Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2678]

But the U.K. is 10x as effective in reducing gun crime as the US is.

Tx, Tn. O, WV -one other thing - all low levels of education, lots of guns, vote for dangerous idiot Trump. Nice barbecue though.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Those were different times in the 90s - people had no money and even if they did there were no nice stores to visit. Now it's very different and people will miss Sunday trips to the mall very much.

To me it's a question of free choice - want to go to church on Sunday ? Fine. Want to shop on Sunday ? Also fine

Work / What is deducted from a salary in Poland apart from Income tax? [155]

Well that is a very high cost Andrei - most small accountants would charge about 200 zloty for a simple service like that.

Work / Salary & cost of living in Warsaw, Poland [29]

The average wage for a young family in Warsaw would now be above 8000 - both partners might earn 5000. In this case with his wife unable to work Dom is right and it would be a struggle to have even 500 zloty left at month end.

Work / What is deducted from a salary in Poland apart from Income tax? [155]

You can live handsomely on that amount.
Not sure what the umbrella company fee is but if someone is taking 10percent of your cash for finding you a job that does not seem great.

The social security payments entitle you to health and pension benefits in Poland - you cannot reclaim the money when you leave so rather just mentally tear it as an extra tax (the amount looks wrong by the way, so ask your employer to recheck it)

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Bit of a strange link - a light hearted piece about dogs ? Not sure what this is supposed to prove and not even sure what city it is as people have weird accents - Canada or Australia ?

I did see that the lady has posted some other stuff questioning science so I can guess the rest.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Wrong as usual - British farmers get over 3bn pounds of EU subsidy - higher than most East European countries and roughly the same as Poland.

About 80 percent would be bankrupt without them. British budget was today abd the UK govt will replace these until 2020 after which there is a big question mark. Extra costs of Brexit announced today are higher than the extra amount given to the NHS - so they can stick that on a bus if they want

Brexit - an idiotic idea, voted for by idiots

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Well before you talk about clown degrees then maybe tell us what you studied - because it clearly was not maths or anything similar since you struggle with understanding correlations and probability.

Nothing wrong with literature and philosophy by the way- in my view it's one of the things that sets Western civilisation apart.

As fr farming then I know it's complicated as I have a farm. It's a lot more complicated if you vote to leave the EU and it's geneous subsidies LOL some of those British farmers will have plenty of time to think about their decision when they are driving night shifts for Uber.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Being educated is not the same as being privileged. It often means that you started at street level yourself and used the free education available so that you able to do a job that can not easily be replaced by a Pole or Romanian fresh off the boat.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

There is a lot of objective evidence. You merely need to show the correlation between votes for each candidate; and level of education in that district.

It could be a coincidence that Clinton managed to have the highest results in each of the 30 most educated voting districts in the US - but If that were to be a random chance then it would be a one in 1 trillion occurrence, literally - it would be .5 to the power of 30 slightly adjusted for the fact that Clinton got 2 percent more votes than Trump in the overall franchise.

It is obviously not just capital cities - check any college town in any Trump voting state - say Lawrence Kansas or Madison Wisconsin and you will see an island of blue in a sea of red.

There are similar results for Brexit - clever people generally don't want to make themselves a few thousand pounds poorer or have less opportunities.

I guess you should rather take your revolutionary mathematical and statistical theories to universities and tell them that their analyses are wrong.

I'm not expecting to persuade you by the way - you illustrate the trend quite well.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

Tens of millions have not elected anyone - add together all the votes of PiS, Fidesz and a few other whackjobs and it is less than 10 million - they are on the fringes of European politics and rightly so.

The EU is not forcing the U.K. to stay in - rather they have said that once the UK settles its bills and resolve the Irish border issue then it is free to discuss some kind of access to the single market. In fact it is the UK which is dithering about leaving, because the government knows it will be an economic disaster.

The euro is not dwindling, it has gained significantly against USD this year, and by a huge amount against the GBP. So in fact quite the opposite of what you describe.

There are no leftist radical governments in the EU. There are no leftist radical policies been passed by the EU. Piratical leftist I understand policies such as renationalisation, appropriation of private assets, wage controls and price controls, collectivised agriculture. Doing the decent thing by a few refugees is not a radical leftist agenda.

I am halfway through Andrew Breitbart book, it has a few excellent chapters but most of it feels like being locked in the bedroom with you :) Unsubstantiated facts, irrelevant arguments, obsessions over single issues, No solutions and only problems

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

Yep - we will prosper like Moldova and Serbia

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

How have the Brexit morons called their bluff ? Right now they are begging to remain a bit longer in the single market and the govt is probably going to fall pushing through a brexit bill. The EU is merely standing back and letting them self destruct

Work / Native English looking for a teaching job in Poland [135]

Respect in Poland is not measured only by what money you earned by what car you drive. In fact even in the US there are many less superficial ways to gain respect.

Whether they are teaching in schools or teaching in businesses or teaching in private, TEFL teachers perform a valuable role and without them in the development of many other businesses would not have been possible. It is Far easier to teach a polish manager or businessman if you are able to send them abroad to work with his peers. That is only possible if they have a good Level of English.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

qz.com/981438/the-one-thing-uniting-voters-for-brexit-trump-and-le-pen-isnt-age-or-immigration

Well this is a convenient summary if you lost the last one.

Time to go to work for me :) if you are bored after your day on the krupnik there are plenty more studies you can google.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Probably a free market conservative - but why do we have to describe ourselves as belonging to one team ? How about voting for the candidate that best reflects your views at that time ?

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Yes there are plenty of facts, already posted in the Brexit, Trump and Various PiS threads.

it's not propaganda and I am not a lefty.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

@G (undercover)

Has a lot to do with reality. Support for PiS, Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, AfD correlates strongly with low levels of education and living away from big towns. That is not the same as saying all people in Polska B are dumb.

does your boss make his racist jokes in a board meeting ? Or in front of his Asian employees ? Or put them on his LinkedIn feed ?

BTW I have never taught English to anyone in my life (except my kids I guess). Not that there is anything wrong with teaching English - having a good level of English is helping Poland move forward

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

Yes I have been to Cincinnati- it has a murder rate 4x higher than Marseille. Yes I have visited Charlotte many times - it's where I normally fly into when visiting the US. Its 67 murders last year is far higher than Marseille.

sSigSauer you seem like a decent guy but you will find that out for yourself when you come here and start looking for a job - logistics if I remember ? . Go for a few recruitment meetings and if you get the chance raise your views over a bottle of wine and see the reaction you get.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

I have been to Marseille many times both for work and pleasure Johnny and felt safer there than I did in a comparable size US town, say Cincinnati or Charlotte. Without looking up I suspect there are at least 50 towns in the US with higher crime rates.

Have you ever been there ?

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

I think when you come here and want to earn your six figures that will mean mixing with the most educated and worldly Poles who have what you would refer to as radical leftist cucked views; but are in fact the norm for modern Europeans.

The anti immigration stuff is for the consumption of the old and the gullible - as Doug says most normal people know they are more at risk on Polands roads and under-developed hospitals than from terrorism. If you spout off your spiel about 7th century barbarians you will not find it falling on receptive ears.

Never seen traffic in Warsaw like on Friday night with everyone fleeing the march of the bigoted idiots yesterday.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

No. I can still not see the distinction - I must be too dumb,

I am still waiting for examples of radical left government actions in the EU. A murky soup of Breitbartisms and a condemnation of their actions that are governed by the UN convention on refugees does not count.

Mind you I can think of one radical left action - taxing banks half their profits and giving the cash to fund 500+

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

No I don't see the distinction.

What Eruropean nation has radical left policies ? Name some. The only conceivable example is The brief Syriza govt taking some understandable steps to get up of Greeces mess. Otherwise there are no radical left governments in Europe.

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [565]

You are doing precisely that SigSauer - you intend to live and work in Poland and already from your vantage point in the Middle East you are advising us on immigration and education and European values.

Life / Where is the best town to raise children in Poland? [2]

You mean neither of you speak Polish ? In that case what you are planning is extremely difficult and borderline irresponsible.

In a small town then maybe a third of people would speak English - mostly younger. That would not include the people you need to deal with - bureaucrats, neighbors, nurses, teachers. Your chance of finding employment in a small town with no Polish are very low. If you are not EU citizens then access to healthcare and right to remain here is also going to be diffcult.

Life / Thoughts on pro vs cons when moving to Poland from New Zealand with Polish wife and daughter. Living cost. [9]

Try before your buy is my advice - see if you can have an extended holiday, see how you deal with the weather and what are the costs and possibilities of work. Unless you have an in demand skill then getting work will not be easy. learning Polish well in one year is a big challenge too.

Reason is that 1.5m zloty will be a lot but by the time you bought your house you would be lucky to get 50.000 a year from the rest of the invested money. So you need to add that to your wife's earnings and see if it would give you them same standard of living as you have in NZ.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

You can subtract them and you can subtract Latinos and you can subtract young black men if you think their lives are worth less. The number of white native born American gun related murders is higher than all the deaths in the West from terrorism.

In fact I reckon you could pick a very white peaceful state like Minnesota or Maine and the same would be true.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

My guess is that US gun deaths far outnumber deaths from terrorism since say 1989 when the Cold War ended. It is consistly over 10.000 people per year, including babies, grandmothers and literally thousands of other innocent victims.

What is it with you guys and the schlong waving about pay stubs and cars and how educated you are ? I am always reading that of the apparent reasons for the attractiveness of the far right is that US males feel insecure and this kind of playground talk would back that up. I think the last time I compared pay stubs with someone was after a particularly hard week at Waffle House.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

As I have said on countless occasions, wanting genuine refugees to be treated decently, in accordance with UN treaties and with Christian moral codes, does not make you a leftist. There are refugees in my own family and I think in most families in this part of the world. I don't expect to be rewarded for that view - it's just what we are taught in school and in church.

Like many Americans you seem obsessed by this idea and feel you have a duty to save Europe from some terrible fate. Rather you should look at this as a complex problem which will take time to fix. Your own govt needs to look at its own actions via a vis two of the main drivers - instability in the Middle East and climate change.

Like many people in Europe I see Trump as a greater danger to security than I do muslims.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

You are back ranting again about your cruise ship. 50 Euro per head per day - consderably less than the cost of locking up a prisoner in Illinois.

You know the difference between ancestors and descendants right ?

The same arguments about our ancestors building the country are used by racists everywhere but especially in Britain against Polish immigration.