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That may in part be because Austria hasn't seen mass migration on the scale we have over the last decade or more and doesn't yet have all the associated problems of integrating vast numbers of people of vastly different cultures. Sooner or later their welcome will evaporate as they experience more of the problems seen elsewhere across Europe and they become a long term issue which ordinary people realise isn't going away any time soon. In the UK the problems of mass migration aren't distributed equally with certain major towns/cities seeing massive changes and pressures whilst other places remain largely isolated from them. No wonder therefore that some people complain or are more welcoming than others. The argument isn't whether hostility will develop, it's merely a question of how long it takes and the evidence is there to see across the EU.

Let's see how long the welcome banners remain when their public spaces become occupied and despoiled, services become stretched, tensions rise, fights break out amongst rival migrant groups and crime inevitably results as we're now seeing in Germany.