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Old Posted Oct 5, 2019, 8:37 PM
marothisu marothisu is offline
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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright View Post
Poles are moving out because the economy in Poland is doing as well as it has in 100 years and, due to the Euro, dollars earned in the US go an awfully long ways there. I have seen numerous elderly poles that were tenants of mine up and leave to return home and be with their families in retirement.

That and the foreign born inflows of poles tailed off 20 years ago so most people of Polish descent were born here and the now elderly foreign born are slowly dying off.
Pretty much. Also, the NYC area has lost over 15,000 Polish born people since 2010 as well. Percentage wise, that's a loss of 1.3% versus the 1.6% for Chicago - similar in that regard.
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