Seriously thinking about leaving the UK - AIBU?

I love reading the posts about this, what gets me are people blaming immigration for them wanting to leave this country, they are doing the same thing the immigrants wanting a better life, surreal...

I love the fact some people complain about immigration, saying how they'll leave the country and go somewhere else. To be.... well..... immigrants

The irony of people who would leave the U.K. because they think there’s too much immigration, but they’re fine with becoming immigrants themselves. Usually they misname themselves expats.

Also, abortion is now illegal except in exceptional circumstances in Poland. I wouldn't move to any country that restricts reproductive rights for women.

Moving back to uk for many reasons from AU. Economically au is far more expensive. NZ has similar issues if not more issues than Au economically. Travel anywhere is long haul and expensive. Not saying don’t do it, just do your research.

Where are you going to? Good luck 🤞

Because the 1000,s coming here get treated better than us British. I work for the NHS. A few week ago my GP sent through a referral to my hospital for me to see a specialist, I got told the wait is about 55-58 weeks. A few days later I booked in a man who had just been housed in a migrant hotel nearby 3 days before.

I understand the wish to leave- the UK has been going downhill for far longer than 20 years IMO.
This is the product of being at the stage we are, post industrial revolution- most wealth generation, which comes from making things has moved elsewhere, and no matter what stimulus, or government policies are employed, that is not going to change.
The problem with leaving is, where do you go? The same economic fate awaits pretty much all of the Western world.
Other problems are what financial backing do you have? What skills do you have? This strongly impacts where you can go.
I think you will find most of the problems the UK has are also elsewhere- eg. unaffordability of housing, lack of economic growth and worsening public services.
All of these things are born of rapidly increasing wealth inequality, which affects pretty much all of the places you could move to, or they already have massive gaps between rich and poor (eg. India, South Africa and most of South America).
I would therefore think very carefully , and do as much research as possible before you make any firm plans to move.

Snort. Bigots and reactionaries have such strange logic.

Yea, because it’s so much more British elsewhere. 🤣

Britain is quickly becoming less British and I can entirely see why you would think it's a good idea to leave.

Oh FFS!!

Oz and NZ don't know what a woman is - you could have problems there, particularly with kids, that we don't yet have here.

After seeing the way some fb acquaintances are living then hard agree with this. No incentive to work for some. I have multiple conplex health issues and feel like an absolute mug working and saving for the smallest of breaks. I know that doesn't apply to everyone but some are absolute ripping it and I can't believe they post what they do online.

I probably spend 4 to 6 months out of the UK. If I had my time again I would become resident in Spain. Too old now. My child has emigrated to Oz recently.

There's a really weird tone to this thread- a lot of "Britain is fucked because of all the immigrants so I want to become an immigrant myself" It has descended to the kind of sludge you'd scrape off the floor after the Reform conference has spaffed its last. Utterly nihilistic and joyless.

Strange, because if anything would make me want to leave the UK it would be pasty faced indigenous "Eng-er-land!" types setting fire to bins and ripping their shirts off to try and start on the plod 🙄.

But there is so much cool about this country- bluebells, folklore, public footpaths- probably the kind of thing the joy suckers pay no attention to while they're giving their nets a twitch or getting in the Range Rover to drive to the retail park, looking forward to their two minutes hate at the sight of a woman in a headscarf.

But I'd still like the opportunity to live elsewhere, to discover the unique quirks and joys and landscapes and people of other lands. Shame the dementors have made that impossible for us with their small minded hatred of "furriners" isn't it.

Some areas have problems but it’s no where near as bad as some US and UK cities.

I haven’t voted (super annoying as I can’t see how others have voted!) - because I can see both sides.

I hate that things seem so bleak here, that the cost of living has taken joy for so many or worse pushed people into poverty. Diseases like rickets have no place in a civilised society. I hate that there’s nothing to choose between our political parties- this week labour have really taken over as the really nasty party!

However I’d caution that the grass might not be greener - imagine living under trump the narcissist, issues in france, germany, tension in lots of war in the middle east, mexico, canada and greenland being bullied by america, ukraine etc.

Really? You live in Canada and don't know about the housing issues, medical issues, or the opioid epidemic? I'm on the East coast but you would have to be living under a rock to be unaware of this. it's in the news every day.

Considerations

• Do you speak the language. Can you write it? To a level to gain decent employment
• Will your previous employment record/qualifications be recognised
• What are the entry requirements...I watched a YouTube video suggesting countries worth moving to, most require hefty savings and investment in the country
• Kids education, how good is it, could they start in a completely from scratch and without the language
• Is medical treatment affordable until you have insurance in place
• Could you adjust to the culture. Moving to Europe is one thing but to the far East or india
• How do you feel about leaving family behind, if parents get ill it's not a case of jumping in.the car

Two out of our three children (professionals working in London) are in the process of leaving the UK to work abroad, the third is hoping to follow.

For the first time ever we are also thinking of returning to my home country for retirement, primarily because it has zero inheritance tax.

“Go figure”? It’s really not that difficult: the people who want to leave are those paying high taxes and getting nothing for it (terrible nhs, education, council services, everything overpriced, etc, etc) and those desperate to come want to sponge off the tax payers to get free housing, benefits, education, nhs, etc despite never having paid a penny into the system. We really are a joke.

the expression : Grass could be greener on the side springs to mind… as my dad would say the water bill is probably higher too! Best of luck

Where do you live?

There was a shooting by my home yesterday as school children were leaving school, some ran into local shops for cover. A woman got raped by me at 8am on a Monday morning in the local woods. There are stabbings regularly and I don’t feel comfortable going into my home city centre anymore. In all honestly I feel like an unwelcome foreigner in the country I grew up in. I need to get away, I don’t want my children growing up around this. So no you’re not being unreasonable.