Language / Why when spelling Polish names abroad, Polish letters are ignored? [68]

US papers generally will not use any non US characters, be it an "ą" or an "ö" (which is usually translated to "oe"). I think in part it is because of typesets, but mostly because they are not part of the English language and the audience for these papers are English speaking readers.

Papers do use the Polish names for cities .. Gdansk is Gdansk, not Danzig.

Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

Thank you, I appreciate the help

Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]


Yes, I suppose a museum would have no interest in someone working for free with a degree in their subject matters giving English tours ... and as mentioned, I have a job in the US that I can work at in Poland that is sufficient to pay for a family to live pretty nicely in the US ... supporting myself is no problem and I can provide tons of documentation that it is not.

Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]


That is a good idea, even though I work in the computer field, I do have a degree in European History ... if both my wife and I got jobs/volunteered to do English tours at a museum or something like that, are you saying that would increase our chances of staying longer?


My thought was to just bring ourselves and some clothes, laptops over there and leave our stuff in the US in storage and rent a furnished apartment there. The language part is moreso to make life there easier ... it is mainly the culture and being in Europe for a long period of time that holds the most appeal.

We have been saying we would be selling our house around this time, so it seems like the best time to do it as we would not have many ties here, I have somewhat done this before, only it was moving to a different state in the US and living in an apartment for some period of time before settling in.

Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

Yes, I have a job in the US with a US company, however my job allows me to work remotely ... I actually go into the office at most 6 times a year and can cut that down to twice a year if I want to.

So, it does not matter if I am working from my house in Texas,an apartment in Poland, or a base on the Moon. The only reason I am not doing this now is my youngest child is still in High School

To get around the 6 months, I suppose we could stay 3 months .. return home or go to some other non-EU country for some period of time, then come back again for another 3 months. Obviously that adds an additional expense of more plane tickets.

Law / US citizen looking to live in Poland for 6+ months like a long-term tourist [51]

I should have been more clear, I am a US citizen. I am glad I would not need a work permit, but I would probably like to stay longer than 90 days. I guess I can look to extend it. Our purpose of temporarily moving there is to really immerse ourselves in the culture, study the history of the area, and pick up the language. I do not think 90 days is long enough to do that considering I would still be working 8 to 10 hours a day during the week.