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Is Anybody Making Personal Plans For Brexit?

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fakenamefornow · 10/10/2017 09:52

Very worried about it.

I have some savings, not loads, just a few thousand. I'm thinking maybe I should convert it into foreign currency. What do others think? I have a holiday aboard planned next year, I've converted all the spending money we'll need already and plan to pay for meals etc while we're there in cash.

I've been saving as much money as I can, our mortgage still has another eight years to run. I really need a new car and we had planned to get a new kitchen as ours is falling apart but don't think I can risk spending money on stuff like that now. At the same time I want to take my children abroad as much as we can now as I don't think we'll be able to afford to post 2019.

I wish we could leave the country for the EU but it's just not easy for us, no access to foreign passports, children settled in really good schools, and not easily transferable jobs.

For context, I'll almost certainly be losing my job because of Brexit in 2019, not sure what will happen with my husbands job, don't think he'll lose it but it will be negatively affected.

Is anybody else making plans to try to mitigate Brexit? If so any more suggestions for us?

OP posts:
cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 16:53

I have never once said that the EU had anything to do with the miners. I am just drawing an example about entire industries being decimated.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 16:56

Lewis Wales was very strongly pro-Brexit. That had a terrible time losing industry after industry. I imagine they voted for change as they wanted a shake-up. I think they were wrong but I respect their right to hold that opinion after everything they went through. Do you not think that's reasonable?

Peregrina · 12/10/2017 16:57

I am just drawing an example about entire industries being decimated.

I am just a bit irritated that you think no one cared about whole industries being decimated. Some happened as a result of technological change, which might have meant that opportunities opened up elsewhere. Some happened because of political decisions. Some of us were as angry about that as we are about Brexit.

Theworldisfullofidiots · 12/10/2017 16:58

Did she save enough from our system to be able to set up her own practice back home?
M4DAD is your whole purpose in life to be goady?
And why shouldn't she earn money whilst doing her job? You seem like you have a mighty big chip.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:00

Peregrina Bullshit they cared. Some of those communities have still not recovered.

TheElementsSong · 12/10/2017 17:00

You talk about your situation as if you are the first person to go through this. You are not. Don't expect people to care about you if you didn't care about them.

Yes but what does any of this have to do with people's individual, personal, plans for their own future?

pointythings · 12/10/2017 17:02

cowgirls

  1. Your assumption that no-one cared is just that - an assumption based on no evidence
  2. Just because other people have had to 'put up with it' in the past, why should people have to do the same now - especially in this case when the damage is avoidable?
  3. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion. That means I am allowed to be of the opinion that Brexit is an avoidable disaster. You come across as really aggressive.
cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:04

People can make whatever plans they like. I would never say they can't. My comments are in response to the anger about people having to move abroad, change jobs etc. Personally, I have sympathy for them. I am simply saying that don't expect everybody to feel the same, especially those who have lost their livelihoods, been told to get on their bikes to find work etc over the past few decades.

pointythings · 12/10/2017 17:05

cowgirls what did you want people to do about the miners and about industry in Wales? Did you expect everyone in the UK who cared to trek up there, protest, sacrifice their own jobs and livelihoods, barricade the streets and storm no. 10? What would be enough 'care' for you?

Peregrina · 12/10/2017 17:06

I now live in the south-east, as do most of my school friends (from 40 odd years ago). Do you wonder why cowgirls? A small matter of coming from areas where the industry was decimated and having to move for work, so please don't start making comments like 'bullshit' when you appear not to have the foggiest idea about others.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:06

pointy You tell me one thing that the rest of the UK has done to support mining communities? Apart from the odd food parcel at the height of the strike there's been fuck all. At least, that's what's happened in my own home town.

ImminentDisaster · 12/10/2017 17:09

This thread has gone weird. I don't expect anyone else to feel sorry for me because I am moving or making my plans. I do feel sorry for people who don't prepare and are hit with problems in the future. I'm also of the opinion that Brexit is an avoidable disaster.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:09

Are you saying those places are OK now Peregrina? They really are not.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:10

It's not weird at all. It's gone off on a tangent and I take responsibility for that.

Peregrina · 12/10/2017 17:11

What do you expect us to do cowgirl? Some of us put a large amount of the blame for the industrial devastation and the door of the Thatcherite and post Thatcherite Tories and will never ever vote for them. That's a start, but what else?

Peregrina · 12/10/2017 17:14

Are you saying those places are OK now Peregrina? They really are not.

Are you trying to pick a fight? I grew up in North Wales and then lived in N Staffs. I have seen the textile, steel and pottery industries devastated at first hand. This BTW started long before we went into the Common Market. It started happening in the late 50s and accelerated at pace in the 60s.

No, those places have never fully recovered. Do you wonder why the young people get up and leave?

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:15

I don't want people to be horrible about those who voted to leave. I hate the golf club little Englander types. They deserve all the contempt they get but please try to understand why many people voted for this. They just wanted to give the Tories a kicking and to try something different. It scares me that we are leaving but lets not let it divide us.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:17

Don't get me started on the Potteries. That is truly a place that gets overlooked and forgotten. Nice people, fantastic heritage and ignored and treated with contempt at every opportunity!

Peregrina · 12/10/2017 17:18

I was tempted to vote Leave to give Cameron a kicking but thought it risky, and I am glad I didn't. We got rid of him anyway, to get someone even more clueless, which I thought impossible.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:20

It was an emotional vote Peregrine for a lot of people. You obviously managed to overcome those emotions but sadly a lot of people didn't.

cowgirlsareforever · 12/10/2017 17:22

My DP is from North Staffs by the way. He got out as soon as he could. He can never go back as there's nothing there for him. Same with me and my home town. It's been ever thus.

ImminentDisaster · 12/10/2017 17:24

And that's one of the saddest things, the people who voted Leave thinking things couldn't get worse for them.

TheElementsSong · 12/10/2017 17:32

I am so confused by the turns this thread is taking Confused

dens4321 · 12/10/2017 17:37

@TheElementsSong yes, really

TheElementsSong · 12/10/2017 17:42

dens

I refer you to squishy’s reply at 09:38 Smile