if this carries on I'll end up moving to Poland in search for a better life

Imo the people are hard workers and want to build up a great polish country - without ambition to help the whole world or standout as most social country. I also believe labor costs are a massive factor whether economies grow or not.

After ww2 labor costs were cheap in Germany & Western Europe and everyone was hungry to get a better life. With more wealth and social security baked into the system, the incentives changed to wealth maintenance (& it’s become important to have workforce immigration for wealth building; beware of social security immigration though).

Today, there’s still many polish people earning money in Germany etc. and bringing in home, hiring local talent to build business.

Germany and Sweden has little quality immigration, no cheap labor but high regulatory burdens. Other (relatively rich) countries like UAE still don’t care much about people and get “cheap, hard working” labor (from India/pakistan) to grow the country, local people & “quality migrants” pay for it & enjoy it

> The fall of the sowjetunion and Berlin Wall kicked off great economic opportunities.

> 35y is not yet very long and the values are still intact: work hard, improve life, care about the closest people, etc.