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

I'm not really sure how to reconcile with people to be honest.

Neither do I. I've had friends who voted Leave who decided that our friendship had to be over when I voted Remain. There is such a gulf that I can't see how it could be bridged, they were friends for 30+ years.

I'm currently in the EU but DH's contract expires in a few months and we're not being renewed. He works in a sector where it will be very difficult to find an equivalent job in the same EU country we are currently in. This means we will have to move back to Brexit Britain and will lose our 'right to remain' status, forever. I am gutted about this.

However, we are/I am playing the long game. DH and kids have dual nationality for another EU country, so the door is still open for him/them. I'm hoping that after a year or 2 in Brexit Britain we'll find something in DH's home country - a few years of me playing trailing spouse there and I will be eligible for a passport - then I can wave goodbye to being a Brexit Brit forever.

I've lived in a lot of places and the grass is never greener. I think people need to take a more realistic view as each place has its annoyances and unpleasant politics etc.

Britain is a great place in a lot of ways and I often think of the other places I've lived and think, I'd rather be here with the generally decent people, the opportunities and the system that broadly works. Ask anyone who has come here from the developing world, what the alternatives look like!

Ask anyone who has come here from the developing world, what the alternatives look like!
Is this the new post-Brexit benchmark for our country? So long as it's better than the developing world we should be grateful? FFS!

I’d love to but am not sure where I could go? I don’t have any heritage in another Eu country so it would be tricky.

UK hasn't enough highly skilled workers, from scientists to HCP's

Its unskilled workers as well though. As an HR manager said to me about why they couldn't get staff recently, "who grows up dreaming of working in a chicken factory ".

If I was in a position to I would emigrate tomorrow.

I left 16 years ago. I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

Politicians are still politicians, whatever country they are in. The grass may look greener elsewhere, but I wouldn't trust Varadkar, Macron, Merkel or Verhofstadt any more than Blair, Osborne or Swinson. The EU is cult-like in the way people idolise it. Best to focus locally on how to make our own country a better place, instead of trying to live in a contrived commune of very different countries.

@Itinerary, I think your ideology is sticking out. And why Blair, Osborne, Swinson? Why not Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg?

Nothing says cult like brexit. It is led by belief not pragmatism. No way to run a country.

"Sticking out"? As in not toeing the line?

Yes, I would have gone already, but money and children prevent it. So we are stuck here on this embarrassing little island.

Yes, I'd like to leave but I'd need to change career path as opportunities in my sector doing what I do or similar aren't enormous. At almost 46, wondering what I could sensibly retrain in that isn't going to take years and provide suitable financial security. If I was 25 and had a job that could easily transfer around the globe, I would have gone.

KenDodd I recommend you join the FB group RIFT Remain in France Together, it's a goldmine of info for people in your situation. But basically it won't work if you're planning to keep your kids in school in the UK. Loads of parts of France are cheap to rent in BTW.

No it’s my country why would I want to leave. I actually voted remain but in the last 3 years have found the remain attitude so negative towards the UK that I’d happily swap most of them for immigrants who want to live in and love the UK.

I’ve lived abroad and nowhere is perfect but I’m always struck by how patriotic other countries are (European and outside Europe) yet anyone who dare love Britain, faults and all is seen as ignorant and xenophobic (or worse racist).

I read that as has it made me want to leave the EU and got a bit confused. In answer to your question no, but I grew up outside of the EU. When the whole brexit thing kicked off after I moved here my overall opinion on the issue was that, while clearly beneficial, the EU was also a bit creepy. I can 100% understand being used to it and not questioning it if you grew up in it but as an outsider only first experiencing it at a fairly detailed level (half the people I know are lawyers, politicians, involved in the wirld of liberal economics etc) there are so many red flags it looks like the bloody USSR. Obviously, after my initial shock, I got used to it but like I said brexit happened and I didn’t have time to settle into the idea. I think that if I’d lived in the EU for a couple of decades I might be more inclined to stick with it. As it stands I’m more accustomed to a focus on liberal values and self determination etc etc so it’s just too strange to me to care.

Not in a million years.

Yes - teaching abroad (ME) since 2015.

Brexit obviously wasn't the reason we left, but it's key in our decision not to return.

3dc off to uni over next decade. All looking towards Europe or possibly US.

We left in 2018 because of Brexit. Do t regret it for a moment and reading some of the Brexiteers on here affirm this.

I love Britain. Very much. But I despise what the people have become. Any country that can vote for a party happy to bullshit, so happy to continue measures making the poor poorer, so happy to sell of the NHS et etc is not a country I want to live in nor want my children to live in. If a fascist party won the general election in my host country likewise we'd leave. Why would we stay in the UK?

We're thinking about it. DH and DC have dual nationality but I don't. So we're limited in that we'd need to go somewhere they have citizenship for a few years until I'm eligible.

Watching with interest what happens in Scotland as well.

We were contemplating it then the Brexit vote happened and the deal was sealed.

In our third year in Aus/NZ and haven't looked back once. I even find visits depressing.

To think 15 years ago how proud I was to be in a welcoming, progressive society. Awful.

I feel like people are angrier and more unkind towards each other and as a nation we're a lot more divided. There's nasty undercurrents of racism and xenophobia which I'm finding really depressing and it's not just directed at Europeans. It's made us consider moving.

If I was in a position to I would emigrate tomorrow.

Me too

No, any more than I did when Thatcher was ripping the heart out of the North and there were race riots in London, or the IRA bombing their way through my life.
It’s my country, and I’ll stay and fight for the values I believe in. The consequences of not doing so silences opposition, and those ruling will take that as consent to do whatever they choose to.