Would you emigrate?

[ComedyPilot]

Would you leave this 'green and pleasant' land to live elsewhere?

If so, where?

If not, why not?

What's stopping you?

Me?

Tomorrow to either Holland or Bavaria in Germany.

What's stopping me?

Family and job, although I could soon get a job with a Dutch or German branch of my company.

 

[tordis]

I already have, from the ever-friendly land of dreams, Poland
Would I leave the UK? Perhaps. Not yet, though. I'm thinking Australia or Canada in 5-6 years.
What's stoppping me? My mortgage, mostly.

 

[ajb]

Looked into moving to Australia a few years back,
They wouldn't accept the wife as she has an ailment that is likley to cause health problems as she gets older.

NO I WOULDN'T GO WITHOUT HER.

 

[longers]

Sometimes I feel like I'd do it, sometimes I don't. Mostly not.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I just have a recurring dream of getting off the Eurostar in Calais, and being arrested for bricking the tunnel up to stop any more following.

 

[Greedo]

Enjoy living in Glasgow at the moment but one day when I'm prepared to slow down and take things easier I will move to the south of France for sure.

Probably start the ball rolling next year to find a house over there and take it from there. Who knows, I might like it so much I might base myself there and come back here for holidays.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

worked all over europe, north america, se asia. we actually sold up to move to canada (i love it in bc but ontario is where the work for me is) i completed a contract and met the wife at our house in indonesia. unfortunately she was home sick for the uk (and i mean proper ill). she came here as a teenager before i met her. so now i'm stuck in uk. hate it. hate the weather, and the weather makes people miserable as a whole (brits are much nicer when bevvied up on a summers day). if she said let's do it, i'd be off as soon as house sold. but i love her and the kids (well adults now) more than emigrating. we have agreed to spend 50/50 between uk/indonesia when we retire tho, so not all bad in the end.

 

[MacB]

poll needs another option, yes I'd stay but I'd assist quite a few others to emigrate!!!

 

[numbnuts]

I did I went out to Australia stayed out there for 3 years why oh why I came back beats me, well your allowed to make one mistake in your life....and that was mine

 

[Bman]

Can the last one to leave the country turn the lights off?

Holland sounds good to me! Great Cycle facilities, a chilled out outlook on life and no hills!

If they could guarantee no headwinds I would be there already! Something about the windmills suggests otherwise

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'd love to live abroad again, had 2 years in Sweden and loved it. I'd certainly be happy to move overseas again but my wife is very 'close' to her family. The world's a big place and there are other ways to live. I was born and raised in England, but I'm not married to it. I think I could live happily in many places.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I'd love to live abroad again, had 2 years in Sweden and loved it. I'd certainly be happy to move overseas again but my wife is very 'close' to her family. The world's a big place and there are other ways to live. I was born and raised in England, but I'm not married to it. I think I could live happily in many places.

good way of saying it

 

[4F]

However, MrsUser76 is not so keen to leave her family and friends behind. This isn't a problem for me as I don't get on with my remaining family and haven't got any friends make friends easily.

Much like my situation. I would at the drop of the hat and could quite easily with my job with lots of possibilities in my current company however Mrs 4F is very close to her family so I cannot see it ever being a reality.

 

[Globalti]

I've lived abroad for 3 years and travelled for many more, enough to know that Britain has the best of everything for me.

 

[TVC]

Mrs VC and I are smitten by Sydney, unfortunatly I'm now too old to get in. We will most likely now have to wait for retirement and spend parts of the year in rented accomodation there.