And what's so worse about Poland, for goodness sake?
Lower salaries for same kinds of work and same amount of hours worked (for the same kind, the same difficulty, the same time of work - which requires the same qualifications - people in Britain get much more money than people in Poland get). Smaller number of jobs, higher unemployment rate.
In Britain many people are zero-hours contracts workers. But in Poland similar contracts (we call them garbage contracts) are even more widesprad.
Other things which are worse about Poland than Britain:
Much longer queues to free public health care (you have to wait months, sometimes years). Much lower retirement pensions. Etc., etc., etc.
Poland is a younger democracy - there are still many features of a post-Communist country here. The EU is adding its own "modern communism".
Bureaucracy in Poland is terrible - so many formalities and documents when for example you want to start your own business. When you want to build your own house there are also many formalities. In the 1990s many people built without building permits and later their houses were demolished.
Current Polish authorities treat businessmen as potential economic or financial criminals, rather than supporting small private enterprises. Politicians are corrupted - the government which fought against corruption was labelled as nationalistic and anti-European, now so called "liberals" rule (in fact they are closer to corrupted socialists - but even socialists would be ashamed of them, considering that they want to seek for savings in state budget in wallets of retired people). Authorities are not taking care of Polish national capital and of Polish enterprises - no matter state-owned or private-owned ones.
Politicians promise a lot of things before elections, but after elections they do not much of what they promised.
In Britain you have fast trains. In Poland trains travel at a much lower speed and they are sometimes overloaded with passengers.
But I must say that since Euro 2012 the quality of Polish railway transport has improved - at least in my region.
Even more things:
Since Poland has entered the European Union, prices of products are increasing even faster than salaries.
I know that many British people are disappointed with the European Union and the way it goes. The same applies to many Poles.
The number of quite obviously better countries
Poles still need visas to go to the USA - they don't need visas to go to Britain.
Majority of Poles speak English (at least a little bit) - not so many speak other foreign languages, apart from Russian (older generation).
Many people also speak German - and many Poles emigrate to Germany. But they prefer Britain due to historical reasons perhaps.
You know - working for some German
Bauer is rather considered a disgrace. You know the German-Polish history in the 20th century.
