great points!!!
in my experience:
one of the negative point is that it take time to adjust in poland specialy if you r an asian *its taking me a while* as people are not use to see people with dark skin and black hair!
but after a while you see the funny part of it... u just say ' dzien dobry' !!

and yup thanks to mc donalds we r not starving.. as polish cusine is not one of the best cusine in the world !!