To think life in England must be much easier

I think you may be mixing up absolute poverty with relative poverty?

I grew up in Germany and my parents live there, so for me moving back to Germany would be moving near family and friends. I can see how it may be different for you. Do you speak German? I think it's difficult to fit in if you don't. In terms of standard of living, medical care and education Germany is far superior though.

Absolute poverty in England is very different to poverty in other countries.

People living here have no idea how much we are protected against actual poverty. It’s impossible to realise this unless you’ve lived elsewhere though.

@iamtheblcksheep Such horrible comments.
I am British, born in England, school, college, university there. Worked there part time since I was 15, worked full time for years and years and contributed to the system, same for my Dh, both are families still live there.
Live In a European country and have also both always worked and contributed to the system. Now having a health problem myself, my Dd being in a horrendous situation where no one has knowledge of her condition at all, no support whatsoever-state or family and huge cost of living. I’m paying in desperation for private appointments for my Dd in the hope of getting her some help, whilst also being ill myself and having to push myself in a job I will likely lose, due to the amount of time I have to take off for illness or to look after Dd. Schools here have barejy any knowledge of any special needs or issues with children and will offer no support id imagine when I attempt to take Dd back to school in September, she likely will be too anxious to go and I will struggle with that, with no support. Meanwhile Dh working his arse off in a job that pays much lower than it would in the U.K., even though our cost of living is on par or higher and doesn’t receive proper holiday or sick or time off for bereavement, which he’s just experienced in his family, but had to go back to work after two days to grieve and just ‘Get on with it’
I’m mid 40’s now and we moved abroad when younger and travelled and worked to experience life, now we have no life.
Don’t worry I don’t expect to ‘Just walk into the NHS and take other peoples spaces who’ve paid into the system’ (as have I for 30 years, divided between U.K. and a European country) I will likely pay for private help for my Dd from the sale of our house, the point is there is support and knowledge there about her condition, I can get HELP, there is family support there, we will both work of course but should something go wrong, someone dies, we fall ill, there is help and support there
You know nothing about my life or family and how hard we have worked and what we are going through.

I want to come back to my home now.

My universal credit? Good one. I don’t have a job. I do run several companies though if that’s good enough for you to allow me to have my own opinion. I do after all pay rather a lot of income and corporation tax.

You should not be allowed to use out NHS if you have not paid into our system. This is the OPs clear intention. I don’t give a toss. My universal credit you think I’m getting, also known as multiple income streams from my businesses allows me private health insurance, education…Anything I want I can skip the queue. For many this is unfortunately not the case. You might want to think before you insult someone again.

No it isn’t a horrible thing to say. The OP has clearly fallen on hard times. She will be returning to take from the NHS that is falling apart. We are taking money from our pensioners because labour are morally bankrupt. Parents who have worked their backsides off are being taxed just because they have chosen to give their child a better chance education wise. The middle are being squeezed to the point of no return.

It is simply not acceptable that someone should be able to swan back to the UK when she moved away for greener grass. There will be children with the same condition as the OPs child that will have to wait in a queue because of this woman’s life choices. People who have paid towards the services she will be getting for free.

She needs to stay where she is and figure it out. There are always jobs. If you are struggling you get a second, third job until you make it work.

Do you also think England has plentiful jobs? If so please do tell me where. My 18;year old hasn't been able to get a job in the last year.

Then come home.

But a third of kids in the UK live in absolute policy, at my GP surgery the wait is 6 weeks to see a GP and last year 268 people died every week due to delays in A and E.

Do you also think England has plentiful jobs? If so please do tell me where. My 18;year old hasn't been able to get a job in the last year.

No it isn’t a horrible thing to say. The OP has clearly fallen on hard times. She will be returning to take from the NHS that is falling apart. We are taking money from our pensioners because labour are morally bankrupt. Parents who have worked their backsides off are being taxed just because they have chosen to give their child a better chance education wise. The middle are being squeezed to the point of no return.

It is simply not acceptable that someone should be able to swan back to the UK when she moved away for greener grass. There will be children with the same condition as the OPs child that will have to wait in a queue because of this woman’s life choices. People who have paid towards the services she will be getting for free.

She needs to stay where she is and figure it out. There are always jobs. If you are struggling you get a second, third job until you make it work.

No it isn’t a horrible thing to say. The OP has clearly fallen on hard times. She will be returning to take from the NHS that is falling apart. We are taking money from our pensioners because labour are morally bankrupt. Parents who have worked their backsides off are being taxed just because they have chosen to give their child a better chance education wise. The middle are being squeezed to the point of no return.

It is simply not acceptable that someone should be able to swan back to the UK when she moved away for greener grass. There will be children with the same condition as the OPs child that will have to wait in a queue because of this woman’s life choices. People who have paid towards the services she will be getting for free.

She needs to stay where she is and figure it out. There are always jobs. If you are struggling you get a second, third job until you make it work.

No it isn’t a horrible thing to say. The OP has clearly fallen on hard times. She will be returning to take from the NHS that is falling apart. We are taking money from our pensioners because labour are morally bankrupt. Parents who have worked their backsides off are being taxed just because they have chosen to give their child a better chance education wise. The middle are being squeezed to the point of no return.

It is simply not acceptable that someone should be able to swan back to the UK when she moved away for greener grass. There will be children with the same condition as the OPs child that will have to wait in a queue because of this woman’s life choices. People who have paid towards the services she will be getting for free.

She needs to stay where she is and figure it out. There are always jobs. If you are struggling you get a second, third job until you make it work.

What a horrible thing to say to someone looking for a little reassurance!

My universal credit? Good one. I don’t have a job. I do run several companies though if that’s good enough for you to allow me to have my own opinion. I do after all pay rather a lot of income and corporation tax.

You should not be allowed to use out NHS if you have not paid into our system. This is the OPs clear intention. I don’t give a toss. My universal credit you think I’m getting, also known as multiple income streams from my businesses allows me private health insurance, education…Anything I want I can skip the queue. For many this is unfortunately not the case. You might want to think before you insult someone again.

I know years back quite a number of countries wouldn’t allow dual citizenship therefore expats would need to renounce their British citizenship before being granted citizenship there. It’s not straightforward coming back and you have to go through a fairly long expensive process to regain citizenship. My brother is going through this atm.

Op there’s no shame in returning if things haven’t worked out as well as you’d have hoped. But in all honesty life here isn’t any better. Your children will likely have better long term prospects abroad than here.

I dont know the great details but my nans mate moved to oz for 20ish years. Returned home and wasn't entitled to the nhs for many years, had to pay private for everything

You've not lived in the UK for years . Not paid into the system. You want to come back to claim benefits. Cheek of it.

Tell me, where are you finding all of these ex-pats who are about to return to the United Kingdom? I mean there must be an absolute shitload of them for you to be this angry about it, right? You're clearly distressed about the tens of thousands of British citizens returning to Great Britain to steal your job universal credit, but how come you're the only person in the Kingdom who's aware of this travesty?

I moved to the UK from Germany and I think Germany is a much nicer and safer (in terms of financial security) place to live. I'm only staying here until my daughter finishes her GCSEs. Then I'm moving (whether back to Germany or somewhere sunny remains to be seen).

The UK is miserable. The weather is awful, everything is insanely expensive, medical care leaves a lot to be desired, taxes are huge, the education system is terrible. There are much nicer places out there.