Same.
I love the UK but despair of the direction it’s taken in the past 10 years, per everything in @Honeycottage125’s post. It breaks my heart that my kids (and everyone else’s) have been been so thoroughly dicked over and stitched up by Brexit, nationalism, wealth disparity, crumbling NHS, the gutting of so many towns because small businesses can’t survive, increasing knife and drug crime, ridiculous levels of antisocial entitled behaviour, crappy expensive transport systems, filthy polluted waterways and coastline, and the utterly unsustainable cost of living, versus wages that have stagnated for decades.
I’ve not to travelled to anywhere in recent memory - including Japan and much of Scandinavia, traditionally ‘expensive’ places to visit - that’s felt anywhere near as pricey, or as bad value, as home.
Every country has its problems and there’s still much to love about the UK. But when families with two parents in full time employment can’t afford to buy a home and are topping up at food banks by the end of every month, you have to wonder how much more fucked up things need to get honestly.
It’s no longer a country you can happily exist in if you don’t have a substantial cushion of wealth and privilege. And that’s absolutely not the case in many other European countries, which are much cheaper, better served for healthcare, transport and general infrastructure, are as well connected and easy to travel to and from, have better weather and offer the possibility of living a simpler, happier life in safer, cleaner, community-minded environments.