Anyone thinking of leaving the UK following the referendum vote?

[crazyhead]

Just curious really. Me and my husband believe quite passionately in the EU project and it feels as though we don't want to sit here and watch the UK leave. I watched my Mum die last year and I just can't bear the slow motion grief of seeing this as well.

So we're thinking of leaving the UK for a while. DH has an interview on Friday for a US job for starters (we'd prefer EU but fewer relevant jobs - and we've not got the ancestry for EU passports sadly).

Anyone else thinking of leaving?

At my school, only two of the teachers were Oxford graduates and most emphatically did not encourage us to follow in their footsteps. Perhaps they would have chosen differently if the war hadn't affected their futures? Although why advise teaching, teaching or teaching? There was absolute shock horror when one person wanted to leave at 18 and get a job in the Building Society.

One teacher was almost certainly gay, but we didn't think like that in those days. Well, I didn't. I just assumed they were two women who both taught, had lost fiances during the war, so found it sensible to share a house together.

But I digress. As one who belongs to the tail end of the baby boom, I am baffled why many of my generation voted Leave.

Careers advice, I suppose, depended on what was available locally. We didn't have any teaching hospitals or nursing schools nearby, so almost no one went in for nursing. One went in for midwifery, but that was because her mother was the local midwife.

I remember a careers talk in 1969 about the Civil Service. Although we had some CS departments in the town, we were told quite plainly that jobs hardly ever came up locally, and that we would have to go to London to have any chance of getting in.

Probably because my parents had already emigrated and changed careers (my dad has a farming degree before his medical degree), that helped open horizons and give a belief that anything was possible.

As it was, my mum ended up bring an English teacher - but she'd started out in SA doing a science degree.

My Dad (at 79) is a strong Remain voter - and my mum, if she were still alive, would've been the same.

But there again, we're in Scotland, where most people are Remain

I am in a strong Remain area too. I don't know how my parents would have voted.