Emigrating

Try North (of) Lisbon - follow the metro - more expensive by the coast, less so the further inland and remote you go - meets your criteria, and Lisbon is a city with everything - very under estimated.
Sorely tempted mate and it is a wonderful city. Such a good music scene, have been twice. And one of the easier options for visas in the post-Brexit wilderness. Should have got in 5 years ago when the tech scene exploded there and it was still like a sunny Berlin with dirt cheap rents. Still think Spain is warmer than Portugal in terms of people, and Eastern Europe is wild and gritty, I’d love to spend some serious time out there but god knows where. Good to know the north side is where it’s at though!
 
Why emigrate in the first place?

If you're not happy where you are in the UK, ask yourself why exactly.

It's quite possible the place you're thinking of moving to has the same problems, or worse problems. Nowhere is perfect.

If anything, consider moving to a different region of the UK. I live in Oxfordshire and despite all the problems of this country I really can't think of anywhere I'd rather live (lucky me)
 
Don't think I'd emigrate now, too many ties. But there are any number of lovely wee places on and off the west coast of Scotland. West coast of Ireland, similarly.
 
New Zealand or Canada for me, I do have a permanent visa for Australia but as long as my ex is there id never go back.

Edit: New Zealand may be too close, would have to be Canada.
 
I’ve visited more places in Norway with work, than the U.K. Never appreciated it while I was there but now I think it would be a great clean, outdoorsy, fresh place to raise kids so maybe somewhere outside of Stavanger, so not too cut off. Or maybe Sweden, outside of Stockholm.

Love Singapore but the heat would kill me.

North East USA is nice. Somewhere in Maine, near Portland perhaps.
 
I can highly recommend NOT living in Singapore.

Expensive
Most densely populated country in the world
One of the most boring countries in the world
Soulless
No culture
People afraid of their own shadows
A deep loathing of all other countries in the region
Scared shitless that Malaysia might turn their water off
A strong military
Hotter than it makes sense to go out during the day.
Rains like nowhere else
You must like living in high rise towers
One pub between 3 million

Or maybe you just want too have a beer with smallTown

Come on then….it’s easy to knock somebody else’s dream but you’ve not told us where you would go? Or have you already emigrated?
 
Australia is a big country…….you must have reeeaally p****d her off if you can’t go back 😂
We were together a long time but were very different. We grew apart over time as she just always wanted to be centre of attention and there was always some kind of drama going on problems at work problems with her family, problems with her friends it always their fault not hers though and id had enough. Shed always tried to keep me away from my firends and family as well. The seperation was mutual at first but then she changed her mind and begged for reconciliation which i declined. A year later I met someone else back here, she found out and started bombarding me and my new partner with vile messages, wed block her so shed create new fake fb and instagram accounts to troll us. She then contacted loads of friends and family members of mine and my new partner to tell them all i was abusing and stalking her etc, thankfully nobody believed her and even her own family were telling her to stop lying and to leave me alone as theyd seen alot of the messages shed sent. She even tracked down my partners ex and tried to convince him to go for full custody of their daughter saying she was an unfit mother, threatened us with fake social services complaints, it went on for a couple of years. Thankfully we werent married and never had any children.
 
We were together a long time but were very different. We grew apart over time as she just always wanted to be centre of attention and there was always some kind of drama going on problems at work problems with her family, problems with her friends it always their fault not hers though and id had enough. Shed always tried to keep me away from my firends and family as well. The seperation was mutual at first but then she changed her mind and begged for reconciliation which i declined. A year later I met someone else back here, she found out and started bombarding me and my new partner with vile messages, wed block her so shed create new fake fb and instagram accounts to troll us. She then contacted loads of friends and family members of mine and my new partner to tell them all i was abusing and stalking her etc, thankfully nobody believed her and even her own family were telling her to stop lying and to leave me alone as theyd seen alot of the messages shed sent. She even tracked down my partners ex and tried to convince him to go for full custody of their daughter saying she was an unfit mother, threatened us with fake social services complaints, it went on for a couple of years. Thankfully we werent married and never had any children.

Holy sheet, sounds like you had a lucky escape there! She sounds proper psycho! Hope it’s all behind you now.
And yeah, I’d stay away from Oz too, if I was in your shoes!
 
Why emigrate in the first place?

If you're not happy where you are in the UK, ask yourself why exactly.
I think most of us are aware nowhere is perfect. ALso that "holiday" places are different to living there.

The reason I'm not happy in the UK at the moment is really simple. We are regressing as a nation. There are too many people who want to turn back the clock and take us to a less enlightened time. Brexit has emboldened bigots and also nationalists who dream of stovepipe hats, queen Vic and conquering the fuzzy wuzzies. There are always people like that in every country but in ours they have a voice and, more terrifyingly, some power. The regression to imperial is the final straw for me.

I just don't want to live in a country that is working so hard to isolate itself from it's neighbours. A country that is actively damaging it's children's futures. A country that want to go back in time, not look forward, but to regress in a misguided and illogical belief it can rebuild an empirical and powerful past.

Yes all countries have problems but I can't think of another country in the developed world where life is getting gradually but clearly worse for it's citizens. At least not one were such a large number of people support the regression to a tiny isolated and backwards nation.
 
Holy sheet, sounds like you had a lucky escape there! She sounds proper psycho! Hope it’s all behind you now.
And yeah, I’d stay away from Oz too, if I was in your shoes!

She was and is certainly troubled, she clearly needs help but would just never accept she needed it. Still get random messages off strangers on fb saying theyve met my ex warning me she seems unhinged and messages from others saying theyve been stalked and harassed by her as well. If shed been here we would of had a restraining order or non molestation order on her but coudln't do anything with her being out there.
 
I think most of us are aware nowhere is perfect. ALso that "holiday" places are different to living there.

The reason I'm not happy in the UK at the moment is really simple. We are regressing as a nation. There are too many people who want to turn back the clock and take us to a less enlightened time. Brexit has emboldened bigots and also nationalists who dream of stovepipe hats, queen Vic and conquering the fuzzy wuzzies. There are always people like that in every country but in ours they have a voice and, more terrifyingly, some power. The regression to imperial is the final straw for me.

I just don't want to live in a country that is working so hard to isolate itself from it's neighbours. A country that is actively damaging it's children's futures. A country that want to go back in time, not look forward, but to regress in a misguided and illogical belief it can rebuild an empirical and powerful past.

Yes all countries have problems but I can't think of another country in the developed world where life is getting gradually but clearly worse for it's citizens. At least not one were such a large number of people support the regression to a tiny isolated and backwards nation.
These are the sought of things going through my
Mind. I have 2 young daughters, what will this country be like in 10/20 years time
 
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