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Foreigner living in Poland here, I feel that qualifying Poland as a "poor country" is kind of dated and less true with each passing year.
by nicolaslem 3y ago
Foreigner living in Poland here, I feel that qualifying Poland as a "poor country" is kind of dated and less true with each passing year.
- lm28469 3y agoGermany's GDP is 6x Poland's. The average salary in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. Minimum wage is more than twice. It's not a third world country but the person you're replying to is right, Polish workers come to Germany by the thousands every day, virtually no Germans go to Poland for this reason Expat life is always good anywhere east of Berlin, you probably don't live the typical polish life. I also have a great time when I stay in Czech republic and Slovakia, but the locals make like 25% of my wage on average
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>The average salary in Germany is twice as high as in Poland. And the average Pole owns 2x more housing than the average German (number I made up for exemplification) who's most likely gonna be a rentoid for life. From what I noticed Poland (and Czechia) are still an attractive place for skilled migration from the EU working in the service sectors, as the constant growth and low-ish taxes and CoL, make it a better place for building wealth and buying housing than Germany. On the other hand, Germany is a better palce if you're on minimum wage unskilled style jobs and/or will depend on state support to live, as the German state is quite generous with the poor. My point is they're both attractive, just for different demographics.
- simbolit 3y agoSo rich people should move to Poland, poor people to Germany? (offer valid for eu citizens only, terms and conditions may apply.)
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoRich people have it good everywhere, they probably don't move to Poland to enjoy their wealth but more like Monaco, Switzerland, Mallorca, Miami, Malibu, etc. What I was talking about was skilled workers in the service sectors (IT, etc), which are definitely not rich, but 100% working class. Like it or not, most wealthless working class people want to build wealth, especially with the ever increasing wealth inequality that no government wants to tackle, and some countries are better than others for that purpose and for different workers/professions, so it's normal that people will go where that proces is easier depending on their profession. Some countries have very generous social nets at the expense of high taxes and low growth, making wealth building impossible for the wealthless newcomers, other countries have low safety nets but low taxes and better growth opportunities for the skilled and ambitious workers who are into buildings wealth. Different strokes for different folks.
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- nicolaslem 3y agoThe implication that I live in some sort of Disneyland version of the country because my passport has a different logo on it is kind of dismissive. I believe that I have been there long enough and seen enough of it to have an accurate representation of it.
- gruez 3y agoSo you're waving away hard statistics with your personal experiences?
- nicolaslem 3y ago> I feel that qualifying Poland as a "poor country" is kind of dated and less true with each passing year. That is the statement I made. I don't think the hard statistics presented so far contradict that.
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- tormeh 3y agoDepends if you mean urban or rural Poland, and western or eastern Poland. The variance is rather extreme, like in many eastern EU countries.