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Any chance you can actually link to any UN data? Rather than telling us that the UN said so because a Spanish real estate company said the UN said it.


It's clearly utter bollocks. For the claim to be true, one in every 200 people in Poland would need to be a Brit, which is laughable.


Oops. Yet more facts that disprove the claims of the Spanish real estate company.
I'm wondering if there are even 185 Brits in Poland who speak completely fluent Polish. Pretty much all the 'Brits' I've met in Poland who were as comfortably speaking Polish as English were actually Poles (in the eyes of Poland). I can only think of two in all the years I've been here who weren't officially Polish but were completely fluent in Polish.

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So, rather than being an official statistic it's just yet more bullshit made up by a real estate agency, just like the number of Brits living in Poland in 2023 being 184,900. Although I suppose at least with the stat you gave there isn't clear and reliable data showing it to be utter bullsh!t, unlike the laughable claim that number of Brits living in Poland in 2023 was 184,900.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 27 [864]


Yet more lies from the 'man' who even lies about his name: the WIG20 and the WIG30 were both up today.
bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Leniwy-poniedzialek-na-GPW-WIG-i-WIG20-koncza-tuz-ponizej-rekordow-9061664.html

Real Estate / Flat rental in Warsaw [52]

Interesting how we go from

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I guess such reading skills would explain why somebody thinks that a Spanish real estate agency publishes data for the UN and that polskiobserwator.uk is a branch of the UN.


That's a clear case of there being insufficient data for any conclusions to be drawn. Sometimes not enough data is drawn, for example the number of Ukrainians who entered Poland and didn't later move elsewhere in the Schengen Zone simply isn't known, so it has to be estimated. But the number of Brits who live in Poland is known, because Brits need a residency permit in order to live in Poland, and the number of permits issued very certainly is known, and published.

BTW, can I ask what the official source you're referring to? Last I heard individual house sale prices weren't public information and no government body publishes any data it has about house sale prices. Unlike, to repeat myself, the number of residency permits which enable Brits to live in Poland, which most certainly is published.

Real Estate / Flat rental in Warsaw [52]


They have hard data, which for some things is very reliable.


Actually they didn't, as the GUS Demographic Yearbook 2020 makes clear.


You do know what the word "estimate" means, don't you? Here's an example of how to use it in a sentence: GUS do not estimate that the number of Brits who have a valid residency permit of any type in Poland is 7,510, GUS know that the number is 7,510 and they can tell you where and when those permits were issued and to whom.
Also, those "social services", do they get more money or less money based on supposedly needing to provide services to more people? So, they have an vested interest in what the number of Ukrainians in Gdansk is taken to be. GUS, on the other hand, don't care whether the number of Brits who have residency permits in Poland is seven, seventy or seven hundred thousand.


It's actually very up-to-date and accurate for Brits: if we don't have our papers in order. we'll be pulled over when trying to leave the Schengen Zone or refused entry to the Schengen Zone. Which is why one can say with a huge degee of confidence that Brits are not a source of demand for tens of thousands of flats/houses in Poland.

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Real Estate / Flat rental in Warsaw [52]


Since when has polskiobserwator been a source of UN data? The source of the 184,900 number is Spanish real estate agency 5 Real Estate, as made clear by Polskie Radio. polskieradio.pl/395/7789/artykul/3574359,poland-jumps-into-top-10-destinations-for-uk-migrants-as-numbers-quadruple

But if you want to claim the number is from the UN, give us a link to that number from the UN.


No, the population of neither Torun nor Kielce is anything even close to 7,510.


Yes, it's not as if GUS have access to all the records regarding all residency permits issued to all foreigners broken down by nationality, office at which permit was applied for, type of permit granted, marital status of applicant, etc, etc, etc, is it? Oh, sorry, they do have access to that data and publish it annually for those who prefer actual hard data to guestimates from Spanish real estate agencies.

Real Estate / Flat rental in Warsaw [52]


Please don't repeat utter b0llocks that was first written by a Spanish real estate company. As of 1 January 2025 the actual number of Brits living in Poland (i.e. having a valid residency permit of any type) was 7,510. Have a look at table 42 (193) in the GUS Demographic Yearbook 2025.

stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/roczniki-statystyczne/roczniki-statystyczne/rocznik-demograficzny-2025,3,19.html

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 27 [864]


Yes, but the median income in North Nigeria is $3,600 per year, because so much of the money there is stolen by the people at the top.


You do know you're talking to somebody who sold out his own family in order to move to the USA, don't you? When he failed to return to Poland when he said he would, they paid a heavy price and did so for years. That's one of the reasons they all utterly shun him.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [457]


Isn't that related to Wassailing?

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [457]


Yes, but just one person taking a dump in a swimming pool every day stops anybody else wanting to swim there.

Would you want to visit a Christmas market if you knew there was a 100% chance there'd be a crazy old man spewing hate at everybody who came near him?

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I'm pointing out that you claimed a particular something is happening when the reality is that it is not happening. What's happening is you being exposed as a liar, yet again.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [457]


I really hope she does at least stop by, it wouldn't be Christmas without her!

That said, it's not exactly Christmassy weather here right now. No snow. Temperature a few degrees above zero. Grey skies. Not seen the sun for what feels like weeks. More like a beach holiday in the UK than a Polish Christmas.


I fear you might be right. There's only so much hate-filled ranting from "Rich" about LGBT and immigrants that one person can take.

Off-Topic / THE POLISH FORUMS CHRISTMAS TREE! [60]


Another day and still the Joke can't name even a single one of the towns canceling Christmas markets because they can't afford security to ward off Islamist attacks. He's nothing more than a Joke now, just another busted flush.

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Nothing connected with FIFA is good. And who is to blame for what FIFA get away with? The people who watch FIFA matches. If everybody just stopped paying attention to things connected with FIFA, it will lose both all advertisers and regimes who want to sportwash their reputations.

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Off-Topic / THE POLISH FORUMS CHRISTMAS TREE! [60]


As stated in the article, he's charged with undertaking preparatory activities to carry out a terrorist attack that could have resulted in the death or serious injury of many people.


You'd prefer the police waited until he exploded a bomb and then arrested him?

Off-Topic / THE POLISH FORUMS CHRISTMAS TREE! [60]

Yikes! A Catholic university student in Lublin, Mateusz W., has been arrested and charged with plotting to bomb Lublin Christmas market. Details are still coming in.

tvn24.pl/lublin/lublin-student-kul-planowal-zamach-zostal-zatrzymany-przez-abw-st8803499

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What kind of moron would even think about going to Paris for New Year's Eve? Oh, sorry, the same kind of moron who thinks that claiming to have a tesla is some kind of flex. And the same kind of moron who can't name even a single Christmas markets that's been cancelled because they can't afford security to ward off Islamist attacks.

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Four days after being asked to name two of the towns he claims are canceling Christmas markets because they can't afford security to ward off Islamist attacks, he hasn't named even one town that's done that. Seems that the joke has been caught lying again.

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A lesson learned from the events at Prague airport in 1968.


From what I've read some elements of the Czechoslovak armed forces were absolutely itching for the opportunity to invade Poland after Polish forces had invaded parts of Czechoslovakia four times in the previous 64 years.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 27 [864]


Hopefully he'll forever more be known as War Crimes Witkoff.

Off-Topic / THE POLISH FORUMS CHRISTMAS TREE! [60]


Name two of them. Or just admit you're lying. Yet again.

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Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]


I don't know who you use in Poland but you can choose the option listed on whichever European stock market you prefer. Have a look here: atlasetf.pl/etf-details/LU0252633754/availability

I got the WSE-listed one because Alior are doing 0% commission trades for WSE-listed ETFs this year and because I don't want to have to buy euro from my IKE brokerage PLN.

I've also stuck some IKE dosh into Beta ETF WIG20TR. It's a 0.65% TER but I don't see any cheaper WIG-tracking ETFs at the moment.

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If anybody is interested in WSE-listed ETFs, have a look at Amundi Core S&P 500 EUR Dist, listed as ETFSP500. It has a TER of 0.05%. Also worth having a look at is Amundi DAX II UCITS Acc ETF, listed as ETFDAX. TER of 0.15%. Both available via Alior IKE brokerage (and other places).