Forced Migration

[Paul]

Homeless families kicked out of London and sent to WALES.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-them.html

TPTB been doing this for ages but it is an increasingly worrying trend and one which Charities warned about ages ago.

I'm of two minds here.

• Being moved away from London could be a good move as I can't think of a reason for living there or in fact any big city.
  
  
• It's bad because it snaps up all the cheap housing in an area and I've no doubt the "migrants" will get priority over the locals sat on the waiting list.
  

Add to the brew the cost of local housing will increase as unscrupulous landlords cash in and I feel the prospect for the locals doesn't look good for a long time.

Socially I think it's going to cause problems.

• You have a "new type of immigrant". In Wales? Of all places! You've got an instant language problem which most visitors to Wales would have experienced.
  
  
• You've probably introducing cultural problems as Londoners are "different" to small town inhabitants.
  
  
• The cheap housing is usually grouped in areas. It always is. This could lead to almost a "ghetto complex".
  
  
• Finally you've got the increase of load to the health, social, shops, and an already depressed labour market.
  
  

Now without someone getting all political and ranting from a soap box, about socialism and the like,

What's your thoughts on the social side of things and what will happen in the affected communities?

After all the scheme could be extended to encompass rural areas and those of us who think we have 'escaped' the rat race could be lumbered with the very thing we tried to escape from i.e. too many people in too little an area.