Because it’s fucking shit for them and it’s not all that hard to earn an online income that’s the same as a shitty UK salary and you can make it go much further abroad and have better food, weather, etc
doesnotlikecricket on
I moved away in 2012 and have never looked back. I wish I could see my family more of course. And I absolutely love coming back to visit.
But as a teacher I make as much in Shanghai as an early career headteacher in the UK. For half the work of a new teacher in the UK.
In my class when I qualified back home, a third of the class would struggle to write their name or the objective. I’d have to print out the objective and help them stick it in. Here, students read several years above their grade level.
Additionally I get genuine respect from the parents and like my job.
I also cannot stand the weather in the UK, it genuinely makes me depressed.
ckdx_ on
I left this year. The answer was simple: salary and for the experience. Quality of life has changed but is generally better.
draxenato on
Because the older people ruined it for the younger people.
Msink on
Wages are shit and they have better opportunities abroad.
SeoulGalmegi on
For a generally better quality of life.
Are there things about the UK I miss tremendously? Absolutely. Am I overall more satisfied with my life than I’d be back home? I think so.
littlechefdoughnuts on
Because I got a 50% pay rise to leave. Australia is like Britain on easy mode.
MattDubh on
Because its better. Fewer dour brits, less racism, warmer weather, fewer politicians you’d like to send to Dignitas, cult of celebrity/royalty/other pish is easier to ignore, the ability to see a doctor the same day you need to, chemo starting within three days of a cancer diagnosis, etc.
The list is endless.
No_Holiday_9875 on
4x my salary, was being increasingly “othered” in the UK.
I miss family tremendously though.
CabinetAware6686 on
I’m a teacher of 16 years. Left the UK last year with my wife and daughter to live in Bangkok. (Wife also a teacher) I rent my UK house out, I get a relative salary bump of about 35% on what I was earning in the UK as does my wife. All our accommodation is paid for by the school. We have a maid, and an on call babysitter. Pre build expat community where we live. Honestly I dong think we can ever go back. No need to worry about pupil behaviour, not much in the way of standardised tests, I would say I have half the stress of the UK, 30% less workload.. vibrant and cheap travel destinations in SEA ..
dDpNh on
Gee, I wonder why all these people are moving somewhere that they’re paid more, have a lower cost of living, have the ability to afford housing whilst still having disposable income, and with nicer weather.
Why don’t they stay in a country where it’s mathematically impossible for them to retire before they’re 90 and need to scan their face to have a wank? Truly a mystery.
InFromTheOutside on
Anyone who needs to seriously ask this question cannot even aspire to be considered an idiot. Take an honest look at this country. Why would anyone who could leave want to stay here, especially if they are young?
GeordieJumpers87 on
Left over 6 years ago.
I make more than double, live in the sun for most of the year and have a way better work life balance
Coming back to scrape ice off my car each morning for half the salary and striving for two weeks holiday a year doesn’t sound appealing…
weneedstrongerglue on
Britain has spent decades making things worse for young people, gutting public services, and removing opportunities. All while giving handouts to the rich, and brown nosing pensioners. Now Britain has the audacity to act shocked when young people are unhappy and want to leave.
ThunderDU on
As an Australian the Brits that come here seem to think it’s depressing and backwards and cold and gloomy over there
doc1442 on
I left in 2021. To match a lot of the posts here, I did for for a) a job I really liked and b) a huge quality of life upgrade.
However, in contrary to many, I did not do it for a cheaper tax bill or “the weather”.
draxenato on
I’m not a young ‘un, but I saw the writing on the wall after banks crashed in ’08. And then I watched, with horror, the government and media reactions to the 2010 riots. Applied to emigrate to Canada and left in 2012.
I miss almost everything about home, but the sad fact is, that after the coffin dodgers voted for Brexit, the country I left in 2012 simply doesn’t exist anymore.
AdHot6995 on
Quality of life in the UK is worse, opportunities less, for the majority of people they will do much better moving abroad. Our country is dying slowly but our politicians keep on focusing on the wrong things.
mayasux on
Moved to Canada in 2019. Canada has a lot of issues of it’s own, but life felt so stagnant and dour in the UK.
It’s also much better and safer for me as a trans person. It was bad when I left, instead of progressing it got worse.
Outside-Dig-5464 on
We left in 2017 for Australia following the outcome of the referendum. So glad we did.
Healthcare, salary, safety, cost of living, housing, weather. So much better. But I do still miss the UK.
k0ala_ on
But I don’t get how these people just move abroad? A working holiday is all good and stuff but you almost always have to come back, so how are these people able to stay working abroad
miggins1610 on
My whole life i wanted to leave pretty much.
Why would I stay with crap wages and no life outside of work
Never felt an affinity for the UK at all
Left at 25, seeing the world and then going to work in Aus with double the pay for a few years and try settle in NZ
Its not an easy life still I’m sure, but way better than the UK. After 15 months out of the UK I still dont give a rat’s arse about it and god forbid I’m forced to come back for some reason
Too miserable lol
mrafinch on
Better pay and living conditions.
If I wanted to earn nothing and live in overpriced, freezing, shit houses that are crumbling due to being there for over 160 years then I’d have stayed.
jin_yangFight on
I moved abroad because quality of life in the UK is becoming really poor, It’s becoming ridicoulous expensive, and the job market is terrible.
The average workers life has become so shit with the cost of living crisis that isn’t as bad in other countries as the UK.
I live in Asia now and my quality of life is much much better, its safer, I can afford to eat out every meal, job market is much better, I have more disposable income, just about everything is better even the weather its sunny every day.
Moving back to the UK would actively mean going back to living a worse life in a worse country.
naixi123 on
Because as much as I love the UK, I love myself more.
I spent my final year at university in the UK applying for any job under the sun from grad schemes to minimum wage shop jobs. I got offered one job. A bank’s grad scheme liked me but they had no space on the London scheme – had me interview for the same role in Poland.
I got offered a Master’s Degree scholarship in Asia. I took it and walked out of my degree into one of the biggest companies on the planet, working in a job I would have no hopes of getting in the UK. I live in one of the most fun and biggest cities in the world and enjoy an amazing standard of living.
I miss my family but I cannot give up my life for £25k if I am lucky, living with my parents in a small village because I cannot afford to move to a bigger city that will not pay me enough to live alone, anyway.
Turgon19 on
It’s depressing going from living in other countries to the UK. The standard of living is just far lower here in tbe UK. The weather is horrible, the food isnt great, nothing works, its impossible to get ahead, there’s no optimism in the country, and there’s absolutely nothing to do in the north.
It’s been the same with every other expat I’ve met in those countries. None of them have enjoyed going back even for a holiday.
If you have the chance to secure a bright future for yourself in a happier place with great weather, just take it
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Because it’s fucking shit for them and it’s not all that hard to earn an online income that’s the same as a shitty UK salary and you can make it go much further abroad and have better food, weather, etc
I moved away in 2012 and have never looked back. I wish I could see my family more of course. And I absolutely love coming back to visit.
But as a teacher I make as much in Shanghai as an early career headteacher in the UK. For half the work of a new teacher in the UK.
In my class when I qualified back home, a third of the class would struggle to write their name or the objective. I’d have to print out the objective and help them stick it in. Here, students read several years above their grade level.
Additionally I get genuine respect from the parents and like my job.
I also cannot stand the weather in the UK, it genuinely makes me depressed.
I left this year. The answer was simple: salary and for the experience. Quality of life has changed but is generally better.
Because the older people ruined it for the younger people.
Wages are shit and they have better opportunities abroad.
For a generally better quality of life.
Are there things about the UK I miss tremendously? Absolutely. Am I overall more satisfied with my life than I’d be back home? I think so.
Because I got a 50% pay rise to leave. Australia is like Britain on easy mode.
Because its better. Fewer dour brits, less racism, warmer weather, fewer politicians you’d like to send to Dignitas, cult of celebrity/royalty/other pish is easier to ignore, the ability to see a doctor the same day you need to, chemo starting within three days of a cancer diagnosis, etc.
The list is endless.
4x my salary, was being increasingly “othered” in the UK.
I miss family tremendously though.
I’m a teacher of 16 years. Left the UK last year with my wife and daughter to live in Bangkok. (Wife also a teacher) I rent my UK house out, I get a relative salary bump of about 35% on what I was earning in the UK as does my wife. All our accommodation is paid for by the school. We have a maid, and an on call babysitter. Pre build expat community where we live. Honestly I dong think we can ever go back. No need to worry about pupil behaviour, not much in the way of standardised tests, I would say I have half the stress of the UK, 30% less workload.. vibrant and cheap travel destinations in SEA ..
Gee, I wonder why all these people are moving somewhere that they’re paid more, have a lower cost of living, have the ability to afford housing whilst still having disposable income, and with nicer weather.
Why don’t they stay in a country where it’s mathematically impossible for them to retire before they’re 90 and need to scan their face to have a wank? Truly a mystery.
Anyone who needs to seriously ask this question cannot even aspire to be considered an idiot. Take an honest look at this country. Why would anyone who could leave want to stay here, especially if they are young?
Left over 6 years ago.
I make more than double, live in the sun for most of the year and have a way better work life balance
Coming back to scrape ice off my car each morning for half the salary and striving for two weeks holiday a year doesn’t sound appealing…
Britain has spent decades making things worse for young people, gutting public services, and removing opportunities. All while giving handouts to the rich, and brown nosing pensioners. Now Britain has the audacity to act shocked when young people are unhappy and want to leave.
As an Australian the Brits that come here seem to think it’s depressing and backwards and cold and gloomy over there
I left in 2021. To match a lot of the posts here, I did for for a) a job I really liked and b) a huge quality of life upgrade.
However, in contrary to many, I did not do it for a cheaper tax bill or “the weather”.
I’m not a young ‘un, but I saw the writing on the wall after banks crashed in ’08. And then I watched, with horror, the government and media reactions to the 2010 riots. Applied to emigrate to Canada and left in 2012.
I miss almost everything about home, but the sad fact is, that after the coffin dodgers voted for Brexit, the country I left in 2012 simply doesn’t exist anymore.
Quality of life in the UK is worse, opportunities less, for the majority of people they will do much better moving abroad. Our country is dying slowly but our politicians keep on focusing on the wrong things.
Moved to Canada in 2019. Canada has a lot of issues of it’s own, but life felt so stagnant and dour in the UK.
It’s also much better and safer for me as a trans person. It was bad when I left, instead of progressing it got worse.
We left in 2017 for Australia following the outcome of the referendum. So glad we did.
Healthcare, salary, safety, cost of living, housing, weather. So much better. But I do still miss the UK.
But I don’t get how these people just move abroad? A working holiday is all good and stuff but you almost always have to come back, so how are these people able to stay working abroad
My whole life i wanted to leave pretty much.
Why would I stay with crap wages and no life outside of work
Never felt an affinity for the UK at all
Left at 25, seeing the world and then going to work in Aus with double the pay for a few years and try settle in NZ
Its not an easy life still I’m sure, but way better than the UK. After 15 months out of the UK I still dont give a rat’s arse about it and god forbid I’m forced to come back for some reason
Too miserable lol
Better pay and living conditions.
If I wanted to earn nothing and live in overpriced, freezing, shit houses that are crumbling due to being there for over 160 years then I’d have stayed.
I moved abroad because quality of life in the UK is becoming really poor, It’s becoming ridicoulous expensive, and the job market is terrible.
The average workers life has become so shit with the cost of living crisis that isn’t as bad in other countries as the UK.
I live in Asia now and my quality of life is much much better, its safer, I can afford to eat out every meal, job market is much better, I have more disposable income, just about everything is better even the weather its sunny every day.
Moving back to the UK would actively mean going back to living a worse life in a worse country.
Because as much as I love the UK, I love myself more.
I spent my final year at university in the UK applying for any job under the sun from grad schemes to minimum wage shop jobs. I got offered one job. A bank’s grad scheme liked me but they had no space on the London scheme – had me interview for the same role in Poland.
I got offered a Master’s Degree scholarship in Asia. I took it and walked out of my degree into one of the biggest companies on the planet, working in a job I would have no hopes of getting in the UK. I live in one of the most fun and biggest cities in the world and enjoy an amazing standard of living.
I miss my family but I cannot give up my life for £25k if I am lucky, living with my parents in a small village because I cannot afford to move to a bigger city that will not pay me enough to live alone, anyway.
It’s depressing going from living in other countries to the UK. The standard of living is just far lower here in tbe UK. The weather is horrible, the food isnt great, nothing works, its impossible to get ahead, there’s no optimism in the country, and there’s absolutely nothing to do in the north.
It’s been the same with every other expat I’ve met in those countries. None of them have enjoyed going back even for a holiday.
If you have the chance to secure a bright future for yourself in a happier place with great weather, just take it