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It feels Europe is becoming increasingly poor and unsafe, and the situation in the UK has worsened quite a bit since the start of Brexit. Anecdotally, seems th
by 908B64B197 4y ago
It feels Europe is becoming increasingly poor and unsafe, and the situation in the UK has worsened quite a bit since the start of Brexit.
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).
- dazc 4y agoBrexit was 6 years or so ago. Then we had 3 years of trying to reverse it, then Covid, then Ukraine and, to top that, a Govt that decides fracking for gas is unacceptable and then goes and imports fracked gas from the US. Maybe best to sum things up as a run of bad luck compounded with gross incompetence?
- pharmakom 4y agoThe formal notice was 6 years ago but they still haven’t implemented it fully and keep deferring decisions.
- dougmwne 4y agoWell, there is a war going on. Those tend to make life more difficult all around.
- mhitza 4y agoEverything becomes less safe when inflation is on the rise. Every country has a different inflation formula (alongside the effects of "shadow inflation"), thus you can't compare 10% in country X with 18% in country Y. We're all in the same shit.
- EasyTiger_ 4y agoYou're correct, a lot of people in the UK want to leave