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

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  • penguine
    penguine Posts: 1,101 Forumite
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    neas wrote: »
    i always thought that.. england is pretty cold normally... if global warming causes rises things will be bad but not as bad as places that are typically warm already - Australia, florida etc.

    Actually it's really global climate change that's the fear -- not just things getting warmer. So England is likely to be at greater risk of flooding.
  • vivatifosi
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    As a kid my parents emigrated with my brother and I as small children as £10 poms. They weren't wealthy, weren't well educated and had to work really hard to establish a new life. Racism was endemic (not particularly from Australians but from other people also trying to make a new life at the bottom of the food chain), they had to be willing to turn their hand to anything and the new state wasn't exactly offering a safety net, although that's not a bad thing. In the end we moved back to the UK in the 1970s, leaving half of the extended family in Australia, when my Mum fell very ill.

    Still in the 1970s, my next door neighbours decided to move overseas for a better life. Having grown up in a council house they heard that if they moved to the African country of Rhodesia they could move from working in a factory to having servants and swallowed that story without thinking how it would play out hook line and sinker. We never heard from them again.

    Since then many of my friends have gone off round the world and worked abroad without any problems. Most of those do so with three advantages my parents never had: 1 - money, 2 - education, 3 - specialist skills. Its also something that DH and I have looked to do at various stages.

    Emigrating when the economy is on the up, you are well qualified, have savings and have a skill people want is relatively easy. Emigrating in a downturn when you are on the margins and without skills that set you apart or large savings will be hard - much like it is for many who come to this country to try and do the same and start at the bottom.
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  • penguine wrote: »
    Actually it's really global climate change that's the fear -- not just things getting warmer. So England is likely to be at greater risk of flooding.

    I wouldn't worry too much about global warming. Onces the Earths magnetic field dies off, the atmosphere will dissapear and then there will be something to worry about.
  • Generali
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    Well I've made the leap. It helps that I've spent a couple of months here before and it's a big plus that Mrs Generali is an Aussie so assimilation is much easier as I've avoided the temptation to assume that Australia is sort of a big version of the Isle of Wight with nice weather, dodgy accents and colder beer.

    It helps a lot that I have a decent CV (despite the description of me on here the other day as a 'failed banker'!) and also that if it comes to it, I'll start at the bottom again and carve out a new niche for myself. I have quite a good mentality when it comes to that sort of thing.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    I wouldn't worry too much about global warming. Onces the Earths magnetic field dies off, the atmosphere will dissapear and then there will be something to worry about.

    Not for long though!
  • penguine
    penguine Posts: 1,101 Forumite
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    I wouldn't worry too much about global warming. Onces the Earths magnetic field dies off, the atmosphere will dissapear and then there will be something to worry about.

    When's that meant to be happening? And if I buy myself a big magnet will I be OK?
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    My parents moved to new countries regularly for my dad's work when I was kid, moving was a regular occurance, as was learning local dialects and what was acptable or not. My mother and older sister are not UK born, so perhaps that helps with my outlook.

    DH's parents also worked internationally, based in Italy and UK mainly, but also US and ocasional spurts in other places. So w are both in England 'by choice' as wll as entitlement.

    For us emmigrating doesn't necessarily mean leaving family behind, possibly moving nearer to DH's. There a sizable minority of people with similar experienc or dual nationality for who this isn't th leap it would be for others.

    ETA: regular contributers demonstrate this spread, lots of us have connections, or in laws connections, elsewhere.
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    I'm almost certainly going over to Australia within the next 4 years as my daughter is living their. 4 years are when my investments are due, however I can take them out within 4-6 weeks if was needed.

    As for a comment further up asking whether all countries are affected by the current situation, I'm sure they are, however whilst Clown was spending like no tomorrow in the boom time, Australia was paying down their debt, in fact I believe at this time they are in surplus. They truely are in a position to borrow to help out their citizens.

    This country is in for severe problems in the future, that I'm not sure it will recover from. We have borrowed, publicly and personally to the point of near bankruptcy, the last 11 years have been built on debt which the government are now countering by borrowing even more...... this will end in disaster for sure.

    My overheads are low at the moment and I have a good job that pays well, if either of these things change, I will cash in my investments and be gone, I have $100000 aussie dollars at the given exchange rate and hope to add to this, however if I can't it's enough to get me started there.
  • If all of the prudent, debt-free, taxpaying people were to leave...

    ?
  • I have visited a number of countries and nowhere beats good 'ole Blighty. I don't care how bad it gets. This is my home and this is where I intend to stay.
    There is no tomorrow...
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