Has Brexit made you want to leave the UK?

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Just that really.

Or maybe you have already left and if so where have you gone?

If it were an option for me I would now leave .

This Ian McEwan article pretty much sums up the desolation that I feel.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/brexit-pointless-masochistic-ambition-history-done

If we were 20 years younger, we'd be off to Canada. However, DD is grown with her own family, there's a reasonable sense of community round here, and while I have strength I'll oppose the vermin.

I left in June. Heartbroken, leaving the country I loved so much. I'm sure things in the UK will improve with time but I prefer staying in Europe. I'm so happy right now, I'm not even looking at the news.

No.

No

I’d love to.

Sadly it’s not feasible 🤷‍♀️

@12345ct

I love the comments of yes I want to leave as I'm so upset/ashamed but ..... if you feel that strongly just leave or say No I'm staying.

People are expressing their feelings to a pretty momentous change which impacts them depite tgem not voting for it. Your comment is facetious and dismissive.

You should grow up.

Yep. Both myself & dp are Irish - love living in London and have been here for years , we were going to settle here, but after Brexit and that last election, we will be leaving once we have kids - wouldn’t bring bring children up in a place where the majority of people want Brexit - which essentially means they don’t want any immigrants - and the Tories in charge. I feel so unwelcome now tbh sadly.

Yes not something we’d ever contemplated before but so depressing to realise how ill informed and spiteful a lot of people are.

What I can’t wrap my head around was that it was the Torys who caused people’s lives to be shit via austerity. But they’ve been voted for again. I find it hard to see how any other party could have done a worse job, but Lab/Libs have pissed about with far left / woke nonsense and lost any chance they had of stopping this shitshow.

We are well off, DH has been headhunted in Canada and the US. We will probably be able to buy our kids the opportunities that Brexit has denied them. But my wonderful country has been stolen from my by a bunch of right wing nut jobs and the idiots who believed their lies.

No. I don't understand why you're still here if you want to go.

No. I don't understand why you're still here if you want to go

I am sure you are able to understand why people are still here, even if they want to leave if they could.

I don't understand why you're still here if you want to go.

Then you are stupid for not trying to.

No. This is a great country in so many ways and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Silvery Surfer, you do realise that your voting Leave means anyone with a British passport now doesn't have freedom of movement?

wouldn’t bring bring children up in a place where the majority of people want Brexit - which essentially means they don’t want any immigrants

No, it really doesn't.

Yes. I am from the EU but I also British now.
If it wasn’t because DH only speaks English and he is reluctant to move I would go.

Silvery Surfer, you do realise that your voting Leave means anyone with a British passport now doesn't have freedom of movement?

A lot of people seem to think that after transition period, moving abroad without FOM will just be a case of filling in an extra form

No, not at all.

I've lived abroad twice in an EU and non EU country. I could have citizenship in another EU country but I don't think it's worth the hassle at the moment. By my personal experience, the UK is a great place to live and I often reflect on how lucky I am to live in 21st century Britain. There's absolutely loads wrong with it, granted, but in a global and historical comparison, I am grateful for the standard of living I have. Of course we have to fix a system that leaves some people relying on food banks. We have massive issues. But living somewhere where heathcare and electricity are fairly reliable, well that's a win! (Unlike the other countries I've lived in, which are both developed countries btw... ) I do invest my time in trying to improve our society.

All this hand wringing about Brexit, I don't completely get. The much bigger issue - and I'll repeat this again and again - is climate change! I'm truly deeply anxious about that. The emotions people seem have have around Brexit I feel around climate change - the sense of loss, frustration, anger at older generations, people who don't get it etc. Brexit feels like a wee sideshow in the historical tale of climate armaggedon.

@silverysurfer I explained very clearly why I am still here.

As soon as I am back from mat leave I'll start looking into what is necessary to dual qualify so that I can work abroad. Still leaves the issue that moving (and taking my DM's only grandchildren with us) will devastate my fairly recently widowed DM. Maybe you can make choices that will cause pain to others without a second thought for them but I can't.

Yes. If it were practical I would have gone somewhere else already. But with DS1 approaching A Levels and MIL needing support at the moment I know it wouldn't be the right choice as a family. But I'd never say never for the future.

We are contemplating moving. My husband is a dual National with an EU passport. I am a dual National with an North American passport and the kids are all tri-nationals. Bleeding public education dry has worked. The turkeys have voted for Christmas. They have convinced people to believe that a class of 30 is fine because the academic outcomes are similar but there's no chance to check things like critical thinking. The curriculum now focuses down like laser on maths and English to make good little workers but crucially not broad minded emotionally stable citizens. We've allowed state education to become factory farming. The left continue to fail to put up a credible leader who appeals to the middle and could bring the left together. But is it better elsewhere? Maybe. We can pay for private education/healthcare here. Our kids will be largely insulated. Wherever we land I'd like to be more involved politically. It's fine to say how sad we are but we need to do more.

No I’m not being driven out my home and away from my family just because some people have made a stupid decision. I’m staying here and working to make the country better.

We moved two years ago, making plans almost immediately after the vote. My husband is European and the kids have dual nationality.

I was a reluctant(ish) mover but decided to go short term until all the Brexit stuff was clarified.

I thought it would be stopped, or there would be a more informed vote when the corruption and financial impact was revealed.

But now we are out. And as a result, I will probably never move back. It breaks my heart as I miss my friends and family on a daily basis. However, I feel that I owe it to my kids to give them as many options as possible in the future.

I also realise how privileged I am to be in this position, and have options, as I know many people who are now unable to move.

The commentators who tell people "if you hate England so much, just leave" are the ones who piss me off the most. Because even if you have the opportunity to move, it's incredibly hard to leave the people and places you love, and to manage schools, exam schedules, houses and jobs in a new place. You can love England, but still hate being trapped there.

No. I want to grow old and die in this country (England)
It's a wonderful place in general despite some of the outlandish and rabid views I've seen on both sides of the debate.
I voted remain, the leavers got their vote now let's stop these childish and hateful insults being hurled at each other and move towards reconciliation.

We'll be gone before the year is out.