has anyone moved abroad because of brexit result ?

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and if you have, how is your new life settling in ? maybe some people were thinking of going before it happened and this was the 'final straw'.
do you miss your old life ? what is better for you now ?
am really interested to know, but don't want to get on the debate bit of brexit there are other threads on here for that right now.

My neice and her husband and daughter are moving due to Brexit.

They said they would move abroad after Scotland voted against independence, but hung on as they couldn't bear to leave. Things have gotten worse and worse since 2014 though, and due to Brexit they have decided to move now as there is a chance if they move quickly they will have time to be included in any Brexit agreement for UK citizens living in the EU.

They are sorting things out to leave now, have arranged a place to live and jobs to apply for. Once they are employed their dd will move there. It is horribly upsetting as she is the same age as my kids and will miss her cousins and they will miss her.

It has made the rest of my family think about leaving too. If Scotland does follow the UK out of the EU and the single market, they have discussed moving to Norway. I don't think they will move until Brexit is inevitable though, but if it becomes definite that Scotland and NI leave with the UK I think we will all have to seriously consider it.

oblada I guess as long as you ensure the kids are fluent in your mother tongue so able to relocate easily, it's not such a huge deal

It's very annoying though, life was so much easier pre-Brexit for people like me! I do respect the vote of the majority, I don't have to love it though.

We were planning on emigrating but are no longer sure if it's possible because of the vote. DH is a non-eu national and his rights to move where we had planned were dependent on me having EU rights.

I desperately don't want to stay here but it looks like we are stuck for now.

Yep. Relocating to Dublin from London. My husband is Irish but I'm a Brit. Pretty sad about it in some ways but think it will likely give us a better family-life experience overall.

So coffee your niece was upset when Scotland didn't vote for independence. Now the U.K. has, she hated that as well? That seems reasonable

Scotland and NI leave with the UK

What do you mean with the U.K.? They are the UK!

We're moving due to Brexit.

DH has been steadily working towards promotion however with a recent top change, the goalposts have been changed plus contracts and collaborations have been withdrawn quite quickly after the vote. He applied was lucky to get the first job which also gave him the promotion he was after. He went last year. We leave next month.

I'm gutted TBH as my family is here but you have to go where the work is.

We have just bought a house abroad. It is a holiday home for now but might become our main residence depending on what happens within the next 2 years. We are not UK citizens but could ask to become so as we have been here long enough, both DCs were born in the UK. I am a bit gutted as I love the UK.

I have dual nationality, DH is in the process of naturalising so will soon have dual nationality too. But we both grew up abroad; Europe, non-EU. Our children were born here and have dual nationality.

Going 'back' has always been a vague possibility for some time in the future.

Brexit did two things: Firstly, it made our desire to go 'back' grow immensely, it has become a thing we quite desperately want now. (We didn't emigrate from our home country to 'start a new life' - it felt more like moving from one town to another, following a job. Now suddenly our move feels like emigration. Not something we consciously chose to do.) Secondly, it has made it a lot harder to achieve, because our assets have been devalued with the pound. Our 'home' country has always been expensive, now it is no longer affordable. E.g. in terms of pensions, even if we can still transfer what we accumulated here, it will be worth very little there. We'd have to 'start again'.

We feel quite trapped and fear it will only get worse. If we stay, we expect we will remain relatively well off within a country getting poorer and poorer, so above average but with the average continually going down. So it will become harder and harder to leave, and we expect quality of life to decline.

We have a plan, are working towards leaving. That involves saving, working towards increasing the value of our house for when we sell up, and getting ourselves into position for being able to apply for jobs. But we fear that events will overtake our efforts.

This is where I live and where I'm from so I wouldn't consider moving but I'm deeply ashamed of it all. I'll try to fight against the worst of it as best I can.

I have friends who are in the process of selling up and leaving. They wanted to get out whilst the economy was still stable and they could still get decent money for their house.

We're putting ourselves in a position to be able to jump ship. DH is working for a foreign company and is learning the language of the country where the companies' HQ is based so he can possibly transfer with me and DC following. We're also doing up the house so that it will be worth more should we need to cash in and move. Basically we're hedging our bets. We're both educated, with attractive CV's and can adapt to new environments, this country will become poorer and we don't want to be trapped here. It's not what we want for DC.

I would urge anyone who may be entitled to a second passport to apply for one. It is something that is likely to become very useful in the coming years.

We had already emigrated, so when Brexit happened we thanked our lucky stars that we'd already escaped the madness. I do worry for my mum in NI though.

I moved abroad (Canada) on a temporary basis pre-referendum, but I'll be staying here now.

We will have to stay here. It's very depressing.

I am struggling not to hate the Brexiteers.

Several of my friends, only one from outside the EU though.
From admittedly limited chats for the most part they don't seem too concerned with the legalities, more the attitudes towards them. All of them have experienced racism since the result, whereas in the 2-25 years they lived here (some with breaks in between) they hadn't had a single comment aimed towards them.
It's very sad.
It seems to have given racists permission to be loud and proud. I don't think all leavers are racist far from it but the ones who are are now overjoyed with their new found "freedoms"

We did but not entirely due to Brexit. It all just coincided.

I'm dual national so we've moved to where I was born. That was always the plan, but not for a few more years once the kids were through school. DH job went down the pan and my business had a better chance of survival with him at home so we decided to make the move last March. Three months later we did it just after the vote.

Everyone thought it was Brexit but that was just a small part.

We did consider parts of Europe and still would if it wasn't for Brexit.

Overall it's been a positive movement he kids have advancedone considerably more, neither of us are as stressed as we were ( we have our moments) and we enjoy the exploring and experience of a new culture (born here but grew up in the UK and consider myself mostly British tbh). Not planning on moving back unless something does wrong with DHs permanent residency. But again that was always the plan.

You need to give it some time OP. it takes a long time for the large amount of paper work and practical issues even for people with good transferable skills and/or skills in demand.
To be fair, its too early to ask this in AIBU.

I was already living in Denmark. I applied for citizenship shortly after the referendum. According to the press there has been an increase in applications from Brits.

DP and I have almost completed our move. Have gone from Edinburgh to Dublin. I am here now and DP will follow soon. DP is from Zimbabwe and although has not faced issues about being from overseas from other people in Scotland, the Home Office is now operating to policies that are racists and xenophobic. I feel the government, with it multiple layers of bureaucracy and occasional retrospective changes to the visa requirements means we are actually safer in our desire to live together in Dublin than the UK. We have seen people born in the UK and being EU citizens being told to go home. We dont want that.

Brexit is about xenophobia. All of the alleged problems that leaving the EU will fix will not happen and history shows us that scapegoats will be needed and that will be even more problematic for immigrants. Immigration will not really fall as its an economic necessity for the UK so those looking for the UK to be for the 'Brits' and there will be even more dislike of immigrants. In Scotland this isnt really felt at a social level but is very much a political policy issue and the Home Office will get worse.

We hoped that Scotland would vote for independence but when it didnt we started looked abroad. The Brexit thing then basically forced our hand so I am now trying to get my head (and tongue) around Irish names and places.

scottishdiem
What is your experience of Ireland so far? How do you like the weather and general life style? Social life?

We had planned to but found out at the same time we were having a baby so are going to stay near family for a few years for now, then it's Canada or Australia for us!