I left for the US when I was 9, which was some 28 years ago, and haven't been back in 20 years.

Poland has astounded me so far. I haven't been to very many places, but where I've been (Gołdap, Augustów, Suwałki, and Ełk) have been amazing. I'm staying in Płaska, and this feels like where I'd like to retire, lol. The kayaking and biking opportunities here make anything I have back in the US seem like a pale comparison. My uncle has a house on the lake, and he just goes kayaking whenever he wants. It's been amazing. And so many forest roads to bike on!

I'm an active person and don't like cities anymore, so this little haven of a town is literally paradise, but I'm only here for 2 weeks and the weather is still nice, so my perspective is limited. Is it really this nice here all the time outside of winter?

I've loved all the forests, the lakes, the canals, the safe biking paths, the quiet, the people, the lack of people, and the prices.

I work remote and get paid in dollars, and while it's not a lot of money, I'd probably be making 10k-15k pln a month if I moved here. Would I be comfortable if I lived this far outside the cities?

My friend disappeared. I last saw him a month ago and wrote to him after that. Then last week he saw my messages (or at least someone on his phone did) but he never answered, which he never did before. I wrote to him again on Sunday and Monday and now my messages are not even delivered. I asked a common acquaintance and for him it's also the same.

He lost his father just a bit more than a month ago, so he was not in an awesome state the last time I saw him.

I know his name and phone number, but not his address or his employer (I forgot the name).

What would someone do here in this case?

Who can I contact?

Poland marked the 87th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that recent suspected acts of sabotage across Europe showed the need for greater Western unity. 

The anniversary ceremony began shortly before 4:45 a.m., the time when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military depot at Westerplatte on September 1, 1939. 

Poland began the new school year on Tuesday with nationwide restrictions on mobile-phone use in primary schools and preschools taking effect for the first time.  

Primary-school pupils are now barred from using phones and similar electronic devices during lessons, breaks and other school activities. Preschool children are prohibited from bringing such devices to preschool.  

Exceptions apply for educational purposes, urgent contact with parents, immediate threats to health or life, and certain health, disability or special-needs cases.  

Upper-secondary schools are not covered by an automatic nationwide ban but can introduce their own restrictions through their school rules.  

Polish schools are facing a demographic shock. Within 15 years, the number of children aged 7-14 may fall by more than 800 thousand. Both the choice of the first and the second option means high costs.

Poznan, Bydgoszcz, Warsaw... Everywhere! [Insert Gary Oldman Die Hard gif]

My wife and I are foreigners living in Poland, and we’re still learning Polish, so we didn’t understand everything that was being shouted at us. Something happened recently that made us quite uncomfortable.

A young man (looks like a high school or university student) got off a tram and appeared to point at an Indian woman (she looks like from South Asia) nearby. Shortly after that, he started following us while we were jogging. He was shouting several things in Polish at us, but we couldn’t understand most of it.

He continued following us while shouting, which made us uncomfortable and a little scared. We didn’t confront him because we didn’t know what he was saying or what he might do.

Me and my wife were from Southeast Asia . Because he appeared to target an Indian woman before following us, we’re wondering if this was some kind of racist or anti-foreigner harassment.

I’m not trying to generalize about Polish people. We’ve had plenty of normal and positive interactions in Poland. I’m genuinely just trying to understand what happened.

I found torrents for both seasons of 13 Posterunek, which I'd like to watch, but I'm not sure if it's still dangerous to download. Looking at how difficult it can be to find the series, I'm assuming uploads are being monitored and removed to this day. My ISP is T-Mobile if that matters.

This post is just a rant about my shopping experiences in different stores.

I walk into Zabka and everything is turbo expensive, and the cashiers are rude. I walk into Biedronka, and it's a huge fucking mess. I walk into a Delikatesy, it's usually a mess too. Lewiatan is okay, but it doesn't have a lot of products (I've only been in three of them). The only stores that I actually seem to like are Kauflands. I've been in three or four, and they are always clean and not messy, with lots of products, and extra things like the bakeries, lockable shelves to put your stuff into when you go shopping, and I feel like they have the best discounts of all aforementioned.

Hello.

My grandfather (85M) unfortunately has not been doing so well recently and my mother wanted to hire a helper. He's a big guy and my grandmother isn't able to help him walk so much.

Does anyone know of a service or caregiver in Warsaw that can help? I looked a little online and used AI but didn't find anything that seemed like a fit.

Thanks so much ❤️

Requirements is male and speaks Polish.

Finance Minister Andrzej Domański said Warsaw is seeking greater influence in “shaping the global economic order.”