to ask has your life changed since brexit ?

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seems months ago since it all kicked off but only a few weeks in reality, wider society aside, has brexit changed your life a/ perhaps you've moved/in process of, changed work etc. for us nothing has changed but i'm interested in other mners [don't want to cause a punch up over the remains and leaves - that's been, gone and tired].

I'm afraid the vote did give people a pass to be racist, undoubtedly. We are a public-facing service and we've had comments from service users already re 'what are you still doing here' to staff with non-white skin. Two members of my family had come out with a load of shit recently - not very very bad but just ignorant and under the new banner of 'acceptable racism'.

dd (16) is furious she didn't get to vote and has to put up with my generation's mistake.

I work with a ESF company helping people people far from being job-ready eventually into work. They lose everything when we leave so staff are looking for other jobs already.

DH's job was closed down (he was negotiating EU stuff). Luckily his old job, which they hadn't managed to fill, was still open so now he's doing that.
Rest of his office is twitchy due to reorganisation...one department has to changes offices.

One of my friends cries due to feeling she isn't wanted here any more. She runs her own business, but still worries she won't qualify for permanent residency.

DH's research grant is not going to be renewed next year, because of the uncertainty. They can't give 5 years worth of funding if they can't guarantee that people will be able to fulfill the terms of the consortium, which includes researchers travelling to Europe for up to a year at at time. So he, and seven of his colleagues will be out of work.

We're EU citizens and have had people say nasty things about immigrants to us, which has seriously made us consider our futures in this country.

The people who say that no impacts are being felt are wrong. They are being felt, and it's pretty depressing to the people that are impacted. Just because you're not feeling them doesn't mean they're not there, and I really wish people would show a little more empathy and understanding to those of us whose life has been turned upside down by this vote.

Yes, dh is currently unemployed, and had an interview on 23rd June. The interviewer called him to cancel, told him he had the job and that the interview was a formality, but he had to accompany the MD to Spain to sign off a large deal with Telefonica. The deal was the basis of the company's finance, and dh and up to 50 others would have had jobs as a result.

Due to the Leave vote, Telefonica would not sign off the deal, and dh never got his interview. We have not heard from them again, and the interviewer himself is now looking for work.

It is not a good time to be unemployed, but it was not a choice we made.

I have had to pay more for services for my business.

A friend is having to open a subsiduary of her business, as the nature of the business is such that it needs to be based within the EU and contracts are usually for between 2 and 5 years, so she needs to preempt the exit. She would not get any new work without an EU base.

Friends are feeling disenfranchised and may look to relocate elsewhere due to increased racism and general uncertainty.

Smug brexit supporter friend is posting way to many links to the express being all fake positive about what is going on.

The people who say that no impacts are being felt are wrong. They are being felt, and it's pretty depressing to the people that are impacted. Just because you're not feeling them doesn't mean they're not there

This. My local community is holding a unity picnic today because of the increase in hate crime in the area. My friends have seen racial abuse like they've never seen before.

My sister is a financial controller and has had to make 34 people redundant. She's not the type to destroy lives for the sake of it, so it's most definitely not an excuse to get rid of people. It may not have happened yet, but the uncertainty is having a very real impact.

I do freelance work for a Govt department that has now been reorganised. Don't even know if the original department will still exist soon tbh. So that's my main freelance client possibly gone. Which is nice.

Well (selfishly) I am paid in another currency so the sudden drop in sterling was good for us - I was waiting to transfer money back just in case. Although the pound seems to have recovered quite a bit of ground and is now a long way from the lowest I have seen it.

I am another one married to a forriner and I haven't noticed any increase in racism, but then again we have never experienced any discrimination in our sleepy village, where DH is a bit of a novelty

Not really, so far. Well, I wanted to try to secure my ability to live in the UK, since I'm an EU immigrant. I've got immigration advice, found out I can't get an indefinitely leave to remain via the EU route, and that my only real option is to apply for a spouse visa, if I want security. It's fine, but costs a fortune, and is a hassle.

I have a hobby which is something I'm focuses on deeply, as I am unable to work. The shops here get their stock from the USA which us the only country in the world that manufactures the product needed for this hobby. Very soon after Brexit the prices shot up because of changes to the pound. I have a feeling if the pound recovers - they won't change the price.

As I'm very low income, this has impacted me.

I know you didn't want this to turn into a bun fight. But god it's gutting reading some of these posts. we've truly f*cked up our country.
which is precisely what you have just done by turning the thread into a 'bun' fight.
No - the country is still the same as it was on 22nd June!
personal anecdotes do not a major societal shift make.
I get the feeling some are hoping for disaster so they can say 'I told you so' and further attack those of an opposing view

Mollie the country may appear to be exactly the same to you right now, that doesn't mean it is for everyone.

Dh's company (investment bank) is moving 20% of its staff by the end of this year and researching already how and where to move the rest. That's around 2000 people, largely earning 6 figures. Many other banks are doing the same. That's a hell of a lot of tax lost. Don't believe me if you want, I'm only a stranger on the Internet. But don't tell me my Brexit hasn't changed my life.

It's not a bun fight. It's people relaying what has happened to them, what they've observed and how they feel about it.
If you prefer denial mollie that's your choice.

I can understand people saying their own lives haven't changed- but I can't understand people telling others that their lives haven't changed. Wtf is that?

My business outgoings have increased. Gold and silver prices skyrocketed - I'm a self employed goldsmith. And it's not just pence or a couple of quid here and there either.
Still taking it on the chin with collections buy increases will be passed on for commissions. Others seriously bumped up their prices on everything overnight

As someone said above people who normally would have mutter and whinged at home about immigrants now feel happy to shout it in the streets. They now feel/think that everyone else agrees with them.

I fully accept that there is a lot of leave voters that aren't racist and voted the way they did for other reasons but some well;

They vote leave because they are fucking thick as pig shit racists…so me as an immigrant and happy to declare it (even if every time I open my gob didn't prove it) is 'OK' and 'well we didn't mean you' aka White.

But my British born of British born parents nephews are being told to go home aka: brown.

In other word they say immigrant but mean not white in a majority of case. Please note this is not to dismiss or ignore the attacks on Eastern Europeans, just that being brown…initially makes you a more visible target.

And now 'they' think everyone agrees with the that they were always right.

As I said I'm an immigrant, I'm Irish, when I was recruited to work over here (yeap I was invited) I very quickly learnt when not to talk. My accent, that is now seen as cute at that time was an invitation to a kicking…

I had the option of keeping my mouth shut…not that I ever did…my DNs don't have that option.

We've struggled to pay some invoices for our business this month due to the pound falling.

Certainly of the ones i know of, their redudancies were coming brexit or not.

On June 22 my organisation was running a profit of 6% which was about to be re-invested into new facilities and staff expansion.

On June 24 we lost 10 million in European contracts and imposed a hiring freeze. One of my team has not had his contract renewed, but on June 22 it was expected to be renewed. Another is leaving as his partner works for a European organisation which will relocate to Paris.

Several highly skilled Europeans who had accepted job offers are no longer coming. We expect further loss of European contracts and investment, long before Article 50 is invoked and we lose EU funding.

"I get the feeling some are hoping for disaster so they can say 'I told you so' and further attack those of an opposing view" Really? I get the feeling that some people are refusing to acknowledge that there has been any negative effect at all (even befor Brexit is activated) so that they can continue in their "isn't it wonderful life is so much better" mindset. I would actually be interested in any anecdotes about how things are "better" post the vote! Hit me with them!

Yes there has been a real increase in racism and xenophobia where I live. Also not a big deal I know, but we now are not going on holiday abroad as the drop in the pound means we can't afford it.

That is why personal accounts are so important

Nothing has changed. Not seen any racism.