Why do more migrants tend to come to the UK rather than France, Germany, Italy or Spain etc?
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of course you pay better wages.. is the pound not stronger than the euro? but mostly, it's because they know the politicians are far too spineless to kick them out or tell them they can't come in. You see if they did, someone might criticize them.
702923
I'm not really surprised.  Most of northern and western Europe have better standards of living than the UK.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if  places like Canada, Australia and New Zealand also came above us.  \n\nI've seen a lot of the world and while Europe is my favourite place and Britain has many good qualities,  the UK tends to have an inflated opinion of its own quality of life.
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More people?\n\nI suspect you're talking through your hat here, and haven't done any research into basic demographics and social studies with which to support your supposition.\n\nOffhand, I expect the incidence to be about equal when comparing the UK to the US.\n\nPlainly stated -- I don't suppose and that's why I don't.\n\nGot it?\n\nOkay.
1043039
Realistically there is actually much more crime in Europe than the U.S., in the U.K. alone there is one half as many reported crimes as in the U.S., and the U.S. has more than 5 times more people.
600723
The US may be great, but it is not the only great nation. Many other nations are facing massive immigration influxes as well. France has Northern Africans coming in by the boat load. Italy has Albanians coming over. I could go on.
910859
Could be many reasons.\n1 could be the De minimis rule for EU fundings.\n2....\n3...
574113
Actually, in addition to Montenegro voting to separate from Serbia, Spain is having issues with separatism in its regions.  The Basque country has long wanted an independent state that would take territory from Spain and France.  Catalonia has recently moved towards greater autonomy, and the other regions jealously want to ensure that they receive similar rights vis a vis the central government.  While the UK is not separating, the devolution movement has been strong there in recent history, and Wales and Scotland will probably continue to push for greater autonomy within the UK framework.  History suggests that change alone is constant.
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I love Italy...been there a few times.  But from a political stand point....England.  Outside of fighting them for our independence.....when times are tough the Brits are always there!  Not like some of those beret wearing and octoberfest countries!
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uk, spain , france, germany. and italy
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Brian, it's exactly the same issue in this country (UK), but I'd add three points that might not apply for Americans and the US.\n\nFirstly, some figures indicate that net migration is zero, as alot of Brits are emigrating to Australia, France, Eastern Europe etc.  \n\nSecondly, we complain about countries like Australia that have an immigration policy against us, yet are always trying to develop tougher immigration policies ourselves.\n\nThirdly, alot of Brits have moved to France largely ignoring the indiginous culture, as they pour into Provence and other regions.  We laugh at the French when they complain, yet expect our immigrants to speak fluent English the moment they step off the boat / plane / whatever.  We are also making life very hard for some countries by driving property prices up to levels that locals can't afford.\n\nPoints 2 and 3 add up to alot of hypocrisy in my mind.
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From my memory of immigration law, non-EU nationals who wish to work in Europe have to demonstrate that the position they wish to take up is specialised or there's a shortage of workers in that sector. \n\nI don't think an au pair would fall under this if it's the UK you are looking to enter.
967509
cos they aren't consistent and are concentration of europe 2 much. They also 2 many foreign players.
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Hello,\n\nThis is one of those questions were I believe the answers could be both Yes! and No!. \n\nOn the one hand Britain is an island nation that has seen successive invasions & Conquests from numerous different races & peoples (the romans, the saxons, the vikings,etc). Britain had a massive empire & much of our historic wealth has come from slavery, expliotation & trading. In the second world war many people escaped from the devastation that was going on in Europe and came into the UK. So you can see we've always had immagration and migration, you cannot say immagration is a new experience for us.\n\n**The problem I think is more about the fact that we ARE an island (all be it a reasonably sized one!) and being an island means we do have limits on space & resources.\n\n**The other paradoxic part to this issue, is do you see immagration as adding something to the whole, i.e. bringing benefit to our society or do you see immagration as mainly a draining of resources. In other words is the glass half empty or half full, that I believe is closer to the core of this question.\n\n**The UK involment with the EU has seen the problem become worse, the dilemma increase. why? as poorer states & countries jioned the EU club they wanted to gain the benefits of EU membership and improve their living standards. EU labour laws allow for workers to move from one EU country to another and thats yet another part of the concern about immagration. Our government wildly underestimated the number of workers who would come into the UK seeking work (I think the orginial estimate was about 10,000 in reality its been 245,000 or there abouts).\n\n**The polish workers coming into the UK are not entirely welcomed why? because they are very hard working and prepared to take lower wages than most UK workers, why? because even though badly paid by our standards by polish standards they're well paid. \n\nSo polish workers can fulfil jobs that UK workers dont want to do, but some people feel polish people are putting a strain on jobs & the jobs market. How true that is, is yet another question and hard to answer. Non of this has clear cut or black & white answers, the answer I suggest is always going to be relative or subjective.\n\nIR
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what about all the brits who move to other countries, take the houses away from the locals, never manage to learn the local language? At least, most of the immigrants into the uk come here to work and pay their taxes.
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Mostly they don't want to come here. They'd much rather be able to make a living and support their families in the countries of their origin. As far as those that do come here are concerned, they would also rather not have to live on run-down, inner city housing estates full of junkies and thieves.
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EU countries have to let u in, because that's the law so we're told as justification for the UK's immigration recently. The Commonwealth is different, you need to get enough points, IE you need to be of worth to the country you want to go to. I'm not sure about the rest, but i bet it isn't that difficult to get into an African country.
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many muslims come to UK from the middle-east for transplants. Privately of course. Whether it's for quality care or avoidance of religious taboo, I can't say. We all want to survive.