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Originally Posted by TATY
You are over generalising. You are talking about Eastern Europeans, particularly Russians, Ukrainians, Poles etc. who leave their countries to go to USA/Canada, Western Europe. Money. These places either have a low supply of jobs or badly paid jobs, so they move to other countries where people are looking for cheap workers. A very large proportion of construction workers in London are from Eastern Europe. You will often here Russian spoken when you walk past building sites, since as well as there being Russians, Estonians and Latvians, for example will talk to each other in Russian.
You are right. However, I think I hear more Chinese here than anything else. And the Middle Eastern population is building up as well. When my grandparents came here from Italy 30/40 Years ago it was Italians who were the "new" ones. However, what I don't understand is that my grandparents came, but some of their family members (aunts, cousins, etc) stayed in Italy. I'm sure they lived all in the same place and the same goes for many Italian families living here.
I don't think they came here for money because my grandparents came in debt. They did not have an education because in Italy they worked in the fields-- and they left school when they were 9 or 10 years old.
It's hard for me to ask them, however, because there is a slight language barrier between us.