Reasons to emigrate

[EternalOptimist]

I'm shocked to discover that I've never ever stayed in a 5* hotel.

Stayed in a 1* one once, that was even more interesting than a Travel Lodge.

I once slept in an old Everton football sock

[sasguru]

theres one thing you can never run away from

Thats my line.
I'm not doing it for me but for my offspring.
Even if they survive and prosper in the crap education system, they best they can aspire to be is e.g. a socially useless banker (and not, say, a rocket scientist), all the while being taxed until the pips squeek, and paying through the nose for a huge mortgage on second rate housing.
Because make no mistake, the golden age, such as it was, is over and the next 25 years we have to pay off the 165 billion we owe.

[sasguru]

Let's begin with who you can blame for your situation, who can you blame, who's fault is it ?

Milan.

Only cretins carry on digging when they are found out.

When you become more mature and wiser, you will find out that life has a habit of throwing you a left hook and it's no-ones fault or blame.

[Board Game Geek]

Daily Mail
Clarkson
CUK posters
PC
Reality TV

DM : Can probably get it overseas in most countries. We need the DM to help the country and guide the way.
Clarkson : You Tube
CUK : er...it's on the net.
PC : Won't miss that one
Reality TV : Is everywhere.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

so, what about the idea of roaming the world on travel visas, is that a goer ?

Sorry, I had meant to answer that.

Well, it is, sort of. It is probably easier to be officially resident somewhere, but you could make that anywhere in the EU without much further ado. The UK might do, after all you don't actually have to live there.

Now, you can only spend part of the time in any given country, so you would have to move around. But, for example, many a North American spends summer in the north and winter in Florida, the idea is not new. Summer in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere might work.

In NZ, last I looked, if you are a UK citizen you can spend up to 9 months visiting NZ, but you can only spend 9 months out of any 18 there. That rules out spending 6 months of every year there. But you could spend 9 months there, then 9 months in EU, or somewhere else if you didn't have to work. At my advanced age I obviously wouldn't need to count on too many cycles of that.

[sasguru]

Ain't that more than the WWII cost?

I don't know in real terms, but its comparable yes.

[milanbenes]

BGG,

I thought he wanted to get away from that stuff


Sas,

touched a nerve did I, calm down calm down

Tarkers asked for it


Milan.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Tarkers,

before we try to solve the problem, we have to understand how we got into the problem.

Let's begin with who you can blame for your situation, who can you blame, who's fault is it ?

Milan.

No Milan, I'm done with blame. It gets me nowhere.

Gordon Brown excepted.

[sasguru]

BGG,

I thought he wanted to get away from that stuff


Sas,

touched a nerve did I, calm down calm down

Tarkers asked for it


Milan.

milan, the big boys are talking. now run along and change a tape or somefink, there's a good chap.

[EternalOptimist]

Sorry, I had meant to answer that.

Well, it is, sort of. It is probably easier to be officially resident somewhere, but you could make that anywhere in the EU without much further ado. The UK might do, after all you don't actually have to live there.

Now, you can only spend part of the time in any given country, so you would have to move around. But, for example, many a North American spends summer in the north and winter in Florida, the idea is not new. Summer in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere might work.

In NZ, last I looked, if you are a UK citizen you can spend up to 9 months visiting NZ, but you can only spend 9 months out of any 18 there. That rules out spending 6 months of every year there. But you could spend 9 months there, then 9 months in EU, or somewhere else if you didn't have to work. At my advanced age I obviously wouldn't need to count on too many cycles of that.

I suppose it's human nature to require a firm base (for most of us at any rate)