If you could emigrate, where would you go?

[Dinoswearunderpants]

Just curious if you could, or if you have, where would/did you go?

I feel like the UK is becoming so unsafe and I wonder if it's a 'grass is greener' but I'd love to move abroad. Just no idea where.

Australia

Which area and why? I love Brisbane area.

I’m in Switzerland.

I love it even if it’s eyewateringly expensive and conservative right wing. It’s clean, it’s safe and it’s visually stunning.

Ooh Switzerland, Austria or Canada would be my picks.

My brother emigrated to Australia (Brisbane) 10 years ago and loves it. The only thing he has found difficult (and it's a big one) is being so far away from other family. For example he has only seen my children twice (they are 7 and 5) and we simply can't afford to go out there to visit him.

I would go to Canada but I do think the grass is greener and everywhere has its own issues.

I love Switzerland! Do you speak the language? Are you finding the cost of living comparable to the UK? I understand wages are higher so understandably costs are high.

An Island, like Iceland or Greenland. Somewhere remote, away from riots and stabbings.

I like the idea of Canada too. Such an outdoorsy country.

I completely understand. :-(

I would love to try somewhere more exotic like La Reunion or Micronessia.Hope I spelt that right but I burn to easily so some Island in the north.

@Dinoswearunderpants I'm not British so can’t compare to UK.

To answer your other questions, I do speak French (am in Suisse Romande) but at A2 level because my job is totally in English. Everyone speaks English here so its actually hard to properly learn the language!

Costs wise, everything is more expensive but salaries are obviously higher. DH and I earn a combined totally of 240k tax free because we work for NGOs. Our rent is 3600chf per month, car is 1800chf, food is about 1000chf a month because we’re mostly eating meat. It adds up.

To give a comparison: McDonalds for 2 is about 60chf, which Google tells me is about £53.

But we’re very comfortable, have huge pensions that superannuate as we get towards retirement age and the standard of living her for amenities, outdoor life and hobbies is really high. We love it.

Vancouver in a heartbeat.Mountains,beach,city,skiing in winter…absolutely stunning and Canadians so friendly.

But there's no need to make emigrating sound like a pipe dream. If you're not happy where you are, explore your options. There's a deeply odd attitude to emigration in the UK, as if it's 'selfish', involves turning your back on family, or choosing sun over relationships. As if people who move country don't have families, just like everyone else.

I'm not from the UK originally, so I immigrated to the UK and lived there for many years, before finally leaving in 2019. I've also lived for periods in France, the US, Ireland and the ME, and I will almost certainly live somewhere else when my DS has left education.

Having said that, I don't think that feeling the UK is 'unsafe' is a good reason for moving elsewhere.

I could emigrate to lots of places with the passports available to me. However I don't want to as I like the UK and my friends and family being closer.

My traditional summer and it's too hot feelings are that I should go to Northern Canada, Iceland, or Scandinavia. This is not the weather I was built for!

I never want to leave London, if I can help it. Though the cost of everything may make me.

I’m drawn to Spain and Canada

Finland. Big metal music scene. Heviisauraus!😆

They might turn you down too.

So you're a net contributor, or you are, like Groucho Marx, only interested in being a member of a club that would refuse to admit you as a member?

If they won't get immigrants in, they won't want you either.

Logic fail there.

OP I fancy a Central American country. I've migrated a few times and think migration is a net win for most places that accept migrants. Obviously it's an issue of brain drain for countries that lose people.

Im not a sponging fucker. Thats your logic fail.

So you are a high rate taxpayer? I doubt it, frankly.

My friend recently visited Costa Rica and says everybody would want to emigrate there if they could. Has anyone been?

I like busy, bustling, crowded cities with lots ot do, so I don;t want a rural paradise, or at least not until I am much older.

You can find this in the UK