Would you consider emigrating if the recession gets really bad here in the UK?

worrypants

It is very very diificult and stressful to emigrate to truely wonderous lands and about 90% of the dreamers who say they are going would not be let in in a million years!!

thankfully so as this is the very reason why these places are so great they are not full of chavvy Brits hence they are very appealing!

lostinrates

Masomnia wrote: »

This country's unique identity (which I don't believe is being eroded as fast as so many pessimists would have us believe) its culture, values, history, people etc. will always be more important to me than money and fluctations in exchange markets. .....

I love all the things you list. I lik to think w would respct all of that. Then I saw things like what happned whn they revamped Spittalfields Market. .

kennyboy66_2

mr_jetlag wrote: »

. ONe of them made the comment that "The UK is talking itself to death" and the pessimism is really getting to her.

We seem to swing between boasting and depression. I know why the Aussies call us "whingeing poms" - because we are.
Maybe its the climate but we seem to actually enjoy introspection and moaning and moaning and moaning.
"its all the governments fault", "its all the fatcats fault", "its the amateur BTL fault". Moan, moan, moan.

Times are bad, they will get worse, but I seriously doubt if it will be back to the strike ridden, inefficient 70's or the chronic unemployment that the North, Scotland and South Wales suffered in the early 80's.

Pssst

penguine wrote: »

Exchange rates matter if you're using savings (in pounds) to fund settling into your new country.

I've emigrated once already (from the US to the UK). I would be very unlikely to emigrate now because I don't want to go through that all over again. You really do leave most of your old life behind and it's hard to imagine what that's like -- losing all the little interconnections and familiar things about your old life -- until you've done it.

However, if things did start looking apocalyptic (not just the economy but the environment as well -- I do believe in manmade global warming) we might reconsider.

Apologies-I'm joining this conversation a little late in the day.

You chose to leave the USA? Land of big open spaces,constantly varying states,one of the greatest countries of the world to come live in the UK? Wow

lynzpower

lostinrates wrote: »

I love all the things you list. I lik to think w would respct all of that. Then I saw things like what happned whn they revamped Spittalfields Market. .

just wat for them to bulldoze soho

a girl I know has lost her job in one of the clubs there due to the demolition of soho with the crossrail expansion

olly300

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It really does depend what the problems are, though.

Is English OK working across Rurope in your area, or are you fluent in various languages?

For most IT people speaking English only is OK at work.

However if you are not willing to learn another language at all then you will be isolated socially particularly if you work in a country where people don't mix with their work colleagues outside work.

I'm actually at my third firm in the UK where speaking another European language is useful so as I've started at the right time of the academic year for once I'm putting the effort in to learning a language properly.

neverdespairgirl

olly300 wrote: »

I'm actually at my third firm in the UK where speaking another European language is useful so as I've started at the right time of the academic year for once I'm putting the effort in to learning a language properly.

What language are you learning?

Generali

kennyboy66 wrote: »

We seem to swing between boasting and depression. I know why the Aussies call us "whingeing poms" - because we are.
Maybe its the climate but we seem to actually enjoy introspection and moaning and moaning and moaning.
"its all the governments fault", "its all the fatcats fault", "its the amateur BTL fault". Moan, moan, moan.

Times are bad, they will get worse, but I seriously doubt if it will be back to the strike ridden, inefficient 70's or the chronic unemployment that the North, Scotland and South Wales suffered in the early 80's.

The whinging Pom thing came from 2 specific complaints that Ten Pound Poms had - that the weather was too hot and that the meat wasn't good quality (often because butchers were trying rip off new arrivals).

I think a big problem that Britain/British has is that they don't like their own culture. Aussies revel in drinking a cold beer as a sun-downer or going to the beach as a part of their Aussie-ness. In France, eating a good meal with a bottle of Bordeaux is in part a celebration of Frenchness (as well as being a very pleasant way to spend an evening).

In Britain you get these hand-wringing articles in the papers about how terrible it is that everyone goes down the pub and gets drunk when that's clearly a part of British culture and has been for centuries.

The British thing about blaming everyone else for your difficulties is just a part of human nature. Clearly it was shown at it's most extreme in Nazi Germany with the Jews carrying the can for Germany's woes in the worst possible way but you also see it all the time with US politicians blaming the decline of US industry on 'dumping' by Japanese and Chinese companies for example.

jinkssick

Was born abroad but have lived a long time here, theres many things I love but decided to base my thoughts on what I hate.

Things I hate:
-The lack of culture
-The lack of a get up and dance culture, people too afraid to express their feelings and only seem to come out of their shells at family parties or Xmas
-The lack of 'nice food', the staple diet is potato and most meals revolve around it
-The weather, oh the weather
-The need to own the newest latest gadgets or phones
-the billions that seem to live of state handouts, getting £166.74 a week for around 10 or 12 different reasons.
-The hoodie culture, the youth that do not want to educate and would rather follow their parents on these state hands outs
-Crime is getting more frequent and a lot more violent
-Prices are sky rocketing and it seems things dont improve, including transport

dkmax_2

drc wrote: »

I'm wondering if a lot of people are going to be leaving the UK in the next few years?

A quarter of a million people leave every year. If it wasn't for them leaving the net population growth would be horrendous so I suppose we that remain should be thankful.