Get out plan?

[crazyhead]

Anyone mulling get out plans (or at least maybe get out plans) from this shitty country? Seeing those MPs last night fail in their public duty to stop us hurtle towards no deal ... I want to respect the people that run my country. I can’t bear inevitable moaning self justifying car crash we are about to hit without a plan b.

My plans are crap as we have only got English relatives. Very jealous of people with handy eu relatives! Our one card however is dh’s moveable job (in technical finance skills shortage area). I am going to start languages courses in a week to get my German up to full fluent (it’s quite fluent) as that’s one possibility and I am going to go to a careers adviser to find out about skills shortage areas. Anyone else mulling plans?

Poor old Ireland would be stuck with us if it got that bad. I don't think it will get that bad. I want to stay here.

I am thinking Ireland but would have to live there five years before applying for citizenship, as no Irish family. That is dependent on the common travel area continuing though. Anyone hazard a guess as to that likelihood?

I'm pretty certain it will. Too many of us pesky Irish people embedded into the UK.

I'd like to get out but my son is in his GCSE year. I could work from anywhere, and my husband's firm has offices in Germany. I would happily move there as I speak fluent German and there are international schools where DS could do A levels, but if we have no deal it will be too late because they will throw us out again (unless they accept us as asylum seekers as we can't get EU passports). Also can I sell my house - I need the money from it to live? And my elderly mother is still here though she does qualify for an Irish passport. It's not an appropriate analogy but I can see why Jewish people ended up staying in Nazi Germany too long, it's really difficult to up and leave until things are really staring you in the face.

Thanks Bellini.

We are. We have escape routes insofar as I have an EU passport and one from elsewhere in the world - we've both previously worked there, OH previously held a visa, we have friends there.

However, like you we have a house we would need to sell, we have parents and siblings here and on top of that I have moved into a niche job that would make things tricky.

I'm looking at get out plans from two avenues: if things get bad enough short term (I think/hope this is unlikely - I mean for things to get sufficiently bad, sufficiently quickly that we get the hell out of dodge) but also longer term the rise of populism, xenophobia etc does make me question my long term future here, which is sad. We chose to come back from abroad, we actively chose to be here and I'm sad that we're facing actively choosing to leave, especially in terms of what that means for family relationships.