Law / Poland - Temporary Residence card - Karta pobytu - required documents [142]


Then you don't know how this process works.

When you get the decision that says you have been approved you have to pay 50zl into the bank account on the letter and take that receipt plus a current Zameldowania (address registration) to the immigration office to collect the card.

Also...the decision letter should say when the card will be ready for pick up. You can collect it anytime after this as long as you do the above steps.

Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]


A new phrase coined here. Plastic Poles ;) Fit's perfectly to these types.

Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]


You are a Pole in the USA. Are you going to go home and leave the USA for Americans? Or it only works one way for you people?

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

Vanity rears it's ugly head.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]


I can hear it now "your dosage isn't big enough...can you pop out and get me something stronger?" ;)

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]


Huh? So if your wife was paralyzed and couldn't have sex you wouldn't love her anymore? How shallow.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

Nah I am not saying she is one of those people but a LOT of women use it against you. The entire Western society shows it when women primp and dress provocatively and men are supposed to "compete" for them. It is funny to watch the supply and demand in certain places...if there are only a couple of cute girls then those girls act differently than if they are one of many and can't have such attitudes.

Then within relationships women have "headaches" and "bargain" for access to a wet hole...it's ridiculous. I blame idiot men for putting up with it as much as I blame the kind of women who play these games.

BTW I'd like to see her in the stockings as well ;) But some girls hear that and say we are sick, sexist pigs, some use it to their benefit, and some are sensible and realize they are only half of a relationship.

A man is a man and a woman is a woman...I just hate these societal games we play.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

My god could you be any more blatantly jealous? Sorry you were not born in a more wealthy nation buddy. Maybe you can trade in your envy for some cash?

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


Where did all that come from? Oh yeah it came from your inferiority complex.

I complained about prices all over and you chose to extrapolate an insult to Poland and some idea that I thought I wasn't "special treatment for being American". Thanks for illustrating plain as day the complex that this forum seems infected with and it's love to take shots at the USA at every turn. Your envy is sad.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

Oh get off your insults. This trend is all over not just Poland so shove your anti American nonsense up your arse :)

Your envy is transparent and sad.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

I am willing to spend money but I am not willing to spend 5 times the normal cost of something because I drink it in a bar and someone hands it to me. Charge me a fair price for a fair product and you get my business over and over again. Sadly many places don't offer that anymore.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

I don't agree you have more assets to bargain with. Women often think they have some life sustaining gift between their legs but it is only half of the equation. Any woman who thinks she can "bargain" with sex needs to promptly been shown the door....same with a guy. Relationships shouldn't be about favors or bargains.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

Nah your replies showed you are a moron. You made shallow assumptions of everyone's statements because your pride was insulted. "How dare they say Polish girls aren't great.." It's obvious.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

I clearly said mixed drinks. Shots are still a rip off....you can buy a whole bottle for the cost of 2 or 3.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

Aphrodesiac you make so many assumptions.


Every man alive has been burnt and those who claim not to are liars. It was advice from experience. Only a moron would not learn from his experiences and I am quite sure you are a moron ;)

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

I found it the same in Poland. Hardly any bar or restaurant serves strong enough mixed drinks. They are not in the business to lose money. Ice and mixers are used liberally and the drunker people get the less they notice.

It's one of those things I hate about eating/drinking out because if you ask for it to be made stronger they either want to charge you for a "double" (which is more like what most people would consider normal) or they label you and give you bad service.

They make a KILLING on alcohol in most places.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

Good luck getting a bar to do that unless you are a regular and spend a lot there. They also serve over priced watered down drinks so it's not like you are getting a good deal.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

As un PC is it sounds and as harshly as some of the posters here have put it...a lot of girls don't know what they are getting into and ARE doing it to get back at their parents or prove that "they are the boss". They are naive and want independence and don't have common sense.

Rarely do people from such extremely different cultures do well together.

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


They won't be wondering what they did wrong...they will be cursing you for being "cheap". F-stops entitlement attitude exhibit earlier in this thread shows how severs think....they won't be blaming themselves for anything even if they sucked. It will all be put on you as the "cheap" client.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

I think his point was how it's used as a weapon or an incentive by women and that pisses a lot of men off. It should be a 50/50 deal and not a "privilege" to be metted out when a woman wants or needs something. But if a guy tried that women would laugh and say they can get it anywhere.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

Love is not what you feel when you are flying high in the beginning. That is lust. Love is what replaces lust after a longer term. Love is not a magical feeling it is trust built on experience.

If people would realize this more often there would be a lot less relationship troubles. Too many people make huge choices and have kids etc during the "flying high" period.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

I am simply saying Polish women are no different than any other women from developed "westernized" nations. Of course compared to a culture that does arranged marriages they would seem "better" but when it boils down to it you get good and bad from any "open" culture so to say "Polish girls are the best" is a bit silly.

Any man who has been in a long term relationship will tell you that the "treating their man like a king" thing is part of the "honeymoon period" and quickly wears off.

Wish you the best but let time/experience be your guide not your trousers.

Life / Polish (in comparison to English and Indian) have amazing culture [71]

If you had gotten laid by a German or Brazilian girl you would be thinking they were the best. The fact you focused on sex and drinking in your comparisons show your priorities.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

Women love attention...is it any wonder they would like a holiday devoted to THEM?

Western culture is a complete 180 from the oppressive cultures that exist still in some places...would be nice to find a middle ground instead of an extreme at either end. Women rarely want to be equals in the modern world. What they really want are all the advantages they get for being women but also no disadvantages. If they wanted true equality they would en masse deny things like engagement rings...some don't really care but the majority expect and even demand it. If you suggest spending that money on something sensible like paying toward your home you are "unromantic" rather than exhibiting common sense. Women have been conditioned to expect these things in modern society. We like to pretend we are "enlightened" but it is still very much a game of trading things for other things. Prancing around in a mating dance and going through the motions.

I get yelled at half the time time for holding the door open because I am being "sexist" and they can "do it themselves" but who do they call for when something needs to be repaired? Not their girlfriends.

Anyway...until a Men's Day get's as much attention as Women's Day I say boycott it ;)

Fair is fair.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

As long as he tips you at least 15% right?

Work / Learning Polish in Olsztyn... crazy prices for private lessons. [27]


I think that is an unconscious effort to mimic them. We always used to joke how Polish men sounded girlish to us because the end of every sentence went up high pitched.

I also could never get people to understand that laughing at someone and saying how "cute" they were when speaking Polish was not a good way to motivate them. I always tried to encourage people in English and never made fun of them because that is a sure way to put someone off trying.

Work / Learning Polish in Olsztyn... crazy prices for private lessons. [27]

Haha...reminds me of the Polish classes I took. I know people have different learning styles but I never met anyone who learned to actually USE language with that kind of instruction. Speaking like a 5yo is more useful than knowing all the technical aspects but not being able to communicate.

Work / Learning Polish in Olsztyn... crazy prices for private lessons. [27]


Exactly. I find many Poles operate that way in English even. They can tell you all the rules better than a native but they can't use them. I also think it is why so many adults struggle with language learning. The education and resources out there are so technical and not natural. Pimsleur works well for me but sadly they don't go very far even with the 3 month programs...in Polish they only have a one month program and by the time I got it I had already surpassed it by learning from friends.

I have known several people with university majors in a "foreign" language who couldn't speak it functionally.

Work / Learning Polish in Olsztyn... crazy prices for private lessons. [27]

Most people I know who tried to learn Polish from a course in Poland quit because it was so pedantic. The expats I know who learned it learned mostly from spouses, their family, friends etc. Then if they needed advanced language for some reason they went to a course. Just explaining it to you from an expats point of view.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

Is there a Men's Day? And if no why not? They get a diamond ring we get nothing...they get holidays we get nothing. I don't want to hear about "inequality" from a woman ever again ;)