Monday, April 23, 2007

Expatriate Games: Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights?

500 Brits back their bags and head to pastures new every single day here in Britain.

Australia, Spain and France are the post popular destinations. I'm sure the large amounts of affordable wine these countries produce has NOTHING to do with that! But if you're sticking around in England, don't feel lonely.

Even more immigrants - a whopping national average of 565,000 - arrived last year in Britain. 70% of those were Polish. The Poles, in fact, currently make up 10% of Southampton's residents!

So despite the hundreds of Brits calling it quits, the shores of our little island are getting more and more cramped.

It raises a very interesting question. Why is Britain so attractive to immigrants, yet so unappealing to natives?

2 comments:

Jodi said...

Well, you know... the grass is always greener.

Unknown said...

Have you been on the Telegraph website? It has this argument every day, although usually much more contructively than, say, the Daily Mail. I like your view on it a lot though, it sums it up extremely well!