To want to leave the UK

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Am I the only one that wants to leave this country? My salary hasn’t increased more than 1% per year in the last 7 years… I hate that the UK voted Brexit… I read today the financial shocks of the autumn budget are worse than the 2008 crash?! Why aren’t we more angry?!!

Yes I too feel very angry but not sure what we can do realistically. I have no idea where I would move to ! I have lived abroad for a few years before but it's not always a case of the grass being greener elsewhere.

where are you going to go? We paid $8 for a cappuccino last month in the US and NZ/Aus isn’t much different.

can you speak another language?

I was in America last month. A McDonald’s happy meal cost almost $10. The cost of living crisis is more than brexit

There was a thread about the cost of food in NZ. $10 for a cauliflower. No Brexit there.

Where would you go, isn't every country feeling the pinch?

We are.

But this is a global issue, it’s far from all about Brexit.

The press is very focussed on the UK. But it is a global recession it is no fun anywhere.

Canada is ridiculously expensive at moment too- lettuce currently at around $10 dollars a head!! (That’s about £6.50) meat double the price what we pay and a massive shortage of housing. Lots of countries are feeling it so all depends where you want to go. As mush as I hate that brexit happened, we can’t blame all this on it.

Why aren’t we more angry?!!

Because this crap is affecting the world. It isn’t just the UK.

When did you last go abroad?

My dc luckily have European passports & I will be encouraging them to look overseas for other opportunities.

I'm debating about what to do, but will see what they decide.

I'm very angry particularly at the inequality heaped on the young. I can't see things improving either.

New Zealand is much better at eating seasonally, because of its geographic isolation. Cauliflowers are not $10 when they are in season.

Because this crap is affecting the world. It isn’t just the UK

It is global but Brexit is having an impact

I live in the U.K.but I am not British. I think the Brits are not used to paying a lot of money for food. It was the first thing I noticed when I first arrived here, how cheap food is.

This keeps being trotted out, but the fact is that we are doing much worse than other comparable countries, Aus, Germany, France, Canada included.

OP, it up you can work abroad and have the skills you’ll do better than you can here. Our wages are low. It’s a big problem here.

Nope, it is global. Not sure why people want to insist it isn’t.

But it wouldn’t hurt to be somewhere sunnier.

I can’t speak for the entire globe, but the last conversation I had with my dad a couple of weeks ago was his mortgage has gone up by $1200 a month and is still rising. He lives in Australia. And that’s not taking into account the other things that have increased over there - fuel (although it is still substantially cheaper than the UK, but he says people are going mad about how expensive it is) food and car prices for example.

whilst it is a total shit show here, I’m not sure it’s wildly better in other places either.

Yeah, it’s all global, but we are doing much much worse. Both things can be true. Don’t be that embarrassing Tory woman on to yesterday who thought that we were doing better than these countries.

Do you speak another language ?. Do you have the qualifications and skills other countries are looking for ?. Do you have enough money and where would you go ?.

I’ve known quite a few friends who flicked the V’s as they left for a new life elsewhere but where back again after a relatively short time. One had to give up her amazing life in the US because her husband developed a serious medical condition that wasn’t covered by their medical insurance so they came back and demanded treatment under the NHS. And I got fed up with hearing how wonderful US hospitals were compared to the dreadful NHS. I had to point out that if she’d stayed in the US her husband would be dead and it was only the NHS that kept him alive.

On TV yesterday, that should say. Christ alive, Vicky Ford is her name. She drank the Kool-Aid.

The NHS is crap though.

They're more expensive out of season here too. That would be true everywhere I would think. The poster who wrote about it was shocked so obviously it's not just a general seasonal thing. I can't imagine see cauli's at £5 each, even in summer. Although never say never!! 😏

I wasn't having a go at NZ - just that costs have gone up everywhere.

Yeah, it’s all global, but we are doing much much worse. Both things can be true.

yep

we have a bigger labour issue

Try looking at the global picture. It’s not just the UK

This is so true. Food has always been really cheap in the U.K. and I think people are used to things being very cheap so prices going up is a shock. In most other countries people spend a much bigger proportion of their income on food and buy much less ready made food.