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I hope you realize that post brexit Britain is not Tokugawa Japan? You will be able to work, study and travel in Europe. You may have to sign a form or two, or

I hope you realize that post brexit Britain is not Tokugawa Japan? You will be able to work, study and travel in Europe. You may have to sign a form or two, or show your passport here and there. But the EU will be happy to give Britons a lot of rights as long as there is reciprocity. When I was 14 I needed to spend all night in the snow in front of the Austrian embassy in my country to be able to get TRANSIT visa to visit a friend in Switzerland. Britons will never know what this is like. Even in the worst and most hostile brexit. So stop whining that you are somehow deprived of opportunities.

flexie 10y ago
I am not British and I am not whining about anything. Travelling is different from residing, studying and working. Nobody knows whether Britons will be able to live, work and study freely in Europe, including you. Letting Britain keep all the benefits without being a member state is likely not possible without seeing other countries leave the union. Never is a long word, by the way. Before WWI most Europeans could travel across the continent without much trouble. Hop on a train in Scandinavia and get off in Belgrade a day or two later. Then came several decades of closed borders, the Iron Curtain etc.