Couldn't agree with this post more Imp's ... I did some work with a major fruit producer a couple of years back and many Brits would have found it almost impossible to do those jobs for al the reasons you gave. It works for the foreign labour because they all live in site accomadation (deducted from their wages) or in shared local accomadation and they work their nuts off and save up to send home ... fair play, they were great to work alongside and it was great. They would walk or cycle into the local town to shop and that was it. To have town/city based people paying town/city rents/mortgages and running cars plus fuel for their wages just doesn't work. I met lovely couples who worked in the fields who then decided to stay and make their lives in the UK ... but only when one or both of them found better paid work in the towns / citys ... couldn't do it whilst still picking.