Young Poles are not mobile - report

Almost 50 percent of Polish students continue to live with their parents and over 75 percent of people aged between 25 and 30 have never changed their place of residence, as reported in a survey by the Educational Research Insitute (IBE). According to the research, only 10 percent of future students apply to universities mainly in the same city or region where they live. High-school graduates choose nearby universities in order to reduce living costs, the surveyed showed. Young Poles coming from small municipalities (up to 10,000 inhabitants) are more mobile than their peers from towns and cities. As much as 40 percent of them have changed their place of residence at least once. Among people from cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, the percentage is twice as low (17 percent.) The survey was conducted in May-August 2013.