Brits are leaving the UK and this is why

with the cost of living Crisis coming up younger people are looking abroad for a better more cost effective lifestyle yeah Rising mortgage rates inflated taxes and stagnant wages are sparking fears of a mass Exodus of skilled workers immigrating from the UK in search of higher pay and better work life balances this is what £560 per month can get you when living in Thailand so you can get accommodation for as little as £10000 per month in Thailand like literally I'm not lying it's that cheap one Economist says tonight that everyone under 50 should seriously consider quitting Britain as the only way to have a better and more prosperous life you will never be English you are African Caribbean out of approximately 532,000 people that left the UK in the year end in December 2023 98,000 of them were British citizens with just over 200,000 being EU citizens and further 200 33,000 non-eu citizens It is believed that 23% of UK adults are said to be considering moving abroad in the next 5 years with 12% contemplating immigrating in the next 12 months there was a time where moving out of UK videos were predominantly made by immigrants not feeling the love of their British land but recently my YouTube page is lated with videos of Brits wishing to move out of the UK in this video I delve into the reason why Brits are leaving the land of tea an opportunity ities Great Britain in search of better life elsewhere in the UK it's not a High Cost of Living guys I made that mistake I must say it has a high cost of surviving my name is Mickey keep watching the first reason is for better job opportunities according to a research by aen Z insight campany a prograd over half of Brits have considered leaving the UK for better working opportunities abroad this sentiment was particularly strong within those working in healthcare educational professions and lawyers when asked why 41% of BR said it was too expensive in the UK and further 41% said they couldn't afford a home in the UK so wanted to settle elsewhere over a thir said the economy makes it difficult to save and 29% think they will be paid more for their job abroad my best friend has moved to the other side of the world having qualified as a doctor here um just simply because she could have a better life over there this is a huge problem not least if we're training up medics in Scotland where it's completely free they get all of their training for free and then they qualify and they say thanks for that and off they go with their doctor's qualifications and and andn elsewhere absolutely and they're they're voting with their feet um that I think they're saying it's a combination of things that they're treated so badly here in terms of very high tax rates very high housing costs um and and they're looking at the other side and saying well things are more attractive there sometimes doctors can double their pay by going to Australia or or the US um and it's it's lifestyle thing this is a big a big deal um pay and lifestyle and we're just not offering them what we what we should be offering yeah I've had friends um an esst who've done exactly the same thing and moved to Australia and they they have like double the pay and a much much nicer lifestyle how much of this um do you think is because we historically found out that people would would come with skills to Britain but now we're seeing a complete inversion how did we get to that place yes absolutely I mean we're looking at a brain drain in the past um we've had a brain gain we've as it were been stealing or poaching um doctors and Medics from from other countries um I think we we've got to that place because of our the way we've treated young people I mean it's very much a question of intergenerational fairness I mean older people do so well relatively out of the system in terms of um the universal benefits um and in terms of the way that pensions are uh protective the triple loot benefiting those millionaire pensioners about a third of them absolutely yes I think we've also got the problem that that that young people are are paying such a high rate of tax it's not just tax it's also National Insurance and then student loan repayments so it's actually about 42% um maybe 43% that they pay um on any extra income that they earn the next reason is the elephant in the room cost of living households in the UK have experienced a significant fall of living standards since the late 2021 according to statista over half of UK households reported an increase in cost of living as of January 2024 though this was down from a peak 91% in summer 2022 it is evidence of persistent problem facing the country households facing the spike in prices mainly attributes this increase to higher food electricity and fuel costs some brid just fa their money would go further abroad looking at London and I always make a point that I live in zone 5 I live in codon I've got a two bed flat that I'm paying 1350 for when I start calculating all of my extra expenses okay so and I always like to do the math so $350 you add another £1 for council tax that's 1450 add another sort of 250 free bills for your electric water and all of that and gas that's now 1450 call it let's call it 1650 yeah talk about food £200 a month mhm that's $1850 let's talk about transport £50 a week 200 that's 2050 yeah remember I haven't bought any clothes I haven't done anything yet I'm on 2050 what else may have missed out let's say I've got a car yeah you know the typical thing nowadays is to finance or lease let's say I've got a a little golf that might cost me what maybe yeah is that how how much was your Mercedes you had a month uh 356 okay so let's call it 2 250 let's call it let's call it 2450 now that's for your lease for your car now now you got talking short call another1 I'm on 2550 bills I haven't done anything fancy yet yeah now what is that salary wise after tax that's like a 40K salary yeah you've not you're just paying your bills yeah you're working fulltime yeah and if you moved out you would just about Break Even yeah all your luxuries gone yeah i' have nothing nah it's it's finished 2,500 is what you need to break even to live by yourself in zone five in zone five 2,500 the third reason is to seek better quality of life abroad for cheap UK is believed to be 50% more expensive compared to the rest of Europe ranking the cheapest out of 49 countries the UK plays 41 proving to cost more than the noric countries of Finland and Sweden though the cost of living in UK is slightly lower compared to USA and Canada workers are generally paid more in these two countries than in the UK in general Asia tends to have lower housing utility and transportation cost compared to the UK as of 2022 the cost of living in Thailand is around 34.2% lower than in the UK this is what £560 per month can get you when living in Thailand so you can get accommodation for as little as £1200 per month in Thailand like literally I'm not lying it's that cheap and you can also get accommodation for £1,000 a month this is in the middle so this is 56 and you need to remember this is being split between me and Taylor so we're paying half the reason why we absolutely fell in love with this is obviously it's on a really high floor but there's glass windows all in the bedroom the living room and the kitchen so you have the best view of Bangkok no matter where you are really liked it just because it's different so you have an upstairs and a downstairs like a little makeup desk Vibe with a work desk Vibe it comes with the couch big TV a fryer PS5 and we have lights that you can change color so you can put them purple pink green whatever you want it also has an infinity pool Rock Climbing Wall basketball court on the roof this is where we live and I'm so excited and I can't wait to show you more Thailand content we should however bear in mind that chip do not always mean safe and high quality but after watching numerous Tha apartment to videos I can't help but think it is a bargain the fourth reason is political friction and government policies sat on a dinner table with few colleagues one evening I posed a question of where they would like to retire if they had unlimited time and money out of nowhere one of them said and I quote I love my country Mickey but I'm happy to burn it down to restart you will be hard pressed to find a Brit who is happy with the policies of the government at this time most brdes poor immigration policies as an example also there is a noticeable divide when it comes to issues of race gender and the likes which can get too draining for an average bre sometimes you just want to be where nobody cares how are you feeling about immigration at the moment well I'll I'll say what I think and I'm not a racist but I'm a realist MH right MH I'll speak up back in the old days 1066 right yeah when the Normans landed was that called an invasion yeah my life was very hard you know because my dad he he didn't live he Liv me alone so I be growing up alone you know I came to Europe when I was young when I was I was like 7 years old you know but immigration I think is good I people when um the Vikings landed military age men they called it The Invasion when I was at school what made you and your family come to Europe and then the UK my family make me to come to because uh to have a a better life so we can work so we can you know we can have the rights in this in this country but every people need to for the food for the money you understand yeah and when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy dday that was the that was the invasion weren it so you tell me the difference is the difference not it's an army versus like the Normans were an army the baking were an army were they were armies weren't they invading armies that it's really that's the difference well what you call military age men I'm I'm a military AG man okay fine no a problem men fleeing War take their women and kids men going to war go alone or in large groups yeah we need to use common sense and stop stop being polies and scared of speaking the truth politics now whenever I now see things about politics in the UK or the elections and all the just like the nasty fighting that is happening between the two sides and even more so in places like the US and I see these things happening like this just give me this like really toxic feeling this like like I just don't want to see that so whenever I see that now I'm just like I'm so glad I no longer have to worry about any of that I can just like look at it from afar and just realize just how shambolic politics like both parties in both sides of the aisle in a lot of these countries are the fifth reason why Brits are leaving the UK is to retire in sunnia countries for cheap I was returning from Kenya after working there for 7 months the weather was so bright for the duration of the flight until we descended into the British airspace this was when I realized how great the UK is whenever I land in Ghana I met with smile and happiness but greeted with moodiness in UK the perceived richer side from this reason some Brits move to warm parts of Europe Asia and Africa during their retirement age plus their pension stretches further due to the magic of exchange rates I'm just much happier first of all we have the weather the UK has some of the worst weather in the world I cannot describe to you what the difference it makes to go from having overcast gray skies we just gray everything everywhere cold weather to now living in places like the Middle East and Asia where it's Sunshine every single day to me that just affects my happiness so much and is probably the biggest quality of life Improvement that I've seen the next reason why Brits are leaving the UK is for adventure with the average age of marriage steadily increasing in England and Wales Brits are more likely to say I do to Adventure before marriage according to the gler share live over half of Brits consider themselves adventures with people defining this as trying new experience and traveling the world for a small Island that managed to colonize and control nearly a quarter of the world's land area and population believe me when I say Brits love to encroach on borders Affair the next reason why some Brits leave the UK is because of the people and culture the gloomy mentality of the people the UK just a very pessimistic place in general and it's not only after you leave the UK that you realize just how much that affects you the negative attitudes is just terrible for someone who was born in raising Ghana where you regularly find complete strangers greet and Vibe with each other on the streets I would like to admit that I sometimes hold this same sentiments the number of times I've greeted people on the streets just to be met with blank looks is insane but I also think the cold nature of British people on the streets is just a form of defense mechanism once you are able to break the ice usually over a drink you realize that Brits are some of the test people you can find the final reason why Brits are leaving UK is is racism considering the government's policies on immigration many Brits do not feel much is being done to curb net migration this topic can sometime raise tension and recently spark riots in various UK cities living with this fear causes Brits from Minority backgrounds to move back to their home of Heritage you keep saying that you are um African Caribbean uh which is fine but how can you be African Caribbean and English I couldn't be Africa I'm English but I certainly could not call myself African Caribbean you could be Irish though you could have Irish no I'm not Irish I'm you could be you could no I'm not because I have looked my name right the way back to the Middle Ages my maiden name and um I'm Anglo Saxon great uh but you will never be English you are African Caribbean but why why why will I never be English because you're African Caribbean ol know is all about choices though some Brits are leaving the UK for various reasons there are majority of them that wouldn't swap it for the world for other reasons and to people born in third world countries UK will always be a land of opportunities for how long I'm not sure now of course the last 13 years haven't been great and you're right we have had unnecessary austerity measures and we have had Draconian measures put down our throats in the last couple years as well but that doesn't mean actually the backbone of of this country isn't brilliant because it is absolutely fantastic and we are very lucky and privileged to be able to live here and I I understand the sentiment and put forward but I don't also like this idea of little England you know that we we aren't great that we aren't an Envy of the world and actually we are if you enjoy this video I think you like this video where I talk about why you should consider moving to Ghana from the UK I would like to know your opinion 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