I used to be certain I would never move back to Finland. Proximity to family, not being a 2nd class citizen and better salaries certainly appeal but most of all it now really seems like #brexit is happening. I am so disappointed that this isn’t the country I moved to decade ago
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I'm so sorry Hanna. I'm distraught that this is not the country I grew up in, or at least, not the one I thought I grew up in.
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I know. I know many people born here are disappointed, sad and desperate too. We are in this together, its hard for us migrants but it’s also hard for those who are liberal and want the future of this country to be open, accepting and diverse, and to endorse the values we have
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We seriously considered leaving at one point. Hope we don't regret the decision to stay...
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I cajoled Jon to leave London in 2005 d/t my 40th year existential crisis. We left a fab Brick lane centred life & great jobs, in a united, connected London post 7/7. Australia is now home. London is always missed. London how I remember it. Pre-
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I seem to be in a minority here but I don't see Brexit as a singular event. And yes, this is where I moved to more than a decade ago, it's not changed. The people who voted brexit in 2016 where the eurosceptics that scared me when I loved here in 2006.
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Not sure if I'm staying but it's definitely sadly what I signed up for. For me "home", where I grew up, was never an option because of how bad it is there. UK has always been the lesser of the two evils I had to choose from realistically.
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I see what you’re saying but leaving the EU was never seriously on the table pre-referendum. British people largely didn’t care about the EU and there were many fewer Euroskeptics than there are now. Also I think calling them skeptics is generous. Sure some are but majority are
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