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    I've moved around a lot of areas in the UK and overseas and have concluded that many arguments against migration really should not be entertained and often direct discussions of this nature into rather nasty territory.

    You only have to go to Folkstone to realise that a higher level of migration is better for the local economy; the high street is much busier, there are more jobs, it's more affluent and the house prices reflect this. Dover is one of the whitest towns I have lived in and if this is the pinnacle of British culture then good God we are in trouble. I have lost count of the number of British families on my street and at my kids' school who do not work and the government encourages them to spawn children through rent subsidies, tax credits etc. Many of them don't even treat their own children with any kind of decency or project any values to encourage them to study, save or work for what is undeniably a difficult future ahead. I would take a hard working immigrant family over a house of spongers any day of the week. What's funny is that other areas which have a high concentration of one ethnicity also suffer similar problems of crime, dilapidation and delinquency. This is not not exclusively to any one culture and people escape this through the socioeconomic structures, of which house prices are a good indicator.

    Another problem is the disgusting policy of topping up minimum wages with tax credits, effectively subsidising private rents and allowing companies to pay well below the minimum wage - which is topped up by the taxpayer. The result of this is that the real take-home difference between earning between 16k and 35k is surprisingly small.

    I think a great deal of blame can be pointed upon the breakup of traditional single income families which has skewed the housing market in favour or a rentier system where one can obtain a property by foregoing children until later in life or applying two incomes which is to the detriment of a lot of families where there is only one bread winner who simply can't borrow anywhere near the amounts required to get a house suffice for a family.

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