UK to Romanians and Bulgarians: Don't come here, it sucks.

[Ed Anger]

that's a fucked up language

They have 600 words for 'beet'.

[Grinning_Colossus]

What does it say?

"Don't bother applying for asylum, Gpysies" is the gist of it.

[Ed Anger]

Or it is a nagging lecture from Spellus about ethnic backgrounds.

[Tamas]

They didn't include Hungary? 

London already has something like the 3rd or 4th largest Hungarian population among cities in the world, including Budapest.

[Tamas]

What does it say?

"Don't bother applying for asylum, Gpysies" is the gist of it.

Pretty much. There has been (or was) a lucrative industry of refugee welfare abuse. Allegedly those who got the hang of it ferried over big quantities of gypsies, getting a cut of the welfare stuff in return.
Of course the nazis are angry because they don't want them back.

[Brazen]

I don't know how you can roll up and stay in a European neighbour and go straight onto benefits. Does our anti-immigration press make it look easier than it actually is? I can't imagine turning up in Paris and signing on and expecting a flat paid for. But then I'm obviously ignorant of the system - it took me weeks to get any kind of unemployment benefit, and that was about 5% of what I needed to pay my bills.

[Tamas]

I don't know how you can roll up and stay in a European neighbour and go straight onto benefits. Does our anti-immigration press make it look easier than it actually is? I can't imagine turning up in Paris and signing on and expecting a flat paid for. But then I'm obviously ignorant of the system - it took me weeks to get any kind of unemployment benefit, and that was about 5% of what I needed to pay my bills.

There was this big gypsy family in a not too far away town, who literally burned the roof from above themselves in the council-granted house they had (they figured the roof would stay on even if they cut and burned some of its base. They were wrong). For months they were housed in the community center. When they ran that to the ground, the town bought some container houses as an emergency measure until they can be taken care of. This became a huge scandal, as big tantrum was held over the attrocity of moving to such a demeaning housing.
They left for Strassbourg, where they got housing and stuff. Most of them returned however, after realizing the welfare would mostly run out eventually (or they fled from police, IDK). In all fairness, some of the family did remain and established a proper existence via findings jobs.

[Syt]

I should angle for a job in our Mississauga head office. Then again, I'm not sure I would want to live in Mississauga.

[Duque de Bragança]

I should angle for a job in our Mississauga head office. Then again, I'm not sure I would want to live in Mississauga.

Good place for videophiles though since http://www.dvdbeaver.com/ comes from there

[Brazen]

I was doing some census research for this as recalled my home town Enfield had one of highest populations of Poles in the UK, but more recently I've heard less Polish and more Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian. I was somewhat surprised to find that the borough is more than 50% non-white British, until I found out that that includes Greeks, Turks and Cypriots, who run all our restaurants and have been here for two or three generations, and basically characterise north London. They seem pretty white and pretty British to me.

[Valmy]

For he could have stayed a Russian, a Greek, or Turk, or Romanian but he became an Englishman.  He became an E-e-e-e-e-nglishman.

[HVC]

I should angle for a job in our Mississauga head office. Then again, I'm not sure I would want to live in Mississauga.

you don't.

[Martinus]

I was doing some census research for this as recalled my home town Enfield had one of highest populations of Poles in the UK, but more recently I've heard less Polish and more Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian. I was somewhat surprised to find that the borough is more than 50% non-white British, until I found out that that includes Greeks, Turks and Cypriots, who run all our restaurants and have been here for two or three generations, and basically characterise north London. They seem pretty white and pretty British to me.

[Hortlund]Greeks, Turks and Cypriots are not white.[/Hortlund]

[Syt]

Can't say I hear much Hungarian here. In my part of town I mostly hear Turkish, Serbian/Croatian, occasionally Chechen, Polish and now and then German.

[Martinus]

Austria is not very popular with Poles, I think. It has all the downsides (population that is believed to have negative/contemptous opinion about Poles, as opposed to say, Brits; language barrier) of Germany and none of the apparent benefits (large market and close economic ties).

My guess would be that Polish expats in Austria are mainly the Western European type of expats (i.e. people who moved there to an existing job or are studying there etc.) rather than people who just migrate in search of work.