Is Anybody Making Personal Plans For Brexit?

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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?

blibblibs a year isn't really long enough to properly judge a country. It was at least 2 years until I stopped disliking the UK and started to 'settle'. Have been here nearly 10 years now and considered it home.

The grass may not be greener but I'm prepared to bet (house on market now) that it will be nicer being out of the UK than in once Brexit actually happens.

I understand what your saying hip but I think we possibly picked the wrong country to move to.
We've settled fine and have a great community of friends but unfortunately that isnt everything so home we go to take our chances.
We made it through the recession with only a little financial damage so hopefully we'll be ok, but time will tell.

I don't remember us coping that well with the ash cloud!
And the ash cloud wasn't self inflicted either.

Time line of the disruption from the ash cloud...was just over a month.

www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7730428/Volcanic-ash-timeline-of-the-flight-disruption.html

No idea why anyone would think that moving to NZ, Canada, Australia etc. would make their situations better. You're simply swapping one set of issues for another.

I think the point on the ash cloud was that significant disruptions over a limited period of time - which would happen if we left the EU without a deal - are not the end of the world.

Some of DH's family moved to Canada. Some of the benefits have been much cheaper housing, and more job opportunities for them. I would say that those are big bonuses. Downsides are distance from family, but offhand I don't think they regret the move.

Except that the impact of the ash cloud was limited, and lasted for a month at most. The impact of a no-deal Brexit will last several decades!

Do people really think the UK is going to end up like a third world country ?
I’ve lived through many downturns none of it my own doing, house prices halved in the late 80’s and many people in negative equity, yes people lost their house or struggled to get/ re mortgage, after a downturn there is always a boom, If people want to run away or abandon people who can’t for what ever reason move aboard, you should have to give up your British passport and apply for a visa if you wish to return, where is your pride in your Country

I don't have any pride in this country. It's an embarrassment.

It’s the blind nationalism of brexit that scares me the most. The nationalism at any cost. Poorer with limited prospects for decades to come? Who cares we got our country back

Why is this country an embarrassment? It’s not a case of blind nationalism, it’s trying to make the best of a situation, we’ve been getting poorer for nearly a decade now, with no end in sight, people with nothing have nothing to lose.

I can't believe anyone is comparing the ash cloud to Brexit . It's like comparing a fart on the tube to an atom bomb in terms of the extent of after effects.

We’ve been getting poorer because of neo liberal economics and austerity. Brexit won’t change that.

Melassa surely you’re not likening brexit to an atom bomb!

So we've been getting poorer and the solution is... to get much poorer still? Doesn't make any sense! Also, the biggest problem is this narrative that says that it's a done deal, and we just need to make the best of it. Of course it isn't!

And being in the EU didn’t help, this country spends far more than it brings in, cuts had to be made or taxes rise greatly

Do people really think the UK is going to end up like a third world country?
I think the UK is going to end up the sick man of Europe all over again.

Personally I can't understand why people want to be governed by a totalitarian EU Federalist Government. It will not end well, all they care about is themselves - Why else do you think they've just let in 1 million migrants? Cheap labour for corporations.

Why are people also blind as to what's happening to most other EU countries apart from Germany?

But hey ho!

Being the sick man of Europe was a lot to do with the power of the unions and never ending strikes, we were in the EU then as well

Nina, in terms of the effects lasting for decades, yes I am! Especially in the case of a no deal suicide jump off the cliff Brexit.
The UK hasn't even left yet and the US us already taking the p*. The other Anglosphere countries (the ones that were queuing up to buy English jam) are already making demands based on our soon to be weakened position. And all this is before we've left the protection of our current trade bloc.

I think if you've lived through the 70s and the recession, Brexit holds no real fear.
My parents lived through that ans Brexit holds real fear for them.
My DH is an EU national so Brexit holds immense fear for us.

And now we have weaker unions we have zero hour contracts, the underemployed and the gig economy.

Brexiteers should really take a look at the UKs economic data since the referendum

sinceyouask what exactly is your DH immensely fearful of?