Real Estate / Help on choosing the best neighborhood to live in Warsaw.. [20]

Pololand is generally a safe country, and in Warsaw public transport runs until around midnight, unless you live on outskirts of Warsaw. Better to live close to metro station to avoid traffic. You may have problem finding decent 60 meter flat for 2000 though.

UK, Ireland / I am Polish and live in UK and i am pregnant! I need your help! [30]

Since when men get pregnant? Troll.

Love / Marriage Proposal to my Polish girlfriend. Should I ask her father for permission? [4]

Whatever you do, ask HER first...

Law / UK dad - Polish mum - getting a child checked for paternity reasons... Poland [4]

Unless your name is on birth certificate, you don't have ANY rights. Then, if you do want to gave rights (which come with obligations), you speak to the mother (or take her to court).

Love / Aliments and abortion (I was married to a Polish guy) [64]

F stop, regardless of her intentions, if he didn't want the baby he should have protected himself. There are just to many Polish men playing fools when it comes down to pregnancy, as if they don't know where babies come from.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


Back to the dark ages? NEVER


What about a compromise? What about a country where church does not dictate what to do, right of a child is still protected IF is does not create danger to women's life?

In fact, I think the current law works just fine, it just has to be followed correctly and provisions within the law need to be made for mothers that don't want to keep the baby for "economic" reasons.

By provision I mean shelters where they can in dorms stay until they give birth, are fed well enough and after birth they can decide if they keep the baby or give it up. Let's say they can leave baby in the shelter up to 3 months and if they don't come back after that, their maternal rights are taken by default. This still does not solve the issue of "inconvenient" pregnancy, but addressed the major concern. There should also be a surrogacy law, allowing people to adopt baby while a woman is pregnant. I even think this does not need to be free (I know that's controversial) - but any money exchanged has to be done after the baby is born and full adoption takes place.

The reason why many women decide to have abortion is fear for the future. If you remove that, and to certain extent address inconvenience aspect, number of abortions should decrease.

But you can't simply create law that does not allow abortion, this will simply push the problem to the black market to deal with (as it is now).

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Milky - this is true, but none of those countries are poor in the first place (not in global terms).
You will always have richer and poorer countries, no matter what.

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]

Natasia, I'm pretty sure Harry is neiter Catholic or Polish...

UK, Ireland / British + Polish relationship experiences [16]


I'm a Polish woman married to English/South African. We live in South Africa (we met here when I got transferred by my company - I didn't follow my husband, although I decided to stay in SA because of him).

We have 3.5 year old son and are very happy together. Questions raised by Richfilth are very important to think through - although you may not be able to answer all of them at the time.

Not many of us has answers for all possible situations - and even if we do, we often encounter circumstances that change out decision anyway.

To me it is very important that you discuss where you are going to live and raise children, so that there are no surprises. Also - what happens if either or both of you lose jobs? This can happen. You must at least have some ideas so that you don't turn your life upside down.

You are probably still young (so your parents won't probably need looking after) but thinking about it and discussing it is important.

Life / British living in Poland - documentary [42]

Magdalena, i don't know where you lived, but I was never hungry or cold in Poland in 80's. I wasn't well dressed and fed with delicacies, but never cold or hungry. I was raised by a single mum (divorcee) in suburbia of a small town. No luxuries, but decent living. My father never contributed to my upbringing, my mum was all on her own, working a clerical job. So really, i don't know why you were hungry.

And I'm not saying that I'm worse off now, in fact I have a good life (and had good life in Poland before moving to South Africa), but comunism in terms of provision of basics really wasn't failing that badly.

Love / If you're a Polish person.. Before you marry a foreigner... [7]

Polonius, i didn't read article(looks like you have to register) but to me it looks like a dead law if the couple live outside Poland. How is Polish spouse going to execute Polish law outside Poland? Even if there is a court ruling, there is a loooong road from ruling to execution.

Travel / Poland Bus (Travel) Companies [6]

e-podroznik.pl

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [124]


How long ago??? The only counter where you have to ask for anything is deli counter and kiosk??? Pretty much everything else is on shelves for you to put in your basket and pay?

Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]

Could not agree more with warszawski - the word "help" is not exactly right, correct word to use instead of "help" would be to "assist".

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

I see that this forum is full of overseas immigrants in Poland...

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

True - but somehow many people put Polish expats in the same bag as Polish immigrants, especially in UK and USA.

Love / Polish husband threatens divorce and wants to send me back to Asia [15]


Technically you are right, but you have to wait for a while (and I think its measured in years, not in months, but correct me if I'm wrong).

But since my comment was related to PGTX who wrote that woman can't get divorce in USA and was wondering if it isn't the same in Poland, it is actually irrelevant that they can get divorced if one of the partners disappears and cannot be contacted - since this is obviously not the case here.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

They do Pip. But it's not called immigration. It's called intracompany transfer... Or a career development. And those often come back.

Love / Polish husband threatens divorce and wants to send me back to Asia [15]

I would imagine anyone can get divorced anytime they like, but they both have to sign papers. What you might be referring to is that he can't be the one requesting divorce due to her being to blame (even if he wanted to claim that he is not the father) .This would make sense as you can't determine who the father is (in a non invasive way) until the child is born.

Work / Moving to Poland with my wife and kid for a 1-year contract. Salary/taxes questions. [4]


18% up to 85 kPLN and 32% after - effectively +-30% to be specific.
Or - like Pip pointed out 19% with registered company.

Love / Polish husband threatens divorce and wants to send me back to Asia [15]


Abortion is illegal in Poland (except in case of rape and health issues of mother or baby). He is still the father and will have obligation to the child. In fact you might even be able to stay in Poland because of the baby. I don't think he would allow this to be brought up as a reason for divorce in Poland.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Only the very, very old ones, where ownership is in doubt, so no-one maintains them.
They should be demolished anyway.
Haven't seen many of them in Poland.
As a matter of fact, I saw some in London too, also occupied by squatters.

Genealogy / My father is half Polish and half Ukrainian is this a common mix in Poland and Ukraine ? [11]


Why should they???

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


You don't have to care about them. You may have very good reason not to, or no reason at all - this is nobody's business.

You don't have to contribute.
But you can't ban everyone else from contributing if they want to.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

Revoke, agree, no reason to argue, we all wish her well.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

Revoke, if her husband works legally in Ireland, the family is entitled to free healthcare under the EU law. So yes, government paid for treatments, but the guy paid taxes, so he is entitled to get medical care his wife needs. I don't know why they didn't ask for government flight, mayby just didn't think about it?

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

Oxon, if you haven't got anything sympathetic to say, shut the f***up. This woman is dying. I had a friend who died of leukemia. It really isn't a 'nice' way to die. Her family probably works, would you expect them to quit their jobs and come to Ireland so that you can moan that there is more Poles in the Islands? She is not getting govermnent to pay for her trip back. You don't have to contribute. Have some human sympathy for another human being.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]


I agree with you. But sometimes people don't show their true colours until it's too late. She probably had some conflicts with her partner and the doubts are result of this...

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]


Kinda too late now to say that isn't it? I would say that if she fears that he will kidnap the kids she shouldn't leave them with him.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]

Scotty, I traveled with my son to Poland couple of times and never had this problem. Same situation as yours, I'm Polish, my husband is British/ South African, our son now has 3 passports... Only problem we had was in South Africa, where we were told that the kid must travel in and out on SA passport. He went to Poland on British passport and no-one said anything. In fact if a child already has another passport they are not obliged to have a Polish one.