To consider lifestyle changes following the referendum?

[Oliviaerinpope]

My DH and I have had a long discussion this morning. We voted remain and are quite nervous about the current political instability that the vote has triggered and the potential consequences of this. We have decided we'll;

1. Take our house off the market and stay where we are.

1. Stop any unnecessary spending (visits to coffee shops, meals out, luxury items), in part, because we don't want to help the UK economy when we don't agree with the Political climate, but also, to save more for DC's future. We just don't know what they'll have to face in 10/20 years.

I suspect we are BU. Are you making any changes?

Ok but I worked with the kind of people for whom this is their life. Wages going down, rents going up zero hours contracts. No hope and the op thinks it's funny to do this.
Frankly we'd be better off without these sort of people so I hope she sells up and leaves. Then she can be smug in some other country.
The op imo is a GF and I've fallen into her trap.
I'm sure she's very happy in her ivory tower.

Where is this Utopia that everyone is going too, I'm probably too elderly but I can tell DS.

you dont want to help the UK economy, i take you are not british then....or are you just going to take advantage of the british way of life ie the NHS, schooling, etc, by not buying a coffee which is probably from a US company anyway....get real!.....and people on here have been saying the brexit voters are dumb! doh!

I think you are right OP.
We have lived all our married life very frugally and listened to people saying, treat yourselves, everybody needs luxuries to counter the negativity in the world.
Thing is though, by living frugally we have found that much of what people are worried about doesn't apply to us.
No jobs to lose, business is british based, don't need schools, will afford private health if it comes to it.
Cook from scratch and will be self sufficient again if prices rocket.
Our change in lifestyle came about from the huge increase in interest rates when we were just starting out. We were skint, times were hard, but then JM came into power and gave us tax credits.
We decided then to live within our means and not rely on anybody for our standard of living.
So far it has worked and for once it's not us worried about our future.
So yes, being frugal and keeping out of the system a bit can help.

I'm so sorry for those who have been losing their jobs for the past 10 years due to immigration (yes, it has been happening, but London and SE seem to have missed this. For those losing them due to brexit I am deeply sorry because it seems like a certain lifestyle will go for many and they'll find it difficult to cope without luxuries.
Sympathy, whichever way you voted.

It certainly makes sense to move any savings you have out of British investments at the moment.

Make sure you think carefully where you put the money you save.

1970s brain drain?
Silicon Valley could have been in Slough (or wherever)
I remember the 1970s
I don't want to go back there
And yes....I think people who voted leave with no idea of why are uneducated and foolish
Which is why I'm making plans - like the op
You are quite Welcome to what this country will become.
Good luck

We are not in the UK but given global trends are seriously considering downsizing and buying somewhere with a small amount of land so we can have the option of self sustaining if there is a deep depression internationally over this and other developments.

We are seriously considering moving to Eire at the moment.

I'm also applying for Eu passports for me and the DC
I'm so disgusted at this result. My children's futures are looking pretty bleak now

last I heard unemployment was pretty high in other EU contries

Me too!
Lots of family there, love the place.
And Dublin will clean up when uk business move there (still in eu, English speaking highly trained workforce)

Depends which EU countries you mean
And depends what your career is of course

We haven't even left the EU yet and we might not leave. Some caution is understandable, but this is totally OTT. As for punishing the economy, well that is just bitter and twisted.

I don't like Lynn's tone, but I agree with what she is saying.

badders123....the only people left will be the elderly and uneducated.....dont be so ridiculous....its people like you with that attitude who are only thinking of themselves!

Fusion...sounds sensible.
My cousin did that...has no regrets.
I would ideally like my DC to finish their education but they are still young.
My 13 year old Ds has already told me he is emigrating when he is old enough :(

Erm, isn't the very act of NOT spending money in the economy one of a series of factors which will pull the country down further? No spending can affect business revenues, lead to loss of jobs, no income to pay rents mortgages, mortgage defaulting etc

So I'd budget an amount to shop local OP even if it's small

I'm not doing it to punish anyone!
I'm doing it to protect my family and their future.
Who knows what will happen!
Will article 50 ever even be invoked?
Will the leavers who have been lied to band together and form a protest group?
Will NS veto the UK leaving the EU?
Who knows?
All I know is that since Thursday this is not the country I thought I lived in.
and I'm desperately sad about it :(

I am in Ireland. Don't underestimate the differences. There are a lot of issues here with public services and in rural areas it can be very isolated and services non-existent, and employment is very hard to come by. I am out of work a year now when I never had an issue in the UK. I would much rather be living in the UK that was five years ago... But I am glad to be here to have family around and because I am genuinely worried about where things are going globally, so our 'neutrality' appeals to me too. Also although the country is not well run, there is no real far right element in our politics, which is more left leaning.

I find Ireland a much more inclusive friendly place than here.
I know there is unemployment but I do feel things are improving
Luckily Dh has skills that are quite niche.
(I don't! :))

We are seriously considering moving to Eire at the moment.

Tip for you - call it by it's proper name the Republic of Ireland, no such place as Eire!

Yabvvvu .. Don't want to help the uk economy?! That's the most mental thing I've read here!

Well, to be honest we are looking at emigrating. I am not UK-born. But we always planned to make our lives here. Tomorrow I am starting the process to get DS his dual citizenship. Now that our options have been narrowed by this vote we are looking at ways to expand them again. I would be heartbroken to leave the UK... I love it here madly. But we will have to go where the jobs are, and as both our jobs have always been quite dependent on the EU, this means that we now have to consider a different future. That is just a fact for us.

You are quite Welcome to what this country will become

people who panic and dont have the sense to wait a bit and see what happens
people with no fortitude or faith in their fellow human
people who just act emotionally and out of short term narrow self interest

those are the people we can do without

hopefully they will leave and the rest of us can calm down and get a grip and ride out the storm

It's not just about the economy!!
The racist abuse in the streets has already started - leaflets being sent through people's doors, people being shouted at in the street, attacked...
It WILL escalate
The genie is out of the bottle and the leave win has meant that the racists now think they have a mandate to behave this way,
I personally find that abhorrent
My country will never be the same.
No going back now
Has history taught us nothing about the rise of the far right and xenophobia?

We're coming up to retirement in next couple of years, so employment not such a big issue.

DS is a junior Dr so likely to be leaving UK in next few years, I cannot see really that there is much worth staying around for.