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I Want to Move to Poland

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A mix of old and new: Warsaw's financial center

A mix of old and new: Warsaw’s financial center

One of my daily reads is the excellent website Quartz. It’s a fascinating mix of business, economics, finance, and other sorts of things that are right up my alley. It is modern journalism at its finest and if you want to learn about (and understand) the world today, you really should read it, too. (For the record, I’m not a paid representative of Quartz and no one working there asked me to say this.)

I have read two pieces on Quartz recently about Poland, a country I have yet to visit (but would really like to visit). The first is by programmer/project manager Sean Crabtree and is called I left America for the real land of promise – Poland.

After seven years living in New York City’s hustle and bustle, working as a digital products manager for a major media company, my wife and I decided to leave and see the world. If you’d told either of us that within a year we’d be living full lives with satisfying jobs in southern Poland, we never would’ve believed you. After a year and a half here, we have no plans of returning to the US.

We chose Kraków because we have close friends here, who also left New York City in 2010 after not finding work for nine long months. Now they own a translating, teaching and proofreading business and are so busy with clients that they constantly have to turn down work. When they first announced their intention to move to Poland, I was taken aback by what seemed to be a radical plan, but now it makes perfect sense. They left their (home)land of opportunity for one that’s truly earning that reputation.

Basically, Crabtree works in the technology industry in Poland and that is amazing. I don’t speak Polish, but I would be willing to give it a try if I lived in Poland.
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Vote on the Page F30 Poll about the Latvian Referendum

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One of my new favorite blogs is called Page F30. The guy who writes it appears to have as varied interests as I do (and he blogs way more than I do, which is admirable – sometimes I become sad when I realize how much I used to write compared to now). He likes languages and has a poll about Latvia’s upcoming referendum on Russian as an official language. I voted, of course (in his poll, not the Latvian referendum – though I wish I could vote in the referendum!).

All Things Europe: Finland

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I follow a Tumblr called All things Europe that has thousands of beautiful pictures from various European countries. All the photos are lovely, of course, but sometimes certain ones strike me, like this one from Naantali, Finland.

Zsuzsi, I know you’re Finnish – have you ever seen anything like this? I’ve never been to Finland, but you live in a beautiful country!

Have You Ever Been To Greenland?

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After discovering the above picture, I have a strange desire to go. Greenland is one of those places that you just don’t think about that much. Did you know that it is ruled by Denmark? And that the United States really, really wanted it after World War II because of its strategic importance and offered to buy it from Denmark for $100,000,000? (Denmark refused to sell it. And since that was 1946, the amount of money offered is about $1.1 billion today.)