Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "" video.

I was living in Poland for three years in the late 90s, i.e. a couple of years before Poland joined the EU - and I am not a EU citizen. It took me half an hour to obtain a Polish working permit. It is funny how people think that before the EU people did not migrate to work. In some years some people will probably think that there was no electricity before the EU.
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@salty666 Now it is close to impossible ? Well, to move anywhere you either need a job there or a good pension plus savings (the latter typically referring to retired people). Spain has had a rather high level of unemployment for many years, so it was nearly impossible for a non-Spanish speaking foreigner to obtain an average job there anyway. The EU is not a job-guaranteeing agency, you see. And for relatively affluent elderly people it should be still easy to spend their retirement in Spain. Hundreds of thousands Germans did so long before Spain joined the EU. And tens of thousands Brits did so in neighboring pre-EU Portugal. In the end it is economical factors which are decisive. To ascribe every chance and every problem to EU membership is amusingly naive.
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@salty666 Quite possibly there are a couple of thousands of young Brits in all of Spain working in low-paid jobs. However I somehow doubt that given a youth unemployment rate of at least 30% in the last 10 years and the negative impact the pandemic has on Spanish tourism, in which young, English speaking people can presumably find low paid jobs relatively easy. And I doubt even more that among these young people "a disproportionate number seem to be brexit supporters" as the text below this video somehow snarkily ascertains.
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