Because - perhaps understandably - when immigrants arrive, they will initially settle where they know there is a community they can relate to, in the bigger cities. This creates a pressure on public services in those hotspots, and there is always a time lag before they can fully cope, hence the...
This, in spades.
We ALL benefit in the long term from immigration, so rather than focus on keeping Johnny Foreigner out, we should be looking to distribute the short term burden of immigration. At the moment, that burden is certainly not met by those in leafy fairly wealthy suburbs.
Harsh. I have no problem with people not understanding the language when they arrive. I do however have a problem with those people who plan on settling here and making no effort to learn English.
And yes, the same applies to the leather-skinned lasagne and chips brigade on the Costa del Sol...