I visited the relatively new Polish in Huddersfield a couple of days ago. It's funny going in there, because it's like going to a foreign country. I was the only person who spoke English. It's also funny because some of the brands they sell are familiar, such as knorr, but the packaging is all Polish. Mind you, I saw that most shoppers were buying crisps and other such stuff.
I have also noticed a new bar in Huddersfield which I think is Polish, and there seem to be a lot of young Polish people in the town, making me wonder if they are attending the University. I was musing with Phil yesterday, saying it was strange with all these Eastern Europeans moving in that I don't actually know any (apart from the wife of a work colleague who is from the Czech Republic). When I was a kid I had friends whose families were Polish and Ukrainian and I sometimes went to their clubs for dances and stuff. It made us think about that and how those earlier generations became integrated into the rest of British society, whereas the young people coming over now perhaps don't plan to stay so don't mix as much. I don't know for sure, but maybe this is the case.
A few weeks ago I started to notice Polish cars on the morning commute, which made me wonder about the economics of driving a car overland – surely it's not cost effective in these days of cheap flights or indeed coach travel? Couldn't quite get my head round that. The only thing I thought possibly is that because it is so much cheaper to buy a car in the rest of Europe that this makes it worthwhile bringing your old one over rather than buying one in England. If there's any Eastern Europeans who now live in England reading this, perhaps you could help me out.
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