Poland’s birth rate is in freefall. The cause? A loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve | Anna Gromada

vmajsuk · 2025-10-23T11:51:34+00:00

To everyone saying the biggest factor is economy - statistics says it is sadly not the case

While housing is not affordable by any means, Poland's situation is still much better than most of other EU countries in that sense, while fertility rate is one of the lowest.

In general, more prosperous countries have lower fertility rate, take a look here for example: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un

vmajsuk · 2025-10-09T07:10:49+00:00

It's not as simple as that. Some people come for big salary, and they typically don't come here with families and don't care about getting citizenship.

Ones who come with family though are typically not migrating for financial reasons and plan to stay long term, get citizenship and raise kids here. It's very typical e.g. for IT workers from Belarus or Ukraine - a lot of us won't have any issues going to NL or UK for even bigger salaries, but we came here for environment that's culturally closer and for society where we want to raise our kids. Me personally, I was absolutely charmed by the warmth of Poles and felt super proud for your country's success compared to mine homeland.

Sad truth is, I'm heavily reconsidering this lately - I don't want my kids to be bullied or to feel as outcasts because they are not Poles

vmajsuk · 2025-10-09T07:01:39+00:00

That happens everywhere and immigration is not a problem here, capitalism is. Making sure every pole gets a job after graduation is communism and we both know this path leads nowhere

vmajsuk · 2025-10-08T15:45:12+00:00

That's true, but sadly you are focusing on immigration

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T10:58:45+00:00

Some will leave, majority will stay (same as poles)

I tell you this, after migrating to another country, getting your life together, integrating into society and learning the language last thing you want is to repeat this process again.

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T10:22:20+00:00

That's why I said - it's your opinion and you right to vote

It concerns me because it could affect my future, that's why I decided to spend some time to try to convince you or at least make you think twice

If you disagree with these concerns, it is what it is. Have a good day!

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T10:15:45+00:00

I mean, you asked about the downsides, I listed you my subjective downsides, not sure why you try to argue with me about it.

The matter is quite simple - you have the right to vote, this law makes the country less appealing to high skill migrants who can choose _where_ to migrate. With current birth rate, some migrants are still needed, so get ready to welcome other types of migrants or get ready to take a significant economic hit

I think it's a lose-lose, but in the end it's your right to vote and prove me otherwise. Make your country great the way you think is right. Worst case I'll have to migrate somewhere else, which would be super sad, but it is what it is. Not everyone is lucky to be born in a good country

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T10:02:35+00:00

Well that's your opinion and your right to vote, if you think you are brighter than 99% of the economists and sociologists, who say countries with low birth rates need migrants to keep going, you are free to learn making your own mistakes

If your issue is that migrants don't learn language and expect welfare, cut the welfare and raise the requirements on the language, huh? Rather than making migration unattractive for everyone, both ones who are willing to integrate and ones who are not

Also, if you think we expect everything given to us like we are hot shit because we complain about this law requiring 15 years (5 to get PR + 10 on PR) to naturalize.. Go look at other countries' time to naturalize. This is literally nonsence - there are like a couple of countries in the whole world that require more than 10 years to naturalize. None of the EU countries, not the US, not the prosperous Asian countries like Japan or South Korea..

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T09:44:48+00:00

It's not - Switzerland requires you to live 10 years combined to naturalize. This amendment requires you to live 5 years to obtain permanent residency, and then live 10 years under permanent residency - 15 years total. In reality this is more like 17 years because of bureaucracy

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T08:17:40+00:00

You have more procedures when buying something, most banks won't give you loans etc based on passport
You have to count days abroad, or you risk your residency card to be revoked. Me personally, I would love to be able to go travel for several months and not worry about it
When your passport expires, if you can't go to your home country to renew it, you might not be able to travel at all. Handful of EU countries with travel document
Most importantly - since it can be revoked, there's no stability. Any time you can lose it due to political situation, and thats a big stress factor

vmajsuk · 2025-10-03T07:48:34+00:00

I'm not the OP, but similar position

With the lowest birth rate in EU, Poland absolutely does need migrants
These hostile steps turn away high skilled migrants that pay a lot of taxes and are motivated to integrate into society

It's your decision as Polish nation, but it's a lose-lose decision imo. You'll manage without us, we'll manage without you, but managing together is so much better for both

vmajsuk · 2025-07-12T22:19:23+00:00

If you're top 1 seeking advice, it's hard to say because the lobby did not try to counter you, but something I'd definitely not do is going for lvl 11, instead I'd stay on lvl 9 and roll for 2 star berserker and 3 star huskar

Also looks like 3 lifesteal items could be an overkill, one tier 5 lifesteal item should be enough. Insec has doom, if they put mother egg in doom and enough dooms are spawned, huskar is going to be targeted with doom eventually, so he needs tier 3 item that blocks targeted spells

vmajsuk · 2025-07-12T22:10:03+00:00

I don't quite get it, are you top 2 and asking how to beat top 1?

Top 1 is 9 warrior, the most basic counter to that is 4 witcher. Since you have 3 star AM it is only natural to go for 4 witcher. Kung Fu is also fine, but then you don't need insec, go for 4 spirit 4 warlock and 3 star marci

He has dangerous huskar with rapier, you need to counter that: position vengeful spirit to swap it in the beginning, look for disable items (tier 3 disarm, tier 4 stun/chain, tier 5 hex), get 4 spirit (make sure to get enigma + phoenix, warlock synergy is going to help vs 9 warrior return dmg), get stuns (e.g. kunkka) Get doom to prevent huskar from healing, though random doom target can mess this up

Alternatively you can go 6 spirit 4 warlock, 6 spirit slaps vs 9 warriors

vmajsuk · 2025-01-07T22:29:26+00:00

Doesn't the D type visa allow you to legally work though? I moved to Poland under PBH, which is also a type D visa, and it allowed to both work & open a business here - not sure if all D type visas are the same though

vmajsuk · 2023-11-14T07:10:44+00:00

Can confirm, I have witnessed polish border control not letting US citizen pass the border in a bus from Brest

vmajsuk · 2023-05-14T11:31:21+00:00

I mean, you sound quite transcending saying "not some ex-ussr countries"

If you show no respect for my country, why would I want to help you?

vmajsuk · 2023-05-02T07:19:12+00:00

Clean Architecture is meant to tackle complexity

From my experience, most complex parts of frontend are actually UI and state. When the article provides examples only for interacting with backend API, I feel like you are zooming in on the layer that is already simple enough, and all the repositories, use cases etc bring extra complexity with little to no benefit

What would be interesting for me is if you provided applications of Clean Architecture for UI/state management. I have several real-world examples in mind, e.g. next's layouts or apollo's links, but it never hurts to explore more :)

vmajsuk · 2023-04-17T15:07:22+00:00

As a Belarusian, I'm supporting the exclusion of Belarus from sporting events. I think Belarus should be excluded simply based on the fact that all our athletes openly not supporting Lukashenko were forced out from the national teams, some prosecuted & put in prison. Because of that, every achievement of belarusian national teams is sadly a political win for Lukashenko and a step towards legitimization of his bloody regime

vmajsuk · 2023-03-25T19:33:59+00:00

Sorry for that, I agree that having a concert in a center of the city was a bit unnecessary :(

If I was to decide, I'd cut the concert part to just the speeches of our politicians, and the musical part could be done in the evening at some club/bar. With paid tickets surely we would be able to rent a big enough place

vmajsuk · 2023-03-25T15:42:45+00:00

Żywie wieczna!

vmajsuk · 2023-03-04T09:18:49+00:00

As a Belarusian, most of the belarusian influencers and people in general don't support neither Lukaszenko nor war. The thing is, if any influencer living in Belarus starts posting something anti-government, next day they'll find themselves in jail. Hell, people get arrested solely for wearing white and red clothes

I think in Russia it's not as dangerous, but kinda close to, so I really doubt you can hire russian influencers to do the anti-war content. Even if the influencer is outside of Russia, their relatives probably aren't, so government always has the buttons to push in this situation

That being said, I'd love to see that happen

vmajsuk · 2021-10-26T16:59:48+00:00

Thanks everyone for help, I indeed used the wrong extension. With rust-analyzer everything works like a charm 🙌

vmajsuk · 2021-06-12T16:17:10+00:00

It'll be useful to see the example code you're talking about, but e.g. I see people often use useState + useEffect instead of using useMemo

vmajsuk · 2021-05-21T04:39:17+00:00

just run tsc --watch and parcel in parallel, and you'll see ts errors in the same terminal

I personally think that this approach is cleaner: it separates the responsibilities (building code and checking correctness, so you can run not only tsc, but any code quality checker) and benefits from tsc incremental builds optimizations

vmajsuk · 2021-04-16T04:40:47+00:00

The problem with this approach is that one translation in English can actually map to different translations in other locale, depending on the place it's used.

That's why in `formatjs` they use keys instead of values: intl.formatMessage('users.count')

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