Posts by S_capedaconcrete

S_capedaconcrete

16 hrs ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

@Ironside
I know; the market in the US is ripe with offgrid-capable properties, but this country is going insane which is why I'm looking towards Europe.

@jon357
not really, other EU countries have a fixed % on the property's value as a way to calculate property tax, Poland has weird land classifications and it's not clear how much you'd practically end up paying yearly on your average piece of land of a certain square footage/value for non business purpose.

S_capedaconcrete

17 hrs ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

@jon357
how much do people pay in property tax per hectare/m2 having buildable vs non buildable land?

S_capedaconcrete

1 day ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

is that like a small garden? Thanks for the suggestion, but am I to understand there is no legal way to live in a forest in Poland? I was in Podkarpackie a few weeks ago and remember seeing trailers/mobile home/cabins in forests several dozens of meters from the street. And if you look up people living offgrid in Poland online there's some guy doing hospitality on some website and another one on facebook, both showing their cabin in the woods that they live in. How did they do it? Are they just larping and paying exorbitant taxes or is there a legit way to do it?

S_capedaconcrete

1 day ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

@Ron2
It depends. If taxes are too much of a hassle I'd be ok with just living in an rv or mobile home, but not sure whether that's always possible. Honestly pretty weird they won't let you live on the very land you bought.

@jon357
by how much?

S_capedaconcrete

1 day ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

I knew a guy who thought living in the woods was 'authentic' too.

Some people are content with living alienated in smelly and loud concrete hells and to delude themselves of living in the luxury of modernity while working 40 hours a week and barely surviving paycheck to paycheck for 40 years so that they may finally "own" the overpriced apartment they took an exorbitant mortgage on for the sake of acting like everyone else and subject themselves to indentured servitude, with the highest topics of reflection in such a life being football games and gossip, and the biggest existential aspirations being going on a vacation for 2 weeks a year to some place crowded by a bunch of desperate people like themselves who live the same lifestyle.

Some other people are content with not selling their time and soul for basic material goods and instead achieve such goods via self sufficiency (food, heating, a roof over their head) having the remaining time for their individual and existential development, all the while being in contact with creation and its beauty, far from the pits of human greed and existential shortsightedness that are cities.

To each their own.

Thanks for the info; I like Poland but as far as Europe goes there Scandinavian countries seem to be friendlier.

S_capedaconcrete

1 day ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

Cool, I thought it'd be much worse. How many hectares do you own? Did you have any roadblocks to buy the forest? If yes how did you solve them? And do you live on the forest (if yes is it buildable or do you live in a mobile home)?

Also, I don't plan to cut trees for fun, just the bare minimum for heating/cooking, as I don't really care for electricity/running water.

By the way would it be fine to have a small greenhouse for personal use on forest land?

S_capedaconcrete

1 day ago

Real Estate / How to buy forest land in Poland? [18]

I'm a Polish citizen through descent and I'd like to move to southern Poland in a few years (probably Podkarpackie or Lesser Poland), buy a forest with some money I have saved up and live off the grid. I know there's a bunch of hoops to get agricultural land, which would require getting a 1 year course to become a certified farmer, I don't really care for that though, I'd be more interested to buy forest land not for business/agricultural purposes (I read forest land is categorized differently from agricultural/recreational land etc.).

Could anyone guide me on the process for buying forest land (NON BUILDABLE; I read somewhere that buildable land costs more in terms of taxes and I don't intend to build, I'd be just fine living in a mobile home/trailer on said land) and the property taxes per hectare? I found this link (przyjazne-deklaracje.pl/podatek-lesny/) which says "the fee is payable per hectare and is calculated as 0.220 cubic meters of timber at its average price". What does that mean? How do they know how many cubic meters of timber I have in my forest? Also, I don't intend to sell timber, just to use it for heating/cooking. I'd like to buy at least 3-4 hectares of forest. How would I go about that and how much in tax would I pay each year?

S_capedaconcrete

4 Jun 2025

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]

We are so back. Commies are seething rn. They tried to discredit the guy on every mainstream media platform even resorting to the fact he was a bouncer when he was like 16 lmao, not even mentioning his academic background and phd. The will of the people will prevail.

S_capedaconcrete

26 May 2025

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

Good to know property tax isn't high. I'm not necessarily looking for strictly agricultural land. I'd like a small forest, even if under 1 hectare, just to have firewood for stove and cooking and space for a greenhouse as far as growing food, some chickens and a couple goats. Any restrictions on solar?(private panels, no weird davos stuff or whatever)

S_capedaconcrete

26 May 2025

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

I'd be interested in moving off-grid in Poland (north-east probably). I'm from another country in Europe and we have property tax on land/homes here that is in % of the value of said property. What is the property tax on land in Poland? Like if I want to buy say 4 hectares of land and put a mobile home/RV on it, how much will I pay yearly if, say, I paid 600.000 PLN?