Life / Anyone living in Szczecin? What's the city like? [69]

About that Laguna Gryfino Aqua park: quite scenic, with less traffic and a bit shorter (!) road from Szczecin to Gryfino would be when driving through Germany - crossing to Germany via Rosowek and back to Poland via Gryfino - Mescherin bridge.

Only weekends there are crowded and midweek occasionally you'd have a bus of school kids

Life / Anyone living in Szczecin? What's the city like? [69]

according to Internet there is one place in Szczecin where you can do loundry yourself:

perfektpralnia.pl/index.php

Pralnia "PERFEKT"
ul. Witkiewicza 58/U10
Szczecin
Telefon: 730 095 294
Email: perfektpralnia@gmail

other options would be using students dormitories where they have coin operated facilities

Life / Anyone living in Szczecin? What's the city like? [69]


Palac Mlodzierzy in Szczecin has several dancing groups your daughter might enjoy (not sure how she'd handle it linguistically) - it's a youth center with all kind of other activities like painting, ceramics, musical instruments etc

palac.szczecin.pl/pracownia-tanca-etnicznego

Szczecin is good if you like hiking or being on bike - lots of green areas inside and outside of town google perhaps and have a look at: Puszcza Bukowa , Jezioro Szmaragdowe , Lasek Arkonski, Park Kasprowicza, Jezioro Głebokie

If you like sport entertainment Szczecin has basketball, handball and volleyball league games in safe environment, on AZOTY ARENA where lots of families would come with kids

For swimming: ARKONKA KAPIELISKO or some 40 km away aqua park GRYFINO LAGUNA
Hope this helps

News / Local elections - anyone care to comment? [75]

To vote for Sejmik one had to choose one candidate, the booklet for Sejmiki had several pages - many marked one candidate on each page....not bothering to read or educate before voting.

Any irregularities anyway should and would be dealt by local courts. If elections would be repeated then only locally. Again no need to new elections countrywide some argue for (PiS SLD)

Very disappointed with SLD....I understand and expect not much from Kaczynski who would call the elected president "ten Pan" but SLD?? ... questioning election and calling for making them again, nationwide is a big surprise to me and first of all disgusting, political antidemocratic maneuver. Bag of scumbags they are along with PiS now. Miller who could pride himself of getting us into EU now is questioning our young democracy.

Elections were local - for those not understanding - there is no assembly of all elected, no such institution -only locally, where protests are examined by court we could have elections done again.

News / Local elections - anyone care to comment? [75]

Technical failure resulted with counting votes late and announcing results later then usual. People voted already and their votes could be counted - even manually. No need for new election. Any complains as for the results/procedure etc can be dealt by court locally as it was done in previous elections.

Life / Vandalism in Poland: Has it always been this way? [80]

You don't see graffiti being done as most of it is a 5 second **** on the wall. As for fast clean up hardly any building has a maintenance guy present at the property and cleaning ladies don't have graffiti clean up on their contracts; tenants could call but property management would be deaf on much more important issues.

The real vandals are drivers - on sidewalks and also green areas. Shoes here wear out much faster...on sharp sidewalks elements, loose stones, glass, you name it.

Life / Vandalism in Poland: Has it always been this way? [80]

stadiums are hooligans free these days......almost free.
Streets aren't the same as in PRL, we are much louder and we swear a lot, out loud, too. Nobody would flee from Police either. In PRL Police would round up anybody near vandalized property, beat them up on the way to Police station and force some to admit a crime....Now they can't establish who did what fast enough.

TV, Internet would take any news and now everybody has camera, so would post any incident up somewhere for others to see.
Society tends to raise children better, I would like to believe. At least beating children is now punishable and less frequent.
Still, Poland is a very safe place to be overall and all the hype is indeed media theme.

UK, Ireland / Advice needed on a Polish funeral/customs in the UK [11]

We need to get some Polish soil for the burial (does anyone know how we can do this in the UK?

- You need just a handful of soil. It is thrown into grave first, by close member of a family

Wear a black ribbon to mourn the dead, sometimes for a whole year
- 6 months for grandpa, 1 year for mother/father, other relatives 3 months:

dressingmrsl.blogspot.com/2010/04/zaloba-w-polsce-zaloba-wsrod-polonii.html

For funeral notices (and graves?) we should use the phrase, S+P before his name, meaning Swietej Pamieci, and sometimes an hourglass too
- it is Ś P with a cross in between. Like in the photograph here:

Mourning in Poland , mourning among the Polish community

In the face of this tragedy, I feel more a Pole than when our athletes have won gold medals at international sporting events.

I bought a black ribbon , I wear it in the lapel in the period of national mourning . Flag lowered to half- mast . Friends call of condolence .

Strange to me , sad and terribly together.

There is a memorial mass on the first anniversary of the death
- yes. And dinner after the funeral for all ceremony participants

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [437]


The rage suppressed in childhood is transformed into hate.

Work / How does a person join the Poland's army? [39]

I'm not sure how it is this year but few years back Polish Army would take 2000 soldiers onto some contracts and there were 20000 willing to join in. So, over all it is not easy to get into the army. The usual process is as follows: at certain age you are called to do your 9 months regular service for the army - you may take it or refuse. After 9 months you'd have a chance to apply for professional contract. As you said you'd be having polish nationality and would be going to school in Poland. This would be a good time and place to visit any army office (WKU) and probably volunteer with regular service.

Love / Turkish girl & Polish guy marriage. Will his parents ever accept me as a non Christian female? [42]


Good chances are they would. Family ties in Poland are loosening in general so perhaps you'd be less dependent and in less contact with your in laws - assuming you end up living in Poland. Being from Turkey and not form some other non-Christian country would definitely help, too - considering over all good perception of Turks in Poland and some history with Polish-Turkish intermarriage.

Travel / Where do Polish people fly to for beach vacations in the winter? [34]

Right! Greece as destination tops sales in January but those few rich Poles buy early for summer --to save.

Travel / Where do Polish people fly to for beach vacations in the winter? [34]

Greece , Turkey, Spain , Egypt,Tunisia were on top in first 8 weeks of 2014 with Greece some 24 % and Tunisia 6%

places like Antalya, Teneryfa, Majorka, Hurghada, Rodos , Korfu, Charm el Sheik, Agadir

total number per year for Egypt is around 100 000 Poles, compared with Germany's 700 000, UK 500 000 or Bulgaria 300 000

Genealogy / Is there a list of names of who was in Poland's Anders army? [34]

stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=42

the list of about 29000 soldiers from the book: Trzecia Dywizja Strzelców Karpackich 1942-1947 , London 1991

Life / Childbirth in Poland - can you please tell your experience? [8]

it was around 11 000 PLN ...5 years ago

school 400,00 zł
regular birth 4520,00 zł
c section with 4 days hospital 6940,00 zł
single room hospital 350,00 zł
double 300,00 zł
damian.com.pl/polski/cennik/pol.asp

Law / Move to Poland with Misdemeanors? [10]

Language / Rozumiesz - I have a question on Polish language. [11]

Don't you understand? - Yes, I understand.
Don't you understand? - No, I don't understand.

And this is my choice.
Nie rozumiesz? - Nie, ja rozumiem. - this is fine. Probably it should be written: Nie. Ja rozumiem.
or Tak, ja rozumiem. It should only go as: Tak.(...) Ja rozumiem.

Nie rozumiesz? - Nie, nie rozumiem. - ok here

Travel / Sightseeing suggestions within 2 hours travel from Rzeszow required [10]

Take her to Sandomierz and buy her something made of krzemień pasiasty

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_flint

virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Poland/Sandomierz-475 363/Things_To_Do-Sandomierz-TG-C-1.html

Life / How much money can I exchange in a single transaction at a Kantor? [7]

50 000 PLN

Life / Public Masturbation now allowed in Sweden, Would this work in Poland? [43]

Authorities in Krakow are warning tram users
to keep their eyes peeled for a man who
has taken to masturbating whilst traveling.
According to Fakt, the skinny man is aged
around 30-35-years-old and is working the
number 13 tram line.
When approached the offender is said to
have replied "girls like it because they never
complain."
Police are asking for any help which may lead
to his identification.

Life / Polands new immigrants from the West. [36]

Poland's providing the right to Armenians to work in this country from 1 January 2014 without a work permit for six months

news.az/articles/commentary/85818

UK, Ireland / Agnieszka Pomaska, beautiful Polish politician [43]

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25763524

As for polish politician beauties please check Elzbieta Bienkowska (famous for her tattoos) and Joanna Mucha - both Civic Platform

UK, Ireland / Are there any UK-based Polish forums where I can advertise jobs? [6]

googled up some for you

forum.glasgow24.pl
glasgow.infolinia.org
polemi.co.uk
polscott24.com

News / Are the Germans taking back Świnoujście? [22]

No concern for this one. One may have impression Swinoujscie has lots of Germans but only ...from October to April when Polish tourists are indeed gone. Town is on the list of newly approved EU infrastructure/transportation project TEN-T - connecting Baltic with Adriatic, so it would likely get this under the river, road tunnel and would perhaps feel more connected to mainland.

On similar note borderland LÖCKNITZ, GERMANY is ...taken by Poles.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]

hey, back to topic guys, keep up good work.

A TLK Krakow - Warsaw train was stopped last Friday when a woman became worried after seeing a Muslim praying.

According to TVN, the 59-year-old got off the train at the next station and phoned her husband after witnessing the Moroccan student behaving "suspiciously". Her husband in turn contact the police.

"She misinterpreted the situation. He did not behave dangerously," says police spokeswoman Barbara Stepien.

News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]

yes, yes

Life / Child abuse in Poland [64]

Almost all small children are smacked during the first three years of life when they begin to walk and to touch objects which may not be touched - worldwide. Most people tolerate this blindly because the origins of human violence in childhood have been and are still being ignored - worldwide. Beaten children very early on assimilate the violence they endured, which they may glorify and apply later as parents, in believing that they deserved the punishment and were beaten out of love. They don't know that the only reason for the punishments they had to endure is the fact that their parents themselves endured and learned violence without being able to question it.

-Alice Miller

Genealogy / I am looking for an African guy in Krakow, I dated [73]

I think you are all being taken for a ride here and "kasia" has some fun

Study / Student dormitories vs private rooms in Poland. What's the best option? [12]

student dormitory rooms are usually small in size and it could get noisy from time to time; advantage being also an easy access to your fellow students and getting all sorts of information from them ( where to go, how to get there, etc ). This is very important at the beginning ...

Good private room has lots of advantages, too like more privacy, quiet if you want some peace, best imo are rooms close to dormitory - you'd have both: your own privacy and social aspect of dormitory living.

Real Estate / Renting in Poland - tenants' rights? [51]


In practice if your tenant is a pregnant women or registered unemployed and some other specified cases you'd have to yourself find them the address to move out - which could be any substandard, 5 m2 per person , shared toilet etc place to live.