Never leave your home country again - or never be able to go to your home country again. Which would you choose?

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I agonise over this; really struggle to decide which I’d do.

Rules: visas etc no object, you could live anywhere else in the world. starting with same standard of living/set up that you currently have.
Those you live with come with you.
Others can visit you, but you can’t ever return to your home country.

oh and you are free to travel anywhere anytime if you choose the second option, just not to your home country

I'd never go back! I do love my home country and am proud of it (mostly) and of being from here. But I have always wanted to live on the continent, for ease of travel, more varied surroundings and better climate.

Yup, I would go and accept never looking back. So I'm going into crime big time then and on the run???

I'd stay in my home country. I love it. I wouldn't have an issue with not being able to go elsewhere.

I’d go back to my home country. I think it would break my heart to never be able to go back there otherwise.

I’d never leave Scotland again, I just love it here.

I'd choose to stay in my home country because I think I'd feel rootless with the other option.

Easy for me - I’d stay in my home country, England, where I am now. I lived abroad a lot in my 20s, late 40s now and tbh don’t travel much now. I did enjoy living abroad but I’ve done that now and no plans to do it again.

Same but I would be gutted.

I'd stay. Love it here.

I'd go, from very northern England so could just come back to Scotland! The weather does it for me been so much happier this weekend because it's been warm.

I’d stay here! I wasn’t born here but I’ve been here since I was young and it’s my home, can it be my home country? What are your rules?

I’d definitely leave. If it weren’t for family, I’d have left before Brexit. The thought of spending the rest of my life in the UK makes me feel trapped and as though I’d only have lived half a life.

I’d 100% leave and never come back! No problem.

Stay in my home country

Yup, that counts as your home country by my rules 😊

It is wherever feels like home to you, so not necessarily where you were born

Never come back. No qualms.

I’m so torn.

On the one hand, there is so much World, and two places in particular where I have felt instantly at ease/comfortable and could imagine living very happily.

But the thought of never walking down the streets I’ve known all my life, never going to my parents’ home again, never seeing the Christmas lights in London again, never going to the pub again for a drink on Christmas Eve…...

I’d worry I’d feel rootless and lost

you are all so DECISIVE, I’m impressed!

I love travelling but if i had to choose, i would stay in my birth country, Ireland.

Not a difficult choice for me - I'd leave my home country. I grew up here but ethnically I'm not from here, and I don't feel very strong ties to it. I always find it hard to understand when people go on the run to an extradition-free country but then get caught when they return after decades.

No brainer I'd stay in England. So many people, friends, family roots. I've travelled a lot so I'm lucky but I'd never give up England (especially in May!)

I'd definitely stay here. We go away a bit, but I always love coming home.

Fight to improve the place you live in. We had a lovely community event today, which brought alot of people together.

Oh, can I visit Scotland and Wales? If so, I’d probably be ok with not returning to England (I like England, just potentially spotted a loophole).

In this situation, I'd never leave Scotland again. Everything I could ever want is right here.

Oh I would definitely move abroad. England is so rainy and ruinously expensive and I live for holidays. I’d love to move to Thailand and also have the opportunity to travel the world. Would not miss England a bit. I’m planning to do that anyway when my youngest graduates from University but if a rule came in where if I stayed here I could never go anywhere else again I’d be off tomorrow!

It is probably an easier decision for me because my son already moved to Bali and my daughter also loves travel and would love to spend her holidays with me somewhere lush and sunny, and my parents died years ago. I don’t have any family other than my kids and my friends could come and stay with me and with social media can chat to them anytime anyway. If I had a big close family here it would be a harder choice but for me there’s no question about staying.