[Osem]

There is a reason why some migrants can afford to take certain low paid jobs when others can't and that's because they can afford to live cheaper, rough it for a realtively short time and then go back home where the money they've saved goes a whole lot further than it would here.

A plumber mate of mine is working on a site where a small group of Polish guys are employed. Apparently they sleep in a minivan when not working and tend to go back to Poland every few weeks for a week or so before returning. They live very cheap, spend very little here but make far more than they could ever earn back home and use that money to buy or build properties over there. It's the sort of thing UK expats have done in the past in Germany for example, the difference now being the sheer scale of the problem.