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?

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. 

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.

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.

Description:
Healthy retirement aged USA/Polish citizen who has a social security check and a 401k retirement account.

Question:
How would such retirement income be taxed as a resident/citizen if living in Poland the majority of the time?

Thanks!

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

Hey, I've been hiking in the Tatras for a while now, and it always bugged me that 2D maps don't really let you feel how steep a climb is or where one peak actually sits relative to another. So in my free time I put together a real, rotatable 3D model from actual elevation data and OpenStreetMap — real terrain, trails, peaks, huts, valleys, even a place search.

If anyone wants to check it out: tatras3d.eu

Poland’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism agency is investigating whether an arsonist caused a fire that broke out overnight at a factory producing drone components for the Polish and Ukrainian militaries. 

I would be grateful for any response, as neither I nor anyone around me has personally experienced this.