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Why are so many Brits leaving the country?
2006-12-19
Read and weep. A sample:
Why?
Having to leave home in the dark at 6 a.m. sit in traffic for 2 hours, pay £60 to fill up the car, work for 9 hours, sit in traffic for 2 hours, get home in the dark.
Getting your wages at the end of the month and giving more than a third of it back. Trying to get on in life, pay more back.
Having to move 40 miles away from where you were born just to afford a house.
Watching your mates in London send their kids to school where the first language is not English!
Watching people telling you that you can't fly your own country's flag, celebrate Christmas or even put a nativitiy scene in a shop window for fear of offending someone else.
Not letting your daughter out to play for fear of some pervert taking her from you.
Watching my own mother still work at 70 years old because she cannot afford to stop working.
Being held up at knife and gunpoint in my own place of work for £50 petty cash.
Realising that by the time I retire I would be 75 and then the Government would probably give me £50 a week for the 55 years or so of tax and national insurance I had paid.
Realising that where I grew up in South East London, there are no Londoners left under 40 years old.
Having to pay over £40 to watch my beloved team play footy.
Watching the Government suck the life out of the country and hand it over to European politically correct freeloaders.
You know what I could go on for hours but can't be bothered.
I left England 18 months ago and whilst settling in a new country is not easy all I have to worry about is getting on and supporting my family instead of half the population. Do it, do it now - you won't regret it.
These comments go on for 24 pages.
Posted by:Seafarious

#13  That would be before MY lifetime.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-12-19 16:23  

#12  #9 Sea: "ICE is in shambles... right now."

When were they ever not (at least in our lifetimes)?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-12-19 14:24  

#11  Blair has put multi culturism ahead of British identify.

Like America the Cities are being turned into ghettos where the White middle class flee the country/heads for the rural countryside(whats left of it?!!!) E.g 1 in 3 Londoners are born abroad!!!!!!

I am moving house to a Town 65 miles outside London.The London i grew up in has changed to the Welfare state of Europe/Africa/Asia etc

Thanks Blair!!!!
Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608   2006-12-19 14:14  

#10  My antipodean brethren will cater for my every needs (which are pretty simple)

:)
Posted by: MacNails   2006-12-19 13:55  

#9  A cursory look thru the comments shows most Brits expatriating to Oz or New Zealand, a few to Spain and France, though they won't really escape the taxes/immigration issues anywhere in the EU. The US is an obvious choice but a difficult one, since US immigration policies are schizophrenic at best and ICE is in shambles... right now.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-12-19 12:17  

#8  U.S cities have systematically driven away their taxbase in a very similar fashion in the last 25 years. Cincinnati is a good example, drive through the city proper and see whats left. No more German and Irish communities, the only stores left are tiendas and liquor stores. And if you arent holding a 40-ouncer you will get looks like you are from another planet. And the city can't figure out why they don't have any money, or what to do about it.
Posted by: bigim-ky   2006-12-19 11:15  

#7  #2 MacNails - coming here?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-12-19 11:15  

#6  "Why are so many Brits leaving the country?"

They see the handwriting on the wall?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-12-19 11:14  

#5  Nope , not any better really , although rural southern Ireland is about attractive as it gets , but you need to be self suffient in the first place :)
Posted by: MacNails   2006-12-19 10:42  

#4  Nope
Posted by: Uleanter Ebbinenter1449   2006-12-19 09:47  

#3  MacNails:

Is it any better in the North, the Lake District, that area?
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-12-19 08:01  

#2  Pretty much sums it up .

Been sold down the river ... Every day I get up and count down the months till I leave
Posted by: MacNails   2006-12-19 07:58  

#1  If you ran comments on why people are flocking out of the Northeast US you'd get an essentially identical set of responses.
Posted by: no mo uro   2006-12-19 06:21  

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