Foreigners: Please don't buy the Polish Land!

Exactly!
They don't know how good they have it most of the time.

I have had a lot of Polish workers alongside me recently some extoll Poland and some are buying property back home. Certainly some bemoan life at home. Isn't that common to the world? When the British housing boom took off I took big risks to join it. Some Poles take the risk others do not. The risk may well take excessive hour work for many years as is the case the world over.

As a number of the English (plus Canadians, Americans and Irish) buying in Poland have Polish fathers or mothers at what point do they not become Polish?

Hmm.

Both my parents are from Poland, and Polish (though the large noses and dark hair may suggest just a *little* ethnic mixing at some time in the past ;) ). They moved to the UK between the 1940s and mid-1960s. My mum and stepdad (who is also Polish) own a house in the UK. I was born here, though.

So is it OK for me to move to Poland and buy property there, or am I also to be regarded as a "greedy capitalist foreigner"? Or are you and your crew going to burn down my flat and stab me up for being foreign?

The longer I spend in Poland, the more I realise how Polish I actually am, irrespective of where I was actually born. I love my country, but I can't and won't deny my roots or ethnicity.

Now I know how black and Asian people feel when they are told "f*** off back to where you came from", when in fact they and their parents are actually from Birmingham. :D

When you move to poland live and work here it is ok but I am against foreigners who "invest" in Poland, do not live in Poland and buy only to sell when pice is right or keep flats empty while young polish people have no money to buy their own because they are too expensive. It do nothing good to its economy but push pices up.

Capitalists NO

People who want to work and live here YES

Looks like I'm safe then lol :)

so far... so far :P

Yeah, but I'm from south London innit so don't try a ting blud :p ;)

lmmfao!

original rude boy outta london

hahaha u kno dat bruv, no long ting :D

keep da story strong bredrin... we south london rude boys have da longest tings... ;)

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Hi OR.

My parents were both Polish too :)



That's exactly how I feel as well :)

Nice to meet someone else in the same situation :)

:D :D :D

hhhmmm this opinion is a bad as those who say 'The Polish should go home and not come to Britain' its narrow minded and bordering on imperialism.

Actually as a single girl with no deposit and several jobs just to make ends meet, yes, actually, I have to work every hour that god sends to pay my way..as for buying a house in England on my own.. hah!! fat chance..

Am I right to point out that if there is a problem with Americans buying Polish property...then perhaps the Polish people who are against the practice should be talking to those selling. I am traveling to Poland in a week. I was hesitant and not that interested when first planning. My views changed when I learned more of what the Polish people have gone through in history. I am proud to be spending my money in a country that obviously needs it. I've not yet read anything from an American who is disgruntled about Polish people buying property in Chicago...or anywhere else in USA for that matter. We haven't always been a wealthy country and we don't have a never ending source of land either. Our business in USA has several properties in the USA that we will sell to whoever is able to buy it.

I am a English man in My 20's, I am married to a Polish woman who i met in England.
However i vitisted Poland many times before i knew her, I first went to Poland when i was 17.

I own 3 propertys in Poland and own my own House in London. So i know the Polish housing market quite well... The EU has made prices rise... I was looking to Build my own house, but the building material have gone up three times more than what they where just a few years ago, so that has also pushed prices up..

Most young people in england face the same problem of being priced out of the Housing market, I am totally sure that the Polish housing market is only going to grow not drop.

I think some of the comments in this topic are very narrow mindeed.

wow your such a angry person..........I hope you find peace ahahahhaha

Anyone telling Ola or other local Poles that she is narrow minded for defending her country vs. enterprising foreigners really has no clue. Because she is completely right.

Allowing people from Europe, America or other countries to swoop in like vultures and purchase Polish land simply for the purpose of holding it as a personal investment opportunity creates artificial and needless inflation within that country.

This is a travesty to the indigenous people who have very few natural economic benefits to begin with and obviously dont have their government working on their behalf. Land is limited, no two ways about it. Let Poland's land and housing prices rise naturally based on local investment.

Here in the UK the average person can no longer afford to buy a house. I earn above average wage and I could only afford half a house - the rest my parents gave me. The prices started going up around 1998. In 1997 I was offered a house for £95,000. Now that same house is worth £400,000. This is because people are buying houses, renovating them cheaply and renting them or selling for profit. It's pure greed. A house should be purchased by people to live in and raise families. Now the same thing is going on in Poland.

The weasels in America who borrowed too much are finally getting their behinds burned, the housing meltdown is here, no money to borrow, no buyers and the fool speculators are losing money as values decrease/ No more easy gains, the party is over.

A **great** thing in my opinion.

does any govt work on its peoples behalf ??

dude, you cannot be from America.. you live here, but you cant be American
with a attitude like that.. if you are.. thats pretty sad.

that means the future of your children is over.. yeah.. your kids party is over..
so lets just announce how happy we are on a forum..

At last somebody on this forum is making sense, and every forum member should take note, the foreign invaders (sorry BubbaWoo) should pack there backs and go home.

The American property boom is bursting (as in other western countries) some property investors in Poland will be king hit. alleluia

Well being a weasel has been very profitable for me

Perhaps youre a little jealous cause you didnt make it happen?

Kolorowych snow

yeah for Polands sake he does.. anyone trying to start a business after 2001
when 9/11 happened in the US went out the door.. as richard nixon said..
read my lips.. the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor.. the middle guy.. hes
well screwed..

small businesses are fading.. and this guy is happy about it.

I agree that these people are parasites but at the same rate your people come over to England and undercut the pay rates that our unions fought hard for. Also Polish families are draining our welfare state by getting housing after hardly even paying into the system, even i can't even get housing because i have no kids and not enough points. I've just been looking at some Pole's on TV that have bought several houses over here in Newcastle to let them out. It works both ways so i'd say to you go home!

What !!!! Geordieland ?

But they canna talk proper like what we do. This is a bloody insult. Are they wearing black 'n' white ?

Divvent let them in. Ye kna what I mean, like

Well looks like the Polish have small-minded people to, there are 1.2 million Polish moved to the UK! I hope they don’t receive the same treatment as you are prepared to hand out?

Who are you talking to ?

Of course a lot of what you are saying is somewhat similar to the growth of Hitler before the war in the 1930's. I am against an expanded Europe because it is undemocratic and the British have never been asked. In Poland as a foreigner they treat you as a second class citizen but it always works for them when the 'tables are turned'. Now in Brussels England has two votes and Poland has one but they want the same rights as the U.K. Why? So the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia can vote for something and win simply by majority and England will end up footing the bill. I have seen it all before. This is probably why Germany does not want the Poles and feels the same as me-they should work at home to build a better future for themselves.