sparrow
9 May 2007
Life / Are you too selfish to leave Poland? [22]
I think it's way too idealistic to expect young Poles to stay while they can have a much brighter future in another country be it career-wise or any other way. It's very easy to sit behind a PC & midly critise them for it. But in order to make them stay you have to improve the country first & not the other way around.
And I'm sure it will improve but that takes time. It's only been 17 years since the wall fell down.. that's nothing. In the '50s tons & tons of Italians, Portuguese, Greek & Spanish emigrated to France, Belgium, the UK, etc to work in coal mines, because there wasn't any work. After that those countries joined the EU & have become wealthy western states. All you can hope for is that the same happens in Poland.
Apart from all nationalistic feelings, what would you do? If I studied for 3-4 years & could only get a crappy paid job with no long-term opportunities or no job at all.. heck.. I'd get the **** out of there. I want to get the most out of it.
I think it's way too idealistic to expect young Poles to stay while they can have a much brighter future in another country be it career-wise or any other way. It's very easy to sit behind a PC & midly critise them for it. But in order to make them stay you have to improve the country first & not the other way around.
And I'm sure it will improve but that takes time. It's only been 17 years since the wall fell down.. that's nothing. In the '50s tons & tons of Italians, Portuguese, Greek & Spanish emigrated to France, Belgium, the UK, etc to work in coal mines, because there wasn't any work. After that those countries joined the EU & have become wealthy western states. All you can hope for is that the same happens in Poland.
Apart from all nationalistic feelings, what would you do? If I studied for 3-4 years & could only get a crappy paid job with no long-term opportunities or no job at all.. heck.. I'd get the **** out of there. I want to get the most out of it.