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Old 25-01-2008, 10:43 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Default Naive question, property prices, EU immigration, Poland, eastern europe, Imperial

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Originally Posted by George View Post
....if immigration is what causes house prices to rise, how is it that land I bought in Poland four years ago for £ 8.20 per square metre is now worth over £ 40.00 per square metre?
A naive question - we couldn't care less about property prices in Poland. This is an anti-EU forum and our concern is how property prices in the UK which have increased since EU immigration from Poland. A number of housing and property people have been on the media warning that eastern european immigration is pushing up property prices, rents and reducing the number of jobs available in the UK.

As for your reference to 'metre' (quote above) - another sign that you have 'gone native' (if it is true that you are in Poland). Here in the UK (a country you may never have been to) we use Imperial measurements as and when we can (i.e. in those areas where the EU has not outlawed it).
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