Originally Posted by chexpool

yes its more expensive. first the PLN =.44 USD big difference..

The school is trying to implement a 30% tuition increase starting next year. The official number is 41500 pln = roughly 18k usd.

A studio here in a nice building at bear min. will cost u 1100z. my apartment that i share with my gf cost 2300pln a month, its pretty fancy though.

ah and at the market you will spend prob. 200z a week easy, and if you like band name stuff its way more. I have shopped for groceries to fill my place with food with 500z worth. But if you shop right food is the least of your concerns. its still cheap polish people have to eat and they dont make squat.

Doctors start out at 1400z a month for example.

Worst thing, electronics are 2x as expensive as they are in the states easy. Example, i mac mouse cost about 40 usd when i looked last time it was like the eq of 80 usd here.

travel: warsaw or berlin from poznan 120z or 40 euro respectively.

The Z's keep getting stronger too. When we came here 1 dollar was 3.2 z now less then 2.10z so you do the math.

Cars still come pretty cheap some used car my friends bought was 3000z not so bad. I would get one from germany though.

Getting back to the food part. Roughly...

Between the two of us: we make food here mostly because service sucks balls in poland, and the food we make is tasty!

We spend 150z every 2-3 days. So lets just say 300z a week on groceries. 52 wks = 15600z a year on food. x.44 =about 7000 usd on food a year. wowo thats actually a lot, i am no fat *** either ha.


GL