To be shocked and horrified by the shit exchange rate?

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Thanks Boris.

We are in France this week- it’s cost us over 80 quid to fill the car and our food shops are extortionate. A bag of oranges was nearly £5 and it cost £50 for three of us to go to the waterpark. A Belgian family there said that they have just come back from Britain and stocked up on shoes, clothes and even Christmas presents for their family because the euro to sterling exchange rate is now so good (for them, not for us).
Everything seems so much more expensive than this time last year- is this what we are to expect now?

Living the brexit - brink dream 🙄

The french people are suffering, while visitors are enjoying the weather, scenery, their costs have gone up and up. As someone said germany is feeling the pinch too. A relative of mine lives in China the ordinary people are suffering there with prices going up and up.

It's not so much the exchange rate, it's the cost of the fresh fruit and veg down in the south that is so expensive. It is quite literally 3 times the price of Sainsbury's and Tesco, even on basics. We have a diesel car so fuel costs are slightly lower than UK prices.

I was in Primark yesterday overseas visitors on a coach trip were filling bag after bag to take home.

A teeshirt made in China is much cheaper to buy here. All clothes are, ditto diy tools. It is a mad world.

Just wait until post October when all the Brexit types are queuing behind 4 flights of Russians to get through customs. That’s when the trouble will really start.

But its still cheaper in the UK.
To see the doctor in countries like Ireland, you have to fork out 60 euro.

I suspect paying 60euro to see a GP is better than not having a GP to see.

In the last week alone, my niece& nephew in law have chosen to take jobs in Oz/NZ because, despite the severe shortage of medical staff in this country, which is going to get worse if EU medics don't have security of rights to live here, they are treated like absolute shit. Last straw was being assigned to live separately in Oxford & Gloucester - 2 households, lots of expense travelling. no certainty of seeing each other due to impossibility of coordinating shifts & holidays. Note that at least one of them was planning to go into GP training.

Over there, AFTER paying tax, they will each be more than 20K better off, have a great quality of life, together, same hospital, learn lot, and guess what -they may not come back to this country.

I don't blame them.

I'm in Spain, arrived today. We did a massive shop in Lidl for a family of four including 4 L of larger, a bottle of gin, 4 bottles of wine, chicken breast,pork, mince cold meats, cheese, fruit, veg, juice, ice cream etc we spent 130 euros.
I find France much gmore expensive for food.

Am I the only person who finds it embarrassing that our education system has churned out so many people who seem to genuinely believe the "great" in Great Britain officially means "wonderful" rather than just "big", as in "the bigger island in the British Isles"?

Actually, never mind, pretty much everything Brexit related is embarrassing.

You know, I really fear for this country. As the Brexit fallout gets worse there is going to be such huge resentment from Remainers towards Leave voters who brought this about. People talk about healing division, well how exactly? Why should I forgive people who voted for me to lose my job?

We booked a cheap holiday to Menorca in September yesterday. We've still got Euros left over from March, thank god. We're going to need more, though but it's so difficult to know what to do for the best. I might buy some now and hold out.

Fucking Brexit. They've only just managed to get all my medications back on track from when it went tits up for leaving in March. What a fucking state we're in.

Hardly a surprise.

We visited family in the US in early 2016 when the rate was around £1:$1.50

We are resigned to not seeing them unless they visit us. It is too expensive. Have booked a eurostar trip for 4 days as family holiday this year & worried about the expense...it's all very well saying France is so expensive, but my shopping bill has increased by 20% this year & it's really getting tricky. That is what matters to me right now.

Since when has France been cheap?! You guys want to go to Japan, Singapore, etc to really know what expensive is. France has always been stupidly expensive (no idea why)

The thing that seriously pisses me off is people saying, let's just go no-deal & get it over with....

Do people not understand that there will be YEARS of negotiations ahead, and we will be in -expensive -limbo till trade agreements & whatnot are sorted out.

It's all very well Trump saying that there will be a great US-UK deal, but Congress - stuffed full of people who UNDERSTAND the GFA - have said no trade deal if the GFA is thrown out.

France has been expensive for years. Every year when we go skiing we do a big shop in the UK, freeze everything and drive everyone down in our motorhome. It is the only way we can afford to take four adult students away with us. I am expecting Brexit will just make it worse.

I'm going to the EU next week on holiday. I have a little blue with gold EU star wrist band I plan to wear, hopefully people will see it and know that I'm not one of the fucking fools who voted for this.

YABU to be shocked because it was always going to be like this. I don’t know what people were expecting to happen; all those cheap holidays people take in Spain etc., cheap property ripe for fixing up; it all goes.

People think they can have it all; the reality always was that everything would get expensive because we import so much from the EU. A lot of people struggling financially, thinking their jobs have been taken by migrants, who then vote to leave... and in the process hugely reduce their spending power. The dicks.

You know, I really fear for this country. As the Brexit fallout gets worse there is going to be such huge resentment from Remainers towards Leave voters who brought this about. People talk about healing division, well how exactly? Why should I forgive people who voted for me to lose my job?

^This. I have residency in an EU country, which I'm scared I will lose thanks to my fellow countrymen. But people are indifferent or even pleased about losing their freedom of movement it seems (among other things).

YABU to be shocked but not u to be horrified. It isn't exactly a surprise.

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I believe the US have also said no trade deal with them unless we scrap any planned digital tax. India have said no trade deal unless the accept 100,000 visas a year for their citizens.

I've just come back from a trip home to the UK ( I live in the US) and I hadn't realized before I went how low the pound is now. It was noticeably cheaper to buy food etc compared to previous trips. Obviously great savings for those of us living outside the UK but I feel for people at home.

Do people not understand that there will be YEARS of negotiations ahead, and we will be in -expensive -limbo till trade agreements & whatnot are sorted out.

People don't understand and, to make matters worse, it appears a lot have stopped listening anyway

Do people not understand that there will be YEARS of negotiations ahead, and we will be in -expensive -limbo till trade agreements & whatnot are sorted out.
Do you really think people who were foolish enough to vote for this mess would have the intelligence to grasp that? Of course they don't understand.

According to Jacob Rees-Mogg we’ve got another 50 years of chaos to look forward to. That’s the rest of my life and then some.

There are people who have never been anywhere forrin ever. Next you will be moaning that you DC's will miss out on Erasmus. Welcome to the real world - maybe not being able to afford to go on holiday will help you understand how half the country have been feeling for years.

Brexit is the very definition of cutting of your nose to spite your face.

I fear that when people realise just how painful it is, that there will be riots on far greater a scale than 2011. People have been lied to by the press and the politicians - people think that they are taking back control, but they are being taken for a ride and losing all control, respect, and value to the rest of the world. Laughing stocks, that's what we are, everywhere. Not Europe - they are not laughing, more concerned.