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As someone who has lived in Alicante for a period of time I have seen Erasmus in all it's glory thank you. It's not something I am going to miss paying towards.

• cr1895 9y ago
  >As someone who has lived in Alicante for a period of time Among intangible benefits was your ability to live in Alicante for a period of time, without having to apply for a work/study visa or whatever other hoops someone non-EU would have had to jump through.
  • dazc 9y ago
    Yes, I could argue that the hoops to jump through aren't that great, but I will concede that I was able to move on a whim, and did. If I had to apply for visas, etc I may not have bothered.
    • cr1895 9y ago
      >I could argue that the hoops to jump through aren't that great Yes, it might have been doable. But you must also remember that such an ability is a privilege, not a right- if you lost your job, quit school, or whatever granted you your hypothetical residence permit ceased to be a thing, you'd have to leave and uproot your life. As a UK citizen EU member, you had a right to live and work anywhere in the EU. Post-Brexit, not so much.
• icebraining 9y ago
  I don't think the benefits to the UK come from its students spending time abroad, but the opposite. Erasmus allows good students from poorer countries to get used to living in richer foreign countries like the UK, increasing the chances they'll emigrate. Unlike during the 60s, when the migrants from Southern countries like mine were mostly the poor and uneducated, nowadays the opposite happens. Lots of qualified English-speaking people leave, looking for more than an unpaid internship and a meal ticket, while the others know there's no longer great demand for unskilled workers in France and Germany, and at least here they have their parents' home and their grandparents' pension to live off. So by removing itself, the UK makes it more likely that the "brain drain" will go to Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc.