Hi, it depends what your definition of success is. Also, remember a lot of people go abroad, not from the UK but from other countries, to work as maids, or construction workers, etc. They send the money they earn home, but it’s a tough living. Not really sunshine and beaches like a lot of people would think. I have a disability, and have lived abroad for most of my life. But then again, to me, the UK is just as foreign. And I also have to deal with the very close minded attitudes of people with disabilities here. Not all, but many. In life, you do have a choice you make of it what she will. Yes, things are difficult when you do have a disability, but attitude makes such a difference. I was living in Asia for a very long time, which is a completely different way of life, attitude toward many things, I had to be creative a lot of the time because you didn’t have things like benefits, or couldn’t just go to a charity to get any technology, not that I had access to any of that at the time. He couldn’t get government grants if he wanted to do a program, or funding for school. I don’t know, I still have a hard time with peoples way of thinking here. I accept it for what it is, but I just I’m at the point where I do my own thing and I’m happy that way.
also, I had to work very, very hard over the years. Much harder than anyone even realizes, and I was working with people with disabilities in a very very rural area of Vietnam. Again, not at the beach by the pool every day. People think the grass is greener, but remember the grass is greener over the sewage tank.
One more point, for me anyway, I don’t have a support system like I do in other places when I’m in the UK. But getting a visa or a green card or anything takes time, hard work, and loads of heartache. I now have my EU passport, thankfully, so can stay where my friends are. But it took five years to get it on my mother is a French national.