"They’re all coming here and you’re going there"

By far the most common reaction I have received when telling people I am moving to Poland has been "They're all coming here to work and you're going there". There is of course a lot of truth in this statement, I read recently that there are officially 32,135 Eastern European migrants registered to work in Scotland and vast majority of these are Poles. A lot has been written on Eastern European migrants, some of it positive and some of it negative. There has also been a lot written by Eastern European migrants, their thoughts and experiences of living and working in Scotland. However seldom do you read a story about the reverse, about a Scot or Western European living in Poland. I suppose the Daily Mail would classify me as an "ex-pat", which has an altogether more positive sound to it than migrant or immigrant, but essentially I am no different from a Pole moving to live and work in Scotland. I have therefore decided to keep a blog of my experiences as Scot living and working in Poland. I have lived and worked abroad once before, in Catalonia, and one of my biggest regrets was not keeping a record of my thoughts and experiences while there. I have never done anything like this before and so it's all a bit of a mystery as to how well it will work but the sort of things I am hoping to write about are my thoughts on Polish culture, the language, the food, the people and reports on any trips I make around Poland and Eastern Europe in general. So in a nutshell that's about it, here's hoping it works out.