Problem with current Polish ruling party (Law and Justice) is that they are mix of literally everything - from fringe left to far right. The brief summary of them would by "leftists with a pro-religion stance". I know it's difficult to phantom in US realities, but that's what it really is.
On one hand they proud themselves as being "the right" and "defenders against EU wokeness", on the other hand they erode the property laws and create welfare state.
Fairly recently they implemented anti-family law ("separation of the domestic violence perpetrators" - everyone can be removed from their property permanently because of the "he said/she said" based just on the decision of a cop; yep, cop, not the judge).
Property laws are continuously eroded, as I mentioned. If you rent your apartment/house to anyone, they don't really need to pay you anything and you can't evict them easily. It will take you few years to get them out and it will be a major hustle.
As to the US - Polish relations, we're strongly committed US ally, the problem is that it's fairly common perception that we are getting fucked over it. I won't divulge into details, because I imagine it's rather uninteresting.
Poland is still very peaceful and overall good place to live, but we're not immune to the leftist agenda. And I feel we're losing the long-term political battle to it.
Gender roles here are pretty weird frankly, I mean they are complete mix of both worlds. Women, in general, work and rarely become housewives for extended time period.
On the other hand they stay away of many of the professions. You'll almost never see any woman doing trade job or driving a bus. They dominate healthcare, teaching, office jobs and so on. And to be clear: it's purely their choice, they are of course free to choose any profession they like.
I'm always a little bit shocked when I see like women electrician in the US. :) Not because women can't do it (of course they can), but it's so rare thing where I live.
How are your salaries and taxes, in terms of women being able to stay at home?
I heard from a lady from Sweden, or one of those high-welfare countries that because taxes are so high, if they lived there it would be impossible to live on one salary. On paper, it looked nice with "free" healthcare, childcare, and lots of social programs, but it takes a lot of money to pay for all that, so the result was that most couldn't be a stay at home mom because after taxes there usually wasn't enough of dad's salary left to live on.
Problem with current Polish ruling party (Law and Justice) is that they are mix of literally everything - from fringe left to far right. The brief summary of them would by "leftists with a pro-religion stance". I know it's difficult to phantom in US realities, but that's what it really is.
On one hand they proud themselves as being "the right" and "defenders against EU wokeness", on the other hand they erode the property laws and create welfare state.
Fairly recently they implemented anti-family law ("separation of the domestic violence perpetrators" - everyone can be removed from their property permanently because of the "he said/she said" based just on the decision of a cop; yep, cop, not the judge).
Property laws are continuously eroded, as I mentioned. If you rent your apartment/house to anyone, they don't really need to pay you anything and you can't evict them easily. It will take you few years to get them out and it will be a major hustle.
As to the US - Polish relations, we're strongly committed US ally, the problem is that it's fairly common perception that we are getting fucked over it. I won't divulge into details, because I imagine it's rather uninteresting.
Poland is still very peaceful and overall good place to live, but we're not immune to the leftist agenda. And I feel we're losing the long-term political battle to it.
Gender roles here are pretty weird frankly, I mean they are complete mix of both worlds. Women, in general, work and rarely become housewives for extended time period.
On the other hand they stay away of many of the professions. You'll almost never see any woman doing trade job or driving a bus. They dominate healthcare, teaching, office jobs and so on. And to be clear: it's purely their choice, they are of course free to choose any profession they like.
I'm always a little bit shocked when I see like women electrician in the US. :) Not because women can't do it (of course they can), but it's so rare thing where I live.
How are your salaries and taxes, in terms of women being able to stay at home?
I heard from a lady from Sweden, or one of those high-welfare countries that because taxes are so high, if they lived there it would be impossible to live on one salary. On paper, it looked nice with "free" healthcare, childcare, and lots of social programs, but it takes a lot of money to pay for all that, so the result was that most couldn't be a stay at home mom because after taxes there usually wasn't enough of dad's salary left to live on.