🇬🇧 FIVE Reasons Why I'm LEAVING THE UK 🇬🇧

Thanks for watching and apologies for the ranting! Have YOU ever left or considered leaving the UK?

I left the UK in 2002 to live and work in south-east Asia (Thailand, Laos and Myanmar). I very rarely returned to visit the UK, but did so last year to decide whether or not I should return to the UK permanently, since I am approaching retirement age. After 3 months in the UK I decided that there was no way that I would want to live in the UK again. As you mention, cost of living, climate, taxes, crime etc etc etc. My life is more modest and less materialistic here in Asia, but boy am I happier!

Having reached the ripe old age of 54 my wife and I left the UK for many of the reasons you mention. Now 74 and can honestly say it was a very good decision. I’m not convinced the UK has ever been a great place for ordinary working people. Our parents generation worked hard and followed the rules only to die far too soon. It’s a pretty awful country for much of the population with politicians and wealthy folk not giving a damn about anyone but themselves. This attitude is endemic now. I appreciate that lots of countries are the same now but…if you can find your own piece of paradise, it can still be a beautiful life. We found ours in a small Spanish pueblo/village where life, values and relationships are worth more than a lottery win. If you’re minded to escape the UK just take the leap.

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Moved to Prague 16 years ago, rarely go back to UK but the life in Europe is so much more cultured and relaxed, nice traditions still, real seasons- sunny hot summers snowy winters with skiing beautiful springs, pragmatic people who don't poke their nose into your business, most people speak 2 or 3 languages.... or more, incredibly safe City for kids, drinking culture is not to get as drunk as possible and pretty cheap, cheap and punctual public transport, great health care system (not the biggest shiniest hospitals but they function well which is most important). Planning on moving to Spain in few years after kids have all flown, returning to Prague in summers. Good life.

You are echoing what the majority of Brits are feeling and experiencing right now. Whether you were born in the UK or resided here for a number of years. When you travel and experience the quality of life in other countries only then you realise what a complete shambles the UK has become. It is no longer Great Britain and the world is starting to wake up to that fact! Everything you mentioned in your video is absolutely spot on! Enjoy your travels and simplicity you encounter along the way.

If I could still leave... 1. Massive increase in crime, with entire demographics believing they have a green flag to behave like animals, often with little or no repercussions. 2. Being British, white, male, I am at the lowest category of citizen in my own country, every single job has a tick box culture that demotes points for purely being born as I am. 3.Housing, impossible to get housing in my own country, even as a " priority user " on the ex-forces scheme. 4.Constant state punishment on the law abiding, ever increasing tax, 20 mph speed limits, bin fines, not following the governments latest lunacy fines, fuel fines, less and less money to live on each month etc 5.NHS utterly collapsing due to ever more people increasing the user base, no dentists etc 6. Schools having no places or very overcrowded and quite simply teaching kids politics rather than lessons in life and what they actually need. 7.Culture, customs, laws and just the general politeness and environment of being in a decent country constantly disappearing 8. The feeling that if you are a tax paying, law abiding, decent person...you are being taken for a mug.

My partner broke a tooth and could not get an emergency appointment with her NHS dentist - even though she'd been with him for years. She had to go private in the end. I've just come back from the Philippines and had my dental treatment (cleaning only required) done there - brilliant quality of service, equipment, staff etc - cost 2000 pesos (£28) and it was an actual doctor that did the cleaning - not a hygienist! I also was given a pre-rinse that eliminated all pain, try getting that on the NHS - they don't even know it exists!

I left 10 years ago. I wanted to live somewhere with a little land, to grow food, etc. A house with land in the UK would cost a huge amount, as all the land seems to be built on. Somewhere where I didn't need to claim benefits simply to pay the council tax. Somewhere where I could find a house I could afford to heat. So I looked around and ended up in the north of Italy where I have a lovely house with acres of land and amazing views over a lake and mountains. And I can afford to live here without endless worry. I didn't want to go ion working into my 70's.

I left seven years ago, i've no plans to return anytime soon.. The Uk feels like a house of cards about to collapse.

If I was younger and my health was better, I’d be off too! The UK is dead, there’s nothing left for us Brits!

Well done lad, born and bred Londoner here, I left in 2023, best decisions you will ever make. Wish you the best of luck 🙏

I have lived in the UK for 13 years. It really sucks. It´s getting ridiculous.

Never thought I would leave the UK, but I am......for the same reasons.

I don't blame you. UK is a dump now and everyone depressed.

Ive left Poland to come to UK ....after 10 years ive escaped UK to coma back to Poland. Poland is way better now

I'm a couple of years younger than you, brother, and I feel the same way about everything you talked about - one more thing I would add is the ever increasing taxes, which is not good in the slightest especially if you are someone who wants to run their own business. Working your a**e off to line the pockets of those politicians and paying for public services which no longer function. The ever increasing restrictions on our freedoms, speech, increased surveillance state, nanny state, the relentless attack on drivers, and the sh*tty roads which never get repaired and are over capacity. Let's be honest, Britain peaked in the late 90's around the millennium, and it's been downhill ever since with no signs of getting better. Anyway, I'm moving to Cyprus for a better life. People our age have pretty much been screwed over constantly since leaving school - we've been robbed of our best years. So get out there and make an awesome life for yourself in place that respects it citizens. Go where you're treated best, and good luck!

Wish I could afford to leave, I'd take my whole family with me, This country is broken beyond repair due to treacherous politicians handing it over to foreigners.

I left the UK back in the eighties when Norman Tebbit said "get on your bike". So after 18 months of pay dispute and struggling to make ends meet I left and landed in Dubai which was quite interesting back then. Later i worked in Kuwait then Cyprus and finally Egypt. Each place had its challenges and good points but any trips back to the UK were a reminder of why I left in the first place.

I left in 2002 and will never come back, except for a holiday. When I left the UK a lot of the issues that are brought up in the video weren't around, so it definitely seems that things have gotten worse over the past 20 years or so. I live in Thailand where there is year round warm weather, life is affordable and it is safe to walk the streets