Brexit denial? Try cohousing

[Livenowsleepl8r]

I've found Brexit really sad, not because of my politics but because it seems to have pitted everyone against each other. Just after Brexit happened I moved out of London to live at Postlip Hall- a cohousing community where you actually know your neighbours and we all bring up our kids together. Has anyone else found ways to get through Brexit in a positive way and be closer to people rather than further apart?

I moved to Germany. Does that count?

Riddle I would have done the same given half a chance. I did google the international schools in Hamburg after the vote. DH could have got a transfer there and I could have done my job from anywhere. Perhaps we should have done, but I thought it was too late to live there long enough to acquire permanent residency so it wasn't going to help in the long term. Also we own our house outright so our living costs in the UK are low.

Ohh, sorry to derail, my sister and I both attended the International School Hamburg.

Great place, going from strength to strength, too.

Postlip Hall looks lovely!

I understand wanting to find a constructive response to the Brexit chaos. I'm also very tired of the insults and lack of real dialogue. I seriously considered staying overseas after finishing my previous role in an EU country. But for various reasons it looks like we're coming back to the UK after all.

Having long lost faith in our politicians to sort this mess out, I think it could help in the longer term if ordinary people found more ways to break out of our various tight social circles and internet bubbles and speak to people who are different from ourselves.

I'm not the most sociable person in the world but I want to try harder to mix with people who aren't like me. At the moment, I only know two leave voters in my entire circle of family and friends, both of whom are very elderly ladies who voted instinctively, citing immigration fears.

I wish the time since the referendum could have been spent in a big national conversation promoting civilised exchange of views and explanation of background issues so that everyone could have been better informed and we could have started closing the comprehension gap between Leave / Remain voters. We clearly don't understand each other.

I voted remain and would do so again. I'm not a party member or tribal voter and I would have been happy to see Left/Right politics go out with the Cold War. I need good reasons for where I cast my vote and I have still to see anything from pro-Brexit politicians which I find remotely convincing. At the same time, some of them are racists and xenophobes, or associate with racists and xenophobes. I could not vote for them on either count.

Others voted leave for a variety of reasons, some of which I understand (including wanting to "slap Cameron's smug face" or protest against Westminster ignoring the wider population on a whole range of domestic or EU issues) and some of which I find baffling. I would like to build bridges but I'm so put off by people hurling abuse at each other both in real life and in internet fora.

I'm definitely up for tea and cake with leavers who hate shouting matches and name calling as much as I do.

I applied to get my dd on the Foreign Birth Register as a prelude to getting an Irish passport. Does that count.

Sorry, op. I'm in a strong leave area where Yaxley Lennon is likely to pick up a lot of votes. Forgive me for not being much into peace and love and more into keeping my head down.