I too have felt conflicted about voting one way or the other. It has taken months of research and discussion for me to come to the conclusion that what is best

I too have felt conflicted about voting one way or the other. It has taken months of research and discussion for me to come to the conclusion that what is best for me in the short run is not what is best for my son and the country in the long term. The thing that tipped the scales in my decision to vote leave was coming to the conclusion that democracy is the exercise of sovereignty. The nature Sovereignty is binary, you either have it or you don't, and I felt it is too valuable a thing to give up as it had been paid for by the ultimate sacrifices of previous generations. I also realised that leaving the EU doesn't preclude trade or special immigration or visa arrangements to be negotiated between the UK and the EU. So while there is the threat that the EU members would want to punish the UK for leaving but they would also be hurting their own economies and since EU economic growth has been low I don't think they would want to do that. As a Fintech entrepreneur in London a Brexit might hurt new venture prospects in the short run. It will be harder to raise money, possibly harder to recruit and might be harder to grow into Europe. Having said that, there is nothing to say that it isn't possible to overcome these challenges, for example hiring devs to work remotely from Europe or from anywhere in the world for that matter.