Work / Family of four considering a move to Poland from USA [31]

Poland still one of the cheapest places in europe for real estate, but boom is happening, prices gonna continue to rocket so get in while you can.

Real Estate / Purchasing apartment in the Polish border region as a foreigner [10]

Yes I get that, i've bought properties before, however we sought opinion of a lawyer who specialises in foreigners buying property given we were unsure about this permit rule. Plus, I also like to get an opinion before I sign into a deal for large amounts, it's quite sensible. Can I ask your permission to continue?

Real Estate / Purchasing apartment in the Polish border region as a foreigner [10]

It seems to be true, as we are going through same thing. Firstly as I understand generally, if you reside in Poland, have permanent residence here, then you definitely do not need a permit. This is backed up by within the brexit agreement (art. 11 and 23) it forbids discrimination of UK citizens. I understand these clauses are very general and there is no precedent yet set, however if your residence in Poland is legal and have ''zaswiadczenie o zameldowaniu na pobyt stały'' then I struggle to see why it's not ok to buy post brexit

however in your case you mention you are in a border region, I am also buying a flat right now in a border region and have same problem. The lawyer from developer and banks lawyer is saying we don't need a permit, but my lawyer says we do. No idea who is right. My lawyer says that whilst under law we need a permit to buy in a border area the brexit agreement could be used to argue that in fact we don't. However as this has never been tested in courts we have no idea if it holds up to be true

Travel / Poland or Philippines? Which is better for a vacation? (sex tourism) [39]

Jesus

Only good thing about covid is that it's keeping such low grade rabble out of Poland

Life / Poor hygiene of people in public places in Poland [46]

Mate, a few stinky people on the tram or spice heads and crack rats polluting the main streets. Look at Downtown LA for e.g.

i know which i'd prefer

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

-abyixbiowcbvbuovgugrviobewiobcwbcoce

makes about as much sense as half the posts in here

Love / Different culture towards having sex [8]

I can help you out

Love / They seem nice, but could Polish girls be "gold diggers"? [196]


How we're the cornflakes anyway? You know the ones you woke up with your face in.

Life / I think once Amazon arrives it will make Allegro totally irrelevant and bankrupt within a year [28]

@Novichok
You know anyone can leave a review on Amazon regardless of whether they made a purchase or not, right?

Life / I think once Amazon arrives it will make Allegro totally irrelevant and bankrupt within a year [28]

Allegro will get smashed. Amazon customer service 2nd to none. Only problem with Amazon is that they don't do enough to root out 3rd party sellers who sell inferior products

Life / UFOs in Poland [38]

Apparently one crash landed in Kielce and another in centre of Katowice

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]

Who cares

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

Nordstream2 demonstrates EU ''Solidarity'' at it's finest. We all stick together to do what's in the ''common'' interest, except if Germany and the rich northern states disagree, then they pull rank. Saw it with the Financial Crisis, the refugee crisis and Nordstream 2

END THIS TERRIBLE UNION

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

@jon357
Paperwork is easy, I buy certain products from many small UK suppliers and apart from one duty mess in the first days post brexit there was no problems so far. I do understand though for fresh food like Bacon it can is a bureaucratic post brexit and saw Britishshop.pl already seem to have pulled these.

Btw - on the Hendersons relish, i didn't find any in Poland anywhere. But then a pal who saw a similar post of mine on social media pointed me to allegro. I found one guy who has 7 bottles of the stuff, I took 4 of them :)

Where in S Yorks were you from Jon?

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Merged:

Is it possible to buy Henderson's relish anywhere in Poland?

Anyone know if it's possible to get Henderson's relish anywhere in Polska? Got addicted to the stuff after spending a couple of years in Sheffield. Was bringing lots of the stuff back from trips pre-pandemic but now my stocks are out. Withdrawal symptoms are monstrous

News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]


Agree Son Of Harry. If the government left the poor destitute, we hear how mean they were. How come some policies are only seen as ''progressive'' when it's a certain party handing them out.

PiS are F Jobs in many ways, but I find it hard to slate them for what a policy which has lifted many out of abject poverty. The problem today with politics is that it's all or nothing, but i believe differently. I can disagree strongly with PiS on their abortion policies whilst also supporting strongly 500+

Study / STUDY ABROAD in Krakow. What's the area like (and a few more questions). [6]

I wonder if the poster came in the end

Work / Teaching Post in Zory (2600 zl per month after tax good?) [10]

Thanks Jon - would defo do it by road. Reckon it can be done in under 1 hour in rush hour?

Also given they're renovating the train station there - any chance of better trains to Kato in future?

Work / Teaching Post in Zory (2600 zl per month after tax good?) [10]

Can anyone tell me a little about Zory. How is it to commute to Katowice if you have your own car? Is traffic tough?

Real Estate / Can the Poland's apartment building coop be forced to fix the building's front door? [6]

My question is whether they can be forced to do a quality replacement. Our COOP does do the fixes but always using low quality materials which means 6-12 months later we have an issue again

Food / Christmas pudding in Poland [22]

Selfridges will deliver one. Just order online (although maybe a bit late now)

Feedback / Is it finaly time to have Slavic section on this forum? [9]

Should be slavic section on internet full stop

Life / Charity Shops in Poland - where are they? I've got some old clothes [13]

Merged:

Where can i donate stuff in Krakow

Have some things i'd like to get rid of as part of a declutter, including clothes, DVDs and some books. All in great quality and decent stuff but ideally i'd like to donate to a nice charity shop that does good things. Any recommends?

Work / What is a good monthly salary for an English teacher in Poland? [124]

Peanuts and yep from my experience with english language schools here, you pay peanuts you get monkeys

Life / Polish Ice Hockey [17]

@Joker
Disagree, Ice hockey is really fast sport with huge tactical element to game. Also Golf I always thought the same, however I was lucky enough to be invited to the golf open in Carnoustie, Scotland. The one where harrington beat garcia in the playoff. Must admit that was where i realised i was wrong.

Yes you are right though on the kit, it's really expensive, Helmet, shoulder pads, padded shorts, elbow pads, gloves, leg guards, skates not to mention the stick. If you play at a decent level a pair of gloves alone won't get you much change out of $200.

Life / Polish Ice Hockey [17]

@delphiandomine
Yes me too mate. Really enjoy it and standard is mega. Plus arena is very nice.

Love / Adultery- Is it ok for Polish women [41]

@Amber
It's only recently that divorce is becoming acceptable. I know a lady in her 50's whose husband left her (after his affair) and she is completely ashamed, like somehow she wasn't a good wife. Times are changing though thankfully.

Life / Polish Ice Hockey [17]

Polish ice hockey is lame, about the only time worth going is when the winner of league plays in European champions hockey league.

Best to cross border and go watch any of the eastern czech teams. Generally nice stadiums, decent crowds and great hockey standard.

Life / Poczta Polska Is Killing ME! Transit time. [28]

If Poczta Polska was a person, that person would be serving 10 whole life jail sentences.