polish community in Leeds?

hi all,

how many of you guys live in Leeds?
and what do you do for a living?

i was told that there is a large polish community here.

this question is not only for polish users...
just would like to get an idea about numbers

cheers.

I read some place that there are about 4,000 Poles living in Leeds...I am an English guy that lived in Leeds for 20 years before moving in the opposite direction..to Poland....I had a bunch of Poles living at my house in Leeds , and knew a lot of the Poles in Leeds....Many of them living around the Dewsbury road area....

im not far from Leeds 25mins by train im in Doncaster we have between 4-6,000 polish community here :)

quite impressive figures but i believe in Leeds are even more poles than the quoted 4000.
an interesting phenomenom though is that poles usually try to stay with themselves and not to mix with the natives.
why is that? i remember when i came to england i avoided meeting germans (i am german by the way) to get into the whole english thing as quickly as possible. today i consider it being my home and my friends and colleagues accept me completely even if i sometimes start being very german about things... :D

however...
what is it that makes those polish people that decide to come to leeds that makes this place attractive? is it only that you know already someone here before you decide to go to england? or is there a particular work around leeds that attracts polish workers?

many questions... ;)

Nothing special about Leeds i think , its just a city , and cities are the best place to find a job and a place to live....Most of the Poles i knew in Leeds went there because they knew somebody that already lived there , and could have a place to stay , and some help finding work....

Wheres LEEDS?????

I have a old Who album that says "live at leeds"

I`m pretty sure it isnt in Poland?

Question: Is this a Polish forum or a British forum?

Lets do a head count

1) Sledz..US
2)

are you joking???
(maps help...)



are you joking???
(reading the forum title helps)



are you joki....

ok i understand...

The who...great band....Leeds is about 260 kms north of London....at the other end of the M1 motorway....

of course... and if you guys dont know me by know..lol


I dont know where that is but THE WHO ROCKS!!!!!

Does it say on your album where in Leeds this concert was.....?

at Leeds university 2/14/70
Its was a long time ago ..... still sounds good:)

They have had some really great bands at the uni , usually before they got famous....The best who concert i went to was in London....A great show , and a pretty good riot afterwards....those were the days....

Fantastic use of English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Live...... as opposed to Live :) :) :) :) :)


(I've often wondered the same thing about The Who)

to be more precise it was at the leeds metropolitan university.
the venue still today hosts many great gigs (although not as good as the who one, which was voted best live-album ever by critics on several occasions), but many of the local bands have their first big gigs here...

and yes. the who still are great...

HOWEVER...
can we please stop posting off-topic and come back to the original topic?

thanks... ;)

4000 Poles in Leeds, that Leeds in West Yorks (precising there's also one in Kent n in US...somewhere)???U must be joking luv.I'd say 40.000!!!They're absolutely everywhere in Leeds!!!
Go and get yourself to so called Polish Catholic Centre/Church-lad!it's overcrowded, overflowing.
Polish web site,polish forum and more...
see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2006/07/10/polish_bradf ord_katie_feature.shtml
and
http://www.leeds-manchester.pl//stopka_oleedspl.php?lang=en

yes we do have a lot of Polish over here in Leeds but i dont think it is as many as 40.000
most of them i have met are quite hard working and delightful