Would you advise your kids to emigrate?

lostinrates

chucky wrote: »

there are many worse places to live in than the UK.

there are also better places too it depends what you want and are looking for - quality of life, future opportunities, education, weather etc...

Chucky, are you sitting down? I agree, absolutely.

If we have children DH and I will do everything we can to give them the gifts we recieved from our parents of being comfortable and interested in other cultures and to be multiligual. Then I would suggest they live where is best for them and their lives. We have ben lucky to be born into multicultural families, and even luckier that those failies are comparitively cosopolitan as well as diverse and its an advantage pretty much however you look at it.

There is no question for us that UK would be our home of choice, but DH has overseas offers for next year on the table, and frankly the only thing making this truely undesirable is our little menagerie.

Even in hard times in hard places one can live a happy life: but the grass is greener can be a bitter pill. If you are able to have choices you can choice the grass you want to graze on: and perhaps this in itself helps keep one a little more fulfilled a little lessscared of changes at home maybe, although I've seen the exact opposite happen with people not wanting ''home'' to move forward at all, but thats a different type of living elsewhere if you ask me.

GDB2222, if I were advising a child I'd ask the wher they want to be/to go, not where they want to get away from, and what they want to do and why.

davetrousers

michaels wrote: »

Anyone know
What the NHS costs per head per annum
The typical monthly family health premium in the US?

Good Idea,

But you're not necessarily comparing like with like, it would need to be per head per annum for both OR cost per family per month for both.

lostinrates

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

National parks.

LOL, tell that to New Foresters atm!

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

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GDB2222, if I were advising a child I'd ask the wher they want to be/to go, not where they want to get away from, and what they want to do and why.

good point, and I think this is a majour one. Educate your kids etc. but never install your fears.
When it comes to leaving or not your kids will make their own mind up it will be their life.

It is like asking should I make my children scared of spiders becauseyou are. You are fearfull of the country going down the pan, it does not mean your children need to share that fear.

I remember the cold war as a child that was something to fear, how many 30 somthings now actualy thought they would get to 30.

Things work out, so installing fears of the future is irrational especialy things you can't change.

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Average spend per person in USA on health - US$ 6103 (source http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs319/en/index.html)

Average spend per person of NHS - (2004) - £1449 (source: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bUkvTFLcdHQC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=annual+spend++NHS+per+person&source=bl&ots=OP3FNnP48X&sig=xdXX9BLoXKauRa28KPdvxcHQ4j4&hl=en&ei=joBoSt35NJewtgfcsejDCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1)

I don't even need to convert currencies to show that healthcare in the USA is far more expensive than the UK

lostinrates

Really2 wrote: »

Things work out, so installing fears of the future is irrational especialy things you can't change.

But you can give the tools to maximise their choices should your fears come true without instilling upon them that the sky will/might fall!

inspector_monkfish

lostinrates wrote: »

Chucky, are you sitting down? I agree, absolutely.

If we have children DH and I will do everything we can to give them the gifts we recieved from our parents of being comfortable and interested in other cultures and to be multiligual. Then I would suggest they live where is best for them and their lives. We have ben lucky to be born into multicultural families, and even luckier that those failies are comparitively cosopolitan as well as diverse and its an advantage pretty much however you look at it.

There is no question for us that UK would be our home of choice, but DH has overseas offers for next year on the table, and frankly the only thing making this truely undesirable is our little menagerie.

Even in hard times in hard places one can live a happy life: but the grass is greener can be a bitter pill. If you are able to have choices you can choice the grass you want to graze on: and perhaps this in itself helps keep one a little more fulfilled a little lessscared of changes at home maybe, although I've seen the exact opposite happen with people not wanting ''home'' to move forward at all, but thats a different type of living elsewhere if you ask me.

GDB2222, if I were advising a child I'd ask the wher they want to be/to go, not where they want to get away from, and what they want to do and why.

how many glasses of wine have you had today ??

lostinrates

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

how many glasses of wine have you had today ??

None, and only three coffees.

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

But you can give the tools to maximise their choices should your fears come true without instilling upon them that the sky will/might fall!

That is why I said

Really2 wrote: »

Educate your kids etc. but never install your fears.

You can show them the fiscal policy of the goverment but we then can't tell them how it will effect the future or advise them to leave.:eek:

We just don't know the future that is why I thought the cold war was a good example.

inspector_monkfish

lostinrates wrote: »

None, and only three coffees.

oh ok...