Over here (in the UK), there has been a massive influx of Poles (bless 'em) doing all sorts of stuff from plumbing to driving buses. I don't think it's so much that they're doing jobs that Brits don't want to do (hell - city financiers are retraining as plumbers cos the wages are better) it's just that native employment levels are high. What is interesting though, and kind of positive too (as I understand it at least), is that the Poles have been sending money back home and as a result of that and other factors, the Polish economy has picked up and these folks are now going back home again. After all, why work in a foreign country for the same wages you can now get at home? I might be being a bit simplistic here, but it strikes me that this is a validation of at least some of the principles behind the European Union. Economies interacting for the mutual benefit of the workers - sh*t, I'm begining to sound like a capitalist. I'll readily admit there's a lot wrong with the EU, but at least this seems to have worked. An important factor however has been the Polish work ethic
which, quite frankly, puts many other cultures to shame. I just hope the stereotype view of Romanians is a myth, is all I can say.