After living 15 years in the US I'm planing to move to Poland next year. I grew up in Poland, but haven't experienced the adult life there. I never really liked living in the US and always wanted to move back. I feel at home when I'm in Poland. I know it's different to go to Poland once a year for 2-3 weeks and to live there. Many people tell me how difficult it is to live here. Everybody complains that it's very expensive there, but when I'm there I see people are dressed well, there are good cars on the streets, people are traveling, restaurants, bars and cafes are always busy. I can never understand it. I'm from Wroclaw and really can't wait to live there again. I have two friends who moved back to Poland and they are happy and said it was the best thing. For those of you who live there, can you tell me what do you think/feel about living in Poland? And if any of you had a chance to live in some other country... what would be some reasons you would move back/ or not to Poland? I'm not naive and I know I will have some problems adjusting and that I might struggle with the Polish mentality (so I've been told) and the winter :). @cp_scipiom - what do you mean forget about 1st and 2nd amendment? You want to tell me there's not religion freedom in Poland? Of course there is. There is no freedom of speach? Of course there is! And the rest of them from the 1st as well. As for the 2nd - the right to keep and bear arms - not really interested in it, so it doesn't matter to me. When people have money then they can live anywehre and be OK, but so many people in Poland do not have money and somehow they live and are ok, so how do they do it? Isn't the average monthly income in Poland 2500PLN?
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That is a good step. I would leave the US as well if I were in your shoes. Anyone knows that US is getting worse and worse. I am happy for you making the move back I do not think that you will struggle at all home is home you know.
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life is OK of course you'll have to get used to paying huge taxes also- bureaucrats don't work for you- but you exist so that bureaucrats can have some fun forget your first amendment and second amendment rights the rest depends on how much you earn. If you have money then its OK. If you don't- stay out. Unemployment "benefits" are a sad joke.
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At the moment, I am living in the states but my situation is much like yours. My Hungarian husband and I are moving this spring to Hungary to stay. I also have a yoga instructor here in the states that has been living here for 9 years and she is from Poland. She recently went back for a short trip to Poland to sell her flat there, her whole family now lives in the states and they aren't planning on ever moving back to Poland. What I can figure out in Hungary which I believe has many similar things going on with Poland is it seems there are really just three classes of people. Very rich, working poor and out right poor. My husband and I fall into a strange class of retired Americans, not rich and not working poor. Many smart people knew when to make the proper moves with business and buying of properties when the wall fell, others always had money stached away from black market deals and now are able to show their money without being afraid of the government taking them in and asking questions on how they got so much money. There are also those whose family may of sent them funds from the west to take advantage of the oppurtunities that were there when the change happened. Óthers have inherited property from relatives, those are usually the young people driving SUV's around town and hanging in the coffee shops all day and clubbing in the evenings. They will soon piss away their money and fall backwards to the working class poor. Of course there are those that have a special skill and were bright enough to position themselves in the right places at the right time. There are also those who's relatives were part of the old system and pulled many strings to get their offsring into key posisitions, easy money types of jobs. there is also the mafia which always makes a profit. In any case, if you must work to make a living, you will most likely have a tough time and your lifestyle will be very much different then you have experienced in the west. Believe it or not, you have changed over the years and may find it strange to go "backwards"with old friends and places. Perhaps it would be best if you visit and see how much you and the place have changed over the past 15 years. Seems it is never easy to go home again although this is what my husband is doing but he is now an old man and doesn't need to work any longer. He also doesn't get the "Hungarian"mentality but we are loners and don't need many friends around to have a good time. I grew up in Calif. and Hawaii and yes, the long cold dark days of winter sometimes make me a bit crazy, I do tend to drink some when I am stuck indoors for long periods, not the most healthy thing to do. Bascially, we are moving to eastern Europe because we will be on a fixed income from social sercurity and our money will go further in Hungary then in the states. Not the best reason for a young person to move back unless there was something waiting for them there other then the same old lifestyle that you left. We would love to have our son join us in Hungary but he lived there a couple of years ago for a year with his Hungarian fiance, he didn't see any bright future for himself there since his only job skills are in the casino industry and he didn't wish to work for the mob in Hungary at a casino for little pay and big pressure.It isn't a good feeling to know all you have ahead of you is years of hard work with little to show for it.
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