Facing low pay and rising rents, a quarter of young Brits weigh UK exit
Facing low pay and rising rents, a quarter of young Brits weigh UK exit
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
Facing low pay and rising rents, a quarter of young Brits weigh UK exit
Facing low pay and rising rents, a quarter of young Brits weigh UK exit
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Most of the developed world like Australia. New Zealand or Canada actually has a worse housing crisis than the UK
I wonder what might have caused depression of wages and increasing competition for houses. It’s almost like labour supply and housing demand have both grown a lot. Very strange.
Where can we even go? They took away freedom to work in Europe. Unless you have family connections or a highly skilled job, you aren’t going anywhere. Housing crisis is worse in some places too.
Then they will find out it’s an epidemic across the developed world.
It’s almost like we operate under a global economic system that prioritises capital growth for the largest multinationals.
Editing to add that governments have also outsourced their services and sold off a lot of assets in pursuit of economic growth which has left them beholden to these large multinationals.
Britan is an amazing country as long as your not British
Grass is always greener mentality among the youth. It’s always been there. Social media and the seemingly constant bad news about the UK makes it appear the rest of the developed world is doing better has increased it.
But where do you go?
Other English-speaking countries in the developed world actually have strict immigration standards and are off-limits for most expats, except for Ireland (under the Good Friday Agreement.)
We kicked ourselves out of the European Union because our countrymen and right-wing press complained so hard about Eastern European immigration that we ended up with Brexit, so Mainland Europe is mostly off-limits too.
The only places you could realistically go are in Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia, and that’s if you’re willing to do TEFL.
Its almost as if the rich keep hoarding all the wealth and everyone’s fights for scraps while blaming each other.
And certain people profit of that.
And they will make the most of the EU freedom of movement, being able to relocate to another EU country without a visa. Oh, wait…
I moved to the UK from Ireland a few years ago, things arnt perfect but I like it here.
Foreigners want to immigrate while native Brits want to emigrate. Replacement theory is real.
So Brits want to leave the country for the same reason others enter the country.
I wonder if they will receive the same reception abroad
And they will still keep voting for some crook who promised to” stop the boats”.
I have left the UK for Hong Kong. My salary here is higher than it was in London, my company covers accommodation, and I’m paying on average about 10% in tax. Life here is good and I can accumulate wealth.
Hong Kong is also incredibly safe – there are very few illegal migrants and no refugees. 90% of the population are Chinese, so it is still a homogeneous high trust society.
Can’t recommend it enough, I left the UK three years ago as a 22 year old graduate and I am earning around 1.8x what I would be earning in an equivalent role in the UK with little to no difference in cost of living.
It’s easy to uproot your life and go live in a semi developed country
Absolutely they should flee the UK. It doesn’t make sense whats happening at the moment.
And go where? They can’t all become estate agents in Dubai.
Well don’t go to Canada, just spent 10 years there and it’s worse. Wouldn’t wanna live in America. Australia is pretty far away. If you can speak the language maybe Europe would work but pretty much everyone I meet these days from other countries are complaining about the same thing
I could buy and sort a house in Portugal for less than 100k….
Whilst working remotely for a UK company… Much easier than it used to be. I can see the reason, UK people need better wages when the house prices are so insane…
Nothing will change if the ultra rich aren’t taxed, and we are ruled by them so good luck.
This has been said since I was a youth, the UK is failing, move to USA / AU / Canada / Europe / Wherever. Brexit didn’t help (I mean, really, really didn’t fucking help) but this place is still a good place to live.
We are without a doubt the music capital of the world, we have reams of culture, the people are by-and-large nice (as long as they aren’t Social Media brainrotted or fallen into the conspiracy hole) and the weather, thank fuck, is temperate.
The main issue I’ve always found is people focus too hard on the ££ and how much £££ they can make, it’s almost always the first thing that _ever_ comes up in conversation and it’s almost always from those with eyes set on London. There’s plenty enough other cities out there booming.
Personally? I love it. People are constantly doom & gloom but I’ve come to understand that most people chat absolute fucking shite (especially online).
You can see how deeply entrenched ideology is on this platform. You read any of the top comments on most posts and it’s like you’re attending a junior communist league inauguration.
Predicament: educated British people are leaving the country.
Answer: capitalism
Predicament: knife crime
Answer: capitalism
Have my own home, but am still due to be leaving the UK in early 2026. The optimism has faded from the country. Decades of poor governance. No brave pioneering leaders to fix them.
I have no idea how people who are in their early 20’s are managing it. I’m in an incredibly fortunate financial position and it’s still far from comfortable.
Just wait till they find out that their passports aren’t worth shit, because the older generation fucked them out of EU citizenship.