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Picture Every country stressing about homeless people, meanwhile Poland with double side benches:

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u/KX_Alax Austria 2d ago edited 2d ago

https://www.poloniaviva.eu/index.php/de/beitraege/obdachlose-polen-in-deutschland-die-neue-podcast-serie-von-cosmo-auf-polnisch

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Since the source is in german, I should probably explain it.

Bis zu 5.000 obdachlose Polen leben auf den Straßen Berlins

There are 5000 polish people homeless in Berlin. This number is, however, a point-in-time count - which means, it's the number of affected people on a single day. In order to get to the annual figure, we need to multiply this number by ~2,8 - 3.

Jeder zweite Obdachlose in der deutschen Hauptstadt ist Pole

Half of Berlins homeless are polish. In total, there are around 30.000 affected people per year so my claim of 15.000 polish homeless in Berlin kinda checks out.

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u/Careless_Swan6727 2d ago

Where did you get that x 3 thing from 

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u/WorriedTwist8754 1d ago

He made it by himself just to prove a point of view, just average xenophobia against polish people

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u/GarlicDad1 2d ago

He figured out how much he needed to multiply the actual statistic by in order to make the figure in line with his original claim. It was 2.8-3.

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u/Rider_0n_The_Storm 1d ago

Why do homeless polish people travel to germany? I dont make sense of it

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u/gomerqc 1d ago

For the kebabs

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u/papanko_hapanko 1d ago

They don’t lol they probably left Poland long time ago when borders were opened after we joined EU and ended up homeless for whatever reason. In 2004 a lot of criminals, alcoholics etc. left the country to “look for better life in the west”