Real Estate / Are the property prices in Poland too high? [19]

But this type of attitude is not only linked to old PRL times, it is also cultural.Unlike the Brits or the Dutch who are first and foremost traders, the inner psyche of a Pole is that of a peasant/landowner, who has no clue about offer and demand and what a market really is/how it functions. Hence many real estate owners in PL prefer to sit on unlet houses/flats until they meet a prospective tenant ready to pay their price (someone will turn up one day !) rather than adapt (ie lower) their price to where the demand is.

Real Estate / Are the property prices in Poland too high? [19]

That's understandable, since McD attracts traffic to the mall which benefits all other retailers present

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1694]


Crowie, no one points a finger in, but "to". Maybe you tried to do such a thing and damaged your brain in the process, which would explain a lot :)

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1694]


Lukashenko has got a lot of weaknesses but he certainly is not a nutcase..

Love / What Do Polish Women Think Of French Men? [26]


Or maybe it is because most of them are made in Central and Eastern Europe nowadays? My French car is made in.. Romania, but I also have a German one and my preferred one made in Britain (pic attached)

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Love / What Do Polish Women Think Of French Men? [26]

@Ziemowit
Thanks Ziemowit!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]


no doubt hell will freeze before this happens!

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

Do you know who you remind me of Crowie? Philippulus the Prophet, in the Shooting Star, Opus #10 of the adventures of Tintin and Snowy! For those who don't know what I am talking about, here is the link: images.app.goo.gl/Kye9qJ4x2jzQ7ic37

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

@cms neuf
Kids make a huge difference, so does where you live. My wife and I shuttle between two abodes, Paris and a place in the countryside, and all our 3 cars stay at the latter

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


indeed, same all over the world. That's why you probably live in the sticks, dear Johnny

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [152]

South of France anytime for me..

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [174]

Here is one for Zbyszek Koziol, which I bought in 1999 from his gallery in Key West

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Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


Well, well.. I truly pity you Novichok if the only women you ever met fit in those categories..

News / Do you support a wall on the Polish East border? [15]


Isn't that what they used to do on the Berlin wall? True, they shot at the ones wanting to leave rather than get in, but this didn't stop others from trying to escape...

UK, Ireland / From Hertfordshire, UK to Śląskie, Poland - Are we crazy? [35]


Having lived with the family in Poland (Warsaw) for almost 6 years (2005-2010), I would second almost everything Atch wrote.. except the part above re Citizenship. In addition to our stint in Wrasaw, my family and I also lived 8 years in London, between 1993 and 2001. Being French and my wife Polish, my wife talked to me in 1999 about getting British citizenship for our children (at the time, you could apply after 5 years of residency, don't know if it's still the case). I said to her "what for, they already have dual French and Polish citizenship". In the end, I gave in ( as always :), and am very happy now that I did. Two of our children live and work in London, and if they did not have British citizenship, Brexit would have been a real nightmare for them. True, a Polexit is not on the cards today, but who know what the future has in store?

UK, Ireland / From Hertfordshire, UK to Śląskie, Poland - Are we crazy? [35]

Precisely, that's what I mean, maybe I wasn't clear enough. If the OP intends to relocate to Poland and he doesn't get Polish citizenship, his life might become very difficult if there is at some point in time a Polexit, just like staying in the Uk without British citizenship would have been very difficult for my children..

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [397]

There were so any strange things..

Being non Polish, I remember taking my first railway trip in Poland with my Polish wife in 1987 from Warsaw to Krakow. At some point, the train stopped for long minutes in the middle of nowhere. I asked my wife what was going on; she said something that I still remember, we were waiting for a goods train to pass, they had priority over passengers trains. This added for me to strangeness of communism, it was the first time I heard this; in the western world, passenger trains always have priority. Maybe this is an allegory of communism, priority given to production over people!

UK, Ireland / Boris Johnson - is the new British PM a popular figure in Poland? [150]

I presume you are talking about the head of British armed forces; ie HM the Queen? Knew there was some German background, but not Russian??

Life / Which areas of Poland have the most conservative young women (under 22)? [49]


No because in France people don't use "French leather " (and not "French letter" :)) but rather what is known as "capote anglaise" (aka English condom)