Re: Like Brexit or loath it...
What happens when they all decide to leave their miserable towns with shuttered coal mines, and move to this town? Clearly these kind of arguments are ridiculous, but we see exactly the same ones made as to why the UK is going to be flooded with Poles or Bulgarians or whatever.
The arguments aren't so rediculous as you may think.
Does your town have the infrastructure to handle the influx? If not, will the influx be limited until the infrastructure catches up? (Housing, roads, plumbing (water treatment, waste water etc), education, entertainment, medical, food supplies, energy/fuel....)
An influx of residents can be great for any area IF the infrastructure keeps pace. Struggling small businesses can find they need more workers, there's more resources floating around, more opportunities etc.
But if the infrastructure doesn't keep up, well.. You really have to live through it to grasp how nasty it can get. You need to be getting 4 people into a place with 2 small bedrooms that you can collectively barely afford to understand how wonderful a housing crisis is. Even more fun when the place is a run-down dump that the owner knows will be rented as people are desperate for a roof.
It's truly a wonderful thing to experience, and really widens one's appreciation for what some problems can be like. But I'm going to be selfish, and hope you never actually have to experience it yourself or watch people you love go through it. You should experience it, but I hope you don't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
