Hi Patrick
That is all really interesting stuff - thanks! It’s the sort of insight you can only get from someone who has experienced it on the ground. Things really do sound like they are moving ahead there.
A factor I didn’t mention is my girlfriend currently lives in the Netherlands and has done for over 15 years - has a good job there and is completely fluent in Dutch. Initially I favoured Poland as a place to live but now I’m opening my mind to the Netherlands. I hate the language and the population density and bunched up housing isn’t ideally what I’m looking for. But they understand me in shops there better than they do here as they speak far better English than our immigrants generally do, and the place is clean and incredibly well equipped.
Cheers
Matthew