#530 Renting vs Owning in Łódź: Where Should You Live?


In this episode hosts Ania and Roy discuss the Łódź housing market and everyday choices about living situations: city center versus suburbs, renting versus owning, living alone or with roommates, and the importance of rental agreements.
They also cover practical topics like price versus standard, dealing with neighbours, pets, balconies, and the Polish saying “ciasne, ale własne” (small but your own).
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00:06 - Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast
03:03 - Living Alone vs. Roommates
06:34 - Housing Standards and Prices
08:21 - Ciasne, Ale Własne
10:21 - Rental Agreements and Contracts
12:29 - The Importance of Neighbors
14:00 - Balconies: Necessity or Luxury?
14:46 - Summary of Key Points
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Hej, jak tam? Jak po weekendzie? Opowiedz, jak siÄ czujesz?
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SubodÄ byÅo dobrze, jak graÅem ping pong za mój syn, gra pool, fuzbol, uno, wszystko.
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Bardzo aktywnie. Bardzo aktywnie.
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No tak, ja byÅam na wsi, jak już pamiÄtasz, for sure. So.
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Today I'm a pretty interesting topic. For me. I think I'm going to talk about you too.
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I wanted to talk about something, which I think is a problem,
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which is a lot of people, which is a lot of people, which is a lot of people.
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No, Roy, it's a topic that I tell you a lot of... No, I'm like,
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I'm like, how do you look at the job in Lodz?
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Because you are from Lodz. I'm like, I'm looking at the job in Lodzow.
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I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, How does this market look like? Is there a lot of houses?
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Is it expensive? It's expensive?
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It's expensive. It's expensive. I don't know exactly when it's expensive,
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because you always remember it, but I heard from the last few months,
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that the market is now on the bureau, on the trade, Dash is neat.
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It's chico, bardzo chico, odd. Dużo myÅlaÄ.
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Quite, tak? I don't know, is that the right way to say it? In the nieruchomoÅci?
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NieruchomoÅci, tak, tak, nieruchomoÅci. Dobra, a powiedz mi,
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Rui, czy ty jesteŠaktualnym, czy ty wynajmujesz, czy raczej masz już swój dom i nie wynajmujesz?
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Twoja sytuacja. Teraz ja wynajem. Sprzed ja mam dużo dom, Irlandia tutaj,
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ale teraz wynajem ten dom.
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Mhm, but you are paying someone to you, because it's a difference.
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The person is paying my house, but I am paying this house.
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Okay, okay, well, that's what I'm talking about. Super, great. Okay,
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tell me Roy, because very popular is that young people you know,
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they're working together, which means with the same people,
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so with other people, not necessarily people who we know, they're going to be
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people obse, the most important thing is to be,
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okay, and to be a tiny one.
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Now, tell me, Roy, when you were young, I don't know, how many years ago,
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you lived yourself, or you also had a episode in life.
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When I work in another city, yes, but at home I always live alone.
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But when I work in another city, I have a good situation and a bad situation. So.
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Dobra, to teraz jak lepiej?
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Samemu, czy ze wspóÅlokatorem?
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Dla mnie samemu. Samemu, każdy tak mówi, tak.
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Samemu. No ja myÅlÄ, że mieszkanie ze wspóÅlokatorem ma swoje plusy,
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ale myÅlÄ, że wszyscy optujemy za tym, żeby mieszkaÄ samemu.
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Ja też. Dobra.
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A powiedz mi, Roy, w takim razie, co jest lepsze? Dla ciebie oczywiÅcie.
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Dom, caÅy dom, duży dom, tak zwany dom jednorodowy, or living in the city?
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What is the best place?
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What is the best place? Or a house?
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For me it's a home, because when I was first here, I have a living in Piotrkowska,
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in Manhattan, but it's good for everything.
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And I don't know if it's now, but there's metal on the shelves. Everything.
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And when people talk to you or when people come back to home.
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You're drinking, you're drinking, you're listening.
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But here, you're sleeping, there's a lot of energy.
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Yes, yes. I tell you that a lot of people like living in a block,
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like you on Petrkowsky, yes? But I also want a dom.
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Dom in the city, but a dom for me, because I...
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I'm not a good at all. I don't like it. I think that in the block everything
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is all. Everything is all. It's not.
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It's not a good. So, I don't win. Super. I don't win.
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Okay. I just back to this location, because you said that Piotrkowska is in the center.
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No, so, in the center. So, tell me, if you want to live in the middle of the
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city or in the middle of the city, or in the so-called in the middle of the
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city, or in the middle of the city, or in the middle of the city?
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So, in the middle of the city. So, in the middle of the city,
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it's comfortable, because it's everything.
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So, it's kind of like the voices, the chaos, it's not pleasant.
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So, I think that's better for the whole life. to to lepiej na przedmieÅciach.
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Dobra, a powiedz mi Roi, jak to jest? Czy ważniejsze jest duże mieszkanie, czy niska cena?
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Large housing or low price? How is it? It depends on standard.
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It depends on standard. Okay.
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The price change is normal. But I tell you, that I have seen a lot of offers,
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where the standard was not in the same way.
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The standard was here, the price was here.
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So, it is not like the standard is in the same price.
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Most often standard is in the same price as the price. So, so,
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what do you do, what do you do, a large house or a low price?
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Because you said, it depends.
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It depends on the situation, because when you spend a lot, maybe a little,
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when you spend a beautiful house, or a lot of money.
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I'm in Hispanii. Yes, of course.
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Of course. Okay, well, in Polish, it's like, it's like, Tak?
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I jest takie powiedzenie odnoÅnie wynajmu i mieszkania.
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Mówi siÄ czasami takie ciasne, ale wÅasne. Wiesz, co to znaczy?
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Ciasne, ale wÅasne. Tak siÄ mówi, że na przykÅad jeÅli ktoÅ kupuje mieszkanie
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albo dom i jest to dom, powiedzmy, dosyÄ maÅy,
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taki no, mógÅby byÄ wiÄkszy, ale jest dosyÄ maÅy, no i, ale ty go kupiÅeÅ.
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Tak? Ty go kupiÅeÅ, wiÄc jest twoje. to siÄ mówi ciasne, ale wÅasne.
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Czyli, że nieważne, że jest maÅe, że nie masz miejsca, ale jest twoje.
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WiÄc ciasne, ale wÅasne. Czy ty zgadzasz siÄ z tym powiedzeniem?
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Ciasne, ale wÅasne, czy nie?
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The most important thing is that it's your own. It's not that it's small or large.
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The most important thing is that it's your own. The most important thing is
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that it's your own. Sometimes people can say that you have a small car,
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a small car, but you have a car, that's also on the living room.
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Yes, the same thing is with a car. It's small, maybe not a new,
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but you have it, so you can drive.
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The same thing is here. Remember, people who are listening to Ciasne, ale wÅasne.
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Tak? Ciasne, ale wÅasne? No dobra.
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Aha. Czyli ty powiedziaÅeÅ wÅaÅnie, że jeÅli standard jest wysoki,
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no to można za mu zapÅaciÄ wiÄcej.
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Dobra, a teraz takie kwestie już powiedzmy organizacyjne z tym wyznajmem,
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czyli umowa, najmu, kontrakt, tak?
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Powiedz mi, jak to jest? MiaÅeÅ kiedyÅ takÄ sytuacjÄ, że mieszkaÅeÅ,
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czy wynajmowaÅeÅ mieszkanie i nie miaÅeÅ takiego kontraktu?
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To znaczy w sumie mieszkaÅeÅ bez takiej umowy? Yes, I always have contact.
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I also, because I work for 10 years before, and I have probably 200 homes for my clients.
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And I know what is a good and what is a good and what is a good and bad.
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Okay. What do you think about the situation where the owner of the house,
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who wants to hire, says that, in sum, what do we do this? We can't do it.
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Do you pay me? Do you live here? Do you agree with this?
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Or should I do it? No, it's better, because, for example, when you don't have
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a loan, you can say tomorrow, bye-bye.
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And you can also go to your house, you don't have privacy.
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Privacy, I don't know, privacy. Privacy.
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Privacy, yeah. But when you have a loan, for example, first for a year,
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then for a month, so I have a loan for a year, then for a month.
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So, I don't have to wait, I also have to give three months, but the employee also has three months.
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So, I have time to find other housing.
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And also, when the employee goes to your house, you have to speak a day or two days before.
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For example, when you watch everything in the same way. Mmhmm, no tak, no.
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Czyli tak, kontakt umowa najmu po polsku jest ważna.
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Dobra, a wróÄmy sobie do kwestii tego czynszu, opÅaty za mieszkanie.
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You said that it's a big deal. I said that it's a big deal. I didn't say anything
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about it in Warsaw. Maybe I didn't want to say that.
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It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. I don't know why it's like it.
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But it's a big deal. I'm curious if it's like it's like in Åodzi.
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So let's say standard is quite low.
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The price is quite high.
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It's not a big deal. No, so it's already, so it's a good thing.
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Okay, tell me Roy, if the owner should have been able to have a house in the house?
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Let's say, where you live with the locals, which you don't know.
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These are completely unknown people, but you have a piece.
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And now, if the owner should have been able to have a house in the house?
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Or rather it should be open?
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It depends, because when you have a high standard, you have a good knife, the pies can destroy it.
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And also, when I build a block in the central of the Lodz of the 30th place,
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I spread everything, but there were people who had pies and smiege,
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so the car was very smiege.
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So, everything depends, because sometimes it's a good owner.
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The piece is nice and clean, and sometimes it's a good owner.
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And it's a good owner. What's that? What's that? What's that?
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My gosh, that's right. Yes, that's right. And it's a good owner.
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So, for me, I always, since there was a lot of cats and pies,
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and here I have a good owner, but now I'm better not. but I don't have an agreement.
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I can't be a piece of cake. I can't.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a chance now.
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No, so I understand. Now, there's a very important aspect in the house,
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which is the most important part of the house.
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Because of this is the comfort of our life. Tell me, did you have a situation
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when you were a neighbor?
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Did your neighbor not good? No, I don't know, maybe he did a house,
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imprezy albo w jakiÅ sposób nie lubiÅeÅ tego sÄ siada miaÅeÅ kiedyÅ takÄ sytuacjÄ czy nie?
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I think so. So you have a lot of private areas. I have a lot of private areas.
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But my friends don't have it on the left.
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It's like 70 people. It's very nice. It's the best.
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I don't listen to people who have a problem. But I don't.
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I have a problem. I have hope that my son is not heard, but he is always doing a remont.
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He is already doing a remont. He is still a renovation.
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And he is always a chaos. And he doesn't bother me, because he is doing a remont
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in the morning and in the morning.
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When most people are working. But I work at home.
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So I have hope that he is not heard. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I have a friend of mine, but I've said that he's good, so he's not a man,
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he's just a chaos. But ok.
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Ok. Tell me, the balcony in the house is needed, or not?
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Is it a addition or a need?
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Or a taras? Is it a addition?
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Or a need? It's important,
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but for example the clock is very important, because you are always at home
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and sometimes you just lay in the sun or read a book, and it's good.
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Sometimes people use paper. I use paper.
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Yes. And you can go to the balcony now.
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Yes, that's right. That's right. I agree with you.
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No, dobra, czyli podsumowujÄ c, dom na przedmieÅciach, z daleka od centrum,
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cena i standard zależy, wiÄc mamy mniej wiÄcej obraz.
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No cóż, podsumowujÄ c Wyrażenie dnia, ciasne, ale wÅasne Tak?
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ZajÄ kierujÄ c od osób sÅuchajÄ cych MogÄ te osoby wÅaÅnie NapisaÄ,
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czy ZgadzajÄ siÄ ze stwierdzeniem,
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że Ciasne, ale wÅasne Jest dobre, czy może lepiej Faktycznie nie No dobra,
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Roi, dziÄkujÄ Ci bardzo za tÄ rozmowÄ Bardzo fajny temat, aktualny I pozdrawiam wszystkich DziÄkujÄ,
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I jeden punkt Because sometimes people say, why do you have a problem with the calorifier?
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And I write an agreement because there is a lot of trees on my ground.
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I say, I can make trees but not that tree.
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And when is the problem?
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It's not my problem. I don't know what will cost every month. That's great.
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I hope we will do this. Thank you very much for that.
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Bye bye everyone. Thank you Ani.
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