It’s not wrong. I’d be paid 100k for my role in the US whereas I earn 40k here. Even if I spent a grand on health insurance a month, I’d still be better off. Probably lower taxes, better QoL, more countryside and wilderness, better chances at raises, etc as well. Yes, the US has problems but people forget that their economy and wages have grown massively and ours have stagnated for almost 20 years now.
I’m studying a construction related degree right now and I don’t know a single person who hasn’t thought about emigrating. Before I went to university I took a few years off and worked in Italy when we were still in the EU, well that’s all finished now so I don’t see a future for myself in the UK as it’s no longer a base through which to access Europe. My original plan was to work in the UK for a couple of years and then look for work in maybe France or Germany because why not, but that’s become so much harder so I’m looking at New Zealand or Australia when I graduate.
It’s common sense. This country doesn’t value young people. Why would a 20 something with a valuable degree stay in the UK and have stagnant wages, shit pensions, crappy housing?
My brother is doing his doctor training at the moment and he’s decided to stay in the UK because he loves the NHS and wants to give something back which is very noble. But for someone like myself who has had their life fucked by 14 years of tory bullshit and Brexit I see no future in the UK.
Ironic that the Daily Telegraph, so pivotal in Brexit and Tory propaganda, shamelessly repeating Johnson’s ever more bizarre lies, together with taking money from Putin to publish a regular pro-Russia supplement, has acknowledged they’ve helped fuck the country.
Something really needs to be done about tax dodging billionaires and offshore companies owning so much of our media including this propaganda sheet and tv channel, when demonstrably a quarter of the country are gullible as fuck and it takes little more under FPTP or a rigged opinion poll to enact massively damaging changes that only the super-rich benefit from, at the expense of the rest of us.
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It’s not wrong. I’d be paid 100k for my role in the US whereas I earn 40k here. Even if I spent a grand on health insurance a month, I’d still be better off. Probably lower taxes, better QoL, more countryside and wilderness, better chances at raises, etc as well. Yes, the US has problems but people forget that their economy and wages have grown massively and ours have stagnated for almost 20 years now.
I’m studying a construction related degree right now and I don’t know a single person who hasn’t thought about emigrating. Before I went to university I took a few years off and worked in Italy when we were still in the EU, well that’s all finished now so I don’t see a future for myself in the UK as it’s no longer a base through which to access Europe. My original plan was to work in the UK for a couple of years and then look for work in maybe France or Germany because why not, but that’s become so much harder so I’m looking at New Zealand or Australia when I graduate.
It’s common sense. This country doesn’t value young people. Why would a 20 something with a valuable degree stay in the UK and have stagnant wages, shit pensions, crappy housing?
My brother is doing his doctor training at the moment and he’s decided to stay in the UK because he loves the NHS and wants to give something back which is very noble. But for someone like myself who has had their life fucked by 14 years of tory bullshit and Brexit I see no future in the UK.
Ironic that the Daily Telegraph, so pivotal in Brexit and Tory propaganda, shamelessly repeating Johnson’s ever more bizarre lies, together with taking money from Putin to publish a regular pro-Russia supplement, has acknowledged they’ve helped fuck the country.
Something really needs to be done about tax dodging billionaires and offshore companies owning so much of our media including this propaganda sheet and tv channel, when demonstrably a quarter of the country are gullible as fuck and it takes little more under FPTP or a rigged opinion poll to enact massively damaging changes that only the super-rich benefit from, at the expense of the rest of us.