Any remain voters now thinking of leaving uk - and where too?

[Stripyhoglets]

Before the vote I had no real desire to move from UK to an EU country either now or when retired. I liked living in England and being English. The vote, and what it has revealed has changed how I feel about this. But now I'm thinking I may want to leave when retired, should finances and commitments and immigration rules allow (I can retain EU citizenship but dh cant).

Trouble is I don't know where I'd go.
Probably France or Portugal. I have family freinds who've retired to Portugal and it seems lovely - and I can speak some French - so that would be good too.

Anyone else making plans/having dreams of leaving this island and would like to share?

Sorry - no kids but I work in community development and have been exposed to the education system and it appears to be a total faff. To be honest if you have young primary kids the change would not be too much of a problem but older ones and then secondary are really different. Especially secondary as the routing for subjects and then the exams are very different and, I think, harder.

Also helps a lot if you are Catholic. Like really Catholic. Imagine the deepest darkest dreams of the Church of England and how they control schools in England and make it worse. Lots of indoctrination is delivered through the schools. Communion prep for example takes time from actual learning.

Each school also has a varying amount of money involved from actual private fees down to "voluntary contributions" and even things like texts books for the year are often required to be bought.

Thanks, scottish, that's very helpful. I'm glad you're getting on well in Dublin. DP and I would probably go for a smaller city/town, partly because of Dublin house prices!

Thanks for replying, that's kind of what I feared, scottish. I was educated in Catholic schools and the children were baptised so I'm not too fearful of that aspect of the Irish system, it's just getting them a place that seems to be a complete impossibility .

SapphireStrange

Dublin has most of the jobs so has the house price problem to match. We are renting in a v small place and it works at the moment but we are saving now for a deposit for a house. Rents outside dublin are indeed cheaper but you will need a car and we opted not to bring ours. There are plenty who do travel into town each day as there are a good few park and rides and the excellent North/South running dart. The trams will soon be much better as well. It depends on what type of jobs you both do. DP is a professional with an international qualification in demand here so found it easy to get a job. I got two offers from four job interviews and had others lined up but my skillset is sector based but very generic. There are plenty of jobs.

lalalonglegs

Its "only" 20 per cent of schools are oversubscribed and its in pockets of very popular areas (with higher house prices as well) so depending on where you wanted to go, getting in isnt that much of a problem. It depends on their age and the difference in the two systems is quite large. Also, check the actual term dates. You think schools have long holidays in the UK......... (so childcare become an issue if both parents are working).

For both of you, what I have noticed is that there is still a culture of not travelling that far for school or work. My commute is an hour at the moment but its two very regular easy buses (a car would be about twenty minutes but thats a different story - car insurance here is epically expensive in the 1st year if you dont really need it.) and colleagues seem to thing that is very abnormally long. School kids on buses are rare as they all seem to walk and I have noticed the kids I do see on the buses are not from families originally from Ireland.

Thanks, scottish. Without outing myself, I'm self-employed and work from home; only need a postal service and email/online access, so I'd be OK I think.

DP would be a bit more of an issue, because he has more than one string to his bow and I suspect would rather continue with the one that would be harder for him to do in Ireland.

Screwedup, I just saw this thread. What sort of qualifications are the Dutch looking for? I want to leave the UK as well, I have a degree in Economics from one of the top UK university, mba from US university (top 5) and a long list of finance qualifications. Would this help in getting prioritised for work permit (or whatever the Dutch require?) I quite fancy Amsterdam although I don't speak Dutch (a bit of German, not too much).

Thanks!

I've always wanted to emigrate, now much more so. The problem is it's not that easy, and after we depart it might be very, very difficult for many.

What I want to know is will the main people that caused brexit (Farage, Cameron, Johnson, Gove, May, to name a few) be able to abandon ship if it all goes terribly wrong. I think they need to be made to stay here and face justice. It doesn't seem fair that many remainers will be stuck here with the idiots and the racists while the people who caused it can swan off to a life of luxury in another country.

I've been researching options since the morning after to be honest. If my DH didn't have interests that make it complex to leave we would have been out already (which would have been better as DS starts school now) . As it is I have been keeping everything I am paid in Euros for the last 8 months and I am looking at relocating my company to another EU country while I can so that it's another way out later.. .

Dh isn't really interested in leaving though we've had a few conversations. I am a dual Irish citizen, and language isn't a barrier there for us so it seems a sensible option. Have a hankering for Canada though after a few friends emigrated a while back. Reality is though, I'm probably stuck.

We are considering it very seriously and are actively looking for position overseas.

We have lived in the UK for more than a decade and our DC was born here. We used to feel we belonged here, but that's no longer the case.

You're very fortunate Hashi to have dual citizenship which will keep the door open for you!

Our timing totally sucked; we moved (within the UK) for DH career opportunity in late 2015. So we were still bearing the financial and personal costs of the move, when the EURef happened. In all seriousness, if it hadn't been for that recent move, we would both have been frantically emailing our international academic contacts to ask about job opportunities, the very next morning.

We're now aiming for an orderly exit, say within about 3 years (would have loved to get out before March 2019 but think that's cutting it a bit fine) when the DC are reaching secondary age. Gives us time to build up our savings and CVs for a more favourable international move. DH in particular has been putting out "feelers" amongst colleagues in his field thinking about best destinations for the whole family. Me, apart from posting on here to let off steam, have been distracting myself by baking and gardening obsessively in my free time .

The only thing we might regret is DH elderly parents are here in the UK .

I want to
Dh won't consider it