Can you not have The Republic of Ireland be apart of the UK. As it is its own nation and one of the richest parts of europe with 7 highest per capita influx of migrants
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I am from Poland, I lived and worked in the UK since 2005. In April this year, however, I decided to return to my homeland. In recent years, I have seen how the UK is sinking into its own stupidity and irresponsible policy, both social and immigration. Now I live in Poland and I earn more than I earned in the UK in a similar position.
Welcome back to Europe friend. Let's hope we don't screw up as bad as the Brits with their hate, envy and stupidity. Greetings from Germany, hoping the AFD won't win the election....
It's very sad, but I think you made a good move. You Polish folk have had a positive impact on our society. The vast majority of Poles I've met are very pleasant and civilised people. But this sadly isn't the case for our friends coming from other countries and cultures.
@@kierenbuckley370It'sa double edged sword. Initially immigration was a bonus. We had the Irish coming over in their droves, clearing the ruins after WW2 and doing the hard graft of building new estates and factories. Then we had the Windrush folks plugging the gaps in the health service and suchlike. Net migration was controllable, with around 20-40k a yr. Having millions of men pouring into a country over the course of a few years isn't a positive benefit. It impacts the benefits system, housing, health care and education.
@kierenbuckley370 It's only good for the country when the immigrants are willing to integrate and not form their own subcultures where British people are not welcome.
Just like the West of The Netherlands is just one big dirty money-laundry business. And there rest is farming. Only some industry left in the South-East quarter, against all odds.
@@michamarkiewicz1642 Yes, also a lot of migration to the UK though, boats arriving every day. The Netherlands mostly lives from an artificially created image, a soon as people are there, they get a very different view.
The problem is that you live in a oligarchy. Politicians works for the big corporations that screw the general population. Laws are made to benefit them not you.
True, but the UK is a democracy. So how to sell the idea of making the poor poorer to the poor themselves? Enter ... Murdoch. The less educated are easily led astray by the Murdoch news industry, sorry I mean the Murdoch angertainment industry.
The factors that favoured success of the UK in the period of 1750 to 1850 were already beginning to change and this became apparent in the Great Exhibition of 1851 and became more apparent in a series of International Exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and New York in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Air Technology totally obliterates any advantage of being an Island as Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrate and now a net work of Railways connecting the EU and Europe will place us at a greater disadvantage because Rail is and was and will be the most cost effective, least polluting transport system ,Physics is patent ,better than Air better than Sea. So all in all the British were and are wrong, and misinformed and clearly lack the necessary information to challenge the much distorted History and Politics fed to them by Farage and Reform .This country and its leaders have been subverted by the worst press and media in Europe. In this election no politician has raised his head above the parapet to challenge Farage' distorted facts ,fallacies and wilful mendacity, the Tory Party did not dissociate themselves from Brexit, they did not correct the wilful fallacies so a badly educated populace which has been flattered and deceived, and told what splendid people they were, and encouraged to believe in the past. All our yesterdays, And the press has been the mirror of lower middle class conceit, the barely respectable. I ask again how can people imagine that a Rapist and a Fraud is the President the USA needs? and now can the British People believe in, and hail the man endorsed by Trump should to be the prime minister we need. But there is another problem which accounts for our failure, The British have been encouraged to imagine they are top dog, they have not collaborated, openly, or rather they have not admitted they have collaborated, and so the people do not know, do not understand that the world has changed, they do not understand the change, they do not realise that we ceased to be a great power, but we hung on grimly to a delusion of the past that was not the success it was cracked up to be. No country can cleave to yesterday, but they have to be taught which are ineffable ethics and what are mutable factors but our politicians do not understand hence this massive hypocrisy. Every year since the first performance of Messiah in Dublin the aria What do the nations so furiously rage together against the lord and his anointed, and why do the nations imagine a vain thing, but they thought that meant every one but themselves. . And now a woman who stormed out of the Anglican Church because of women clergy is the law and order spokes-person who thinks a leader who is OK with Rape and Fraud Rape., She has not even asked herself how that is possible?, And in that colossal lack of self-knowledge the country flounders because they elect people like that and then blame every one but themselves. And the history they accept is spun to absurdity by media people whose mental rigidity and reaction are habit. A Michael Gove that thinks Climate Change Science is a Marxist plot, aided and abetted by the ranter par excellence, Peter Hitchins, an Historian who compare Brexit with the dynastic Problems of Henry VIII, another who compares it with the Repeal of the Corn Laws and an anachronism dressed in fancy costume such as no one has worn since the death of Victoria , cannot understand the difference between Statute Law and standards and regulations incorporated into Law by treaty to protect the British Population. When Laurel and Hardy become politicians do you expect serious politics? But they were elected or heeded, despite the absurdity of the whole dam lot. They call it 'Common sense' You realise part of the problem in the the comments the whining because their candidate has been asked searching questions, this is thought of as bias, but only because they they do not know what the BBC and ITV charters were, only because they think media is there to masturbate their prejudices, anything else is bias ,treason or conspiracy, and it the mentality of the lower middle class but technology has rendered them, the average man defunct and obsolete. Every country has them and they are all facing the menace of mediocrity, ignorance, stupidity, credulous and nursing a grievance against whom they know not, but someone must be to blame. Such nicepeopleasthey see in their mirror it can be them. This was the mind set of the Wolkische Beobachter the pioneer of gutter Journalism and the Murdoch Press, and the Daily Mail realised their was revenue and care not a jot it was Fascism.
I am Czech. I used to live in the UK for 3 years total till 2012. UK was going downhill. Overpriced services, overpriced homes. Eastern Europe started gaining steam. I always had a feeling that Polish, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians are being frown upon. In my opinion Brexit was about immigration from Eastern Europe. I used to live in immigrant district of major town and I was shopping in local market. Even then, there was animosity between some Muslims and White Europeans. I was even being pushed by some old angry Pakistani when waiting in the queue to pay for groceries.
@@garryferrington811 It is, but it has been used by British to denigrate Polish immigrants. Nowadays gender studies give you a better social status despite how useless they are in society.
I'm from eastern europe and I visited UK as a kid in late 90s and again around 2007. I was amazed by buildings, museums and all the splendor. I visited again in 2017 and my perspective changed. Housing that my friends lived in was disgusting, damp and dark. Costed way too much and commutes were a nightmare. Streets of London outside tourist zones are nasty and don't feel safe at all. I'd rather live in a commie block than those shitty houses. UK became a really undesirable location to live in. Some of my work colleagues transferred to UK and say that while earning more on paper their quality of life has fallen compared to Poland.
1.2 mln Poles applied for leave to remain after Brexit, why do Poles find the UK so attractive? I am a Brit and live in Poland. Polands biggest export is cheap labour.
No you wouldn’t stop lying millions of your countrymen came here when communism fell and loved 8 men to a 2 bed room house to take advantage of the economy and send £ back to Poland
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 Polish people love the UK. There thousands of them there, because the Pound Sterling is worth alot in Poland. Polish and other Eastern European people also know the UK is easy place to engage in sophisticated crime like fraud, manipulating benefits. Why do you think so many Romanians, Bulgarians, Polish, Slovakians etc live there ?
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 Not anymore and more Poles are leaving UK than coming because right now Poland is better place to live. Those who settled their lives in UK obviously prefer to stay - pretty usual. "At the end of 2017, the number of permanent residents of Poland who had been staying in the United Kingdom for at least 12 months was 629,000. This number significantly decreased in 2018-2019, reaching approximately 550,000. At the end of 2020 (after the United Kingdom left the EU), the largest drop was recorded - by almost 100,000 - down to 450,000. Since then, this number has remained at a similar level. From 2017 to 2022, the largest increase in the number of long-term temporary emigrants from Poland occurred in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway - by 28,000 (31.8%), 6,000 (33.3%), and 5,000 (6.9%) respectively. Conversely, the largest decrease was recorded in the United Kingdom and Italy - by 183,000 (29.1%) and 14,000 (23.7%) respectively. In other European countries, smaller changes were observed, not exceeding 3,000 people over the entire analyzed period. " - Published by government publication [stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/ludnosc/migracje-zagraniczne-ludnosci/informacja-o-rozmiarach-i-kierunkach-emigracji-dlugookresowych-w-latach-2017-2022,18,1.html] I took liberty of translating, apologies for possible mistakes. Right now biggest polish export are car parts... The main reason Poles targeted UK was the fact that most young Poles speak English but barely anyone speaks French or German.
Canadian want to leave canada, french want to leave France, american want to leave u.s , brits wants to leave britain , Indians want to leave india. Tell me a single country which is good in every aspect and still giving their citizenship. We have to make our country great by ourselves. No outsider is going to fix your own country. Period.
After a 12 years of living in uk, this spring I moved to my home land Lithuania. Now I realise that I got used to accepting humiliation in uk and wrongly assumed that I can achieve more in london that here. My age people who stayed, they live relatively modestly, but they all have a houses, wife's, already grown kids. And I am kind of behind, in some areas.
@@BLACKSTA361It’s the stardard attitude towards foreigners, mostly felt by black and brown people, regardless of their origin or how ”British” they actually are. For us white Europeans, it is easier to fly below the radar as long as our accent does not reveal our non-British origin, be it from Ireland, Italy, Sweden or Switzerland. I returned to Switzerland a few years ago, having lived in England for several years. The change in attitude after Brexit was remarkable, although I must say that people from Scotland were less biased. I was asked constantly by strangers if I came from Poland. I was ssuprised and asked what made people to think so and if they thought I had a Polish accent, only to realise that most people could only distinguish other English accents and French/German accents while lumping all other Europeans into a group of Slavic Eastern Europeans. My SA friend, after living in England over 30 years, was known as the SA lady by neighbours. My Swedish friend was mocked for her accent as the Swedish cook from the Muppets.Needless to say, very few had travelled anywhere else but for a beach holiday in southern Europe or a break in Amsterdam or Paris and even fewer had any notions of a foreign language. The atmosphere just started to feel very insulated and xenophobic. Even people who were non-white seemed to stay in their own circles, probably because of their repeated if not over-generational negative experiences with the white English population. Imagine yourself being asked constantly if you come from Poland (or any other country) and even if you speak impeccably the language of the country of your residence, corrected by the locals constantly of your pronounciation or grammatical mistakes? I personally did not mind being corrected (free learning), but noticed that if a native English speaker made a mistake, s/he was never corrected. That sort of attitude just got tiring. In Switzerland, we have 4 official languages and over 25% of the residents are foreign born.
I lived in the UK for ten years, did two masters and a PhD there, and my wife is from there. Last year we moved to Germany and our decision was beyond housing and wages tbh. The UK has serious social problems as well. We both make less money here and are much happier with the quality of life.
Lived in Germany for ten years and whilst I did enjoy most of the time, it was then enough for me. High taxes, high health insurance to pay, grumpy Germans plus mama merkel opening the door to half of ISIS. Let’s not pretend Germany doesn’t have its own issues.
I live in the rural southern United States, and my boss is from the UK. He told me he makes 3 times as much as he would in the UK. He's got a house on the lake with a boat, nice car etc
I have a work colleague who left the UK in the late 90's and moved to Atlanta. He said he sold his house for 3x the amount he paid for it and paid cash for his new home and 2 new cars. The following year he had an inground outdoor pool put in. He did say that after he sold his house in the UK, in just 6 months later he wouldn't even be able to buy it back again due to rising prices. While he has a professional Telecommunications job and his wife was a dental hygienist, they were constantly scraping by in the UK, but in Atlanta his wife doesn't need to work at all.
The USA has some of the worst workers rights in the world. Also, more than 70,000 people are bankrupt with medical debt each year. Also, gun crime.. well enough said about that aspect. But then again.. at least in the UK, you may have a smaller house here, but at least your kids won't be shot in school!
@@lordprotector3367 Florida always has low paying jobs because it has no trouble attracting workers because of the climate. Atlanta was the best paying Southern city with the cheapest housing and disposable income when I lived there from 1995 to 2005. I expect things have probably changed now.
I have lived and worked in England and I have family there, but I now live in New Zealand. I thank my lucky stars I moved out here. I returned to England two years ago to visit family and friends in Newcastle, Leeds and Norwich. The quality of life has deteriorated so badly, it was depressing. Everything is run down. Hotel rooms are expensive and the quality is poor. Car rental is exorbitant and it is impossible to avoid getting a parking ticket or a speeding ticket. Restaurants and bars are half-empty most of the time and the supermarkets are filled with produce that is of a very basic quality. The Health Service is crumbling and I wasn't even able to get to a dentist after one of my fillings fell out. The High Street is filled with poundsaver and thrift shops and the once good-natured and fair-minded English people seem to have been replaced by a more dour and mean-spirited community. Sadly, I couldn't wait to get back to New Zealand after a week in England. This was not the country I once loved.
I so agree…left for Australia years ago thankfully. I return to visit family and each year things are getting desperately worse for them, low wages, high prices are a real problem, the government has betrayed the country and its people
I'd be doing my wife and kids a huge favour by asking them to pack and all of us move abroad. As a long term British resident the best word I could use to summarise the state of the country is deterioration. Everything has gotten worse, absolutely everything. Businesses are constantly closing down, services and goods are getting more and more expensive, crime is rising, homelessness is rising, the NHS is on the verge of collapse, property is extortionate and appaling quality, the list goes on. All the while our politicians sing their praises and act like everything is great.
@l.j.turner185...You can complain all you want to, like other British have for the best 5 to 7 years +. The real issue is mismanagement of the UK goverment and the lack of creating productive and constructive policies for British citizens and society at large. British people love to complain alot and make videos how this and that is bad. Or even speak of ''i am moving to Australia or New Zealand''. Yet no one comes with solutions that are sound and nuanced just complain and vote for the major parties that love to ''sweet talk'' the British electorate with personality and charisma why lying in your faces for what 14 good years. You lot voted for your goverments and this is your end result its that simpel.
Left 25 years ago precisely because I could see where things were heading. Now, 25 years later, there’s almost nowhere left to go that isn’t economically broken & filled with ungrateful gimmegrants.
I left UK coming up to 10 years now, I moved to Slovakia, everyone asks me why I would leave uk. Well I earn less when you compare the wages in UK for the type of job I have. But I bought a flat here bigger than the house I lived in, in uk, I just finished paying off my mortgage here so my flat is my flat. I have money in my pocket and I use no credit cards or Loans. So even though wages are lower so is the cost of living. Why would I stay in UK and still have debts up to my eye balls. I say to anyone Don't hold yourself to UK there is always something better over the water. Just need to try
@@Sam-rr4ek Not sure. it could go either way. I know wages in some areas are extremely low and prices are rising, I was lucky when I moved here. Only time will tell. I know this country has its issues
Well, those are only the monetary aspects. Quality of life is more than just that. I´m in the same situation in another EU country, and despite lower income etc my quality of life due to climate, both meteorologically as well as socially, is far far better in my new country of residence.
@@ab-ym3bf uk is not in a healthy state as we speak. I still have family in the UK, Every year you hear of pensioners not being able to heat there houses and dying from the cold, health service is a mess you cant see a doctor, food is a horrific price. With me I can feed my family, pensioners can heat there homes. I can get to see a doctor when I need and medical care in my opinion is of a much higher standard. You walk into a hospital here they dont look good but the money goes on care and keeping people healthy. yearly checkups. Not waiting for operations, Beds always available its a quality of life is better here
What's even worse than having no housing is the government clamping down on people finding their own alternatives like living in cars and vans, or even static caravans. What are people supposed to do when even homelessness is being outlawed.
Well, each country gets the government it voted for and deserves. People believe what liars/idiots like Johnson and Farage tell/promise them and believe their lies and views of 'a golden future'. Unfortunately these things also happen in other countries, so far on a milder scale than in the UK though.
I was living in the UK for over 8 years. In UK I could bearly afford anything and just a room in London on 2k gross monthly wage. Now I earn over four time as much in Poland working from home and almost paid off my house in 3 years in Warsaw. I don't know why I've stayed so long in the UK maybe it's just you don't realised how bad the UK is unless you move out from it for a couple of months.
@@Yimello I'm referring to a different role in UK I was either doing security or teaching in local college. In the UK, I applied for several higher-level positions, only to be rejected by all of them. In contrast, I found it easier to secure better jobs in Poland than I could in the UK. For instance, out of 100 applications I submitted in the UK, I received only one response. However, when I altered just my name to something more traditionally British, I received three interview invitations out of only five applications. That was the tipping point for me, and I decided it was time to move on. I am now working remotely from Poland as a consultant for companies based in Asia. As a b2b owner, the tax burden is significantly lower compared to being employed so this is almost net that is also the reason I've stoped employment contract as gross my look good you will still end up giving almost half of your salary in taxes. .To put things in perspective, the average employment contract in Warsaw offers around £2,000 per month, whereas business roles typically start at around £3,000 gross per month. Although these figures are still lower than what one might earn in London, they aren't far behind the rest of the UK, and the cost of living is substantially lower. But of course it depends on what you do. But I've seen construction guys making far more in Poland then they were making in the UK. While the salaries stayed almost the same in the UK in Poland those gew fast. But of course depend on what you do. But if you are in unskilled workforce then sure you will earn more in the UK but you will be still left with nothing at end of the month. When I left to UK 15 years ago min salary was like 140 pounds a month. Now min salary is around 900 pounds a month. But around big cities it's hard to find anoyone willing to go to work for such low salary.
Since Rishi took office, there seem to have been more unfavorable results in UK. These results include effects on the markets, such as price declines and sharp increases in inflation, as well as bank failuresMy greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in UK.
Inflation already have significant impacts on individuals and their cost of living. As a result, it can cause negative market sentiment. It is important for individuals and businesses to find ways to navigate and potentially mitigate the effects of inflation on their finances. The current economic climate, including underperformance of financial markets due to fear of inflation, has led to a decrease in the value of my portfolio. I would appreciate any recommendations on how to potentially increase returns during this market downturn.
Even the stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over $50k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of wealth transfer in this downtime if you know where to look.
Such market uncertainties are the reason I don’t base my market judgements and decisions on rumours and here-says, got the best of me 2020 and had me holding worthless position in the market, I had to revamp my entire portfolio through the aid of an advisor, before I started seeing any significant results happens in my portfolio, been using the same advisor and I’ve scaled up $450k within 2 years, whether a bullish or down market, both makes for good profit, it all depends on where you’re looking.
Left family and friends behind to escape the poverty in Bulgaria only to move here, work my ass off, with 3 higher education degrees, and be underpaid to the point i can't even rent a place on my own... I am now regretting wasting my youth.
The whole system here is set up to make the old rich off the backs of the young. You didn't waste your youth, they wasted an entire generation of their own children & you got caught up in the reaping.
We just left the UK the main problem is the high cost of living. As an example Instead of paying £700 per year for water in the UK here in Greece we are paying £20 per year.
That's one of the places that we're thinking about moving to. Unfortunately, because of the laws in the Netherlands, we can't go for 5 years. Who knows if it will be possible by then.
An Australian nurse told me she was going back, she said she was tired of being 'working poorly. She moved here because her partner was from here but even he is convinced that their situation would be better for them as a young family in her country.
Trust me - Australia's going down the same marxist woke road as any other Western country - it's only a matter of time when it's as bad as France, Sweden and the UK. Remember, it's the WEF who run the West now ...... governments exist purely to carry-out what the WEF tell them to do.
Do five minutes of research on the housing situation in Australia and get back to me. The UK obviously has major problems but I really don't buy that countries like Australia are doing much better
In Ireland we watch a lot of British tv. It’s insane how much of it revolves around stretching your money and protecting it. Things like Rip-Off Britain, Jamie Oliver’s £1 wonders, and segments on affordable clothes/bills/necessities on daytime tv. It’s like omg can these people afford to breathe?
It depends what you do I recently noticed job postings for plumbers in London one was for 205.000 a year the other4 190.000 a year Try hiring a bricklayer in London to build your garden wall they charge 400 quid a day plus expenses. Electricians. Joiners. they make huge money.
I migrated to Australia from the UK in 2019 and never looked back. The final nail in the coffin for me was being told I didn't earn enough money on a first time buyer scheme for a 2 bed part buy-part rent apartment in Edmonton despite earning the national average wage and having double the required deposit amount. There is definitely higher earning potential for me in OZ but the country still has it's own issues with available housing.
I left the uk for aus in 2016. I last went back in 2022, and was shocked by just how bad it had become. It’s actually tragic. Australia isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues ahead of the uk.
(There were two final nails for me. Firstly the taxi driver who insisted that Pakistan was part of the EU; then the pink ukip bus that was blaring out flight of the Valkyries by Wagner, you know, hitlers favourite German composer. Facepalm central)
It’s going downhill in the rest of Europe, too. The living standard is rapidly decreasing. No significant investment in infrastructure, education, health care, research, security have been made in the past decades. Our wealth has been jeopardised by spineless politicians. It’s a real shame.
I agree that the situation in Eastern Europe is different. But Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium etc. are far from thriving. Quite the opposite in fact.
My son, a Master's-level university graduate has emigrated to Denmark as his equally well qualified Danish wife was unable to live and work in the UK despite months of job applications.. She very quickly found employment in Denmark at £48,000 p.a., has no student debt, pays £500 per month in a secure-tenancy, rent-controlled flat , whilst my son (£65k student debt and rising) embarks on the process of becoming a Danish citizen. Their first preference had been to make their life in the UK but it was not possible, and to be honest their prospects are much brighter in Denmark. This is the consequence of 45 years of ideologically driven neo-liberalism, and there is scant prospect of any fundamental change under the incoming Labour government,
No, this the result of big government and Socialist policies. The UK is so statist and socialist that I’m surprised that it still stands. Only Libertarian policies could save this country.
Smart child. I emigrated to central Europe in 2015. Was sick being milked left, right, and centre. Quality of life here is off the charts in my new adopted home. Take home earnings are the same, but the costs are 1/4 compared to the UK.
You're right and that is what is so depressing. The hugely destructive neo liberal economic policy is totally embedded in this country and from what I've heard from.Labour they are more interested in cutting spending and any future spending increase will have to be earned. They don't get the fundamental fact that if you have an ailing under funded public sector, poor infrastructure etc then.you are not going to achieve a strong economy. They couldn't even fulfill their pledge to.commit £25 billion into the new "Green" economy, which was their flagship policy. I just despair quite frankly
I moved to the UK in 2002: did my degree and professional qualifications. I am seriously considering leaving the UK in the near future although my children are not happy about it. The cost of living has increased significantly, my husband and I are both working long hours and almost have no time for any social life whatsoever. As a tax payer, I have to wait months to get NHS appointments and often go abroad for treatment.
Being a kid in the UK from around 12 to around 16 is a living hell. If your kids are younger than that age, they might like the idea more later. I will always regret that I was still there during my childhood.
I read this quote somewhere recently that encapsulated Britains current deteriating situation perfectly. It went: "Britain is a third world country with London attached to it."
I have seen variations of this quote for different countries like “America is a third world country with a Gucci belt” or “Canada is becoming a third world country”.
We often visited the UK for holidays, but last May while visiting the south-east I realized that I didn't want to go anymore. Infrastructure, houses and even people are looking bad; lack of maintenance and proper care. Currently on our way to Sweden at a stop in the north of Germany and so much more pleasant to be in a region not in decline
As someone who's lived in Sweden for 6 months and got a lot of friends there, I can safely say they have similar issues but are more spread out since it's less densly populated. There just about a decade of decline behind us really.
"Those leaving the country were significently more skilled then those entering the nation" What you mean mass migration means majority of them aren't Doctors and engineers? I'm "shocked "almost like businesses want them too suppress wages "crazy I know"
Suppress wages? Corporations offer jobs at certain wage rates and conditions. If Brits don't want to do them - Corporations press the government to allow in foreign workers. If you don't want foreign workers elect politicians who will shut that down. Unfortunately that will mean many corporations may go out of business. Best to think this one through before fulminating at foreign workers. Just like brexit pack of horse sh*t that promised Britain would rise if unshackled from the EU. How did that go exactly?
Or maybe it's because even if an immigrant has qualifications from their own country this is often seen as sub standard compared to our own qualifications. I know of many immigrants who are skilled but struggle to find work until they have qualifications recognised by employers. What you get.is skilled immigrants doing unskilled jobs. It is not their fault, nor is it the fault of immigration policies. Now I'm not saying this is the only problem but I think it is naive to think immigrants are unskilled
@@thewordywizard4389it’s their fault for leaving their own country. If they’re skilled they should remain and develop their country. We are full and don’t want them.
A video entitled ‘Why no one wants to live in the UK’ seems to ignore that currently a city the size of Newcastle is arriving every year. While there’s some merit to some of the comments, it ignores that elephant in the room. The scarcity of housing is in no small part driven by demand, as well as supply issues. This video seems to ignore that.
It also needs saying, one of the main reasons for immigration is English being the official languages of so many countries, ex-colonies, or English being the #1 taught foreign language. Of course that when someone grows up speaking English outside of England/US/Australia/etc. they want to go to an originally English country, if not even out of curiosity. It is a very unfortunate effect of having your language as the international one, but it is a problem that should be addressed properly too. People who from the beginning are at risk of homelessness (can't speak the language properly but still emigrate to the UK (example: don't have a language proficiency test), don't have secondary education, don't have proper identity documents, etc.) should be prevented from arriving in great numbers for no good reason. But I know and you should know that Eu or non EU, the British rules state that if someone without papers arrives on the isles and claims they have nowhere to go, then the person is given "refuge", and that is a law that has existed for well over 100 years in loose terms (in practice, this is what happens). It also bothers me to read how people can't make the difference between the freedom of movement of people (wanting to live in another country is not a crime and we're not cultural marxists?), so a legal immigrant, and an illegal immigrant (which can also have good causes or unfortunate roots, there's a lot of nuance, for example person trafficking or crime allegations that only constitute a crime on the country they live in but not in the one they are arriving into - e.g. certain human right activists in the UAE; the nuance being that a person who ends up as an illegal immigrant TYPICALLY doesn't do so out of their own free choice and volition, but coercion in some direct or indirect form). However, just as true is that the culture and people of a place shouldn't be allowed to take the brunt of "wanting to help", loose central policies, or wrong politician morals. Remember though that very little people would acre about the UK if they weren't FORCED to learn English since kindergarten. Everyone has to learn English nowadays from school. Have you never questioned the effects of that? Or why that is happening?
I'm Portuguese, lived in London from 2013 to 2018. Lived in shared houses all the time, always with a job. Returning to Lisbon was the right thing to do. I can't say our economy here is better, but at least im close to my family, have sun and definitely better food. However I love many British cultural aspects as well. Hoping that the Labour party can change some things for better. 💜🇵🇹🇬🇧
The labour party is going to bring us even closer to communism. Things will only get worse. Starmer is a stooge of DAVOS and the World Economic Forum. I curse people's ignorance.
Lisbon is way nicer than London - I know people are not happy there either and wages are a lot lower, but the people seem much nicer and the quality of life seems much better!
I have been talking about the over reliance on service sector tertiary jobs for decades, but also a huge problem is that global companies like Amazon are allowed to get away with not paying taxes on the money they make in the UK. This not only means there is less money for infrastructure and services, but it also means UK based businesses, who do have to pay their taxes due, are at a distinct disadvantage.
Born and raised in the U.K. now 33. It’s sad to see what my county has become, and how ordinary brits seem to be taken advantage of, at every turn. It’s insane to see previously poorer countries, now overtaking our quality of living.. what the hell went wrong for us? Also, the added cruelty/irony that we voted Brexit, means we are now stuck here. Even those of us, that want to actually leave.. can’t.
@FreePigeon Education costs money, visas are extremely difficult for Brits to go to Europe now, have a try of it ( i realise you going to make up some BS cover story).
@@michaelallan5317 It's really easy to move to Europe. Any sober professional position is open to you and all but small companies operate in English. You just can't go as a bohemian busking and squatting anymore. Not a loss for most, unless you are part of the 'phoney poor' but actually middle class who used to do that?
Hahaha if you weren't just full of it I would give you some genuine advice. If you genuinely want to leave, go live in South East Asia. You'll live like a king, better quality of life and a nicer climate. Why live in Europe out of all of the rest of the world to choose from
Your last comment is one of the reasons why Cameron offered a referendum in the first place. His class of person want the rest of us to be under their control again
I left London, UK almost a decade ago and never looked back. There is more to life outside of UK and like the saying goes "go where you are treated best"
But people like you would never be happy with the UK unless there were no white people left and we had given every last bit of money to the new arrivals. You're biased.
My mother's longterm partner was from Britain (we live in Denmark). After his mother died, he didn't want to go back to visit relatives again. He said that the country is so run-down it made him depressed.
Investing in alternate income streams should be the top priority for everyone right now especially given the global economic crisis we are currently experiencing. Stocks, gold, silver and virtual currencies are still attractive investments at the moment.
I’m looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I really need to create an alternate source of income, what do you thing I should be buying?
Below I list what I think is the reason from my personal perspective. 1. Low education levels of the average Britt. This means there's horses of people that can't even write an email. 2. Low income. Exaggerated, by the corporations that pay way below what the living wages are. 3. Income to value ratio of housing. 4. Pack of business funding for new businesses that turnover less than 100k 5. Class. No matter how hard you try some people just won't get into some places. Which ruins talent and rewards incompetent upper and political classes.
What are you on about. Britain has one of the most educated populaces in the world. In fact London is literally THE most educated city globally (highlighted by the fact that it has the most universities and eve 2 universities in the top 10)
The average Brit has normal levels of education vs rest of Europe. Where there is detriment, it's the anti "socialist" aspect where Brits lean more to the US way of doing things than old UK.
Me too I left the UK 2 years ago and my quality of life has significantly got better. It really is that bad in England. A lot of people don't realise how bad the quality of life is until they move away.
The most important part comes at the very end 18:51: "Although privatization was meant to bring in capital for infrastructure upgrades in many cases it led to underinvestment as private companies sought to maximize profits rather than invest into long term improvements." -> (This means that in some areas/industries privatization is bad and should instead be state owned/government controlled e.g. water/housing/healthcare/legal system/public infrastructure,...)
When talking about Thatcher and her right to buy scheme, you forgot to mention that... 1) All the money earned by local councils was not permitted to be used to build more housing but was used to make up for the lack of funds from central government. 2) Also that within the first year of the right to buy coming in, 25% of all the council homes bought by tenants had been repossessed by the banks. Those now homeless ex tenants, evicted by the banks were re-housed into fewer council homes left.
The councils are the biggest wasters of everything. Don't kid yourself the council can do anything better. I know a subby that gets paid £700 a day to mow lawns.
'Also that within the first year of the right to buy coming in, 25% of all the council homes bought by tenants had been repossessed by the banks' - what's your source for this statistic?
For me it was the filth everywhere. Shops boarded up, people hanging around streets doing nothing, house windows boarded up and disgustingly dirty. Lots and lots of none wh__te people. Communal areas around houses literally were dumps. Sorry to say this , but these areas were not occupied by native Brits.
I'm so happy I made productive decisions about my finances that changed forever. I'm a single mother living in Vancouver Canada, bought my first house in October and hoping to retire soon if things keep going smoothly for me.
Am looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I really need to create an alternate source of income, what do you think I should be buying?
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I am a spanish national who has his settled status here in the UK. I am technically a legal student here and I have the right to work and everything but after finishing my studies,I will move to london to gain work experience in my field(i will share house most likely) and then run away from here as fast as I can. English people and citizens have been amazing so far. But the issue is that I do not see a future in here for myself,specially since I want a family, with house prices and everything. If the situation was better for younger people who want to start a family I would have stayed. Once I get a few years of experience in london (it is easier to get a job in london than my hometown due to more opportunities) I will be able to build a resume good enough to move to switzerland, denmark or maybe even the US.
@@justasrandom6609they're just pro EU Tories to be fair. I don't understand how they say labour can't do better when they haven't been in power for 15 years.
@@colinsmith1288 Didn't they have a "race manifest" at some point? Not to mention that class socialism is inherintly anti-semitic? Just read Marx, Lenin or Stalin's texts themselves.
@@al9709for many, the way the country is now is all they’ve known. Why should I do my bit when I’ve had to go cold and hungry just to keep a roof over my head? Make it make sense
Everything we hear these days is so depressing,and there seem to be no suggested solutions. In Kenya, we used to believe that the UK was the best place ever, but now we hear this. Equally sad stories are heard about the US and other previously highly regarded places. It's so sad.
2000 Pounds for a studio, 2500 for 1 bed and 3000 for 2 bed in central London, at same time median household disposable income in the UK is £32,300 (after taxes) and rent figures don't even include council taxes or utilities. How do you start a family or afford to rent an apartment at these rates
Short answer, you quit being posh and entitled wanting to live in the centre of the capital, move to cheaper suburbs, wake up 1 hour earlier and arrive back home 1 hour later. It's the normal life of the working class.
@@belteshazzarx2568 It's happening in all major cities in Europe and North America. It's a combination of factors, I guess, a cocktail of real estate funds hoarding residencial estate, expansion of AirBnB-type platforms, excessive immigration and new construction red tape.
@@truthismycause2800 it's not just major cities it costs a bomb to live in the countryside. Those prices are pretty much Cornwall prices . Unless you live in a complete shit hole like Stoke or grimsby or something you ain't getting affordable housing.
My Polish friends no longer want to move to the UK or any country in Western Europe. They have a much higher standard of living in their home country. As a result Poland, among others, is now struggling to keep illegal immigrants out.
it’s ironic. early 2000s was a wave of Polish immigrants to the UK. lots of Brits were weary of them and you often heard xenophobia about Poles coming over and stealing their jobs etc. Now Poland is rising and they’re trying to keep out immigrants. 😮
Did you know that polish people deposited 220 billion into the polish banks from 2001 to 2018 from the UK, you polish did work for cheap, if that was British people the wages would have been tripled and gone to English pockets, you ever wondered why Brexit happened, 17 million English people wanted no more polish people stealing jobs, still there are some left hogging the hospitality sector
@@benbim540 wage does not matter per se. It’s relative to the cost of living. example, you can earn $10k USD a year and live like a king in Thailand, but live like a pauper in the US. poland is cheaper than the UK for the most part.
It's funny how the UK labour market got infused with millions of skilled workers from Poland and other EU countries in the 00s and 10s, which could have resulted in a great economic gain, but the UK government completely fumbled the opportunity - actually not only that, they actively shot themselves in the foot by making it harder for those migrant workers to stay in the UK and new ones to come in (brexit). Now, these people are coming back to their home countries, taking all their experience and know-how with them. No wonder Poland is going to take over the UK in the coming years. The British politicians and their voters did everything in their power to make it so.
Once you sell off your infrastructure such as water, gas, oil, railways, and motorway maintenance, you can't expect stability or price caps since private shareholders, who are solely motivated by profit, will be involved.
My sister is a Dr. of biochemistry here in Slovenia. She does work for an English sponsored team through our chemistry institute. They did scout her to try to get her to move to London but she saw how worse the living standards were compared to staying home.
@@Sam-rr4ek Eh sallary is before taxes an average 2.427€, taxes about 46-48%for 01.2024. Not sure about the median. For rent the situation is not great but you can get a decent place. While sallary would definitely be bigger in England the work culture here is pretty relaxed. If you are interested, our country has some great sites to visit and it would be better to just search video about our country if interested. I'm happy here and that's more than I can say about some other countries.
The UK advertises their universities as “World Leading Education” but my experience with the university of nottingham and the Universities belonging to the Russell Group, is that none of the students learn anything in the classrooms. The teachers were not passionate about teaching nor there to inspire their students to think about problems of their field. It’s just competitive with whatever means. People were not nice especially the international student and the African asylum seekers who had the chance of home fee. It’s a terrible culture that’s brewing since 2007.
I find that because their parents pay an arm and leg for their education, they needed it to be good and could not say that it isn’t. My criticism is that none of the students in my class were engaged, got their thinking caps on, pure reiteration, and that is not what I would call learning.
Or maybe because all our services are purchased by companies, mostly american, and don't invest in services, avoid taxes, lack of infrastructure investment...but no, must be some foreigners.loser. coward.
I have a friend from abroad whose daughter went to Nottingham Uni - He had to pay something like £23k + housing and living expenses. Next year, she went back to study in Asia at a fraction of the cost. Too expensive. People from Asia are getting wise to how low value British universities are...
Grew up in London, left in 2011 to move to NYC and it shocks me every few years when I go back just how the place seems to have stagnated / regressed since I left.
@@ndlugani2008 completely different from how it was in 2011. I have one of the largest migrant encampments of 4000 people at the end of my street. NYC has always had a high cost of living but when the economy was good, it was easy to justify. Now, with the economy not so great and even higher cost of living plus all the societal breakdown issues and lack of law enforcement means for the first time since I moved, I’m questioning being here. Not headed back to the UK though I think. That ship has sailed. From everything I’ve seen with my own eyes, London is nothing like what I grew up with, and that’s aside from the government overreach the UK will be seeing for the foreseeable future. The US overall still feels like a better option
The problem is free market capitalism. When your sole aim is to maximise profit you sweat your assets and you don't invest in anything that reduces profit. The last ten years have been incredibly profitable for a tiny percentage of the UK population. The top 1% have trousered £21 trillion pounds in the last 4 years alone and are holding more wealth than 70% of the rest of the population. The UK is still a wealthy country, but the distribution of that wealth is far from fair. We have a new government now but don't expect anything to change any time soon as they were allowed to win by the establishment that controls all that wealth.
Go ahead, go further into socialism. You'll make the problem far worse. The error of this entire statement is that it assumes two things: 1) That wealth is a zero sum game, that someone getting richer must make someone else poorer. 2) It focuses on the GAP of wealth and not how the poorest people are doing. If the general population is doing okay then why do I care how much the "super rich" are making? That's just envy and greed. Now, the general population is NOT doing okay but it's BECAUSE of anti-capitalist policies. NHS needs to have more private control. The government needs to get off this "net zero" nonsense so people can afford heat and petrol. They need to lower taxes to attract people and businesses back. Their quasi-socialistic system is what's CAUSING the problems in the first place, like curing cancer by injecting cancer cells! You show me an economy where the poor are struggling and I'll show you an economy with NOT ENOUGH capitalism.
@@Spacemongerr Norway and Denmark aren't rich BECAUSE they spend, as Elon Musk is not rich BECAUSE he bought 10 Ferraris and a private jet. Both of them first created their wealth and then decide they could afford some stuff with their money. Quite the contrary, they are top in any economic freedom index you look at, as they enjoy low taxes to companies and best environment for businesses and entrepreneurs. Moreover, they made their wealth and create most of their most successful companies during late XIX and beginning of XX century, when they didn't have those big governments as an anchor to wealth creation.
@@mineraltlmao, Muslims? Nahh mate, see the statistics, the amount of Indian immigrants is enormous. They hide behind other things though, that's why it doesn't come to light. Also, Rishi Sunak wasn't a Muslim either. Anyway as an Atheist in US, it's much better than UK 😅
@@mygotobrands so a country that wishes to fight the erosion of culture that large floods of immigration brings is somehow racist?. Plenty of black people etc in that group by the way that oppose immigration of this level. Don't be so ignorant, it's about culture
Born in London, I'm in my 50s, I work for the NHS and I'm stuck here. I'm sure every country has its problems but I've never felt so much pessimism about the future by so many. What's been done is irreversible.
Its most likely also because of migration Something which wasn't mentioned here is that Canada is experiencing something very similar A very huge chunk of people in comparison to the UK's or Canada's population gets added each year
I'm Australian, I moved to the UK (Scotland) in 2001. I pay £12,500 a year on my mortgage. My brother in Australia pays £25,000 a year in rent. My family is a one income household and we cover all of our expenses and save £1,000 a month. My brother and his wife both work full time with nothing leftover. I get amazing and timely support from the NHS, Australians are shocked at what I get for free, especially my friend who has £20,000 of medical debt. I wouldn't go back if you paid me.
@@MALI-sm7zmI guess it depends on your situation because I'm Gen X and I know it's different for young people right now. But I'm happy with our situation and I know it would be hell trying to achieve the same standard of living back in Oz right now than I currently have here.
Yes. I moved to oz in 2014, its incredibly expensive, and wages don't follow. u cannot leave a job bcos you may not get another for 1 year. Can't wait to.move tk.uk from sunny gold coast.
@@Bill32H-it3sv I'd never want to live in the US, much prefer the UK. I live in Cornwall, this video seems to be about London, that's not where I live.
You can make a case for almost anything with statistics. New Zealand is regularly voted as the safest and nicest place to live in the world, but 52,000 more people left, than moved to, the country last year.
@@neilreynolds3858 Really? I know two NHS nurses who have recently emmigrated to there and you certainly wouldn't call them rich. Maybe it's qualifications you need rather than money.
Someone once said “there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies…and statistics.” And while stats don’t lie exactly, they can be tortured and misused into saying anything.
People are struggling all over the globe. You are right. However, many people cannot see beyond their own noses and know nothing about the world outside of their national or regional perimeters. You can see that from many of the comments.
I am from Croatia. I have been in Ireland for 3 years at work. I know Ireland is not UK but culture and work habits are similar. Problems in Ireland: 1.Overpriced old houses. 2.Not feeling safe in Dublin streets. 3. I never felt welcome there. (Listening locals being racist to migrants, while telling me you don't count in this group lol) 4. Drugs 5. Weather 6. Stress due to busy life and pressure when you have to make money for all costs.
@jayhae6998 to be fair with you, Dublin got one of best wages in Europe. That's why people go to Ireland and work. I believe old Christian Ireland that was welcoming is gone. Now it's all about money there.
@@lilydog1000 No, they're not. They're serving the will of their corporate and financial masters, who are working hard to destroy our great nation. Everyone with a brain knows that politicians are not really running things.
I went to the UK in May and was surprised how good it was, parts of London looking better than when I'd lived there. Having spent time in Brussels, my Wife and I thought homelessness there was far worse in Brussels. But this was only what I had seen while visiting both cities recently.
Im moving to Australia from London with my Aussie partner, we're going to live just south of Melbourne and for the price we're renting a small 2 bed flat in finsbury park, we can rent a 3 or 4 bed house where we're moving in Australia. I know its got its fair share of problems but my area in London which ive lived in for 6 years has just got worse and worse. My partner who is a state primary school teacher had the police come investigate a shooting outside the school last week, this is not normal for the UK. We're feeling less and less safe here and the houses on the road I rent on are worth a million pounds (no joke i looked at what theyre being sold at)! Being asked to fork out huge sums of your pay each month to live in a dodgy area where its rare for me to leave the flat and not see some sort of incident, its just not worth it anymore in my opinion. Fingers crossed moving to Australia will bring us the positive change to our lives we're looking for.
People do right getting out of here, I am only 4 years in to working post University and have noticed a staggering difference in quality of living since then. I dare not think what we could be facing in the next 5 years. I have been trying to leave the UK for a year but with the new legislation since Brexit, it's been impossible to get visa sponsorship in Europe. I have a degree and I am a chartered accountant, and even tried to move with my previous employer (international company) and couldn't.
Yeah, I thought it was funny when he commented that London if it was a separate country would have a higher GDP than Norway. It would also have a higher population.
This doesn't do it justice though The per capita GDP of the uk is under 50k while London has a per capita gdp of somewhere between 60k and 80k. There is a huge gap.
@OptimusPrime-fn8cp...Because the UK needs immigrants to sustain the economy and diverse sectors, especially low paid sectors where the avarage English person would never want to work. But where a Kurd, Polish, Indian or Chinese would. Birmingham is already a bankrupt city so that says enough.
I'm a Brit Pensioner living in Austria and have done for 21 years...... After The Big 'B'.... No difference. I have a very good life. I think I upset my mates when they ask me " would you come back" and I say "No thanks"....
Plodding along can only work so long. The great paradox in all of this is that none of the main UK parties grapped with these issues since the 1990. In fact they made it worse. National suicide is sad to watch.
Even harder to watch when it's by deisgn Before you ask why that would happen, the financial disparity, which is completely distinct in our time, is part of the answer.
What are you on about? Suicide rates have been stable at around 5500 people each year for the last few years. It’s low compared to other developed countries and has stayed low.
Is this video a joke , most people can see all this , the answer is to stop immigration of low skilled people which in turn drives down wages and makes us all poorer , the infrastructure cannot take the large influx arriving in such a short time coupled with closing of training centres for the youth , giving them no future . This was done deliberately to eventually replace the indigenous people with people who will work for low wages and no rights
As a British expat with a great CV, whose attempts at job-hunting in the UK are frustrated by highly qualified Americans and Europeans desperate to work in the UK, this sadly does not fit my experience.
Similarly, I work in research and there are plenty of great engineers from Europe and all over the world in my department. This video is spouting nonsense. I'm not doubting that the UK is going through a rough patch at the moment especially with poverty, wealth inequality and infrastructure issues. Most who leave reactionary comments online have no idea what it's like to live in a third world country.
@@johnkelly1083 I wonder if you’d feel the same way if you’re made redundant? Also why are they employing so many engineers from overseas when there are so many English engineering graduates struggling to find jobs?
@@wulfsorenson8859 I don't know, I'm sorry to hear that you were made redundant. The point I'm trying to make is that this video and everyone in the comments section is saying that the UK is a terrible place to live, so much so that nobody wants to come here. This is patently false. Instead of making hyperbolic comments about wanting to leave the UK, perhaps people should suggest solutions. The UK has a major STEM skills shortage at the moment, predominantly due to short term government policy. Countries like Germany really value technical qualifications and apprenticeships for example. Perhaps we should be encouraging more people into STEM fields by subsidising their tuition fees and providing meaningful apprenticeships to serious people.
@@johnkelly1083 The U.K. doesn’t have a STEM shortage at all. Employers are simply totally unwilling to train qualified graduates with not much experience in engineering or infact in any field. U.K. is rapidly deteriorating as a place to live for the majority of people. The only people entering here en masse are migrants. Rents and housing are now completely unaffordable for the vast majority. Things may seem rosy for you in your bubble - but if you suddenly lost your job you’d been even for a VERY rude awakening.
I have seen slave plantations in the Mississippi that look like paradise compared to parts of the UK and its freezing cold and wet for most of the year.
Welcome the US President Joe Biden's utopia of unchecked immigration ... the USA is headed down the same road as the UK, thanks to brainless Liberals ...
same here. I count myself lucky as I inherited enough to buy a small flat and live frugally on my pension, in a lovely part of Uk, far from the Cesspool of London. We were the lucky generation. I feel very sorry for today's youngsters.
As I’m a British citizen by choice, I have a home country to go back. I need over £5000.income per month to pay for a studio apartment and pay for utilities,food etc . Although I would love to continue to live in London, it’s impossible now. So in a couple of months I’d be moving back to my motherland. With my monthly pension, I could afford to live a modest life. I could afford to pay my bills easily and afford fresh vegetables and fruits etc. Old age should be FREE from financial worries. Those who can afford to move out of poverty and want should think carefully and settle down elsewhere. I think over immigration is ruining the UK. ITS VERY COSTLY TO LIVE HERE AS A RETIRED PERSON. 😢 I
Why no one wants to live in the uk ..... tell that to all the migrants floating across the channel and the 600,000people who moved here last year that has nothing to do with the highest levels of homelessness the fact we need to build a house every 2minutes to keep up
When you compare it to living in Bangladesh or Africa of course they’d choose the uk. But the fact is the uk is becoming shittier and shittier every year for the average British person.
It was true 10y ago. Now despite the war in syria, arabs are moving more in germany. But honestly i can’t get my head around indian and pak … they cross countries more wealthy than uk like west and central eu or scandinavians … but they keep heading to uk … idk why
I'm 20, and in my experience, studying in London whilst despite having student finance is to say the least troubling. Rent is obnoxious, most services are unaffordable. For me it really does feels hopeless from time to time and even though I'm a full time student and have multiple part times it's not enough. I'd love to live in the UK if it wasn't so expensive, on the other hand i usually travel to Poland to visit my friends and despite their lower wages they do live far better than me with their own savings. Morale of the story that it's discouraging and kind of exhausting to live here..
The same situation exists in Education. Lots of teachers are quitting teaching in the UK and are going to international schools abroad for considerably better pay and better quality of life. I'm leaving in a month.
A few teachers that I know are moving to places like the UAE, Qatar, and the usual places like Australia and New Zealand. The secondary school system in the UK is horrendous now particularly, it's a no brainer for most unfortunately.
Almost like you describe the Dutch housing market. Over here, the housing shortage was created on purpose, since housing is used as an investment asset. These assets gain value when demand is significantly higher than supply.
Housing companies heavily donate to the Tory party, it's in both groups interest to keep demand high and supply low. There was never a plan to tackle the housing crisis.
And the cost is that you live in a crime-ridden, dystopian hell-hole (at least in England). But, wait - you've still made paper gains on your property portfolio, right?
Entirely too many people want to live in the UK, it's where most of the problems are coming from, when you look at the exploding population depressing wages putting a strain on infrastructure and inflating house prices.
Huge population increase and little change to public services has led to a sever decline in quality of life - can't cope with the yearly net migration increase of low skilled workers
Most people in the UK complain from a position of ignorance and privilege, but have zero clue what the living standards are like abroad. The fact many move to Aus and the USA is laughable since their standard of living is lower across the board 😂😅
@FreePigeon The evidence shows that of the 50 or so countries in Europe, the UK is typically in the top 10 - and often in the top 5 - for all objective assessments of economic strength, standard of living, and quality of life. I’m not aware of ANY reputable measure in which the UK is “lower than the average in Europe”. For overall quality of life, probably the most important single metric for the success of a country, the UK is in the top 10-12 in the WORLD, which puts it WAY above the average for Europe.
Almost criminal that you say "Actually, the NHS has more funding" without pointing out that NHS Trusts have been introduced which - in some areas - skim off as much as FIFTY PERCENT of that funding. Yes, the government is paying MORE for the NHS (but also after "to the bone" cuts were made in the early 2010s) but a significant portion of that money is going to yacht money, NOT to the NHS. What the UK has done over the last decade is strip things back to "save costs" that we didn't need to save (the deficit was not an issue) - this has lined the pockets of the rich. Now that services have been stripped, the true costs have been revealed. The lack of support now means that government is having to pay MORE to fix the issues than they used to spend, AND most of that is to private, foreign companies which means the money LEAVES the UK Economy. Look at bin collections, for example. Having cut the services to "save money", numerous other issues emerged as a result, and to "fix" the issue, councils now contract out to American companies like Biffa, who pay their local staff appallingly, provide a "streamlined" service, all to increase profits to their AMERICAN shareholders. Same with our railways, and now with our NHS too. We've cut services to "save costs", which is now costing exponentially more in the long run, all to make capitalists even richer. The UK has been at the forefront of the Libertarian Experiment. It hasn't worked, and we're now in endgame capitalism. When we go hungry, we eat the rich.
If you import millions of third worlders and give them preference over native British people, you will get a housing crisis. The first duty of a government is to protect the interests of the NATIVE PEOPLE of said nation. A government which fails to make this their top priority is treasonous and illegitimate. No other people on earth allow themselves to be displaced and bullied by foreigners. It is illegal for foreigners to own property in China. Thailand does not allow foreigners to displace its people. Japan does not force its citizens to suffer through an open border with the third world.
The right to buy scheme was a simple way to sack all the council staff involved in the upkeep of the housing and to put homes into the hands of peopel who eventually wouldnt be able to pay their mortgages. So the rich could swoop in and buy up the council houses. And that's what happened.
That sounds like our government's policy here in the US before 2008. After the collapse, multinationals bought the houses and turned them into rentals that nobody can afford.
I lived in London for more than 10 years. I work in IT, so the wage is pretty good, but I have always considered the UK a third-world country. People here are spineless and don't protest! Things like freehold and leasehold highlight how bad the situation is. The UK should cut taxation and improve education and the NHS. Everything else should be cut. Social housing is crap and is motivated by poor education and how easy it is to become a single mum here. Instead, teach people how to use condoms. Brexit was a tragedy because Europe was an escape route for the youngsters and their way of negotiating terms with the country's leadership. You forced them to stay in the country. If I were a young Brit, I'd be fuming, but again, poor education and no bloody spirit to revolt...
If you want to experience a third world country, drop a message and I will give you some recommendations if you have the 'spine', or do you just like mouthing off on the internet?
Your grandparents would be appalled but the loss of the empire killed your spirit. I'm not saying the empire was good for anybody but its loss was devastating to your spirit and you never recovered. The same thing is going to happen all over the West soon.
@@simonegiuliani4913 Oh no lol. I'm hard to offend, it was just inaccurate what you said. The UK is under a poisonous ideology, that being Modern Western Liberalism. I hate it. Most of Western Europe is similar. However a third world country the UK is not. Please go to Sub Saharan Africa or South Asia to see what that really is.
For astute observation. I myself went the other way: from London to central Europe (pre-Brexit). Thank God I was kicked out of my corporate job in 2015 for being the wrong gender!
If real wages are adjusted for inflation you can't compare it with inflation a second time because it is already accounted for. In this case wages have gone up significantly but so has inflation, meaning you aren't any worse of than 15 years ago but your living condition haven't improved ether.
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Can you not have The Republic of Ireland be apart of the UK. As it is its own nation and one of the richest parts of europe with 7 highest per capita influx of migrants
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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
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I am from Poland, I lived and worked in the UK since 2005. In April this year, however, I decided to return to my homeland. In recent years, I have seen how the UK is sinking into its own stupidity and irresponsible policy, both social and immigration. Now I live in Poland and I earn more than I earned in the UK in a similar position.
Welcome back to Europe friend. Let's hope we don't screw up as bad as the Brits with their hate, envy and stupidity. Greetings from Germany, hoping the AFD won't win the election....
It's very sad, but I think you made a good move. You Polish folk have had a positive impact on our society. The vast majority of Poles I've met are very pleasant and civilised people. But this sadly isn't the case for our friends coming from other countries and cultures.
immigration has actually been very beneficial to this country
@@kierenbuckley370It'sa double edged sword. Initially immigration was a bonus. We had the Irish coming over in their droves, clearing the ruins after WW2 and doing the hard graft of building new estates and factories. Then we had the Windrush folks plugging the gaps in the health service and suchlike. Net migration was controllable, with around 20-40k a yr.
Having millions of men pouring into a country over the course of a few years isn't a positive benefit. It impacts the benefits system, housing, health care and education.
@kierenbuckley370 It's only good for the country when the immigrants are willing to integrate and not form their own subcultures where British people are not welcome.
Britain is a financier and money launderer, little of it goes to ordinary people
od czasu brexitu mają srogie problemy
Just like the West of The Netherlands is just one big dirty money-laundry business. And there rest is farming. Only some industry left in the South-East quarter, against all odds.
@@vanCaldenborgh and yet netherlands is still well developing rich country with people migrating there from whole europe
That why i love britain. My dr*g money is cleaned there
@@michamarkiewicz1642 Yes, also a lot of migration to the UK though, boats arriving every day. The Netherlands mostly lives from an artificially created image, a soon as people are there, they get a very different view.
The problem is that you live in a oligarchy. Politicians works for the big corporations that screw the general population. Laws are made to benefit them not you.
True, but the UK is a democracy. So how to sell the idea of making the poor poorer to the poor themselves? Enter ... Murdoch. The less educated are easily led astray by the Murdoch news industry, sorry I mean the Murdoch angertainment industry.
That's everywhere in the "free world" now. US, UK, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, France, Germany. We are just the livestock to these people.
The factors that favoured success of the UK in the period of 1750 to 1850 were already beginning to change and this became apparent in the Great Exhibition of 1851 and became more apparent in a series of International Exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and New York in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Air Technology totally obliterates any advantage of being an Island as Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrate and now a net work of Railways connecting the EU and Europe will place us at a greater disadvantage because Rail is and was and will be the most cost effective, least polluting transport system ,Physics is patent ,better than Air better than Sea. So all in all the British were and are wrong, and misinformed and clearly lack the necessary information to challenge the much distorted History and Politics fed to them by Farage and Reform .This country and its leaders have been subverted by the worst press and media in Europe. In this election no politician has raised his head above the parapet to challenge Farage' distorted facts ,fallacies and wilful mendacity, the Tory Party did not dissociate themselves from Brexit, they did not correct the wilful fallacies so a badly educated populace which has been flattered and deceived, and told what splendid people they were, and encouraged to believe in the past. All our yesterdays, And the press has been the mirror of lower middle class conceit, the barely respectable. I ask again how can people imagine that a Rapist and a Fraud is the President the USA needs? and now can the British People believe in, and hail the man endorsed by Trump should to be the prime minister we need. But there is another problem which accounts for our failure, The British have been encouraged to imagine they are top dog, they have not collaborated, openly, or rather they have not admitted they have collaborated, and so the people do not know, do not understand that the world has changed, they do not understand the change, they do not realise that we ceased to be a great power, but we hung on grimly to a delusion of the past that was not the success it was cracked up to be. No country can cleave to yesterday, but they have to be taught which are ineffable ethics and what are mutable factors but our politicians do not understand hence this massive hypocrisy. Every year since the first performance of Messiah in Dublin the aria
What do the nations so furiously rage together against the lord and his anointed, and why do the nations imagine a vain thing, but they thought that meant every one but themselves. . And now a woman who stormed out of the Anglican Church because of women clergy is the law and order spokes-person who thinks a leader who is OK with Rape and Fraud Rape., She has not even asked herself how that is possible?, And in that colossal lack of self-knowledge the country flounders because they elect people like that and then blame every one but themselves. And the history they accept is spun to absurdity by media people whose mental rigidity and reaction are habit. A Michael Gove that thinks Climate Change Science is a Marxist plot, aided and abetted by the ranter par excellence, Peter Hitchins, an Historian who compare Brexit with the dynastic Problems of Henry VIII, another who compares it with the Repeal of the Corn Laws and an anachronism dressed in fancy costume such as no one has worn since the death of Victoria , cannot understand the difference between Statute Law and standards and regulations incorporated into Law by treaty to protect the British Population. When Laurel and Hardy become politicians do you expect serious politics? But they were elected or heeded, despite the absurdity of the whole dam lot. They call it 'Common sense' You realise part of the problem in the the comments the whining because their candidate has been asked searching questions, this is thought of as bias, but only because they they do not know what the BBC and ITV charters were, only because they think media is there to masturbate their prejudices, anything else is bias ,treason or conspiracy, and it the mentality of the lower middle class but technology has rendered them, the average man defunct and obsolete. Every country has them and they are all facing the menace of mediocrity, ignorance, stupidity, credulous and nursing a grievance against whom they know not, but someone must be to blame. Such nicepeopleasthey see in their mirror it can be them. This was the mind set of the Wolkische Beobachter the pioneer of gutter Journalism and the Murdoch Press, and the Daily Mail realised their was revenue and care not a jot it was Fascism.
@@benedictcowell6547 It's hard to follow your reasoning as your post isn't very coherent; it keeps jumping subject in a non sequitur fashion.
Same across the West
I am Czech. I used to live in the UK for 3 years total till 2012. UK was going downhill. Overpriced services, overpriced homes. Eastern Europe started gaining steam. I always had a feeling that Polish, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians are being frown upon. In my opinion Brexit was about immigration from Eastern Europe. I used to live in immigrant district of major town and I was shopping in local market. Even then, there was animosity between some Muslims and White Europeans. I was even being pushed by some old angry Pakistani when waiting in the queue to pay for groceries.
That's some bullshit😅
Brexit was about locking UK border before WWIII.
@@helengunby9628 stop smoking
@@AnimanuiVasile ahaha, I wish that was a sick fantasy 😁
@@Jnth007care to explain
Brits, not all is lost. You can migrate to Poland and start working as a plumber.
...or a nanny.
Plumbing is a good job. You can't automate plumbers.
No you can't. Brexit remember ...? Do keep up
Hmmm..will you speak Polish as good.as they speak English?
@@garryferrington811 It is, but it has been used by British to denigrate Polish immigrants. Nowadays gender studies give you a better social status despite how useless they are in society.
I'm from eastern europe and I visited UK as a kid in late 90s and again around 2007. I was amazed by buildings, museums and all the splendor. I visited again in 2017 and my perspective changed. Housing that my friends lived in was disgusting, damp and dark. Costed way too much and commutes were a nightmare. Streets of London outside tourist zones are nasty and don't feel safe at all. I'd rather live in a commie block than those shitty houses. UK became a really undesirable location to live in. Some of my work colleagues transferred to UK and say that while earning more on paper their quality of life has fallen compared to Poland.
This the Tories doing. Siphoned off the money for rich mates.
1.2 mln Poles applied for leave to remain after Brexit, why do Poles find the UK so attractive? I am a Brit and live in Poland. Polands biggest export is cheap labour.
No you wouldn’t stop lying millions of your countrymen came here when communism fell and loved 8 men to a 2 bed room house to take advantage of the economy and send £ back to Poland
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 Polish people love the UK. There thousands of them there, because the Pound Sterling is worth alot in Poland. Polish and other Eastern European people also know the UK is easy place to engage in sophisticated crime like fraud, manipulating benefits. Why do you think so many Romanians, Bulgarians, Polish, Slovakians etc live there ?
@@garlicandchilipreppers8533 Not anymore and more Poles are leaving UK than coming because right now Poland is better place to live. Those who settled their lives in UK obviously prefer to stay - pretty usual.
"At the end of 2017, the number of permanent residents of Poland who had been staying in the United Kingdom for at least 12 months was 629,000. This number significantly decreased in 2018-2019, reaching approximately 550,000. At the end of 2020 (after the United Kingdom left the EU), the largest drop was recorded - by almost 100,000 - down to 450,000. Since then, this number has remained at a similar level.
From 2017 to 2022, the largest increase in the number of long-term temporary emigrants from Poland occurred in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway - by 28,000 (31.8%), 6,000 (33.3%), and 5,000 (6.9%) respectively. Conversely, the largest decrease was recorded in the United Kingdom and Italy - by 183,000 (29.1%) and 14,000 (23.7%) respectively. In other European countries, smaller changes were observed, not exceeding 3,000 people over the entire analyzed period.
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- Published by government publication [stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/ludnosc/migracje-zagraniczne-ludnosci/informacja-o-rozmiarach-i-kierunkach-emigracji-dlugookresowych-w-latach-2017-2022,18,1.html]
I took liberty of translating, apologies for possible mistakes.
Right now biggest polish export are car parts...
The main reason Poles targeted UK was the fact that most young Poles speak English but barely anyone speaks French or German.
Canadian want to leave canada, french want to leave France, american want to leave u.s , brits wants to leave britain , Indians want to leave india. Tell me a single country which is good in every aspect and still giving their citizenship.
We have to make our country great by ourselves. No outsider is going to fix your own country. Period.
True. I know folks from other parts of the world who hate their own countries... this is not just happening in the UK.
100%
yea for these clowns with the headlines like this and their propoganda , they think the Europe is the best place.
maybe singapore but they rank really low when it comes to freedom of speech, and its reaally expensive to live in.
Switzerland
"no one wants to live in the UK" about a million new arrivals last year. Its disproportionately native British people that want to leave
3rd world wants
The English aren't native
@@Inucroft Yes we are. But by your logic no one is native anywhere on Earth then.
Inucroft-What a stupid thing to say.
SUSSYMEMES-Exactly.
After a 12 years of living in uk, this spring I moved to my home land Lithuania. Now I realise that I got used to accepting humiliation in uk and wrongly assumed that I can achieve more in london that here. My age people who stayed, they live relatively modestly, but they all have a houses, wife's, already grown kids. And I am kind of behind, in some areas.
As a Polish woman feeling the same. Accepting humiliation and assuming I can achieve more in London. How stupid and naive I used to be.
After 10 years in London i returned back to Latvia, never again
Can you elaborate on what you mean in "humiliation " ?
Brokie
@@BLACKSTA361It’s the stardard attitude towards foreigners, mostly felt by black and brown people, regardless of their origin or how ”British” they actually are. For us white Europeans, it is easier to fly below the radar as long as our accent does not reveal our non-British origin, be it from Ireland, Italy, Sweden or Switzerland. I returned to Switzerland a few years ago, having lived in England for several years. The change in attitude after Brexit was remarkable, although I must say that people from Scotland were less biased. I was asked constantly by strangers if I came from Poland. I was ssuprised and asked what made people to think so and if they thought I had a Polish accent, only to realise that most people could only distinguish other English accents and French/German accents while lumping all other Europeans into a group of Slavic Eastern Europeans. My SA friend, after living in England over 30 years, was known as the SA lady by neighbours. My Swedish friend was mocked for her accent as the Swedish cook from the Muppets.Needless to say, very few had travelled anywhere else but for a beach holiday in southern Europe or a break in Amsterdam or Paris and even fewer had any notions of a foreign language. The atmosphere just started to feel very insulated and xenophobic. Even people who were non-white seemed to stay in their own circles, probably because of their repeated if not over-generational negative experiences with the white English population. Imagine yourself being asked constantly if you come from Poland (or any other country) and even if you speak impeccably the language of the country of your residence, corrected by the locals constantly of your pronounciation or grammatical mistakes? I personally did not mind being corrected (free learning), but noticed that if a native English speaker made a mistake, s/he was never corrected. That sort of attitude just got tiring. In Switzerland, we have 4 official languages and over 25% of the residents are foreign born.
I lived in the UK for ten years, did two masters and a PhD there, and my wife is from there. Last year we moved to Germany and our decision was beyond housing and wages tbh. The UK has serious social problems as well. We both make less money here and are much happier with the quality of life.
in which region are you living if I may ask?
Germany sucks too.
@@Dan5482not compared to the uk. The uk is horrid.
Lived in Germany for ten years and whilst I did enjoy most of the time, it was then enough for me. High taxes, high health insurance to pay, grumpy Germans plus mama merkel opening the door to half of ISIS. Let’s not pretend Germany doesn’t have its own issues.
Germany has a massive immigrant problem of the religion of peace
I live in the rural southern United States, and my boss is from the UK. He told me he makes 3 times as much as he would in the UK. He's got a house on the lake with a boat, nice car etc
I have a work colleague who left the UK in the late 90's and moved to Atlanta. He said he sold his house for 3x the amount he paid for it and paid cash for his new home and 2 new cars. The following year he had an inground outdoor pool put in. He did say that after he sold his house in the UK, in just 6 months later he wouldn't even be able to buy it back again due to rising prices. While he has a professional Telecommunications job and his wife was a dental hygienist, they were constantly scraping by in the UK, but in Atlanta his wife doesn't need to work at all.
The USA has some of the worst workers rights in the world. Also, more than 70,000 people are bankrupt with medical debt each year. Also, gun crime.. well enough said about that aspect. But then again.. at least in the UK, you may have a smaller house here, but at least your kids won't be shot in school!
I went to Florida, and the guy working in the bank was british. He says he earned half what he would in the UK, but the cheap housing balanced it out.
@@lordprotector3367 Florida always has low paying jobs because it has no trouble attracting workers because of the climate.
Atlanta was the best paying Southern city with the cheapest housing and disposable income when I lived there from 1995 to 2005. I expect things have probably changed now.
@@glennshoemake4200 I see, didn't realise that. This was in 2007, so may have changed.
I have lived and worked in England and I have family there, but I now live in New Zealand. I thank my lucky stars I moved out here. I returned to England two years ago to visit family and friends in Newcastle, Leeds and Norwich. The quality of life has deteriorated so badly, it was depressing. Everything is run down. Hotel rooms are expensive and the quality is poor. Car rental is exorbitant and it is impossible to avoid getting a parking ticket or a speeding ticket. Restaurants and bars are half-empty most of the time and the supermarkets are filled with produce that is of a very basic quality. The Health Service is crumbling and I wasn't even able to get to a dentist after one of my fillings fell out. The High Street is filled with poundsaver and thrift shops and the once good-natured and fair-minded English people seem to have been replaced by a more dour and mean-spirited community. Sadly, I couldn't wait to get back to New Zealand after a week in England. This was not the country I once loved.
Can be live there they can leave there. But no, they might live they or yes also leave there. The is growling much.
New Zealand is in trouble now too. Record number of people are fleeing. Where are you move to next?
I so agree…left for Australia years ago thankfully. I return to visit family and each year things are getting desperately worse for them, low wages, high prices are a real problem, the government has betrayed the country and its people
This is what happens when the Brits decided to elect Conservative governments for decades...!!! (SMH!!!)
The most accurate description ever, Bravo.
I'd be doing my wife and kids a huge favour by asking them to pack and all of us move abroad.
As a long term British resident the best word I could use to summarise the state of the country is deterioration. Everything has gotten worse, absolutely everything.
Businesses are constantly closing down, services and goods are getting more and more expensive, crime is rising, homelessness is rising, the NHS is on the verge of collapse, property is extortionate and appaling quality, the list goes on. All the while our politicians sing their praises and act like everything is great.
Where to go though?
@l.j.turner185...You can complain all you want to, like other British have for the best 5 to 7 years +. The real issue is mismanagement of the UK goverment and the lack of creating productive and constructive policies for British citizens and society at large. British people love to complain alot and make videos how this and that is bad. Or even speak of ''i am moving to Australia or New Zealand''. Yet no one comes with solutions that are sound and nuanced just complain and vote for the major parties that love to ''sweet talk'' the British electorate with personality and charisma why lying in your faces for what 14 good years. You lot voted for your goverments and this is your end result its that simpel.
Left 25 years ago precisely because I could see where things were heading.
Now, 25 years later, there’s almost nowhere left to go that isn’t economically broken & filled with ungrateful gimmegrants.
We must Vote Reform, Labour and Tories are a dictatorship same people.
The solutions are easy. But the two party system does not allow them. 👍
I left UK coming up to 10 years now, I moved to Slovakia, everyone asks me why I would leave uk. Well I earn less when you compare the wages in UK for the type of job I have. But I bought a flat here bigger than the house I lived in, in uk, I just finished paying off my mortgage here so my flat is my flat. I have money in my pocket and I use no credit cards or Loans. So even though wages are lower so is the cost of living. Why would I stay in UK and still have debts up to my eye balls. I say to anyone Don't hold yourself to UK there is always something better over the water. Just need to try
For how much longer do you think slovakia will be in a healthy shape
@@Sam-rr4ek Not sure. it could go either way. I know wages in some areas are extremely low and prices are rising, I was lucky when I moved here. Only time will tell. I know this country has its issues
@@Sam-rr4ek For how much longer do you think the uk will be in a healthy shape
Well, those are only the monetary aspects. Quality of life is more than just that.
I´m in the same situation in another EU country, and despite lower income etc my quality of life due to climate, both meteorologically as well as socially, is far far better in my new country of residence.
@@ab-ym3bf uk is not in a healthy state as we speak. I still have family in the UK, Every year you hear of pensioners not being able to heat there houses and dying from the cold, health service is a mess you cant see a doctor, food is a horrific price. With me I can feed my family, pensioners can heat there homes. I can get to see a doctor when I need and medical care in my opinion is of a much higher standard. You walk into a hospital here they dont look good but the money goes on care and keeping people healthy. yearly checkups. Not waiting for operations, Beds always available its a quality of life is better here
What's even worse than having no housing is the government clamping down on people finding their own alternatives like living in cars and vans, or even static caravans. What are people supposed to do when even homelessness is being outlawed.
Housing has been financialised with the ardent support even of socialists - many of them own houses which they pass to their children.
Well, each country gets the government it voted for and deserves. People believe what liars/idiots like Johnson and Farage tell/promise them and believe their lies and views of 'a golden future'. Unfortunately these things also happen in other countries, so far on a milder scale than in the UK though.
Fight back
@@kremepye3613 Fight back who?
@@tiglishnobody8750 Eat the rich. That's who. Every goddamn last one of them.
I was living in the UK for over 8 years. In UK I could bearly afford anything and just a room in London on 2k gross monthly wage. Now I earn over four time as much in Poland working from home and almost paid off my house in 3 years in Warsaw. I don't know why I've stayed so long in the UK maybe it's just you don't realised how bad the UK is unless you move out from it for a couple of months.
I moved to the UK 13 years ago and realised it was good marketing for the UK, nothing else.
You can't earn 4 times as much in Poland when salaries there are 4 times lower than uk
I looked up what I would be paid for a similar role in Poland and I would be paid about three times less than in the UK.
@@Yimello probably it de rods on the role
@@Yimello I'm referring to a different role in UK I was either doing security or teaching in local college. In the UK, I applied for several higher-level positions, only to be rejected by all of them. In contrast, I found it easier to secure better jobs in Poland than I could in the UK. For instance, out of 100 applications I submitted in the UK, I received only one response. However, when I altered just my name to something more traditionally British, I received three interview invitations out of only five applications. That was the tipping point for me, and I decided it was time to move on.
I am now working remotely from Poland as a consultant for companies based in Asia. As a b2b owner, the tax burden is significantly lower compared to being employed so this is almost net that is also the reason I've stoped employment contract as gross my look good you will still end up giving almost half of your salary in taxes. .To put things in perspective, the average employment contract in Warsaw offers around £2,000 per month, whereas business roles typically start at around £3,000 gross per month. Although these figures are still lower than what one might earn in London, they aren't far behind the rest of the UK, and the cost of living is substantially lower. But of course it depends on what you do. But I've seen construction guys making far more in Poland then they were making in the UK. While the salaries stayed almost the same in the UK in Poland those gew fast. But of course depend on what you do. But if you are in unskilled workforce then sure you will earn more in the UK but you will be still left with nothing at end of the month. When I left to UK 15 years ago min salary was like 140 pounds a month. Now min salary is around 900 pounds a month. But around big cities it's hard to find anoyone willing to go to work for such low salary.
Since Rishi took office, there seem to have been more unfavorable results in UK. These results include effects on the markets, such as price declines and sharp increases in inflation, as well as bank failuresMy greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in UK.
Inflation already have significant impacts on individuals and their cost of living. As a result, it can cause negative market sentiment. It is important for individuals and businesses to find ways to navigate and potentially mitigate the effects of inflation on their finances. The current economic climate, including underperformance of financial markets due to fear of inflation, has led to a decrease in the value of my portfolio. I would appreciate any recommendations on how to potentially increase returns during this market downturn.
Even the stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over $50k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of wealth transfer in this downtime if you know where to look.
Such market uncertainties are the reason I don’t base my market judgements and decisions on rumours and here-says, got the best of me 2020 and had me holding worthless position in the market, I had to revamp my entire portfolio through the aid of an advisor, before I started seeing any significant results happens in my portfolio, been using the same advisor and I’ve scaled up $450k within 2 years, whether a bullish or down market, both makes for good profit, it all depends on where you’re looking.
I’m in dire need of guidance so i can salvage my portfolio due to the massive dips and come up with better strategies. How can I reach this advisor?
Her name is Annette Marie Holt can't divulge much. Most likely, the internet should have her basic info, you can research if you like.
Left family and friends behind to escape the poverty in Bulgaria only to move here, work my ass off, with 3 higher education degrees, and be underpaid to the point i can't even rent a place on my own... I am now regretting wasting my youth.
So you should have stayed in absolute poverty and not come here
The whole system here is set up to make the old rich off the backs of the young. You didn't waste your youth, they wasted an entire generation of their own children & you got caught up in the reaping.
I wasted my 20s here as well. What a shame. Always treated here like a lower class citizen. Should have stayed in Poland.
Връщай се брат. В бг вече е топ 😊
@@ian2183 софия бива ама в малките градове е леш човек :/
We just left the UK the main problem is the high cost of living. As an example Instead of paying £700 per year for water in the UK here in Greece we are paying £20 per year.
That's one of the places that we're thinking about moving to. Unfortunately, because of the laws in the Netherlands, we can't go for 5 years. Who knows if it will be possible by then.
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But you make 60k dollars per year in the uk and 23k in greece in average
Nah average earning in Uk is likely 25k to 30k (pounds) (in dollrlars thats 40k@FireAgarioMore
@@FireAgarioMorewhat universe do you live in if you think 60k is the average salary in the UK? Lol. Wake up. It's about 35k.
Life just felt lonely, cold, hard, hostile and expensive in the UK.
Not to mention the splendid weather
An Australian nurse told me she was going back, she said she was tired of being 'working poorly. She moved here because her partner was from here but even he is convinced that their situation would be better for them as a young family in her country.
* working poor
Trust me - Australia's going down the same marxist woke road as any other Western country - it's only a matter of time when it's as bad as France, Sweden and the UK.
Remember, it's the WEF who run the West now ...... governments exist purely to carry-out what the WEF tell them to do.
@@tangaz5819 you can always edit your original comment 😁
Australia is headed down the same road. The whole of the West is headed off a cliff.
Do five minutes of research on the housing situation in Australia and get back to me. The UK obviously has major problems but I really don't buy that countries like Australia are doing much better
In Ireland we watch a lot of British tv. It’s insane how much of it revolves around stretching your money and protecting it. Things like Rip-Off Britain, Jamie Oliver’s £1 wonders, and segments on affordable clothes/bills/necessities on daytime tv. It’s like omg can these people afford to breathe?
No one watches TV anymore, especially when Jamie Oliver is on 😱😱😱
No
It depends what you do I recently noticed job postings for plumbers in London one was for 205.000 a year the other4 190.000 a year Try hiring a bricklayer in London to build your garden wall they charge 400 quid a day plus expenses. Electricians. Joiners. they make huge money.
Ireland crap too. Same greedy mentality and corruption. Housing is a disaster, crime is rising, healthcare is like in Albania. Phew
They can until the government figures out how to tax air.
I migrated to Australia from the UK in 2019 and never looked back. The final nail in the coffin for me was being told I didn't earn enough money on a first time buyer scheme for a 2 bed part buy-part rent apartment in Edmonton despite earning the national average wage and having double the required deposit amount. There is definitely higher earning potential for me in OZ but the country still has it's own issues with available housing.
I left the uk for aus in 2016. I last went back in 2022, and was shocked by just how bad it had become. It’s actually tragic. Australia isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues ahead of the uk.
(There were two final nails for me. Firstly the taxi driver who insisted that Pakistan was part of the EU; then the pink ukip bus that was blaring out flight of the Valkyries by Wagner, you know, hitlers favourite German composer. Facepalm central)
Yeah but Aus beat up grannies during Covid and setup camps so enjoy your future police state lol
@@robthebloke oh no, hitler liked a thing? Well I can't like that thing now!
Housing in Australia is more expensive than the UK and there’s no such thing as affordable housing in Australia.
It’s going downhill in the rest of Europe, too. The living standard is rapidly decreasing. No significant investment in infrastructure, education, health care, research, security have been made in the past decades. Our wealth has been jeopardised by spineless politicians. It’s a real shame.
Are u mad? The rest of Europe is thriving, opposite to UK
@@ApuCapu What exact area in Europe is thriving ?
"If I say it, it's true." 😆
@@PhilippeE.-kx6gd Poland for example 🤪
I agree that the situation in Eastern Europe is different. But Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium etc. are far from thriving. Quite the opposite in fact.
My son, a Master's-level university graduate has emigrated to Denmark as his equally well qualified Danish wife was unable to live and work in the UK despite months of job applications.. She very quickly found employment in Denmark at £48,000 p.a., has no student debt, pays £500 per month in a secure-tenancy, rent-controlled flat , whilst my son (£65k student debt and rising) embarks on the process of becoming a Danish citizen. Their first preference had been to make their life in the UK but it was not possible, and to be honest their prospects are much brighter in Denmark. This is the consequence of 45 years of ideologically driven neo-liberalism, and there is scant prospect of any fundamental change under the incoming Labour government,
No, this the result of big government and Socialist policies. The UK is so statist and socialist that I’m surprised that it still stands. Only Libertarian policies could save this country.
True but it will get to Denmark soon.
Smart child. I emigrated to central Europe in 2015. Was sick being milked left, right, and centre.
Quality of life here is off the charts in my new adopted home. Take home earnings are the same, but the costs are 1/4 compared to the UK.
You're right and that is what is so depressing. The hugely destructive neo liberal economic policy is totally embedded in this country and from what I've heard from.Labour they are more interested in cutting spending and any future spending increase will have to be earned. They don't get the fundamental fact that if you have an ailing under funded public sector, poor infrastructure etc then.you are not going to achieve a strong economy. They couldn't even fulfill their pledge to.commit £25 billion into the new "Green" economy, which was their flagship policy. I just despair quite frankly
By the way so pleased that your son is out of this nightmare and is on his way to becoming a Danish hence EU citizen.
I moved to the UK in 2002: did my degree and professional qualifications. I am seriously considering leaving the UK in the near future although my children are not happy about it.
The cost of living has increased significantly, my husband and I are both working long hours and almost have no time for any social life whatsoever. As a tax payer, I have to wait months to get NHS appointments and often go abroad for treatment.
Don't you have paid vacations you Europeans talk shit to an Americans?
Get out while your still young
Hahahhaa
Its the same the world over not just the UK although things are going to get even worse now we have two tier Starter and Labour.
Being a kid in the UK from around 12 to around 16 is a living hell. If your kids are younger than that age, they might like the idea more later. I will always regret that I was still there during my childhood.
I read this quote somewhere recently that encapsulated Britains current deteriating situation perfectly. It went: "Britain is a third world country with London attached to it."
Pretty ironic when most of the third world population residing in England are located in London (and a few other big cities).
I have seen variations of this quote for different countries like “America is a third world country with a Gucci belt” or “Canada is becoming a third world country”.
The UK is a one star hotel charging five star prices for SFA service and benefit.
@@pistolpete8539 I just read the other day with some people saying, “Canada is a 3 star hotel charging 5 star prices”.
Brevity is the soul of wit... that is succinctly put!
We often visited the UK for holidays, but last May while visiting the south-east I realized that I didn't want to go anymore. Infrastructure, houses and even people are looking bad; lack of maintenance and proper care. Currently on our way to Sweden at a stop in the north of Germany and so much more pleasant to be in a region not in decline
As someone who's lived in Sweden for 6 months and got a lot of friends there, I can safely say they have similar issues but are more spread out since it's less densly populated. There just about a decade of decline behind us really.
"Those leaving the country were significently more skilled then those entering the nation" What you mean mass migration means majority of them aren't Doctors and engineers? I'm "shocked "almost like businesses want them too suppress wages "crazy I know"
Suppress wages? Corporations offer jobs at certain wage rates and conditions. If Brits don't want to do them - Corporations press the government to allow in foreign workers. If you don't want foreign workers elect politicians who will shut that down. Unfortunately that will mean many corporations may go out of business. Best to think this one through before fulminating at foreign workers. Just like brexit pack of horse sh*t that promised Britain would rise if unshackled from the EU. How did that go exactly?
Or maybe it's because even if an immigrant has qualifications from their own country this is often seen as sub standard compared to our own qualifications. I know of many immigrants who are skilled but struggle to find work until they have qualifications recognised by employers.
What you get.is skilled immigrants doing unskilled jobs. It is not their fault, nor is it the fault of immigration policies.
Now I'm not saying this is the only problem but I think it is naive to think immigrants are unskilled
@@thewordywizard4389 its because most have fake degrees.
@@thewordywizard4389it’s their fault for leaving their own country. If they’re skilled they should remain and develop their country. We are full and don’t want them.
High IQ 130 and productive out,- low IQ 80 and low productive in. It called balanced migration.
A video entitled ‘Why no one wants to live in the UK’ seems to ignore that currently a city the size of Newcastle is arriving every year. While there’s some merit to some of the comments, it ignores that elephant in the room. The scarcity of housing is in no small part driven by demand, as well as supply issues. This video seems to ignore that.
It also needs saying, one of the main reasons for immigration is English being the official languages of so many countries, ex-colonies, or English being the #1 taught foreign language. Of course that when someone grows up speaking English outside of England/US/Australia/etc. they want to go to an originally English country, if not even out of curiosity. It is a very unfortunate effect of having your language as the international one, but it is a problem that should be addressed properly too. People who from the beginning are at risk of homelessness (can't speak the language properly but still emigrate to the UK (example: don't have a language proficiency test), don't have secondary education, don't have proper identity documents, etc.) should be prevented from arriving in great numbers for no good reason. But I know and you should know that Eu or non EU, the British rules state that if someone without papers arrives on the isles and claims they have nowhere to go, then the person is given "refuge", and that is a law that has existed for well over 100 years in loose terms (in practice, this is what happens). It also bothers me to read how people can't make the difference between the freedom of movement of people (wanting to live in another country is not a crime and we're not cultural marxists?), so a legal immigrant, and an illegal immigrant (which can also have good causes or unfortunate roots, there's a lot of nuance, for example person trafficking or crime allegations that only constitute a crime on the country they live in but not in the one they are arriving into - e.g. certain human right activists in the UAE; the nuance being that a person who ends up as an illegal immigrant TYPICALLY doesn't do so out of their own free choice and volition, but coercion in some direct or indirect form). However, just as true is that the culture and people of a place shouldn't be allowed to take the brunt of "wanting to help", loose central policies, or wrong politician morals. Remember though that very little people would acre about the UK if they weren't FORCED to learn English since kindergarten. Everyone has to learn English nowadays from school. Have you never questioned the effects of that? Or why that is happening?
Yes - in the real world thousands of people are desperate to leave the EU, cross the channel in unsafe boats to get to the UK.
The title is CORRECT, because mostly NOBODIES arrive to the UK
@@RheeasDomainThey come here because they get handed everything and the state takes care of their kids for them.
@@swaggadash9017 benefits are so low
I'm Portuguese, lived in London from 2013 to 2018. Lived in shared houses all the time, always with a job. Returning to Lisbon was the right thing to do. I can't say our economy here is better, but at least im close to my family, have sun and definitely better food. However I love many British cultural aspects as well. Hoping that the Labour party can change some things for better. 💜🇵🇹🇬🇧
Best of luck
The labour party is going to bring us even closer to communism. Things will only get worse. Starmer is a stooge of DAVOS and the World Economic Forum. I curse people's ignorance.
Lisbon is way nicer than London - I know people are not happy there either and wages are a lot lower, but the people seem much nicer and the quality of life seems much better!
Trickle-down effect?😂
Unfortunately, some of us can't just go home because this _is_ our home.
I have been talking about the over reliance on service sector tertiary jobs for decades, but also a huge problem is that global companies like Amazon are allowed to get away with not paying taxes on the money they make in the UK. This not only means there is less money for infrastructure and services, but it also means UK based businesses, who do have to pay their taxes due, are at a distinct disadvantage.
Born and raised in the U.K. now 33. It’s sad to see what my county has become, and how ordinary brits seem to be taken advantage of, at every turn. It’s insane to see previously poorer countries, now overtaking our quality of living.. what the hell went wrong for us? Also, the added cruelty/irony that we voted Brexit, means we are now stuck here. Even those of us, that want to actually leave.. can’t.
@FreePigeon Education costs money, visas are extremely difficult for Brits to go to Europe now, have a try of it ( i realise you going to make up some BS cover story).
You don't speak the lingo. Eu unemployment is 2x 3x uk numbers. Native speakers
@@michaelallan5317 It's really easy to move to Europe. Any sober professional position is open to you and all but small companies operate in English. You just can't go as a bohemian busking and squatting anymore.
Not a loss for most, unless you are part of the 'phoney poor' but actually middle class who used to do that?
Hahaha if you weren't just full of it I would give you some genuine advice. If you genuinely want to leave, go live in South East Asia. You'll live like a king, better quality of life and a nicer climate. Why live in Europe out of all of the rest of the world to choose from
Your last comment is one of the reasons why Cameron offered a referendum in the first place. His class of person want the rest of us to be under their control again
I left London, UK almost a decade ago and never looked back. There is more to life outside of UK and like the saying goes "go where you are treated best"
So you went to Bangkok?
@@TransoceanicOutreach I been to Germany, India, Jordan and now Laos. I can go to Thailand everyday if I want..
@@TransoceanicOutreach Me love your tax-friendly, higher quality of life, cuisine, weather, and work-life balance long time.
But people like you would never be happy with the UK unless there were no white people left and we had given every last bit of money to the new arrivals. You're biased.
@@ashok3733so you’re a travailing bum
My mother's longterm partner was from Britain (we live in Denmark). After his mother died, he didn't want to go back to visit relatives again. He said that the country is so run-down it made him depressed.
It's coming to Denmark one of these days. It's the future the rulers in Europe and America want.
I emigrated in 2015, and have only returned once for 24hrs to collect some personal effects. It's a dump now.
How is the UK a dump or down hill , perhaps it was just in the places you lived lol
@@neilreynolds3858most American regularly forget Denmark exists. I think ur good from our side
Lol he porks your mom everyday in the other room.
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Below I list what I think is the reason from my personal perspective.
1. Low education levels of the average Britt. This means there's horses of people that can't even write an email.
2. Low income. Exaggerated, by the corporations that pay way below what the living wages are.
3. Income to value ratio of housing.
4. Pack of business funding for new businesses that turnover less than 100k
5. Class. No matter how hard you try some people just won't get into some places. Which ruins talent and rewards incompetent upper and political classes.
What are you on about. Britain has one of the most educated populaces in the world. In fact London is literally THE most educated city globally (highlighted by the fact that it has the most universities and eve 2 universities in the top 10)
@@shaaravguha3760 I agree. my kids are bringing home homework from primary school im pretty sure we didnt touch on till secondary school 30 years ago.
My daughter gets shed loads of homework. If she does not complete it on time she gets detention and has to do it anyway.
@@robbailie5878
We had primary school homework in Ireland when I was in school in the 1980s
The average Brit has normal levels of education vs rest of Europe.
Where there is detriment, it's the anti "socialist" aspect where Brits lean more to the US way of doing things than old UK.
I left the UK a year ago and while I earn far less in this country the cost of living is much lower. I can actually live, not just survive.
Where did u move to if u don’t mind???
It's going to get even worse!
Cost of living is higher in the U.S.
@@Bill32H-it3sv it cant be that good if you have to boast about it on the internet
Me too I left the UK 2 years ago and my quality of life has significantly got better. It really is that bad in England. A lot of people don't realise how bad the quality of life is until they move away.
British citizen, left the UK in December last year, no intention to return to its shores except for visits to friends and family every few years
where you at now?
where did you move to?
Very sensible !
I left too. Never going back ever.
Me too. 25 years old, managed to get a job elsewhere and never looked back, I don't see myself ever returning, it's a sorry state of affairs
The most important part comes at the very end 18:51: "Although privatization was meant to bring in capital for infrastructure upgrades in many cases it led to underinvestment as private companies sought to maximize profits rather than invest into long term improvements." -> (This means that in some areas/industries privatization is bad and should instead be state owned/government controlled e.g. water/housing/healthcare/legal system/public infrastructure,...)
When talking about Thatcher and her right to buy scheme, you forgot to mention that... 1) All the money earned by local councils was not permitted to be used to build more housing but was used to make up for the lack of funds from central government. 2) Also that within the first year of the right to buy coming in, 25% of all the council homes bought by tenants had been repossessed by the banks. Those now homeless ex tenants, evicted by the banks were re-housed into fewer council homes left.
It was never a "right to buy" it was a right to get in to debt. The scheme was a complete swindle that handed council housing stock to banks.
The houses should also not have been allowed to be used for private renting
The councils are the biggest wasters of everything. Don't kid yourself the council can do anything better. I know a subby that gets paid £700 a day to mow lawns.
'Also that within the first year of the right to buy coming in, 25% of all the council homes bought by tenants had been repossessed by the banks' - what's your source for this statistic?
25% of all the council homes bought by tenants had been repossessed by the banks. are you just making shit up !
I left the uk 17 years ago. One thing I always notice when returning is no one has a pot to p!$$ in. Everyone is in massive debt
English girls get drunk every week and have high heels permanently glued to their feet.
For me it was the filth everywhere. Shops boarded up, people hanging around streets doing nothing, house windows boarded up and disgustingly dirty. Lots and lots of none wh__te people. Communal areas around houses literally were dumps. Sorry to say this , but these areas were not occupied by native Brits.
speak for yourself and those that you know.
No they are not….
Must be your circle of friends.
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@@dwaynesview don't care
I am a spanish national who has his settled status here in the UK. I am technically a legal student here and I have the right to work and everything but after finishing my studies,I will move to london to gain work experience in my field(i will share house most likely) and then run away from here as fast as I can.
English people and citizens have been amazing so far.
But the issue is that I do not see a future in here for myself,specially since I want a family, with house prices and everything.
If the situation was better for younger people who want to start a family I would have stayed.
Once I get a few years of experience in london (it is easier to get a job in london than my hometown due to more opportunities) I will be able to build a resume good enough to move to switzerland, denmark or maybe even the US.
Couldnt agree more
Good luck 👍
Good plan in my opinion
good luck with your studying.
noice......
The worse thing is feeling that neither of the main parties would make it better 😔
Maybe give libdems a go
Give labour a chance. They will unite Great britain. Bring in more socialist friendly policies to help the poorer members of society.
@@justasrandom6609they're just pro EU Tories to be fair.
I don't understand how they say labour can't do better when they haven't been in power for 15 years.
@@colinsmith1288 Didn't they have a "race manifest" at some point? Not to mention that class socialism is inherintly anti-semitic? Just read Marx, Lenin or Stalin's texts themselves.
@@radicalesotericcentristthose maniacs? never
My friend from Greece moved to the UK 8 years ago. He was living by himself in London. He's recently left for Cyprus.
Wow. Fascinating
Its not all about economy, the uk is crumbling because its citizens feel less and less united
That's about to swing the other way and not just in the UK
People don't care anymore. They just think about themselves rather than the country.
I wonder why are they feeling less united? The millions of browns and blacks replacing the british couldn't be the cause because diversity is strength
@@al9709for many, the way the country is now is all they’ve known.
Why should I do my bit when I’ve had to go cold and hungry just to keep a roof over my head? Make it make sense
@@Osindileyo if everyone does a bit extra for everyone else, then the net result is 3* better for everyone.
Everything we hear these days is so depressing,and there seem to be no suggested solutions. In Kenya, we used to believe that the UK was the best place ever, but now we hear this. Equally sad stories are heard about the US and other previously highly regarded places. It's so sad.
Make Kenya great again 🎉🎉🎉
2000 Pounds for a studio, 2500 for 1 bed and 3000 for 2 bed in central London, at same time median household disposable income in the UK is £32,300 (after taxes) and rent figures don't even include council taxes or utilities. How do you start a family or afford to rent an apartment at these rates
Short answer: you don't. This is part of the reason why so many people are leaving.
Short answer, you quit being posh and entitled wanting to live in the centre of the capital, move to cheaper suburbs, wake up 1 hour earlier and arrive back home 1 hour later.
It's the normal life of the working class.
@@truthismycause2800 You make a fair point but I would like to point out this isn't just happening in London its happening where I live too.
@@belteshazzarx2568 It's happening in all major cities in Europe and North America.
It's a combination of factors, I guess, a cocktail of real estate funds hoarding residencial estate, expansion of AirBnB-type platforms, excessive immigration and new construction red tape.
@@truthismycause2800 it's not just major cities it costs a bomb to live in the countryside. Those prices are pretty much Cornwall prices .
Unless you live in a complete shit hole like Stoke or grimsby or something you ain't getting affordable housing.
The UK, to put it mildly, is well and truly proper fucked! Leave now if you can.
Welcome to hell
My Polish friends no longer want to move to the UK or any country in Western Europe. They have a much higher standard of living in their home country.
As a result Poland, among others, is now struggling to keep illegal immigrants out.
it’s ironic. early 2000s was a wave of Polish immigrants to the UK. lots of Brits were weary of them and you often heard xenophobia about Poles coming over and stealing their jobs etc. Now Poland is rising and they’re trying to keep out immigrants. 😮
Did you know that polish people deposited 220 billion into the polish banks from 2001 to 2018 from the UK, you polish did work for cheap, if that was British people the wages would have been tripled and gone to English pockets, you ever wondered why Brexit happened, 17 million English people wanted no more polish people stealing jobs, still there are some left hogging the hospitality sector
Average wage in Poland 20.500 Euro a year average wage in UK £35,724 TWICE AS MUCH.
@@benbim540 wage does not matter per se. It’s relative to the cost of living. example, you can earn $10k USD a year and live like a king in Thailand, but live like a pauper in the US.
poland is cheaper than the UK for the most part.
It's funny how the UK labour market got infused with millions of skilled workers from Poland and other EU countries in the 00s and 10s, which could have resulted in a great economic gain, but the UK government completely fumbled the opportunity - actually not only that, they actively shot themselves in the foot by making it harder for those migrant workers to stay in the UK and new ones to come in (brexit). Now, these people are coming back to their home countries, taking all their experience and know-how with them. No wonder Poland is going to take over the UK in the coming years. The British politicians and their voters did everything in their power to make it so.
Once you sell off your infrastructure such as water, gas, oil, railways, and motorway maintenance, you can't expect stability or price caps since private shareholders, who are solely motivated by profit, will be involved.
Aye. Britain is poor because of privatisation taking power and profits.
And the corporate opportunists and carpetbaggers.
My sister is a Dr. of biochemistry here in Slovenia. She does work for an English sponsored team through our chemistry institute. They did scout her to try to get her to move to London but she saw how worse the living standards were compared to staying home.
Smart girl
Whats the average rent in slovenia and whats the average salary?
@@Sam-rr4ek Eh sallary is before taxes an average 2.427€, taxes about 46-48%for 01.2024. Not sure about the median. For rent the situation is not great but you can get a decent place. While sallary would definitely be bigger in England the work culture here is pretty relaxed. If you are interested, our country has some great sites to visit and it would be better to just search video about our country if interested. I'm happy here and that's more than I can say about some other countries.
In Poland, the currency is the Polish zloty, not the euro.
Wages are a disgrace and have been for years We dont want tax cuts we want wages to rise substantially
The UK advertises their universities as “World Leading Education” but my experience with the university of nottingham and the Universities belonging to the Russell Group, is that none of the students learn anything in the classrooms. The teachers were not passionate about teaching nor there to inspire their students to think about problems of their field. It’s just competitive with whatever means. People were not nice especially the international student and the African asylum seekers who had the chance of home fee.
It’s a terrible culture that’s brewing since 2007.
personally, I found in 1995 (FYR) Lancaster University very good, seems still good recently 2020 as learnt from friends.
I find that because their parents pay an arm and leg for their education, they needed it to be good and could not say that it isn’t. My criticism is that none of the students in my class were engaged, got their thinking caps on, pure reiteration, and that is not what I would call learning.
Or maybe because all our services are purchased by companies, mostly american, and don't invest in services, avoid taxes, lack of infrastructure investment...but no, must be some foreigners.loser. coward.
I have a friend from abroad whose daughter went to Nottingham Uni - He had to pay something like £23k + housing and living expenses. Next year, she went back to study in Asia at a fraction of the cost. Too expensive.
People from Asia are getting wise to how low value British universities are...
It's easy to claim that you`re education system is "world leading" but can the people making those claims honestly say they've checked?
Grew up in London, left in 2011 to move to NYC and it shocks me every few years when I go back just how the place seems to have stagnated / regressed since I left.
Great move how is it in NYC?
Brexit was such a stupid idea.... how many years did it set England back?
@@earnthis1 If you think the decision to leave the EU is to blame for Britain's social, economic and cultural decline then you lack intellect.
It must be bad cos New York is an utter dump these days.
@@ndlugani2008 completely different from how it was in 2011. I have one of the largest migrant encampments of 4000 people at the end of my street. NYC has always had a high cost of living but when the economy was good, it was easy to justify. Now, with the economy not so great and even higher cost of living plus all the societal breakdown issues and lack of law enforcement means for the first time since I moved, I’m questioning being here. Not headed back to the UK though I think. That ship has sailed. From everything I’ve seen with my own eyes, London is nothing like what I grew up with, and that’s aside from the government overreach the UK will be seeing for the foreseeable future. The US overall still feels like a better option
The problem is free market capitalism. When your sole aim is to maximise profit you sweat your assets and you don't invest in anything that reduces profit. The last ten years have been incredibly profitable for a tiny percentage of the UK population. The top 1% have trousered £21 trillion pounds in the last 4 years alone and are holding more wealth than 70% of the rest of the population. The UK is still a wealthy country, but the distribution of that wealth is far from fair. We have a new government now but don't expect anything to change any time soon as they were allowed to win by the establishment that controls all that wealth.
We don't have free market capitalism so no that is not the problem
The problem is massive government spending and intervention, quite the contrary
Go ahead, go further into socialism. You'll make the problem far worse. The error of this entire statement is that it assumes two things: 1) That wealth is a zero sum game, that someone getting richer must make someone else poorer. 2) It focuses on the GAP of wealth and not how the poorest people are doing. If the general population is doing okay then why do I care how much the "super rich" are making? That's just envy and greed. Now, the general population is NOT doing okay but it's BECAUSE of anti-capitalist policies. NHS needs to have more private control. The government needs to get off this "net zero" nonsense so people can afford heat and petrol. They need to lower taxes to attract people and businesses back. Their quasi-socialistic system is what's CAUSING the problems in the first place, like curing cancer by injecting cancer cells!
You show me an economy where the poor are struggling and I'll show you an economy with NOT ENOUGH capitalism.
@@jorgeenriqueecheverria5165 Yeah, that's why Norway or Denmark have been doing so poorly the last 50 years.. /s
@@Spacemongerr Norway and Denmark aren't rich BECAUSE they spend, as Elon Musk is not rich BECAUSE he bought 10 Ferraris and a private jet. Both of them first created their wealth and then decide they could afford some stuff with their money.
Quite the contrary, they are top in any economic freedom index you look at, as they enjoy low taxes to companies and best environment for businesses and entrepreneurs.
Moreover, they made their wealth and create most of their most successful companies during late XIX and beginning of XX century, when they didn't have those big governments as an anchor to wealth creation.
Let's address the elephant in the room and rewrite the title to: "Why no Brits want to live in the UK"
cause UK is racist against White Ethnic Brits?!
Is the issue really that it is now a Muslim state? I lived in Richmond 25 years ago (southwest London) and it was heavenly. Now, I don’t think it is.
@@mineraltlmao, Muslims? Nahh mate, see the statistics, the amount of Indian immigrants is enormous. They hide behind other things though, that's why it doesn't come to light. Also, Rishi Sunak wasn't a Muslim either. Anyway as an Atheist in US, it's much better than UK 😅
@@mygotobrandswanting to keep Britain British has nothing to do with racism
@@mygotobrands so a country that wishes to fight the erosion of culture that large floods of immigration brings is somehow racist?. Plenty of black people etc in that group by the way that oppose immigration of this level. Don't be so ignorant, it's about culture
Born in London, I'm in my 50s, I work for the NHS and I'm stuck here. I'm sure every country has its problems but I've never felt so much pessimism about the future by so many. What's been done is irreversible.
You're right it's irreversible aided and abetted by years of politicians from both sides ignoring mass immigration?
Its most likely also because of migration
Something which wasn't mentioned here is that Canada is experiencing something very similar
A very huge chunk of people in comparison to the UK's or Canada's population gets added each year
3rd w vermin that is
Migration... the argument of the ignorant.
Our immigrants - unlike yours, apparently - bring value with them. As for Canada, there's room. Lots and lots and lots of room.
I'm Australian, I moved to the UK (Scotland) in 2001. I pay £12,500 a year on my mortgage. My brother in Australia pays £25,000 a year in rent. My family is a one income household and we cover all of our expenses and save £1,000 a month. My brother and his wife both work full time with nothing leftover. I get amazing and timely support from the NHS, Australians are shocked at what I get for free, especially my friend who has £20,000 of medical debt. I wouldn't go back if you paid me.
Now thats an interesting take ? So UK is better than Australia??
@@MALI-sm7zmI guess it depends on your situation because I'm Gen X and I know it's different for young people right now. But I'm happy with our situation and I know it would be hell trying to achieve the same standard of living back in Oz right now than I currently have here.
Maybe because you're in Scotland? More progressive than other parts of the UK, it seems to me.
Yes.
I moved to oz in 2014, its incredibly expensive, and wages don't follow. u cannot leave a job bcos you may not get another for 1 year. Can't wait to.move tk.uk from sunny gold coast.
If you save 1k pounds a month you’re actually very poor
I don't know a single person who doesn't want to live here. Then again, I live in Scotland.
Scottish population is even poorer and older than England.
@@Bill32H-it3svhow's your free health service doing?
@@willscottytv NHS isn't better since the wait time is so long you are forced to go private.
@@AtticusDenzil Alright for you rich listers : )
@@Bill32H-it3sv I'd never want to live in the US, much prefer the UK. I live in Cornwall, this video seems to be about London, that's not where I live.
You can make a case for almost anything with statistics. New Zealand is regularly voted as the safest and nicest place to live in the world, but 52,000 more people left, than moved to, the country last year.
It's hard to get the government to let you immigrate to NZ unless you're very rich. Like all governments, it's about the money.
@@neilreynolds3858 Really? I know two NHS nurses who have recently emmigrated to there and you certainly wouldn't call them rich. Maybe it's qualifications you need rather than money.
@@GregNicolas-vb6vjNZ are highly selective, they need nurses right now
Tbf they are just going to Australia for better pay.
Someone once said “there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies…and statistics.”
And while stats don’t lie exactly, they can be tortured and misused into saying anything.
Please make your next video on how the world is poor, and no one wants to live anywhere. it's a global trend!
I just wish they stayed in their own countries rather than coming here.
No...I'm afraid in most aspects..it simply is not?!
Similarly in canada
People are struggling all over the globe. You are right. However, many people cannot see beyond their own noses and know nothing about the world outside of their national or regional perimeters. You can see that from many of the comments.
Oh look, a british knob.
I am from Croatia. I have been in Ireland for 3 years at work. I know Ireland is not UK but culture and work habits are similar.
Problems in Ireland:
1.Overpriced old houses.
2.Not feeling safe in Dublin streets.
3. I never felt welcome there.
(Listening locals being racist to migrants, while telling me you don't count in this group lol)
4. Drugs
5. Weather
6. Stress due to busy life and pressure when you have to make money for all costs.
I'm actually considering moving to Ireland, but seeing your comment about your life in Ireland, I need to consider my decision ig 😂
@jayhae6998 to be fair with you, Dublin got one of best wages in Europe. That's why people go to Ireland and work. I believe old Christian Ireland that was welcoming is gone. Now it's all about money there.
Our politicians did everything they could to bring about this situation - who are they working for? Not us that's for sure!
They work for the globalists.
Themselves of course, especially the tories.
Who's ' US ' ?
@@lilydog1000 No, they're not. They're serving the will of their corporate and financial masters, who are working hard to destroy our great nation. Everyone with a brain knows that politicians are not really running things.
@@gutinstinct4067 The peasants.
I went to the UK in May and was surprised how good it was, parts of London looking better than when I'd lived there. Having spent time in Brussels, my Wife and I thought homelessness there was far worse in Brussels. But this was only what I had seen while visiting both cities recently.
This video is just clickbait.
You can't get views making a video like that.
Im moving to Australia from London with my Aussie partner, we're going to live just south of Melbourne and for the price we're renting a small 2 bed flat in finsbury park, we can rent a 3 or 4 bed house where we're moving in Australia. I know its got its fair share of problems but my area in London which ive lived in for 6 years has just got worse and worse. My partner who is a state primary school teacher had the police come investigate a shooting outside the school last week, this is not normal for the UK. We're feeling less and less safe here and the houses on the road I rent on are worth a million pounds (no joke i looked at what theyre being sold at)! Being asked to fork out huge sums of your pay each month to live in a dodgy area where its rare for me to leave the flat and not see some sort of incident, its just not worth it anymore in my opinion. Fingers crossed moving to Australia will bring us the positive change to our lives we're looking for.
No word of a lie your whole situation is similar to mine, see you in Melbourne, from a fellow north Londoner 🤝🏾
@harounk8849 awesome! Are you moving there too or do you already live there?
Australia will be the very same as the uk i think but have a great time the both of you
@@Sam-rr4ek I appreciate it, but having been there before I can promise you it’s absolutely not.
If only you tried Peckham before you decided to leave. It's all gentrified and lovely now 🤣🤣🤣
People do right getting out of here, I am only 4 years in to working post University and have noticed a staggering difference in quality of living since then. I dare not think what we could be facing in the next 5 years.
I have been trying to leave the UK for a year but with the new legislation since Brexit, it's been impossible to get visa sponsorship in Europe. I have a degree and I am a chartered accountant, and even tried to move with my previous employer (international company) and couldn't.
Wow similar position as me. Sorry to hear that you’re highly qualified and still cannot escape this !!!
14% of income from London . 8.9 million people live in London which is around 14% of the uk population.
Yeah, I thought it was funny when he commented that London if it was a separate country would have a higher GDP than Norway. It would also have a higher population.
It'll be comparing per capita so population won't be a factor
This doesn't do it justice though
The per capita GDP of the uk is under 50k while London has a per capita gdp of somewhere between 60k and 80k. There is a huge gap.
@@FictionHubZA Hmm. It seems like most countries have an even greater gap between their major financial cities and the rest.
@@richdobbs6595 Not for most. The UK is very London centric. Just like Japan. Other countries like Germany are better spread out.
If no one wants to live in the UK, why are there soo many migrants over flooded my city in Birmingham?
Because you are paying them fool.
it would more realistically be “no educated person wanted to live in the UK”
@@DavidNaval Do mean like you whoes parents sent to a private school.?
@OptimusPrime-fn8cp...Because the UK needs immigrants to sustain the economy and diverse sectors, especially low paid sectors where the avarage English person would never want to work. But where a Kurd, Polish, Indian or Chinese would. Birmingham is already a bankrupt city so that says enough.
The elite are encouraging them to Finnish us of
I'm a Brit Pensioner living in Austria and have done for 21 years...... After The Big 'B'.... No difference. I have a very good life. I think I upset my mates when they ask me " would you come back" and I say "No thanks"....
I was born in London. Left UK 15 years ago. Moved to Tbilisi, Georgia. I have no plans to go back.
Plodding along can only work so long. The great paradox in all of this is that none of the main UK parties grapped with these issues since the 1990. In fact they made it worse. National suicide is sad to watch.
Even harder to watch when it's by deisgn
Before you ask why that would happen, the financial disparity, which is completely distinct in our time, is part of the answer.
What are you on about? Suicide rates have been stable at around 5500 people each year for the last few years. It’s low compared to other developed countries and has stayed low.
Is this video a joke , most people can see all this , the answer is to stop immigration of low skilled people which in turn drives down wages and makes us all poorer , the infrastructure cannot take the large influx arriving in such a short time coupled with closing of training centres for the youth , giving them no future .
This was done deliberately to eventually replace the indigenous people with people who will work for low wages and no rights
But look at the opportunity! How many people get to watch a whole culture implode? Enjoy the view while you still can.
Since 1980. We never recovered from Thatcher.
As a British expat with a great CV, whose attempts at job-hunting in the UK are frustrated by highly qualified Americans and Europeans desperate to work in the UK, this sadly does not fit my experience.
@@Bill32H-it3svok boomer.
Similarly, I work in research and there are plenty of great engineers from Europe and all over the world in my department. This video is spouting nonsense. I'm not doubting that the UK is going through a rough patch at the moment especially with poverty, wealth inequality and infrastructure issues. Most who leave reactionary comments online have no idea what it's like to live in a third world country.
@@johnkelly1083 I wonder if you’d feel the same way if you’re made redundant? Also why are they employing so many engineers from overseas when there are so many English engineering graduates struggling to find jobs?
@@wulfsorenson8859 I don't know, I'm sorry to hear that you were made redundant. The point I'm trying to make is that this video and everyone in the comments section is saying that the UK is a terrible place to live, so much so that nobody wants to come here. This is patently false. Instead of making hyperbolic comments about wanting to leave the UK, perhaps people should suggest solutions. The UK has a major STEM skills shortage at the moment, predominantly due to short term government policy. Countries like Germany really value technical qualifications and apprenticeships for example. Perhaps we should be encouraging more people into STEM fields by subsidising their tuition fees and providing meaningful apprenticeships to serious people.
@@johnkelly1083 The U.K. doesn’t have a STEM shortage at all. Employers are simply totally unwilling to train qualified graduates with not much experience in engineering or infact in any field. U.K. is rapidly deteriorating as a place to live for the majority of people. The only people entering here en masse are migrants. Rents and housing are now completely unaffordable for the vast majority. Things may seem rosy for you in your bubble - but if you suddenly lost your job you’d been even for a VERY rude awakening.
MISSISSIPPI??? Jesus H. Christ, I'd had *no idea* that things were going that badly over there!
Some part of the UK have lower income/capita PPP than Romania.
I have seen slave plantations in the Mississippi that look like paradise compared to parts of the UK and its freezing cold and wet for most of the year.
Yeah it’s very bad over here
I thought the same thing, being compared with Mississippi is the worst.....
Welcome the US President Joe Biden's utopia of unchecked immigration ... the USA is headed down the same road as the UK, thanks to brainless Liberals ...
What an utterly depressing scenario. Im a state pensioner now, but if I was young and healthy, id have to find a way out somehow.
same here. I count myself lucky as I inherited enough to buy a small flat and live frugally on my pension, in a lovely part of Uk, far from the Cesspool of London.
We were the lucky generation. I feel very sorry for today's youngsters.
As I’m a British citizen by choice, I have a home country to go back. I need over £5000.income per month to pay for a studio apartment and pay for utilities,food etc . Although I would love to continue to live in London, it’s impossible now. So in a couple of months I’d be moving back to my motherland. With my monthly pension, I could afford to live a modest life. I could afford to pay my bills easily and afford fresh vegetables and fruits etc. Old age should be FREE from financial worries. Those who can afford to move out of poverty and want should think carefully and settle down elsewhere. I think over immigration is ruining the UK. ITS VERY COSTLY TO LIVE HERE AS A RETIRED PERSON. 😢
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People who grow old in London are utterly mad.
Would love to see videos for Switzerland, Canada & Australia.
Maybe even the USA and Norway.
Why no one wants to live in the uk ..... tell that to all the migrants floating across the channel and the 600,000people who moved here last year that has nothing to do with the highest levels of homelessness the fact we need to build a house every 2minutes to keep up
When you compare it to living in Bangladesh or Africa of course they’d choose the uk. But the fact is the uk is becoming shittier and shittier every year for the average British person.
Pakistanis, Arabs, Indians and Bangladeshis want to live in the UK.
It was true 10y ago. Now despite the war in syria, arabs are moving more in germany. But honestly i can’t get my head around indian and pak … they cross countries more wealthy than uk like west and central eu or scandinavians … but they keep heading to uk … idk why
What about African and Caribbean??
@@Dolfi500 English language baby
@@kevensam8010 the mandem ?
The most migrants to the UK are from Poland and Ireland.
I'm 20, and in my experience, studying in London whilst despite having student finance is to say the least troubling. Rent is obnoxious, most services are unaffordable. For me it really does feels hopeless from time to time and even though I'm a full time student and have multiple part times it's not enough. I'd love to live in the UK if it wasn't so expensive, on the other hand i usually travel to Poland to visit my friends and despite their lower wages they do live far better than me with their own savings. Morale of the story that it's discouraging and kind of exhausting to live here..
I lived in the UK (Leeds & London) between 1992 and 1999, it was FABULOUS! The people, the jobs, the night life, the culture....Loved it...!!
The same situation exists in Education. Lots of teachers are quitting teaching in the UK and are going to international schools abroad for considerably better pay and better quality of life. I'm leaving in a month.
Where
A few teachers that I know are moving to places like the UAE, Qatar, and the usual places like Australia and New Zealand.
The secondary school system in the UK is horrendous now particularly, it's a no brainer for most unfortunately.
Did you study in the uk to become a teacher ? Was it PGCE ? I assume after getting QTS teachers has better opportunities outside
You have to go where the opportunities are.
Almost like you describe the Dutch housing market.
Over here, the housing shortage was created on purpose, since housing is used as an investment asset.
These assets gain value when demand is significantly higher than supply.
Housing companies heavily donate to the Tory party, it's in both groups interest to keep demand high and supply low. There was never a plan to tackle the housing crisis.
And the cost is that you live in a crime-ridden, dystopian hell-hole (at least in England).
But, wait - you've still made paper gains on your property portfolio, right?
1. Housing getting expensive
2. nothing mentioned about 7 million people coming to UK from 2011 🤡🤡🤡
Typical
yeah fr
'We just need to build more houses!' - some corrupt moron
And yet the total UK population hasn't changed a bit but yh immigration doesn't help.
Great information and good video
Entirely too many people want to live in the UK, it's where most of the problems are coming from, when you look at the exploding population depressing wages putting a strain on infrastructure and inflating house prices.
Huge population increase and little change to public services has led to a sever decline in quality of life - can't cope with the yearly net migration increase of low skilled workers
I will never move from the UK. I still believe. I love this country.
Most people in the UK complain from a position of ignorance and privilege, but have zero clue what the living standards are like abroad. The fact many move to Aus and the USA is laughable since their standard of living is lower across the board 😂😅
💯👍👌❤🇬🇧👍👌❤
@@Buttons_UK I invite you to come to my home in the north of England and you can see with your own eyes if you want.
@FreePigeon The evidence shows that of the 50 or so countries in Europe, the UK is typically in the top 10 - and often in the top 5 - for all objective assessments of economic strength, standard of living, and quality of life. I’m not aware of ANY reputable measure in which the UK is “lower than the average in Europe”.
For overall quality of life, probably the most important single metric for the success of a country, the UK is in the top 10-12 in the WORLD, which puts it WAY above the average for Europe.
@@Buttons_UKwhat an ignorant comment about standard of life lower in Australia. You obviously know nothing .
Almost criminal that you say "Actually, the NHS has more funding" without pointing out that NHS Trusts have been introduced which - in some areas - skim off as much as FIFTY PERCENT of that funding. Yes, the government is paying MORE for the NHS (but also after "to the bone" cuts were made in the early 2010s) but a significant portion of that money is going to yacht money, NOT to the NHS.
What the UK has done over the last decade is strip things back to "save costs" that we didn't need to save (the deficit was not an issue) - this has lined the pockets of the rich. Now that services have been stripped, the true costs have been revealed. The lack of support now means that government is having to pay MORE to fix the issues than they used to spend, AND most of that is to private, foreign companies which means the money LEAVES the UK Economy. Look at bin collections, for example. Having cut the services to "save money", numerous other issues emerged as a result, and to "fix" the issue, councils now contract out to American companies like Biffa, who pay their local staff appallingly, provide a "streamlined" service, all to increase profits to their AMERICAN shareholders. Same with our railways, and now with our NHS too.
We've cut services to "save costs", which is now costing exponentially more in the long run, all to make capitalists even richer. The UK has been at the forefront of the Libertarian Experiment. It hasn't worked, and we're now in endgame capitalism.
When we go hungry, we eat the rich.
Housing seems to be a crisis everywhere in the Western world right now. Particularly for the younger generations.
If you import millions of third worlders and give them preference over native British people, you will get a housing crisis.
The first duty of a government is to protect the interests of the NATIVE PEOPLE of said nation. A government which fails to make this their top priority is treasonous and illegitimate.
No other people on earth allow themselves to be displaced and bullied by foreigners. It is illegal for foreigners to own property in China. Thailand does not allow foreigners to displace its people. Japan does not force its citizens to suffer through an open border with the third world.
Housing has become financialized and now it is simply another asset for the rich, they are no longer a place where people live and grow.
If nations in take millions of people, without building homes , it happens.. basic sense.
Investment buy-and-hold. We have apts with 10% occupancy, yet they don't go out of business or lower rents. Something stinks.
The right to buy scheme was a simple way to sack all the council staff involved in the upkeep of the housing and to put homes into the hands of peopel who eventually wouldnt be able to pay their mortgages. So the rich could swoop in and buy up the council houses. And that's what happened.
Wtf😂😂😂
I bought a council house. It's one of my favourite houses. My tenants love it.
@@stephennelmes4557nice joke😂😂😂😂😂
@Ethan5985. 😂😂😂😂 I'm glad someone appreciates humour.
That sounds like our government's policy here in the US before 2008. After the collapse, multinationals bought the houses and turned them into rentals that nobody can afford.
I lived in London for more than 10 years. I work in IT, so the wage is pretty good, but I have always considered the UK a third-world country. People here are spineless and don't protest! Things like freehold and leasehold highlight how bad the situation is. The UK should cut taxation and improve education and the NHS. Everything else should be cut. Social housing is crap and is motivated by poor education and how easy it is to become a single mum here. Instead, teach people how to use condoms. Brexit was a tragedy because Europe was an escape route for the youngsters and their way of negotiating terms with the country's leadership. You forced them to stay in the country. If I were a young Brit, I'd be fuming, but again, poor education and no bloody spirit to revolt...
If you want to experience a third world country, drop a message and I will give you some recommendations if you have the 'spine', or do you just like mouthing off on the internet?
Your grandparents would be appalled but the loss of the empire killed your spirit. I'm not saying the empire was good for anybody but its loss was devastating to your spirit and you never recovered. The same thing is going to happen all over the West soon.
@@EB-jf5oi Hey, I'm sorry if my previous message offended you. That was not my intention.
@@simonegiuliani4913 Oh no lol. I'm hard to offend, it was just inaccurate what you said. The UK is under a poisonous ideology, that being Modern Western Liberalism. I hate it. Most of Western Europe is similar. However a third world country the UK is not. Please go to Sub Saharan Africa or South Asia to see what that really is.
For astute observation. I myself went the other way: from London to central Europe (pre-Brexit). Thank God I was kicked out of my corporate job in 2015 for being the wrong gender!
UA-cam: "No one wants to live in the UK"
The Entire Middle-East: "SIGN ME UP!"
Maybe 10 years ago. But not anymore.
@@ulipeterson6112 there's even more of them coming over now lol
Cause and effect
Also, some residents of Hong Kong: “Sign me up!”
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I was on a business trip in London couple weeks ago. It was a quite aggressive mood at Camden Town. Strange people arround.
Strange people don't live in Camden town like in the 90s. What you saw were the stragglers, posers and the day outters
Why on earth did you feel a need to visit Camden Town?
If real wages are adjusted for inflation you can't compare it with inflation a second time because it is already accounted for. In this case wages have gone up significantly but so has inflation, meaning you aren't any worse of than 15 years ago but your living condition haven't improved ether.