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biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

I'm off to a North African state soon to earn loadsa lolly but currently enjoying the delights of Poland.Since my last stay here some years ago I've gotta say that this place is now expensive.All of me ole shipmates,who remained here are earning around 5000zl/month and all are permanently skint. So we're gonna form and efl bank hiest gang and do bank jobs like in the film'Heat'.Has anyone out there got any good tips on how to do 'stick-ups' and look tough like Robert de Niro? As an efl teacher I've found that I'm generally the one being ripped off.....

hesterprynne · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 386

It's all about the shades. Realistic-looking tattoos and fake scars are helpful, as well.

Chris · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:49 am Post subject:

You must've been earning that 5000 ($1250) in Warsaw. Hell, down here in Sosnowiec I made that last year and made out like a bandit. Ok, ok, I was working my butt off, but whatchya gonna do?

This year I'll be earning only about 4000/month ($1000) but only working about 25 clock hours a week including prep (last year I was working about 50 including prep)..

But have fun down in North Africa. Actually, I'd rather be there sometimes.. The men are better looking.. Wink

(yes, I am a woman!)

ibasiram · Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 107

Well, If I was earning 5000Zl a month, I'd be a very happy boy.
North Africa should be interesting.. I don't know about the men, but the women there can't be as nice as the Polish women..
The guys in Sosonowiec, musn't be that nice, eh Chris..?

Chris · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject:

They're, for the most part, BUTT UGLY!! Mad

If they're not, they've been married or joined to the opposite sex since they were babies.. Ok, ok, there are exceptions, BUT!

Ahhhhhh.. That felt good.... Smile

Back to your regularily scheduled program...

BTW, the women in North Africa will, for the most part, NOT be available, unless they are "working", if you get my meaning... Muslim men can marry non-Muslim women, but not vice versa.

After this year in Poland, hopefully I'll be moving to Germany.. If not, Morocco or Egypt look pretty good to me! In more ways than one.. Wink

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

When are you off to north Africa? Do you reckon you will meet up with your old chief mate from Laos?

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

I'm hoping to meet up with a distant berber relative of the chief, a certain 'Mullah'd Al-Offfizead'-apparently a decent guy by all accounts.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Po;and is a low-cost, low-wage economy. Sensible people spend their money in places like that and earn in a low-cost,high-wage economy (eg Saudi Arabia)

This is the end of today's class in Economics 101

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Scot 47 when were you last in Poland?Lets just run through a quick list shall we?Adidas $80,Levis $65,a shot of Jack Daniels $6,a new Nissan x-trail $25,000 (mine was only$16,000 in the Gulf),a 3 bedroom attached bungalow $100,000,a flight to the UK from Berlin $250,(only $60 from UK),most shorts $3.20,(with the mixer) a meal in a restaurant averages around $7,(about the same as an all you can eat buffet in Leicester Square,petrol is about 4 dollars a gallon,my studio flat $350/month and don't even mention the cost of running a mobile,(much more than the UK) or laundrettes (average weekly wash $45) or hotels,the cheapest of which is about $35/night ...need I go on?Poland is fast becoming a high cost ,low wage economy...and I'm not even in Warsaw. What's gonna happen with the influx of NATO troops,(all cash rich) and EU inflation?....I dread to think.

khmerhit · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:20 pm Post subject:

Influx of NATO troops to Poland? When? why?

I can tell you what happened when UN troops went to Cambodia in 1992.
They were given per diems of 400 dollars-- in a country where the average monthly wage was and still is twenty dollars. First, about twenty thousand young women flocked to the capital for obvious reasons. Second, the accomodation rates flew up, dragging everything else up with them, and third, the locals got a very rude and unrealistic introduction to the discipline of the marketplace. Also, they didn't see much of the money trickle down, since the Chinese landlords and other intermediaries got the bulk of it and placed it in banks in Singapore. Welcome to the marketplace!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Biffenbridge, $45 a week for your laundry! That's alot of beer stains.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

When was I last in Poland ? January 1968. Or was it January 1967. Quite recently. have there been a few changes since then. How is First Secreatry Gierek ?

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Scot, did you go there to see the Rolling Stones?

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Not just lager stains!!

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

Hi Biff,
Is Poland at the moment really as bad as you are making out?
Did you eat in the Arcadia milk bar on the square, or those fancy joints down on the Rynek? how much is Absolwent? locally produced fruit and veg not the supermarket stuff. I worked there for three years and saved enough to buy a flat in the centre. I guess it wouldn't be possible now they are coming close to doing the Europe thing. something along the lines of "Get your prices in line with ours and then you can worry about the wages inequalities after we have bought everything you have to sell" isn't it?
Are you off to one of those well-paid but a little bit dubious as there are not many ex pats who have worked there who you can get feedback from Libyan oil-field jobs?