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Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]
f stop I thank you for your input......you see my wife has been in the UK for 30 years, she is Polish and is a patriot, but will admit that she has lost a lot of her Polishness. She would not see what you can. You see to our mind....we would not be being cheap....we would be giving...free gratis to someone who owns or stands to inherit from their family....nothing at all. But it would be when we die, so probably their children would really be the ones who inherit something that their parents could not give in the ordinary run of life. Also they would be able to have jobs, as many around here do, and still run the farm (it is not a huge farm) and the garden alone could feed a huge family. I invite further reasons why good people would not be happy with this arrangement? and of course it would be writtten in a contract and we would as per Polish law disinherit our rich children......(I honestly doubt that my daughter would even want to come to Poland much less inherit an old Farm in the Podkarpacie ha ha she could point to New York/Sydney and California on a map but probably has no idea where Poland is) Perhaps we could think 'Polish style' and have a waver in the contract that if we die in suspicious circumstances they get nothing?? it would encourage them to look after us for their childrens sake. My wife just suggested that you (being a Pole) might think that we would charge them money to live in the house until we are dead??? No No No...I am English...they would live in the house for free. they could as I said have jobs as well to give them spending money without the worry of having to pay for somewhere to live.
The idea that you would find honest, hardworking couple to take care of you and your farm in exchange of promise of inheritance is imperfect to say the least, but you would not be a first one to come up with it.The problem is that honest and hardworking people want a decent wage and their own corner in the world, not indentured servitude waiting for you to die, and then a court battle with your family and rightful heirs after you're gone.
I really must apologise here......my wife is still a little bit Polish and having read my post said. "No No No..these people replying to your post are Poles!!! they will immediately think that you are trying to do what they would do and make slaves of these people" I have to explain that English people will sometimes seem crazy to Poles. You are thinking, Why would they give away a farm that will potentially be worth a couple of million Zloti sometime not too far ahead.......but to me....I don,t care if it will be worth 10 billion Zloti if I,m dead!!!! We have a saying in England....'You cannot take it with you'. (I honestly don,t believe in an afterlife!!) So just to make it clear and simple we would be letting these people live in a house on our land...for free gratis....all they would have to do is keep on growing the vegetables etc that we already grow and give some to us, also cut down trees as we do now for firewood and provide us with firewood. They could have jobs as well, many people in this area do just that, they farm, but may also have a job as a builder/ work in a sklep. My wife and I have plenty of money to live on and buy other things that we need we don,t need to ask them for money. Also as I said previously we would disinherit our heirs and leave all to these people in a legal will. Ha ha!! I can now see that we instinctively think very differently, but you must forgive me I have only been here for 3 years and I,m still not up to speed with the deeper culture.