The people put me off the most, or at least Poznan people do. Nobody would do that in CA cause nobody wants a gun in their face and nobody did that in the time I was in the UK.
The workers you hire pride themselves in being experts and then deliver the most subpar work you could hope to encounter glad I used to be a general contractor and mechanic back in CA. When you see people on the street they tend to look miserable and rarely say hello.
Back to the bad drivers bit, Polish people like driving fast, but are really bad at it. If you yield on a narrow street to let another driver going the opposite way pass, expect a smug look of entitlement as they pass you rather than a friendly wave for letting them pass.
Also drive with your headlights on, always. Same goes with oblivious pedestrians who like to just dive into the street without even recognizing a car is coming full speed and just expect you to stop. Overall I think Poland has a lot of positives, just not in Poznan. I also think Poland has changed a lot since my first visit in , some good, some bad. I say the same about California, but mostly for the bad there.
Good, the bad, and the ugly. Also, if you find a job in an international company outside of Warsaw, you might be able to make a living. Money, money and money. Now, you might hear poles saying but here is cheaper. Well, it is not; that was ten years ago perhaps. House prices are at the same level as those in other western EU countries what I mean is not 4x less, remember 1eur around 4.
People are vulgar and aggressive. You need to fight your way all the time, no matter where you go or what you do. The Health system is free but at a cost. Doctors here are not well trained in medicine nor at human interactions. Use Poland as a getaway to catapult your career. Find a good job an in an international company, work for a couple of years or months and move on.
Ask for a relocation or something. Remember having a big known company in your LinkedIn will open doors. Your email address will not be published.
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Mel on August 9, at am. Alan on July 2, at am. Really good insight and reflects my experience of roughly 7 years in Poland as a Portuguese. She has also tried to avoid being seen as subordinate to EU demands, saying that Poland will volunteer to accept refugees but not take them under duress.
Finally, on September 22 the Polish government broke with its East European neighbors by agreeing to the EU program, with a cap of 7, people. Her center-right party currently trails the far-right opposition, which promises to prevent any foreigners from settling in in Poland. Recent surveys show that more than a third of Poles would refuse to accept any refugees, with another third offering to welcome no more than 2, All this despite recent instructions from Pope Francis for every parish in Europe to prepare to house and feed refugees.
It is therefore unfortunate to see once again a tendency in Western Europe and the US to label East Europeans collectively as bigoted and xenophobic and to bring up painful episodes of racist and antisemitic violence from the past. There is no doubt that a nationalist resistance to diversity is an important factor, but there is no reason to believe that the hateful attitudes of the far right play a much bigger factor in Poland than in France , Austria , Switzerland or anywhere else on the continent.
When it comes to xenophobia, Poles are certainly no better than their European neighbors, but neither are they significantly worse. What is different in Poland is the novelty of being in a position to give aid to others rather than receiving aid from others.
Accepting their role as citizens of a successful first world country is a big adjustment for Poles, and the older position of noble suffering and martyrdom is much more comfortable and familiar. But in the globalized context of the 21st century, Poland is now securely in the club of the privileged. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth.
As a result, many recruitment agencies are now pinning their hopes on workers from the Philippines to fill jobs in the IT sector and workers from Vietnam to fill vacancies in factories and construction. And for the migrant workers who make it to Poland, new opportunities await a privileged few.
Originally from Mumbai, Rahul moved to Poland in to live with his now wife, Katarzyna, whom he met while studying in Freiburg. Rahul works at an advertising agency in Warsaw during the week and comes home to his wife and two-year-old daughter Sara at the weekends. Latika Bhardwaj has had a tougher time. In New Zealand, I worked below my qualifications. You will find such people [racists] everywhere.
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Follow Us. Despite the anti-immigrant rhetoric, Poland receives more migrant workers than anywhere else in the world. News By Marta Kucharska. They come from the east — and even further east Despite receiving record numbers of labour migrants, Poland still needs more workers to power its booming economy — 1. So now Poland is looking to south-east Asia to help fill its labour gap.
Positives and challenges But the hiring of overseas workers is unlikely to stop anytime soon, especially as business representatives are currently lobbying the government to ease the procedures for hiring migrant workers. Most popular articles Labour.
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