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Midas   
22 Dec 2011
Life / Poles hard working or just born lazy. [58]

If you were not happy with the package,why take the job in the first place.

It all boils down to options.

No other options = everyone will take the package to put food on the table. It doesn't mean these people will work efficiently, because in their own minds they'll just be screwing back the employer who is screwing them.

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys, nothing new here.
Midas   
22 Dec 2011
Life / Poles hard working or just born lazy. [58]

This was largely because your average Polish plumber or builder took the revolutionary approach of turning up when he said he would.

Couldn't have phrased it better.

And all that for a decent price, if I might add.

But at home, Poles do not consider themselves hardworking.

I'll try to unravel this puzzle.

Last time I checked, the minimum wage in the UK hovered around 6 quid.

Polish minimum wage is officially around 1.500 zloty/monthly, which comes down to 8 or 9 zloty per hour ( 1.7 bob ) if one works a 40 hour week. And a lot of people get paid less or work illegally or other shenanigans.

A lot of Polish people in the construction industry in the UK work very hard because for the first time in their life they're seeing adequate money for their work.

Seriously, if someone offered me 1.500 zloty per month for working a construction site I'd take every chance in the world to slack off.
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Love / Polish men calling polish girl for dating englishman [80]

You are rather cruel to Polaci.

She's just a typical Polish female and rating men the way she does comes naturally to her, that's all.

What about the 30% of polish men who become lone wolves?

Well, they can die off for all I care if they're stupid enough to be with women who are willing to dump them the moment a foreigner comes along.
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Life / Reaction regarding Pakistanis respected in Poland [54]

Just a little problem with that reasoning.

Oddly enough Pakistanis living in the UK find it very difficult to move anywhere else permanently. I don't know why, since many of them remind us on a weekly basis how horrible a country we are and so on.

Still, they fail to leave.

I don't see them moving to Poland anytime soon, all the people so desperate for a Polish visa are just their cousins from Pakistan who missed out on the gravy train to Blightey.
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Life / Reaction regarding Pakistanis respected in Poland [54]

I'm under the impression that BBman meant - go to any country other than Poland.

Other than that, there aren't that many places that accept pakistanis with open arms nowadays ( UK is cutting down on pakistani immigration ) and Poland will soon follow suit.

In the meantime, could you care to explain why is it that it is always pakistani guys that come over, not the girls?

Their chains aren't long enough for them to leave the kitchen in Kandahar, is that it?
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Love / Polish men calling polish girl for dating englishman [80]

polmed - I guess we have a case of "uderz w stol a nozyce sie odezwa" as they say in Poland :). Ok then:

I was referring to typical male approach you present that you focused on female deplorable behavior instead of criticizing both sexes’ behaviors.

And what exactly is "deplorable" on part of the gents in this particular case? Are Polish guys to be criticized because 30% of the time their women promptly dump them for English blokes after a couple months of "emigration" and living in low-rent accommodation in a bad part of Sheffield?

No sane person would do that an no sane person will expect Jan Kowalski from Bialystok to out-earn Tommy Smith, born and bred in Britain, shortly after coming to Blightey.

Or maybe we should diss English guys for embracing the fact that a visible amount of the Polish female population in the UK is simply throwing themselves at their feet? What's their fault in this?

Seriously, I don't see the "evil male" angle you're trying to work here.

You generalize so much. Some are like that, but predominant majority acts like most reasonable people would do. You described a characteristic of certain women who make up 5 % of Polish female population. I guess that other nationalities you mentioned act like that within given numbers.

Try 30% sister. Women from Eastern Europe have a reputation for a reason. I've personally seen quite a few smart, well educated Polish guys get dumped by their Polish girlfriends after coming to the UK solely on the basis of money. And it wasn't even about potential earnings, it was about Tommy Smith owning/renting a bigger apartment. It was a simple choice for them really, current bf is on 45k a year and has to buy/rent a flat, buy a new car and in general is just up and coming, prospective bf owns a flat, has inherited some savings, is on 55k a year. That was all it took for these "educated" Polish women to jump ship. Women from Eastern Europe usually want here and now and will not wait for anything.

With few exceptions women are still not considered family providers, because of salary differences, which still exist in favor of men. That`s why, women still , instead of making money, tend to take care of children, house etc. rather than men. What I stated earlier is true and reflects the reality.

I take it you jest, madam.

You have "med" in your nickname, which probably means you're in the medical field. That puts you within the top 10% earners on this forum, so you're really in no position to complain about "salary differences".

Chances are that if you're a U.S.-based doctor you probably cleared 250.000$ before tax this year.

However, the fact that you include money in the equation is VERY telling.

Yes, southern if a man emigrates to another country with the intention of permanent residence he becomes an immigrant and the status of immigrant is well known to everybody

And - something you madam have yet failed to grasp - the "status of an immigrant" doesn't include being considered less of a man by women of one's own background in most cultural circles.

Indian people for example are well known for sticking to their own, even if it means living in a small flat directly over a family-owned curry restaurant business for 5 years.

I could go on and on, but the point is Polish blokes are really getting the short end of the stick in terms of how their women treat them once abroad and that's hardly one of the mysteries of the Orient.

Now ,to maintain parity , can you please name " an old or middle aged Western European man" who leaves his wife and children once he sees long legged beauty willing to become his sex or lifetime partner ?

I could name a number of them, with addresses and all. And their "new" women were/are, in some cases, great eye candy.

But so what?

Will you start complaining about something else than Eastern European females?

Please be so kind and quit ordering me what to do. You're not in a position to do that.

I'm a, shall we say, seasoned Jewish gentleman of quite a few years and not some teenager from Poland that's going to bend over if and when Polish mommy tells him to.

Oh, and Ian - don't even read half the gibberish from this thread about whether or not you're English and all that. Screw the haters and do what's best for you and your lady.

Cheers.
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Work / Chartered accountant from India joining a company in Poland. Cost of living in Poznan? [29]

CMS, I'm terribly sorry but you did post something I can't agree with.

represent a client in court etc.

There are two types of jobs that give one the legal right for representing parties in court in Poland. Both require a law degree and 3 years PQE training, then there's the local bar exam.

People without a law degree are unable to represent clients in courts in Poland, period.

If you know the legal basis for them to do so, by all means please enlighten me.
Midas   
20 Dec 2011
Love / Polish men calling polish girl for dating englishman [80]

No , this is rather typical men`s approach .

Typical slavic female thinking.

polmed - I don't think you quite understood the message I was trying to convey.

I was commenting on this:

It is all very simple and doesn`t require much effort to find the answer to the agonizing problem the OP has been confronted with.

So it is rare that a woman chooses for her husband or partner an immigrant, especially from a poorer country which is a case of Poland vs. Great Britain.

This sums up perfectly the "thinking" of many, many women from Eastern Europe --> they're extremely practical and consider it completely natural to go for the guys "who can provide" ( or, to be blunt, guys with money ). This is all sooooo obvious for you : immigrant = less money, local = more money, simple choice.

All of the above based on the ridiculous assumption that a guy who got off the boat yesterday can and should be compared money-wise to a guy whose family lived in the target country for generations and amassed wealth during that period. And of course this assumption comes rather naturally to Polish ( and other Eastern European ) women, no pause for thinking here as well.

Compare and contrast to Chinese women, Indian women, English women, Pakistani women, Jewish women and a number of others as well -for some odd reason they can actually stay with guys from their own cultural circle as they work their way to the top. Polish ( and other Eastern European ) women very often offer little to no support to their men during emigration.

Little wonder then that Eastern European women in many countries are often seen as materialistic slags who will **** at the drop of a hat once they see the money
Midas   
19 Dec 2011
Love / Polish men calling polish girl for dating englishman [80]

It is all very simple and doesn`t require much effort to find the answer to the agonizing problem the OP has been confronted with.

It all comes down to the problem of being an immigrant.

Typical "polish female" thinking. Materialistic in the extreme.

Wonderful how you expect guys from your own country who got off a Ryanair two weeks ago ( I take it you're Polish ) to "provide" on the same level as guys born, raised and educated in the UK who usually inherited money to boot.
Midas   
16 Dec 2011
Study / Information Needed: Skarbek University, Warsaw. [57]

Polish women are hardly anything special. Even in Eastern Europe both Ukrainian women and Czech women ( some would also say - Hungarian women ) are a lot prettier.

Basically Indians ( and Pakistanis and God only knows who else ) figured they are no longer that often accepted into the UK so they go for residency in countries that haven't caught on to their tricks. Poland is a very good target.
Midas   
15 Dec 2011
Study / Information Needed: Skarbek University, Warsaw. [57]

georgia... is best... i am indian in poland from california... but only if you can stay in georgia/ usa after, or apply to... plus education from the states far exceeds any others

Yes, obviously, the Republic of Georgie is the hot place to be right now, with the recent Russian Invasion and all...

Listen to cheesy's advice... go to Georgia on the double.
Midas   
11 Dec 2011
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]

1. House Hunters International shouldn't be substituted for personal knowledge of a given market.

2. Africa has a "few" issues that aren't really common in non-3rd-world countries.

Like getting shot if you rent in the wrong neighbourhood.

So apples and oranges really.
Midas   
8 Dec 2011
Love / Married in Poland, now wanting divorce, does she have rights to half my earnings? [67]

I too am going through hell. I married a polish girl in the uk sold up everything quit my job left the uk and built us a home in Poland.

You must be lying, a Polish woman would never do that. Polish women are Roman Catholic and adhere to a strict moral code.

Are you sure it wasn't an English girl pretending to be Polish?

Ok, enough with the sarcasm.

Get a very good ( = expensive ) family law solicitor in Poland right now, pick a guy who practiced in the jurisdiction of the court that will rule on the case.

Otherwise your chances of seing any fair % of that money back anytime soon are very slim.
Midas   
7 Dec 2011
Life / About Poznan! Foreigners, Life, Crimes, Job Prospects, Expenses! [12]

I see truth hurts the most, judging from the arguments ad personam :). One doesn't need to have any contact with mauritians to see you for what you are.

You're in no position to give anyone suggestions because you're simply not man enough to face your marital responsibilities.

So is it the first time u are seeing husband leaving the wife temporarily to look for a job abroad and then get back to the wifey!

Hold your horses there, boyo.

First you write:

I was in UK for 3 years but decided to return back to my country for a better married life and had lots of projects in head!

"Married life" so I take it you both returned to wherever. Unless by "better married life" you mean staying away from your wife.

Now you write "leaving the wife temporarily".... Which one was it then? Why is the story changing all the time? Or is it just your inadequate command of English?

you puff!

Yaaay, internet tough guy.
Midas   
6 Dec 2011
Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]

They may "go gym" all day, and beat people up at the Legia match, but they always go running back to mamusia for some zupa afterwards :D Only Italian men are worse.

I take it you've had a run in with "Staruch's" finest, they did a little bit of ************* and now you are taking it out on all Polish men.

Trust me on this: almost all the women in my family married or live with these kind of losers.

Someone's being anti-polonic.

being brought up in the UK, Polish women love me for having the ideal combination of Polish background and Western ideas of gender equality.

Sure, whatever you say, sir.

What are your views?????

My view, based upon hundreds of interactions with Polish people, is that you'll meet all types and Polish guys are not in any way pre-disposed to picking "youth and beauty" over "smarts" or looking for a surrogate mother that will take care of them ( which in turn of course would imply that they're unable to properly take care of themselves ).

That last bit is actually extremely stupid, considering the amount of totally self-sufficient Polish men I've met in the UK who came into the country back in 2004 with a few bob in their pocket and are now home/business owners or accomplished professionals.
Midas   
4 Dec 2011
Life / About Poznan! Foreigners, Life, Crimes, Job Prospects, Expenses! [12]

Thank you Seanus, to be honest I was slightly moved by the amount of selfishness in his post.

He MIGHT move to Poland to support his wife, assuming there'll be "no racism and stuff", good job prospects ( screw the economy, right?, everybody's got to bend over backwards for the little prince ) and few expenses. Otherwise she can fend for herself and live without a husband.

Husband of the year type.
Midas   
4 Dec 2011
Life / About Poznan! Foreigners, Life, Crimes, Job Prospects, Expenses! [12]

So you basically married a Polish girl in London, maybe to get UK residency, then moved back to Mauritius without her for some reason and now you're maybe considering moving to Poznan, provided they're not too racist to you over there.

Kiddo, marriage ( a real marriage, not a residency scam ) is about supporting your spouse through thick and thin, regardless whether it is tough ( racism, job prospects ) to do so.

You'd be wise to learn that.
Midas   
2 Dec 2011
Love / Polish men calling polish girl for dating englishman [80]

Ian, this is a two-way street, I've known English people extremely unhappy about the fact that their precious daughter was seeing an architect from Poland of all people. Why can't she find a decent English guy, they said.

You don't care, some people do, nothing to be worried about, just adapt and overcome.

Best of luck.
Midas   
28 Nov 2011
Study / A female Asian student considers studying in Poland [21]

The only people who complain are ( stereotypically ) Indians and Pakistanis.

Poland's had a huge influx of Vietnamese in the 1990's, back when they had machine gun assassinations 40 meters away from Palac Kultury in Warsaw, and said Vietnamese are doing wonderfully right now.
Midas   
27 Nov 2011
Study / Information Needed: Skarbek University, Warsaw. [57]

1. Poland is infamous for not paying educated people adequate money. It is pretty much THE reason why scores of Polish people go for temporary or permanent emigration.

It is not like that's some closely guarded state secret in Poland and one can learn this after 20 minutes of "research" on Google without knowing a word of Polish.

And here we got a kid who thinks he's just going to waltz in and everyone will kiss his ass because he's "so educated".

Talk about naivety.

2.

any course where the university have to lie about your part time job prospects in order to sucker you in is not worth studying at

Works like a charm, very often. Check out the number of kids who get 200$k in debt to obtain a "law school degree" in United States from a crappy, low-ranked institution.
Midas   
26 Nov 2011
Study / Information Needed: Skarbek University, Warsaw. [57]

2 years program. but UK is highly competitive country to get job and difficult to get a gud job . Aacording to uk there is no stay back option after study we have return to home country.

While Poland, on the other hand, happens to be the country of under-educated monkeys where people will bend over backwards for you after seeing your "impressive" education, mediocre English and so forth...

You need a reality check kiddo, highly educated Polish people who speak much better English than you do are LEAVING Poland because there aren't enough jobs that pay adequately for their level of education.

Also, in terms of obtaining education in Poland there are MAYBE 4 institutions worth talking and the one you've mentioned isn't one of them.
Midas   
21 Nov 2011
Love / Polish Girl & Me...Is She Interested? [57]

Why, thank you for necroposting and digging this up. I exchanged a couple PM's
with Phurion ( original TS ) after this thread ran its course and if I recall correctly
he did not decide to pursue this particular girl any further.

Now in regards to the comments- while I may have used a hyperbole, a number
of my colleagues had particularly nasty relationships with women from Lodz and
the word "greedy" came up every frigging time.

It becomes somewhat understandable if one visits Lodz personally and takes some
time to stroll away from "Piotrkowska" ( local high street ) or "Manufaktura" ( local
big mall owned by the French ) towards where Lodz's inhabitants actually live. Now,
if one walks away from Piotrkowska one will quickly find himself near such areas
of wealth and privilege as "Gdanska" or "Wschodnia", while walking away from "Manufaktura"
one can quickly reach the dreaded "Baluty" neighbourhood.

I **** you not, madam, these places look like Brownsville ( Brooklyn ) in the 80's,
sansthe burned out cars. Local population living in these abominable conditions
isn't exactly too nice or friendly.

Things aren't much better in the housing projects ( Widzew, Chojny ) located on
the outskirts of town.

To be fair though, I can't say a bad word about guys from Lodz, the ones I met
were/are either educated ( and underpaid ) professionals or bloody hard workers in the
construction industry. Most of them did complain about their wives/girlfriends though.

Edit: I'll throw in links to some photos of the areas I mentioned to illustrate what I mean:

fotoforum.gazeta.pl/zdjecie/1318459,3,13,52235,balutylodz2007.html

baluty-baluty.blogspot.com/2010/03/about-baluty-baluty-4.html

flickr.com/photos/thorkill/sets/72157624732123395

There, I think all is a bit clearer now.
Midas   
21 Nov 2011
Law / Maintenance & Rights: Polish mother & child in Poland, Irish father in the UK [57]

Currently I pay 1200 a month just to see my son of which my son only gets 350

Get a good, Polish lawyer who operates an active family practice within the jurisdiction of the court that is ruling in the case.

Because you really are just getting shafted, big time.

The mother of my son makes excuses why she can't come to the meetings agreed in court.

A friend of mine who was married to a Polish girl did not see his daughter for 8 months, despite court ordered dates and so on.

Reason?

His daughter was supposedly sick EVERY time it was his day to see her. For 8 months in a row. Doctor signed off on it every time ( co-incidentally, getting a fake sickie from a family doctor in Poland costs around 30 pounds ).

Things did not move forward until he got a better ( expensive ) lawyer.
Midas   
21 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Eastern European girls forced against their will in Britain for prostitution? [67]

Nothing outrageous about it. It happens here too. We call them the living dead.

Human slavery ( I take it that's what you're referring to ) is barely on the fringes of the prostitution biz.

Yes, it is very profitable, but also very risky for anyone involved in such a scheme ( long jail sentences, confiscation of property, etc. ).

Now, in the majority of cases, a 20 y.o. girl without any professional qualifications who answers an ad promising to pay her ridiculous sums of money for menial labour/waiting tables/being a hostess knows very well what she's doing and what she's getting into.
Midas   
20 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Eastern European girls forced against their will in Britain for prostitution? [67]

So, how does the situation looks like in the UK?

Well, the situation kinda looks like this:

Most Polish people have a hard time dealing with the fact that a certain number of their women find becoming a prostitute in the UK a good alternative to other forms of employment, in Poland or abroad. Good money, not much work, taxes? what taxes? and so forth.

So then they make up these outrageous stories about "agencies" that lure young women in and force them to work in the biz.

Because, obviously, a 20 y.o. Polish girl doesn't get the hint after reading an ad promising 60k net per annum for being a "waitress".

That's pretty much it.

And oh, yes, a significant amount of Poles ( both genders ) I talked with had some odd ideas about what working as an "escort" actually was, so that might be part of the problem.