Quoting: Amathyst
So it's a vicious circle, soon the Poles will out and the Romanians / Bulgarians in....but that still doesnt explain to me what the English men with famlies and mortgages will do?? I understand it's an open market and Im not against people coming to England to work, my concerns are for my friend at the moment who's husband is out of work and she's just had a child, he's been in the trade for 20 years and is a hard worker not one of these that takes 2 hour tea breaks...he's a grafter....
There has been job losses but there has been people that have profited from it. I don't know the exact figures but I image those with mortgages will have to sell up and go unemployed.
However A lot of English people I know have done excatly what I've done, started their own businesses, Employed eastern europeans and used the extra income to make investments in Eastern Europe.
We did the same thing 15 years ago in Spain by buying all the houses there, the only problem nowdays is all the houses in spain are too expensive for the spanish people, so we rent them out to them.
I imagine in 10 years a lot more houses in Poland will be English owned and thus too expensive for the average Pole to buy. Unfortunatly for you guys this is going to be the downside of the work you are getting today.
Basically it's up to the Poles to use the money they are earning here and investing it back into your own country, before we (the english) do.