Anyone migrated long term?

[SuperZ]

Definately want to do it when I retire but really I'd like to do it sooner. To do it now it would need to be somewhere where money can still be made from IT(or retrain) and that leaves a few countries in Europe or the USA or Austrailia. I don't know, maybe there is a good market for our skills in other non-English speaking countries.

A school friend is doing very well in the USA in the Media industry, been there pretty much since leaving school (with few qualifications). In fact he's probably making a nice fortune. Doesn't seem so easy to just move there these days

[lilelvis2000]

I was walking through the rain in Brum, on my way to Villa Park. Already I was thinking "WTF am I doing in this place?"

I've met people who have moved to North America - just coming back to visit friends and family - say exactly the same thing. They wonder what's so "Great" about the place.

Britain isn't the place it was, it's rapidly turning into an open air prison.

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[alreadypacked]

Definately want to do it when I retire but really I'd like to do it sooner. To do it now it would need to be somewhere where money can still be made from IT(or retrain) and that leaves a few countries in Europe or the USA or Austrailia. I don't know, maybe there is a good market for our skills in other non-English speaking countries.

A school friend is doing very well in the USA in the Media industry, been there pretty much since leaving school (with few qualifications). In fact he's probably making a nice fortune. Doesn't seem so easy to just move there these days

Spotted your problem

Location: Wrapped up warm in your duvet

[expat]

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If you have a wanderlust, like I did, I reckon finding the place for you is like buying a new house: you'll instinctively know when you've found it. Which is why I'll be returning to Croatia once they join the EU.

Britain isn't the place it was, it's rapidly turning into an open air prison.

There are many things I like about Britain, but more and more they are available in other countries too.

The music, for example: only Britain stands up to America with pride in the area of popular music. Fine. I'm proud of the British music scene. But I'm not part of it, so I don't need to be here, I can listen to the music wherever I live.

And so on, if indeed there is anything else quite as imressive as British music. BBC radio, OK. But e.g. the Today Program, fine as it is, is a lot less relevant if you don't live here, and World Service is, ... well, obviously, available.

I might miss some TV: University Challenge, Mastermind, QI. I might frig a way of watching them online. But part of it is the pride in knowing that no other country would do them.

Other TV for the most part will be out on DVD sometime. I'm in no hurry.


So: some of the culture, not the society but the cultural productions. On the other side, the society. And most of all the government. All of them. I don't belong.

Sometimes it is easier to fit in another country, because you don't expect to care so much.

[gooddayall]

A school friend is doing very well in the USA in the Media industry, been there pretty much since leaving school (with few qualifications). In fact he's probably making a nice fortune. Doesn't seem so easy to just move there these days

Wasn't there an English movie about him recently ?

[Croatian]

Originally Posted by Croatian
Britain isn't the place it was, it's rapidly turning into an open air prison.

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It's slightly off topic. Or is it? The UK government have eroded civil liberties using terrorism as an excuse. Brits are being captured by CCTV C.300 times per day. Millions of car journeys are captured by ANPR daily. Yet if you use a camera in public, you risk arrest. ID cards. An extra 10,000 tasers being delivered to the police, who are comfortable enough to kill demonstrators in broad daylight on the streets of London. The database society.

I could go on, but suffice to say Spain, where I am now, was a Fascist state and Croatia, an ex Communist country, where I was before, both place much higher value on liberties and freedoms than the UK.

[gooddayall]

[I]

Croatia, an ex Communist country, where I was before, both place much higher value on liberties and freedoms than the UK.

Yeah right, eastern europe - heaven on earth.

[expat]

Originally Posted by Croatian
Britain isn't the place it was, it's rapidly turning into an open air prison.

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It's slightly off topic. Or is it? The UK government have eroded civil liberties using terrorism as an excuse. Brits are being captured by CCTV C.300 times per day. Millions of car journeys are captured by ANPR daily. Yet if you use a camera in public, you risk arrest. ID cards. An extra 10,000 tasers being delivered to the police, who are comfortable enough to kill demonstrators in broad daylight on the streets of London. The database society.

I could go on, but suffice to say Spain, where I am now, was a Fascist state and Croatia, an ex Communist country, where I was before, both place much higher value on liberties and freedoms than the UK.

I know. They tasered an epileptic for having a fit recently. Then robustly defended it afterwards as a correct response to the man's actions.

The police are dead set on complete control of public space. Not just effective policing, complete ownership.

[Platypus]

It's slightly off topic. Or is it? The UK government have eroded civil liberties using terrorism as an excuse. Brits are being captured by CCTV C.300 times per day. Millions of car journeys are captured by ANPR daily. Yet if you use a camera in public, you risk arrest. ID cards. An extra 10,000 tasers being delivered to the police, who are comfortable enough to kill demonstrators in broad daylight on the streets of London. The database society.

Excellent reminder that this country is, sadly, a tuliphole.

I'm very lucky (I think) that I live in a rural, not urban, area.

[Croatian]

Yeah right, eastern europe - heaven on earth.

Is it really Eastern Europe? Well, I didn't know that.....

Geographically it's in South Eastern Europe, along with Italy. Politically, they left the Cominform (Soviet) group in 1948 and existed in isolation from the USSR from then onwards.