• Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Poles be like:

      Emigrate in 1995 because of crushing unemployment and poverty

      Work 20 years in France at awful jobs for awful pay

      Somehow save up for a piece of land in Poland, in the shittiest village possible, with roads not repaired since socialism and a roadside shrine being the only thing in town.

      Start building a two story house with a garden and garage, just like you saw on American TV back in the day.

      Realize you vastly overestimated the costs and effort needed, so you leave the building half-finished

      Sell the house to a landlord, not getting even half of what you paid, who's going to repeat the process with another bozo.

      Go back abroad and live the same shitty life as before, still convinced you're a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.

      Alternatively:

      Start living in the village, commuting 100km to work and dream of starting a business.

      You live in an idyllic, idealized version of a conservative fantasy. A subservient wife, a big car, you don't have to interact with anyone and your kids are going to grow up according to how God™ told them. Spraying antisemitic graffiti on delapidated walls.