02 emissions is bad? Do you still want to show your great grand children the beautiful Bialoweza forest , the Beskids etc ?
Coal is the Number 1 energy used in Poland and it is extremely polluting and damaging for Human beeings,Natural sites and even historic buildings.

A clean energy is not real Economy? Eu is reducing competitivness of Polish economy by partly financing your local transportations? lol

Law / Poland Carpentry Certification question .. ! [5]

I am afraid i cannot help you with the title of the Polish Carpentry Certification if there is any but i know that Polish Carpentry is one of the most famous in the world. The Carpenters who built those amazing wooden chalets in Zakopane are doing projects all over the world so maybe for you the best would be to contact the Zakopane townhall to ask them about that.

News / Poles are able to forgive their enemies - how noble. [68]

Poland was not a Communist country by choice but Communist Invaded so maybe that's why Poles tend to forgive Jaruzelski and did not send him to rot in jail like the French did with Marechal Petain. Maybe they just thought he was one of the muppets of Moscow and held no real responsability for their misfortune.

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

How can one take this comparison into account when applied to Polish salary ? We can say the same about rents in London and rents in Warsaw too but the cost of a metro ticket or a tram ticket costs almost 10 times less than a taxi fare in Poland !( at least in Krakow /10zl for the 20 mns shuttle and 90zl + tip with a taxi).

So i think the new metro line is a good project but i would also wish there was a fast shuttle or metro to link the Warsaw airport to the city center like in Barcelona where you just buy a metro ticket to and from the airport.

Work / Looking for accommodation & teaching job in KATOWICE [78]


No offense but "teaching "( singing a few songs )Polish toddlers or baby sitting them in English would be suitable but please stay away from teaching English to anyone above 5 years old.

I just can't imagine myself learning Polish with someone who cannot write Polish properly, does not have experience and just wants to be my teacher for money because he speaks his mother tongue.

Let professional teachers of English teach Poles properly and offer your services at a Pub or at a shop needing English speaking staff for instance.

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


I hope you did not give them anything because HELP is a universal concept in any language and any culture and it is FREE of any charge.

As for the "OK" reply to your" nice to meet you" just take it as a deficit in language skills rather than a lack of good manners because their level of English must be really low .

In anycase regarding the guy who asked or rather demanded "give me a cigarette" : this is abrupt and impolite, He should have said please/ prosze, if he is Polish he is rude by Polish standards or by any standard.

Study / Eastern European Studies internship/ job [10]

I think that it should not be a problem to find an intership in Poland as an American student for instance in Hotels (Krakow, Warsaw) .You could either send your CV and resume to Hotel Groups in the US such as Radisson,Sheraton,Starwwood hotels etc or directly at the hotels in Poland .

Be aware that there is a big competition among students for those interships because in many european countries students have to do a 1 year intership as part of their studies ( 1 year abroad after a 2 years studying Business).

Basically they get "free workers" who on top are young and hard working so there should be plenty of opportunities .

Real Estate / Documents requested from foreigners to rent a flat long term in Poland? Invoicing / Contract. [16]

[Moved from]: Do tenants receive a rent invoice in Poland ?

Hi all,
I was wondering if tenants receive or expect a rent invoice sent by the landlord in Poland or not ?
if so is it before one pays the rent or after payment of the rent to acknowledge payment ?
Thank you

News / Poland Elections oct 2011/your feed back about RP Janusz Palikot? Poland is changing! [106]


Well Seanus I may be an idiot but if the existence itself of a party such as the RCC( i am not saying those people would have any chance to rule the country of course but as a counter power ,it is not bad) is not a change for Poland what is it then?

News / Poland Elections oct 2011/your feed back about RP Janusz Palikot? Poland is changing! [106]

I agree 100 %. Change comes from the people and from a country's youth.

News / POLAND TO BECOME THE NEXT GREECE? [28]


Are Foreign investors leaving or coming to invest in the Polish Economy because of a weak zloty ?