The way this country is going, I couldn’t blame any of them. To many idiots with their head in the sand. The political system needs a massive shake up and quick.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could easily just move to a range of other countries without the need for a visa or any tiresome paperwork….
what’re the countries not affected by the current economic problems?
over 3.4m UK working adults say moving outside of the UK is a long-term goal of theirs= pipe dreams
But then they’d become the immigrants that they hate so much??
Maybe try Botswana I hear its cheap as chips 👍.
I think it’s a case of the grass always being greener. The situation is the same or worse in many other places. Despite recent price rises, our groceries are still among the cheapest in Europe even when adjusted for income.
They will be surprised to learn that the cost of living crisis is not restricted to UK, regardless of what they read in British media. Prices through the roof in places as far away as Australia and US. I daresay Europe is no different, regardless of the fantasies of remainers.
The truth is its really not much better elsewhere people are ignorant of what goes on elsewhere in the world.
Weren’t millions of brits doing this before the cost of living crisis?
Hell, not many countries are free of the current problems the UK has anyway so seems a reach to blame UKs cost of living crisis.
Do it.
Britain is becoming a basket case.
People saying the cost of living crisis is the same abroad. This may be true but not very important. Britain has many other problems, such as housing costs, terrible public transport, and a struggling health service. If you’re under 40 it’s unlikely you’ll retire before 70, probably more like 75, while spending your entire life paying high taxes to pay for boomers. And moaning about how prices have gone up in other countries misses the fact that these rises are largely due to the collapse of the pound after Brexit.
If you’re young make a move soon. You can always return and it will be much harder when you’re older.
I don’t actually blame them, but a lot of these people will either be:
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1. Romantics who have an idea of moving but may or may not actually do it. That probably relates to: “In fact, over 3.4m UK working adults say moving outside of the UK is **a long-term goal of theirs**” – A long term goal eh? Like I said, romantics lol. Check up on these sprites in 10 years and I suspect a good proportion (2m+?) will have settled down in the UK with a partner and 2.5 kids etc.
2. The ones who are bordering on grotesquely rich and who do rich-person stuff like move to the jurisdictions offering the best tax rates etc. Probably relates to: “while 3 per cent admit they are actively planning to relocate either in the next year or the next two years” – people who aren’t simply romanticising about moving away in the long term but who actually have plans, AND have money/jobs that facilitate such a move.
There will be overlaps, but broadly I think that’s the interpretation.
Lol and I just moved here from Germany. Grass is always greener
Two grand’d get me a *years* rent of a lovely little one bedroom cottage in south Goa or Kerala…six months down there in the dry season from Sept to April then head up the Himalayan foothills to escape the heat..oooh it’s tempting.
I’ve spent the last decade dotting around different Asian countries ( + a couple of working holiday visas in Oz and NZ)
Riding out the financial crash, turned into riding out the Brexit downturn, to riding out Covid, to riding out the current mess we’re in.
If you can do it, and you want to do it, then I highly recommend.
If you have a degree, are 21-35, single, no dependents, there are some really good opportunities in Asia and the Pacific to explore.
There are no perfect countries, and you’re unlikely to find anywhere with a low cost of living that also perfectly aligns with your social and political views.
Frankly I’m past caring. My energy bills and rent come in at less than 20% of my monthly salary. The sun shines year round. I eat cheap, tasty fresh food for more or less every meal. I have a decent work life balance and holidays here are incredibly affordable. A train from one side of the country to the other comes in at £20 or so. What I would a pay for a grotty houseshare in a medium sized UK city, gets me a sizable private flat with a pool, gym and garden access.
That whole grass is greener on the other side thing? Yeah, pretty much.
Anyone living in ‘the south’ of England should be considering moving north. Especially if you work remotely.
I live in Cambs and my house has increased in value by 31% since I bought it in 2016 (if Zoopla is to be believed).
I could get essentially the same house just 100km north for £100k less. Or I could spend the same money and add a bedroom and garden twice the size.
Renting too. A 3-bed semi near me is around £1300 a month. An hour up the road it’s £850.
Loads of Brits have come to Canada in recent years. Many working in the oil field in Alberta driving truck and the like. Good money, too. Strange though—I’ve run into lots of Englishmen, a handful of Irish, but no Scots.
Hah fucking called it in 2020. Not particularly happy to be proven right but can say I am one of these people. What is the point of working hard in the UK any more? You push yourself to rise to an elite level, you get all the experience and qualifications, often at the expense of *years* of your life nevermind tens of thousands in fees… For what exactly? The wages on offer are awful. The places that can even offer you work are absurdly expensive. And then if you ever so much as raise your head above the parapet asking why things are like this you get shot down as if you’re some kind of snobby haughty out of touch egghead. When you can see *just by leaving* you can almost immediately double your wage, if not considerably more (I would be on 3x or more in the US!), while often being given far lighter responsibilities and better hours, where is the appeal in staying put?
If my wife wasn’t so hung up on family, we’d be joining them.
So many young professionals I know just want to leave. Why live somewhere you can’t afford a home, and is quickly descending into being a right wing shithole? Your vote probably won’t matter due to FPTP, either you’re stuck in a safe tory seat, or whacked in with a load of other people who vote labour to dilute their representation down.
We really are looking down the barrel of just becoming poorer and poorer, even as we get more experience. Who wants that?
Hopefully Britain will just be a hollowed out husk of old racist landlords, and migrant labour they hate to look after them. Built your bed, sleep in it.
Will people please stop using this BS ‘cost of living crisis’ phrase that the politicians have had the media run with. It’s inflation. Nothing else. Inflation. It’s a bitch and it’s the politicians and central banks that have fucked it all up.
They’ll blame it on public sector pay rises, wars, energy prices, you name it.
They’ve been printing money and haven’t even been using it to invest in their own infrastructure at the levels that they used to.
It is inflation.
Also.. Getting on a plane to avoid it is pointless. It’s getting worse everywhere.
I’m 25 and haven’t lived in the UK for three years during which I did the teaching English gig. I’ve just moved to Cambodia to start working as a primary teacher while studying to get my (American) teaching licence.
No country is perfect. Corruption is seemingly rife within the halls of politics wherever you go although I can’t comment of the COL crisis in the UK but I do know prices have significantly gone up in Poland while I was there the last 2 years. I don’t think many countries are insulated from inflation at the moment.
No chance of me moving back to the UK. That’s why I’m not bothering with a UK teaching licence alongside the fact my partner is Russian and neither of us want to go through that visa process.
Moving abroad takes time, patience and definitely more money than you think. But it’s enriching, scary and exciting. I’d recommend it even if you don’t have the skillset for your desired job yet. You can work yourself up anywhere.
It’s not the cost of living crisis that makes me want to leave, it’s the way the country is getting closer to fascism and the government makes no sense the way it runs unless viewing it from the perspective that they are all kleptocrats and all that matters to them is robbing the country.
The cost of living crisis is a symptom of the neglect that the people of this country have been facing for at least the past decade, I’d say as far back as when they introduced “austerity” when actually that has meant, austerity for the regular working people so the corporation can make back the money they lost.
I went to Canada. COL isn’t hugely improved but my salary is much better here and I still have free healthcare. I get mountains, ocean views, beautiful beaches and the approach to laws/general day to day life is relatively similar to the UK. I’ve now got Permanent Residency here and looking forward to getting citizenship. I have zero regrets moving.
The trick is to earn a first world income in a second/third world country.
Thankfully due to Brexit you only need to buy property over €500k (without mortgage) or have €30k plus 6k per dependent (plus private healthcare) a year passive income and you can easily move to Spain.
People are finally starting to realise that Brexit wasn’t about keeping the foreigners out, it was to trap the existing Brits here forever
Similar articles were written after indyref, Brexit and in the US when Trump won. I highly doubt as many people will leave the UK as have left Ukraine since February. It won’t be millions nor hundreds of thousands.
–Cant afford a car that doesn’t destroy the planet
–Cant afford fuel for a car that does destroy the planet
–Cant afford a studio let alone a house to start a family
–Union is in tatters since Cameron. Bye Northern Ireland, Scotland and who knows maybe Wales.
-Fastest decline and growth in G7 due to how reliant we are on service industry.
-Severly undemocratic FPTP system which only allows red or blue
-Cost of food is too high alongside bills
-Anyone who pays rent is losing half their wages towards another person’s lifetime gap year, because thatcher let them buy a council flat, when all you did was pay the equivalent of £25pw rent back in the day.
-A cabinet run by out of touch millionaires who want to cut taxes during inflation and post pandemic when public services are seeing workers use food banks.
Of course the next generation wants to leave. This isn’t the common man’s Britain. It’s a place for foreign Investors.
I honestly hope people from 20-35 leave and make a massive dent in this country and beg for us to come back. Whilst we have avocado on toast jobs in a country where we don’t have to live with our parents and only dream of living a normal adult life.
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The way this country is going, I couldn’t blame any of them. To many idiots with their head in the sand. The political system needs a massive shake up and quick.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could easily just move to a range of other countries without the need for a visa or any tiresome paperwork….
what’re the countries not affected by the current economic problems?
over 3.4m UK working adults say moving outside of the UK is a long-term goal of theirs= pipe dreams
But then they’d become the immigrants that they hate so much??
Maybe try Botswana I hear its cheap as chips 👍.
I think it’s a case of the grass always being greener. The situation is the same or worse in many other places. Despite recent price rises, our groceries are still among the cheapest in Europe even when adjusted for income.
They will be surprised to learn that the cost of living crisis is not restricted to UK, regardless of what they read in British media. Prices through the roof in places as far away as Australia and US. I daresay Europe is no different, regardless of the fantasies of remainers.
The truth is its really not much better elsewhere people are ignorant of what goes on elsewhere in the world.
Weren’t millions of brits doing this before the cost of living crisis?
Hell, not many countries are free of the current problems the UK has anyway so seems a reach to blame UKs cost of living crisis.
Do it.
Britain is becoming a basket case.
People saying the cost of living crisis is the same abroad. This may be true but not very important. Britain has many other problems, such as housing costs, terrible public transport, and a struggling health service. If you’re under 40 it’s unlikely you’ll retire before 70, probably more like 75, while spending your entire life paying high taxes to pay for boomers. And moaning about how prices have gone up in other countries misses the fact that these rises are largely due to the collapse of the pound after Brexit.
If you’re young make a move soon. You can always return and it will be much harder when you’re older.
I don’t actually blame them, but a lot of these people will either be:
​
1. Romantics who have an idea of moving but may or may not actually do it. That probably relates to: “In fact, over 3.4m UK working adults say moving outside of the UK is **a long-term goal of theirs**” – A long term goal eh? Like I said, romantics lol. Check up on these sprites in 10 years and I suspect a good proportion (2m+?) will have settled down in the UK with a partner and 2.5 kids etc.
2. The ones who are bordering on grotesquely rich and who do rich-person stuff like move to the jurisdictions offering the best tax rates etc. Probably relates to: “while 3 per cent admit they are actively planning to relocate either in the next year or the next two years” – people who aren’t simply romanticising about moving away in the long term but who actually have plans, AND have money/jobs that facilitate such a move.
There will be overlaps, but broadly I think that’s the interpretation.
Lol and I just moved here from Germany. Grass is always greener
Two grand’d get me a *years* rent of a lovely little one bedroom cottage in south Goa or Kerala…six months down there in the dry season from Sept to April then head up the Himalayan foothills to escape the heat..oooh it’s tempting.
I’ve spent the last decade dotting around different Asian countries ( + a couple of working holiday visas in Oz and NZ)
Riding out the financial crash, turned into riding out the Brexit downturn, to riding out Covid, to riding out the current mess we’re in.
If you can do it, and you want to do it, then I highly recommend.
If you have a degree, are 21-35, single, no dependents, there are some really good opportunities in Asia and the Pacific to explore.
There are no perfect countries, and you’re unlikely to find anywhere with a low cost of living that also perfectly aligns with your social and political views.
Frankly I’m past caring. My energy bills and rent come in at less than 20% of my monthly salary. The sun shines year round. I eat cheap, tasty fresh food for more or less every meal. I have a decent work life balance and holidays here are incredibly affordable. A train from one side of the country to the other comes in at £20 or so. What I would a pay for a grotty houseshare in a medium sized UK city, gets me a sizable private flat with a pool, gym and garden access.
That whole grass is greener on the other side thing? Yeah, pretty much.
Anyone living in ‘the south’ of England should be considering moving north. Especially if you work remotely.
I live in Cambs and my house has increased in value by 31% since I bought it in 2016 (if Zoopla is to be believed).
I could get essentially the same house just 100km north for £100k less. Or I could spend the same money and add a bedroom and garden twice the size.
Renting too. A 3-bed semi near me is around £1300 a month. An hour up the road it’s £850.
Loads of Brits have come to Canada in recent years. Many working in the oil field in Alberta driving truck and the like. Good money, too. Strange though—I’ve run into lots of Englishmen, a handful of Irish, but no Scots.
Hah fucking called it in 2020. Not particularly happy to be proven right but can say I am one of these people. What is the point of working hard in the UK any more? You push yourself to rise to an elite level, you get all the experience and qualifications, often at the expense of *years* of your life nevermind tens of thousands in fees… For what exactly? The wages on offer are awful. The places that can even offer you work are absurdly expensive. And then if you ever so much as raise your head above the parapet asking why things are like this you get shot down as if you’re some kind of snobby haughty out of touch egghead. When you can see *just by leaving* you can almost immediately double your wage, if not considerably more (I would be on 3x or more in the US!), while often being given far lighter responsibilities and better hours, where is the appeal in staying put?
If my wife wasn’t so hung up on family, we’d be joining them.
So many young professionals I know just want to leave. Why live somewhere you can’t afford a home, and is quickly descending into being a right wing shithole? Your vote probably won’t matter due to FPTP, either you’re stuck in a safe tory seat, or whacked in with a load of other people who vote labour to dilute their representation down.
We really are looking down the barrel of just becoming poorer and poorer, even as we get more experience. Who wants that?
Hopefully Britain will just be a hollowed out husk of old racist landlords, and migrant labour they hate to look after them. Built your bed, sleep in it.
Will people please stop using this BS ‘cost of living crisis’ phrase that the politicians have had the media run with. It’s inflation. Nothing else. Inflation. It’s a bitch and it’s the politicians and central banks that have fucked it all up.
They’ll blame it on public sector pay rises, wars, energy prices, you name it.
They’ve been printing money and haven’t even been using it to invest in their own infrastructure at the levels that they used to.
It is inflation.
Also.. Getting on a plane to avoid it is pointless. It’s getting worse everywhere.
I’m 25 and haven’t lived in the UK for three years during which I did the teaching English gig. I’ve just moved to Cambodia to start working as a primary teacher while studying to get my (American) teaching licence.
No country is perfect. Corruption is seemingly rife within the halls of politics wherever you go although I can’t comment of the COL crisis in the UK but I do know prices have significantly gone up in Poland while I was there the last 2 years. I don’t think many countries are insulated from inflation at the moment.
No chance of me moving back to the UK. That’s why I’m not bothering with a UK teaching licence alongside the fact my partner is Russian and neither of us want to go through that visa process.
Moving abroad takes time, patience and definitely more money than you think. But it’s enriching, scary and exciting. I’d recommend it even if you don’t have the skillset for your desired job yet. You can work yourself up anywhere.
It’s not the cost of living crisis that makes me want to leave, it’s the way the country is getting closer to fascism and the government makes no sense the way it runs unless viewing it from the perspective that they are all kleptocrats and all that matters to them is robbing the country.
The cost of living crisis is a symptom of the neglect that the people of this country have been facing for at least the past decade, I’d say as far back as when they introduced “austerity” when actually that has meant, austerity for the regular working people so the corporation can make back the money they lost.
I went to Canada. COL isn’t hugely improved but my salary is much better here and I still have free healthcare. I get mountains, ocean views, beautiful beaches and the approach to laws/general day to day life is relatively similar to the UK. I’ve now got Permanent Residency here and looking forward to getting citizenship. I have zero regrets moving.
The trick is to earn a first world income in a second/third world country.
Thankfully due to Brexit you only need to buy property over €500k (without mortgage) or have €30k plus 6k per dependent (plus private healthcare) a year passive income and you can easily move to Spain.
People are finally starting to realise that Brexit wasn’t about keeping the foreigners out, it was to trap the existing Brits here forever
Similar articles were written after indyref, Brexit and in the US when Trump won. I highly doubt as many people will leave the UK as have left Ukraine since February. It won’t be millions nor hundreds of thousands.
–Cant afford a car that doesn’t destroy the planet
–Cant afford fuel for a car that does destroy the planet
–Cant afford a studio let alone a house to start a family
–Union is in tatters since Cameron. Bye Northern Ireland, Scotland and who knows maybe Wales.
-Fastest decline and growth in G7 due to how reliant we are on service industry.
-Severly undemocratic FPTP system which only allows red or blue
-Cost of food is too high alongside bills
-Anyone who pays rent is losing half their wages towards another person’s lifetime gap year, because thatcher let them buy a council flat, when all you did was pay the equivalent of £25pw rent back in the day.
-A cabinet run by out of touch millionaires who want to cut taxes during inflation and post pandemic when public services are seeing workers use food banks.
Of course the next generation wants to leave. This isn’t the common man’s Britain. It’s a place for foreign Investors.
I honestly hope people from 20-35 leave and make a massive dent in this country and beg for us to come back. Whilst we have avocado on toast jobs in a country where we don’t have to live with our parents and only dream of living a normal adult life.