Law / British managers superior to Polish [52]

Not so sure British managers get the job done, quite as you say. It's hit and miss as to who you work with - comes down to how they got the job as manager...

News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

Got news for you: so do British people, we all need visas and get fingerprinted etc on arrival, that is not going to change.

News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]


No, it's not "just like that", depends on your passport and reason for going there and if you applied for and got ESTA clearance, it's all changed in the past 2 years or so

london.usembassy.gov/vwp3.html

News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]


I am sorry you feel like that, I can remember having to go to the US Emb with other Britons in the old days, and being there the whole day to get a visa, but we all did it, we had to

I don't like the indignity of the photos and fingerprints on arrival in the US, but that's the way the world's become, it's all very sad

Life / Moving to Poland Part-Time (probably Katowice) [56]

1m zloty for a house in Kato? Bizarre

You can get houses much cheaper than that in other cities.

News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

Should be an automatic custodial sentence for all assaults on police and massive fine on top or an even longer sentence if that fine is unpaid

Not a nice introduction to police service and Brits for the police woman - hopefully she knows people who have gone to live in the UK and can relate more positive anecdotes about the way the majority of the natives behave there.

News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]


You left the 'stani' off that word which in its present form is considered offensive to members of that community, not that their race needs to come into it anyway - people are people.

News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]


No, I saw it, but you know I have only limited strength

sigh

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

From the average wage even in cities, I am to say the least surprised that some here think property prices are sustainable. If they are not set to fall, then wages must be set to very sharply rise. It seems to me it has to be one or the other.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


That hasn't been the case in Ireland nor Northern Ireland (which is part of the United Kingdom), where prices are very dramatically down, and that sidelines money has not even been content so far with very large drops of around 50%. I was in Dublin in 2007, I remember so many people told me "there's no bubble". I refused to buy, despite pressure from many sides

.irishtimes.

Houses in the capital have lost about 54 per cent of their value than at the peak recorded in 2007, while apartments are 58 per cent lower.

Language / Help. Basic Polish Grammar by Dana Bielec [21]


My word! That's a complicated pdf - makes Polish seem very complex, actually rocket science would seem simpler.

How about "We Learn Polish" or even the forthcoming "Polish For Dummies" (I think both are far easier than the above, and Polish For Dummies is tailor-made for the likes of me!)

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Peterweg


If you are bullish about wages or acknowledge they are rising, which would be inflationary, then unemployment must also be falling. In that case, what sort of fall in prices are you expecting? Rising wages due to low unemployment are not heralds of property price crashes. Is it mortgage constraints that you consider will be the catalyst or rising interest rates?

If there were to be no upward movement of rates, rising wages and low unemployment, then I would be far less certain of a continued price correction downwards.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Will they return to Poland and buy properties? Will they live in rented accommodation? Will landlords buy flats to let out to returning Poles?

There are a number of questions to be addressed to gauge the likely severtity of any continued downturn.

What I do not understand is it would appear that PeterWeg is pessimistic about property prices, yet bullish about wages. These would seem contrasting viewpoints.

Life / Please recommend a news website for Wroclaw [8]

I know of that English site, I am looking for a proper news website for Wroclaw. In the UK, local newspapers have free websites with local news, and the BBC has a regional service by county.

Thank you

Language / Do the Polish words for 'please' and 'piglet' sound very similar? [24]


Nearly! Anyway, thank you Zman.

On Google, it says the Polish word for piglet is "Prosiaczek"

So I am still confused on this.

Actually, listening to the Google audio for Proszę and Prosię, I think I have been saying piglet!
translate.google.com/#pl|en|Prosi%C4%99%0D%0AProsz%C4%99%0D%0A

Is it any wonder no one likes me in Poland!

It seems that Proszę (please), the end of the word sound changes - and in English phonetics becomes a weak version of the phonic "ow" - sort of similar to the sound in the English word "owl"

If anyone can better describe the sound, go ahead

Language / Do the Polish words for 'please' and 'piglet' sound very similar? [24]


Yes, can't hear it in that audio clip. Has she taken the p?


No, that's a good idea though


lol


Thanks for that, I was wondering what that was about

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Yes, I agree, a number of them will just have to go and move back to their parent(s) or family home. But, some Poles in the UK have done very well financially - they became very well paid managers or self-employed in Britain. If they lose their jobs or tire of the UK, they probably do have enough money to buy in Poland if they choose to return rather than go to Germany or elsewhere

Language / Do the Polish words for 'please' and 'piglet' sound very similar? [24]

Ah, so the Google audio of the Polish word for please is some sort of textbook speak from the past? Well, don't you agree then that the majority of Poles also seem to be saying piglet?! No wonder I am learning bad speaking habits, they're perhaps just not clear enough in their elocution and I'm picking up the Polish equivalent of estuary English!

Life / Please recommend a news website for Wroclaw [8]

I'll check those ideas out too, thanks

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Wage rises cause inflation, inflation supports property prices for the most part - unless there is sufficient unemployment


A number of non natives do just walk away from their debts in the UK - somehow they manage to give creditors the slip. That can't happen in Eire? It was in the British media a month or two ago that non Britons were running up tens of thousands in debts and then absconding from the UK, sometimes returning and doing it all over again. I can't find the news link right now. Here are related links.

immigrationmatters.co.uk/crackdown-on-immigration-fraud-%E2%80%93-banks-and-ukba-to-share-information-on-debtors.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7912548.stm
askmrcreditcard.com/creditcardblog/can-credit-card-companies-go-after-you-if-you-leave-the-country
uk.answers.yahoo/question/index?qid=20090903135139AAN01h8
birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/financial-business-news/2009/09/24/foreigners-flocking-to-uk-to-clear-debts-quicker-65233-24768097

Language / Do the Polish words for 'please' and 'piglet' sound very similar? [24]

Thank you everyone for the tips!

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Thank you, Pip

I might be reading it wrong, but it seems you have supplied a sales organisation's newsletter and they suggest property prices are to fall?

From the first link ---
"Main factors influencing market perspectives in the next months
– Demand
- Further exacerbation of the credit policy of banks granting mortgage loans – new regulations of the ‘S recommendation”
will come into force in January 2012, limitation of the debt carrying capacity, especially for the € loans
- Further limitation of the accessibility of the „Family on its own” („Rodzina na Swoim”) Programme – lower price limits
- Uncertain situation on the international financial markets, increasing investment uncertainty, waiting and withholding
mood towards making decisions with long-time consequences + media information on lowering housing prices and bigger
and bigger offer of residential developers = postponing decisions on buying dwellings and on incurring mortgage loans
- Part of potential buyers may postpone its decisions until the “Developer’s Act” comes into force.
Main factors influencing market perspectives in the next months – Prices
- Oversupply of dwellings in relation"

Just by the by: In the UK, during the major property crash of the 1990s and the boom of the 1980s, major newspapers carried stories of a never-ending boom, no bubbles, recovery around the corner, etc etc. It didn't happen - there was a bubble, there was a much longer crash than their reams of reports forecast, things were very bleak indeed even if trying to sell in London.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

I have no idea who these people are, but they call Poland's market the second worst in Europe
and claim >10% falls in 2011

globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Poland/Price-History

For Wroclaw, they suggest 31% fall in real terms since peak

I have no firm idea on these figures, anecdotally I think prices are down a bit, yes. Some would say more than a bit, depends where you look.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Can't compare Ireland to Poland...


,,,can we?

Wish I knew.

Travel / Need Help About Buses from Wroclaw to Budapest and Bratislava. [5]

Merged: Bus / tram fares up in Wroclaw, from 1st May

First rise since 2008, apparently.

In the UK, they were putting the fares up in my town about once a year, but once I think a particular bus company made substantial price hikes twice in one year, due to the cost of diesel. When diesel reduced in price, fares did not drop...

Life / Please recommend a news website for Wroclaw [8]

Thank you, Sofort

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Cuban property, such as in Havana, is most probably being purchased by expat Cubans in Florida etc through various family links. Wages in the US are generous, so it's not a hardship for them financially at all