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 🙄

@timeforakinderworld there is an agreement in place
www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-efta/brexit/faq.html

That's an agreement for British citizens living in Switzerland.

@timeforakinderworld oh you meant Brits living in Italy and working in Switzerland? Aha.

Yes!

YABU to be shocked. This was to be expected.

It covers cross border commuters. Just checked. So UK citizen lives in Italy and sorts their papers there, they will still be able to work like that.

Unless I am confusing cross border commuter with something else

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.

Yes, and those people will also see their standard of living fall.

Brexit will make life shitter for everyone in the UK except people who actively positioned themselves to benefit from a plunge in the UK economy, which was only an option for people with spare capital to invest and a mechanism to short either sterling or companies highly exposed to the UK economy.

That was your point, right?

It covers cross border commuters well at least that's some good news!

@timeforakinderworld glad you know it now. Hope it helped.

There is so much misinformation online! Facebook and forums are especially bad. And then people believe that x is happening or that x is not happening. Some people believe that if you leave UK you get all your taxes back🤷 Because it's called tax refund and "my cousin's friend's fourth cousin got refund"🤦 No. It's just overpaid tax.😂

When it comes to Brexit guidance, or any other rights, responsibilities guidance, everyone please, ALWAYS consult official sources.
And check the dates on them.

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.

I think this view is quite common. Nobody is even pretending Brexit will make life better anymore. I think people with this attitude also know it will make life worse for them and their children but, as above, if it makes life worse for people and their children who were doing just a bit better than them, then Brexit is worth it. Maybe this is one reason view have changed their minds about Leave.

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Absolutely.
As long as those who are seen as doing better than them also suffer, leavers seem happy for them and their kids to suffer too.

Wine I think has pretty much doubled. Cannot get my head around people who support Brexit

You really aren't very bright. If it's not too challenging, look at the difference in the exchange rate pre and post referendum and you should be able to work out what's wrong with your post

I remember when it was 2.5 dollars to the pound. Oh dear. Brexit blues.

We're in Tenerife right now and finding the wine and fuel surprisingly cheap!!

Brexit is going to crucify us. Trump will be ruling this country in 6 months. We are going to have a VERY bad time.

Tenerife is a little different. Although technically part of the EU, the Canary Islands benefit from different fiscal laws and lower tax rates, including being able to buy duty free goods

I remember when it was 2.5 dollars to the pound. Oh dear. Brexit blues.

That's a good memory according to stats😮

www.macrotrends.net/2549/pound-dollar-exchange-rate-historical-chart

Thanks @pjmask first time here. Even eating out surprisingly cheap. We budgeted the same spends as last year in Florida and half way through have spent a quarter of the budget!

I was just thinking that I was sure 2.5 dollars to the pound was the mid 70s and I was about right

@quitefranklyivehadenough this is why I love the Canaries! A little pricier to get there but well worth it

YANBU and I'm not travelling to any countries that require the euro.

By the end of the year we would have done Austria, Tunisia and Poland.

It will get worse before it gets better but there will be folks on here telling you about mythical jobs appearing, a magical rise in the pound at an unspecified point in the far off future and a sudden explosion in also unspecified exports.... they may even tell you we don't need a "united" kingdom anymore and we'll be just fine if Scotland and Ireland go their own way (we won't be).

But hey, what do we know and how dare we wave around cold hard facts like we own the place?

@FelicisNox finally found a benefit of Brexit.
Cheap countries which used to be overlooked by tourists will now be thriving😁

I got nearly $2 to the £1 in 2001...

I remember when it was 2.5 dollars to the pound. Oh dear. Brexit blues

Mamajay Are you talking US dollars?

Oops a bit behind with my previous post.

You have to go back to the late 1970s to get 2.5 USD to 1 GBP.