Il numero di cittadini britannici che lasciano il Regno Unito è significativamente più alto di quanto si pensasse in precedenza
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di StGuthlac2025
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My uncle was one of those who left the UK, he went to retire in Spain and cited his reason for leaving being that there was too many immigrants here
Great news for the government, that’ll bring net migration down (and mask the number of people we let in).
The real figure we need to understand is how many of those worked in the NHS. Both the Tories and Labour love to pretend that the NHS is the only gig in town, and so doctors, nurses, AHP etc can complain as much as they want, they don’t have a choice.
Only they do… and when it is a choice that has as big a barrier as moving country, it says that something is seriously wrong with the current state of play.
I feel like we really need to see a demographic breakdown here for these numbers to be useful? How many of these are low paid workers leaving to enjoy a higher standard of living? How many of these are the high value professionals we desperately need to enable and drive growth (doctors, scientists, finance experts, etc) who are leaving because the standard of living dropped? How many are ‘the rich’ taking their wealth away in order to avoid paying their share of tax?
On its own this isn’t really useful information. If we knew, for example, that the professional class is leaving due to living standards and the rich are not that might be a great justification for using wealth taxes on the rich to improve living standards, for example.
About half my friend group over the last 10 years have moved abroad. Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong.. they’re all doing far better now and it wont be long before I’m joining them I think.
I”ve seen a massive increase personally in a general sentimemt towards exiting the UK for a myriad of reasons.
I’ve spent my entire adult life going from one financial crash to another to a global pandemic to cost of living crisis, fucked wages and a fucked job market. I’m tired, fed up, the weather isn’t helping and I want out.
It’s because it’s a bit shit here . It’s cold . It rains all the time and it costs an arm and leg for a bloody pint anywhere that isn’t a small village pub at this point .
> The number of British nationals who left the UK in the year ending December 2024 was 257,000, compared with the previous estimate of just 77,000.
how on earth were they so far off.
British emigration is actually really high. Like as a proportion of the population it must be huge. Particularly people in their 20s-30s.
I left To Portugal for a few years and came back and now Im debating leaving again. Everything is too expensive, everyone is stressed and depressed, the new rise of all these flaggots is appalling and the long, cold and dark winters are horrible.
I would absolutely leave of my employer allowed complete remote work. If you’re a high earner, say 100k, I don’t think you’d feel like much of one if you’re in London. Nevermind people like me who aren’t close to that.
Are we really surprised? Cost of living has risen higher and higher while wages haven’t meaningfully increased in 20+ years. Meanwhile I left the UK as a fresh graduate already earning a salary that would have taken me 15 to 20 years to reach working in UK and that’s just talking about the financial benefits of moving.
I’m seriously considering a move to Ireland, especially if we get a Farage government.
This might be a little tin foil (or not) but my wife and I are in a same sex relationship and we plan on having a child next year or the year after. If Reform get into government we are concerned about the legitimacy of our marriage and our parental responsibility, so we’ve been looking at the possibility of moving to Canada or The Netherlands on work VISAs (we are a social worker and nurse) at least temporarily. We know that the far right is everywhere, but it feels like it’s going to get a bit scary here.
I know at least 4 doctors and 6 trans women who’ve left, ironically they all listed the NHS as a big part of it
I heard a lady on the radio talking about how the government were planning to give x amount of money to illegal immigrant to encourage them to leave. She said it was roughly the same amount as her gas bill which she obviously has to pay for herself.
Who wouldn’t want to move somewhere warmer when the winter months here are miserable, it’s too expensive to heat your house and the government seem bent on dishing out money to people who shouldn’t be entitled to it.
A state dedicated to propping up pensioners and telling the young to fuck off? Where politics is all about jumping from scapegoat to scapegoat, and where suggesting that a better life is possible is met with derision? We are one of the world’s largest economies yet struggle to provide the basics for everyone, rather instead sacrificing ourselves to prop up the old and the rich.
It used to be that the US, aus or Canada offered better pay, but the UK offered a better quality of life and more robust social contract. That’s no longer the case.
Thatchers “there is no such thing as a society” is finally coming to roost.
If it was not for my disabilities and reliance on the NHS I would have been gone long ago
Unsurprising given how much of a hell hole the place has become. Looking forward to moving away as soon as i’m able too tbh. Just feels like there’s no positive hope for the place in the coming years.
Yep. I left after realising that teaching in the UK was making me suicidal.
I love teaching, but kids and parents fighting me, low salary, 3 hours of unpaid work every single day and just the general miserableness of the country made me leave. Now, I’ve never been happier than I am right now.
Unless you have a boat load of money, everyone doing this will have a bad time. Other countries have their own problems and it’ll only be a matter of time where you feel like you’re stuck again.