If I was to move to Poland from Ireland...

- I can see that the Poland-hating Orwellian piggy-pretending-to-be-English is still playing the expert on Poland? Isn't it fascinating to see how hopelessly impossible to overcome the feeling of hate is with some aging creatures? As they say in Poland: he's so old three fourths of the coffin is sticking out his a$$...

And yet he, or rather it, hates so much...

Let's hope its hate will soon help put it out of its misery.
:)

you claim that you have lived in all these so called racist countrys

where are you from?

we have asked before but you have never answered the question??

where are you from all mighty Puzzler????

- Krysia, sweetheart, please don't deify me....

I am Polish, born in Poland, who have lived many years abroad and travelled to great many places. Would it suffice?

maybe its time you were put into place, what makes you better than a bug?


nothing!!!!

- Where does this adversity come from towards me, krysia? Are you angry for my disagreeing with the various Polonophobes in this forum? Do you share their opinions about Poland and Poles? Are you Polonophobic yourself?
:)
PS. Do you feel better than a rodent? If yes, then why?

Come on, Irish folks - visit Poland and see her with your own eyes, instead of relying on hearsay from various choking-on-hate psychopaths in this forum, such as Muckal. You, Irish, deserve our most sincere love and gratitude, because you're by far the least Polonophobic people in Europe. Heaven bless you, folks. Irish and Poles brothers forever!
PS. I'm just making my home in Ireland. I feel really safe there - first time in my life, actually.

i seen it........and i did not want to leave it...but the main reason i did not want to leave it cause my girlfriend is back living there :( :( :( but im going back soon :) :) :)

- Stay with us, brother.

i will try :P....im supporting poland in euro 2008 :).......i hope to get back there in january..........

Ive been living in Poland for almost two years now. There are some issues which I find extremely hard to deal with which I have voiced on several occassions on this very forum. However, its not all bad. Personally i prefer the Polish weather to that of the UK, it is hotter here in the summer and pretty much freezing for most of the winter. I have ski resorts within two hours drive from me so I will be heading out next weekend for a bit of early season snowboarding.

Also I know many foreigners mainly yanks and brits who have come here on a whim and ended up fiding work (usually teaching English) and genrally doing very well for them selves.

- A great sigh of relief on my part. All the best, man.

the difference is that when it rains in Poland it will keep pouring it down all day long ..... whereas in England (at least in South-East) it will rain for half an hour ... then there'll be bright sunshine for the next hour .. before it starts with another heavy downpour ... and so it goes on.....

in North of England I believe it rains a lot more than in the South .... and overall it's a lot more miserable weatherwise ....

splitting hairs about weather is kind of overboard when comparing countries - weather and the climate is somtehing most have no control off;)

That is utter crap

Wroclaw Boy, whereas we all have our opinions, it is the way we express these opinions which tells others a lot about us.

Your comment of “utter crap”, leads me to think you are somewhat challenged in the cognitive area and lack the skills required to hold a decent conversation /discussion or argument; it is a response I would expect from an uneducated, uncouth, Neanderthal Brit :o)

A simple ‘I have to disagree’ or ‘I think you’re wrong’ would have sufficed, followed up with some sort of statement to support your comment :o)))

I was making the point about the difference in rain patterns between England and Poland (sad I know, but there it is ) because my wife who had lived in Poland (Wroclaw in fact) for 30 years had mentioned on numerous occasions that she was amazed how changeable the weather was in England (she has lived in London for 8 years now) – whereas in England you can expect the weather to change several times within the day, in Poland once it started raining, you knew not to expect anything better that day, and it was more likely to continue raining :o)

WroclawBoy, I would respect your opinion a lot more if you expressed it in a less abusive manner.
Your type of response is likely to fuel more abuse from the recipient in return, if he/she was of the same mentality as yourself.

I do not have to lower myself to your level.

I think it depends on the season. Sometimes the weather can be very up and down. At other times you really do know what you're in for. Autumn is very unpredictable, whereas Summer is easier to gauge.

How can anybody survive in Poland as a teacher of English living on £200 a month. Seems pointless to me.

I know of several people teaching English as native speakers, and they do very well out of it.

Based on lessons at a rate of 50zł per hour, 6 hourly lessons per day, for a 5 day week, then the monthly income would be ........approx 6500zł.
Using an exchange rate 0f 5.2zł to £1, this gives them a monthly income of £1250

In addition to conversation with native speaker, they also provide listening sessions whereby the student will come and listen to text on a computer for anything between 1-2 hours - the rate for this is less.
I was a bit sceptical about students wanting to pay for such a service......ie. pay just to come and listen to someone speaking English via computer - but I have seen it with my own eyes. A friend of mine has set up about 5 computers in a room and while he gives a conversation lesson to one student, he has 5 other students listening to English via headphones on computer.

I know that pay for native speakers in schools is usually not enough to live, which is why most give private lessons.

I think that this is a very exaggerated figure and is nothing like the usual 100 pounds per month teachers get paid.

This is not an "exaggerated figure" and can be achieved quiet easily, in fact I regularly take home 8000zl plus a month.

Michal with all respect I really think you should check your info before posting, and this is a genuine offer of an invite to come to Pulawy and see how Poland and Pulawy has changed since the 20 years that you have been here.

Send me a pm

I have never been to Puławy itself but I was very near it once. I knew a Polish girl who lived in Dęblin, where, incidentally, they train, or at least did, all the Polish Air force pilots. I remember we visited one of my favorite places in Poland, Kazimierz Dolny? (if my spelling is right!) by car. Her father had died some years before of a heart attack whilst sitting on a park bench in Puławy and for some reason the name has always stuck. Yes, in the summer time when the weather is nice, it would be nice to experience a Polish warm summer again. Poland in the summer time is definitely the best time to come. I remember the barbecues and the fine Polish sausage However, I always miss Poland and wish to see it again but each and every time on my return, it is always a 'let down' and I end up thinking to think to myself, 'oh, God, why have I come back here again?'. also, I tend to come by plane so, without a car, I am limited to seeing Warsaw and the Old Town or, at best, taking a train to Czestochowa. Sadly, like in the U.K. cars are becoming ever more important to seeing and getting to places.

Most take home around 4,000 PLN / month. fact

yeah I lived in PL in the early 90's when there was a lot going on after 89 and alll that. Recession has hit PL badly, unless you have a degree you're not going to find that all important job that we all long for.. remember health care, what will happen in the future, if you have any health issues then you need to take this into considertation before any move. PL health servie has been striking a lot recently, remember this is the country which pays doctors, teachers etc peanuts, this is where the intelect are financhially the worst off in the contry etc..,
as for xmas time, yeah Zakopane in Tatry great, always snow assured!
And at the end of it pl girls can turn bad, they can take your earnings etc and won't do the housewife jobs like we think they should.. I reakon any PL girl in UK or other foreigh country is not likely to turn out to be the one that some people like to think pl girls are like, family loving etc....
beware, thake care...
PLLOVER

Yes, it always seems a strange misconception to me. People think that Polish girls are a 'soft touch'. This is very rarely the case, however. Polish women are very hard indeed and know exactly what they want in life. If you are a man and are strong emotionally, maybe? If you are like me, i.e. weak-beware!

I think you tend to lie.

Didn't you say the last time you visited Poland was 15 years ago, and now your wife doesn't allow you to go there with her because you always complained?

If I go to Poland then it would be by plane to Warsaw as we have a friend who lives in a flat very close to the airport, in fact so close, you could walk it with your case in about twenty minutes. I could always take the bus number 175 through Warsaw to the Old Town. Otherwise, I have nothing in Warsaw at all.

That explains everything.

lol

I think that you would be working very hard indeed to earn 8,000zl per month in Poland teaching English. Even South Korea, the World's best paid country in this regard only pays 2,000 to 2,500 American dollars per month which works out at little more than 12,000 pounds a year.

No-one said it was easy work :o)

A good friend of mine who teaches as a native speaker makes 6500zł quite easily, and on a good month he told me he could make over 10,000zł :o)