So Who Is Going to the UK?

Motley Crue · 21-11-2010 02:47PM #1

Specifically looking at people who are emigrating to the UK, because I did this myself about three years ago, I'm interested to know the feelings of people on this board (given the history we have with the UK) towards themselves and others, friends and relatives perhaps, going to the UK in the wake of the countries financial crisis.

So, maybe you already left, if that's the case why did you go?

Maybe you've recently graduated and your best friend just hoped on a plane to London? Would you feel like joining them?

Perhaps you're reading these words and considering moving to the UK if it might offer a better alternative then the indignity you feel about having to claim the dole every week, and maybe your dole is about to run out!

I moved to the UK because I had just graduated and wanted to move in with my other half. But more importantly then that, I did it because I honestly felt as though the UK would have a bigger pool in which to "fish" for a job, and in some aspects I was right and I've been very lucky - and other days I look out the window and wonder if I made the wrong choice. That's life.

scientific1982 · 21-11-2010 02:51PM

If im moving it wont be to another cold and wet island.

PeterIanStaker · 21-11-2010 02:54PM

I'll be over there in the New Year I'd imagine. F**k this country and its paedo church and the gombeens who sank it into a hole. At least I'll be allowed fox and stag hunt to my heart's content over there.

Awful_Bliss · 21-11-2010 02:57PM

I'm already applying for jobs over there. Can't find a job at all here.

I'm currently studying with the Open Uni so it would benefit me a whole lot more because the cost of the modules are half of what they are here.

Added to that what's better than a free visit to the doctor and under a tenner for medication afterwards compared to €50-60 here and then God knows how much for your medication after.

Another reason is how p*ssed off I am with politics in this country.

HalloweenJack · 21-11-2010 03:16PM

I don't think I could live there with the Tories in charge.

My sister's over there and she says they are just looking out for the rich lads and all their friends who went to Eton and Oxbridge, who backed them financially and got them into power. I've had enough of that kinda crap here.

flash1080 · 21-11-2010 03:21PM

I'd consider it but it's easier to get work in Ireland.

christina_x · 21-11-2010 03:25PM

Yeah my sister and her fiance are applying for jobs there at the minute... she has just graduated and cant get a job, and they have a mortgage to pay so... has to be done

ejmaztec · 21-11-2010 03:29PM

It's best to stay in Ireland. There's going to be a lot of people needed to manufacture deck-chairs for the new lebensraum.

mox54 · 21-11-2010 03:31PM

Deja Vu!, I left in 1986 during last recession and lived in London for 12 years, worked in civil service and now regret ever coming back to this joke of a country, may pack up and go again if got my old job back!:rolleyes:

mikom · 21-11-2010 03:35PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

F**k this country and its paedo church

Lol.
I may just have that inscribed on my tombstone.

21-11-2010 03:38PM

As soon as I'm done with college I hope to be over there. Screw this country. Screw the media. Screw the doomsayers. Screw the people who complain but do nothing about it. Screw the politicians. Screw everything that has made me ashamed of where I was born and raised.

Motley Crue · 21-11-2010 03:38PM

flash1080 wrote: »

I'd consider it but it's easier to get work in Ireland.

I'd like to live in your Ireland

I take it you're from the city of Dublin, Ohio, USA?

mikom · 21-11-2010 03:42PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Screw this country. Screw the media. Screw the doomsayers. Screw the people who complain but do nothing about it. Screw the politicians. Screw everything that has made me ashamed of where I was born and raised.

As soon as I'm done with college I hope to be over there.

Getting a job with Screwfix direct?

PeterIanStaker · 21-11-2010 03:43PM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I don't think I could live there with the Tories in charge.

My sister's over there and she says they are just looking out for the rich lads and all their friends who went to Eton and Oxbridge, who backed them financially and got them into power. I've had enough of that kinda crap here.

So is there a difference between FF and the Tories, apart from the accents?

21-11-2010 03:44PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

So is there a difference between FF and the Tories, apart from the accents?

Well - Tories are probably less likely to run their country into the ground or lie through their teeth.

bonerm · 21-11-2010 03:49PM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

So is there a difference between FF and the Tories, apart from the accents?

I'd imagine there's a significant bmi difference between the two parties also.

flash1080 · 21-11-2010 03:50PM

Motley Crue wrote: »

I'd like to live in your Ireland

I take it you're from the city of Dublin, Ohio, USA?

No.

PeterIanStaker · 21-11-2010 03:53PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Well - Tories are probably less likely to run their country into the ground or lie through their teeth.

They nearly did in 1992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

Labour UK had the IMF in 1976 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4553464.stm

So are they equally as incompetent across the water? well I wouldnt say equally, nobody can well and truly f&ck things up like FF, but they've had close calls. And dont forget Blairs' lies about Iraq.

flash1080 · 21-11-2010 04:04PM

Deleted User wrote: »

As soon as I'm done with college I hope to be over there. Screw this country. Screw the media. Screw the doomsayers. Screw the people who complain but do nothing about it. Screw the politicians. Screw everything that has made me ashamed of where I was born and raised.

I think all this emigration will be good because it will get rid of people with negative attitudes like that above. All this negativity is what's bringing this country down.

bonerm · 21-11-2010 04:11PM

flash1080 wrote: »

I think all this emigration will be good because it will get rid of people with negative attitudes like that above. All this negativity is what's bringing this country down.

Agreed. We should have gone to the IMF and asked for a big suitcase full of positivity at 6%.

JohnMearsheimer · 21-11-2010 04:13PM

I spent 2 years in the UK and moved back to Ireland in 2009. I managed to find a contract job but that's ending in January and I'm off to Canada at the end of January. I liked it over in the UK and wouldn't rule out going back there if I had to.

TPD · 21-11-2010 04:14PM

Finishing my degree this summer then heading to America, all going well.

Killer Pigeon · 21-11-2010 04:14PM

UK AOK

21-11-2010 04:28PM

flash1080 wrote: »

I think all this emigration will be good because it will get rid of people with negative attitudes like that above. All this negativity is what's bringing this country down.

Actually all the negativity that exists in this country is the reason I am counting the days until I'm finished college.

desaparecidos · 21-11-2010 04:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

As soon as I'm done with college I hope to be over there. Screw this country. Screw the media. Screw the doomsayers. Screw the people who complain but do nothing about it. Screw the politicians. Screw everything that has made me ashamed of where I was born and raised.

Like yourself perhaps? Running away isn't exactly proactive now is it?

I don't know why people would go to the UK anyway. It's a bit drab really.

Go to Canada.

Mike 1972 · 21-11-2010 05:11PM

Technically I emigrated to the UK 11 years ago when I moved to Northern Ireland.

Not for any of the reasons on your poll but for several other reasons (the cost of living in the Republic being the main one) A lot of people at the time told I was mad (it was the height of the celtic tiger bubble) most of them are on the dole now.

No immediate plans to move again but wouldnt rule out doing so in the future to Germany or Holland probably.

21-11-2010 05:14PM

desaparecidos wrote: »

Like yourself perhaps? Running away isn't exactly proactive now is it?

I don't know why people would go to the UK anyway. It's a bit drab really.

Go to Canada.

It's much easier to go to England, seeing as how no Visas are required. I am doing something about it; I'm not staying in a country that is dying a slow and painful death.

Rabble Rabble · 21-11-2010 05:18PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's much easier to go to England, seeing as how no Visas are required. I am doing something about it; I'm not staying in a country that is dying a slow and painful death.

You are not staying in a country dying a slow and painful death, and also running away from negative attitudes?

Rabble Rabble · 21-11-2010 05:21PM

I came to the UK for a few years a few years ago. It is alright, although London is a bit too crowded. I live elsewhere but work in London.

mostly Irish people over here are still thin on the ground, but generally we are are a happy bunch but we mostly emigrated by choice. I am worried that a new generation of Angries will gather at the local pubs. On the plus side I may find a pub showing a hurling final now and again.

So welcome: but shut up about Ireland. English people dont want to hear you whine about FF. Learn to hate the Tories instead.

Rabble Rabble · 21-11-2010 05:22PM

BTW I might come back to Dublin if house prices continue to tumble. Tubling house prices for the win. As far as I can see daft.ie is still cloud cukoo land.

21-11-2010 05:23PM

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

You are not staying in a country dying a slow and painful death, and also running away from negative attitudes?

Yes, leaving here is much easier than trying to live in a little bubble - you tune on the radio, they're talking about the recession, you turn on the TV, they're talking about the recession, you pick up a newspaper, there's an article on the recession, you log on to boards, there's hundreds of threads about the recession.

I wouldn't be surprised if, in the middle of a porno, they stop having sex and start talking about this bloody recession.

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