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@Eugxit

@Gargron Our government is terrible, but will change.

Our countryside is, and remains, beautiful.

@Gargron Plenty of us wouldn't mind leaving #brexshit island. But Putin and his 17.4m #brexshitters have made that vastly more difficult - we can no longer just get on a boat or a plane or a train.

@Gargron I think everyone I know living in the UK is looking at trying to do the inverse migration, to get away from the austerity and terrible politics

Places that are pretty can still be shit to live in (I used to live in the UK myself)

I'd suggest asking the locals about cost of living and how they feel about immigrants.. it might be an eye opener

@Gargron Crikey, I wouldn't want to move back. I escaped 3 years before Brexit, and just about everyone I know back there has spent the intervening years trying to find ways to get out.

@Gargron careful with the pink glasses of being on vacation.. 😅

@Gargron come to Scotland, we’re nice if you are into outdoors

@Gargron Oh man, same here. The visa paperwork requirements are so daunting, I have a hard time getting started. You should have pretty good chances on the Global Talent visa, but it’s so much stuff to scrape together. Hope you can make it work!

@Gargron good luck 👍 and what part of the UK do you want to move to? Be warned, I'm in the UK and whilst yes it is a beautiful country in many ways it isn't all roses and green rolling hills. It has bad bits too.

@gargron I can't imagine how terrible where you live must be if the UK is better. If you do move here and decide on somewhere rural make sure that you check the broadband situation out first.

@Gargron Maybe you can just exchange passports with @jon 👌

@Gargron Owwww..That means you are in LOVE hahaha👍⚘️⚘️⚘️

@Gargron having moved to London 12 years ago, I can report that the visa situation is daunting, difficult and extremely stressful. But London is great! My big tip is: do whatever you have to to limit the time the Home Office has your documents. Periodically there are still reports of things like this from 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/vital-immigration-papers-lost-by-uk-home-office?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@Gargron as a Brit I find much of Germany beautiful

@Gargron the government is not the people, so good luck. You should also go look at Scotland and Wales. And then Ireland. So much stunning scenery, and so many good friendly people. Crap politicians, but that's universal.

@Gargron most of us want to move out 🤡

@Gargron if this can help here is my experience in the UK:
I live in Sheffield, cheaper than London, close to the Peak District and plenty of outdoor beautiful spaces and parks.
I moved here in 2018, so before Brexit, but I had to apply for settlement status and I easily got it.
Problems? Yes there are and after Brexit even more and a post here wouldn't be enough.
Kids are doing well, my wife got a permanent job in a primary school and more, despite the tories I won't go back to Italy.

@Gargron If you currently live in Germany I would happily swap with you!

@Gargron I’ve been here over a decade from the US and it’s one of the best life choices I made. Come to Scotland though, cost of living is more realistic vs England and the NHS is better here

@Gargron even the travel visa is a nightmare. Especially for South Asian countries.

@Gargron Have you considered Ireland instead xD Probably a lot easier.

@Gargron as I'm sure many Brits are telling you, now isn't a great time to move here... Our healthcare system is collapsing, our government is asset stripping and distributing the proceeds amongst the already wealthy, inflation has made even basic items very expensive, the property market is still insane, people are stressed...

That said, there are still only a few other places I'd be happy to live - namely Scotland and Ireland. If you're set on it, best of luck and welcome in advance 🙂

@Gargron It's such a hostile proces, even with family ties. Good luck and hope you have an easy time of it

@Gargron Don't do it! Brexit has been a calamity.

@Gargron
With your skills you should get extra 'points' in the visa system. We'd love to have you here - and if you're in Cambridge you'll find sympatico people (no hills there though!)

@Gargron I didn’t expect most of the replies to this to be about how apparently terrible the UK is. 😅

@Gargron we'd be lucky to have you!
Hope it all goes well.

@Gargron Come to Bulgaria - we have beautiful nature, more sunny days and lower prices. :)

https://www.flickr.com/gp/15404062@N06/g73263cw09

@Gargron [don't look too closely at what's floating in our streams and rivers :( ]

@Gargron I jumped the ship UK right before Brexit was finalised and Corona Hit. After 18 years, better luck for you.

@Gargron I wanted that years ago, but life got in the way. Back then, it would’ve been easy. Now, after Brexit, and me getting older and sicker, it is something to think about thoroughly. Afaik you need to be rich to afford our standard in healthcare in the UK, and life in general. I’ve lived in the US, UK and Germany. Even now, Germany still has the best social net. But my heart will always have that soft spot for the UK and then there’s planes…

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I'll put in a good word for Wales as a potential country to live in should you move to the UK 🙂

@Gargron Unless you have personal reasons I wouldnt. The UK is not in a good way and will take many many years to recover. You’ve got plenty beautiful nature in Germany too. How about the alpe region?

@Gargron Cumbria really is a beautiful place, I’m not surprised you’d want to move there.

@Gargron @dmitry recently went through this though he was coming from the US. It might be helpful to connect with him?

@Gargron yeah sorry about that part, Boris Johnson sort of messed it up for everyone. Hope you make it through though, and you're right on the views. We do have some truly breathtaking scenery here that too many people who visit never see because they obsess over London.

@Gargron really? Why the hell would you want to live here? Consider Ireland, same beautiful countryside, but still part of the EU and not run by a troupe of incapable clowns.

@gargron ahhh, to be young and healthy and not care about a functioning healthcare system when you emigrate... I miss those days...

@Gargron Just moved from the UK myself, and I miss it so very much. Was just flipping between web cams along the coast.

@Gargron You've got free movement to Ireland, incl for a British spouse. It has a vibrant tech sector. Cheap & easy travel to from UK. Higher standard of living (ahead of UK on every metric of human wellbeing). Beautiful readily accessible and uncrowded countryside. You can recruit from entire EU. Oh, and more people take German in school leaving exam in Ireland than UK (w 1/14th of the population) - - it's a bit less insular (17% non native-born, and most people have lived abroad).

@Gargron As beautiful as it is here, from the perspective of running a social media organisation, you're better avoiding it because of the new Internet Act thing...

@Gargron had a good feeling I knew what the replies to this post would be like, and was not wrong…

@Gargron Apart from why you said you wanted to do this, I have to ask, what’s driving you? You don’t want to regret the move later.