Leaving Dystopia UK

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British here, from Newcastle. I so agree with your points. I’m 32, did everything I was told career-wise, worked my way up to a good job and salary but found myself in the plug for 60 hours a week, for years. I had no life at all and ended up burnt out. I decided to go freelance but found so much more bad behaviour and bad sportsmanship in business, local councils and with clients and it drove me to depression this summer. I can feel that people in the UK have lost the will to fight for better. We’ve allowed energy companies, corporates, food suppliers and politicians to chip away any the good things we had and squeeze more money out of us. We lost our industry, our skillset and our usefulness. The only pride we can have is for relics of the past. We can’t cook anymore, recognise good food and restaurants are taking your eyes out for low quality cooking and ingredients (I know this, I was a chef!) But for the majority of us Brits, as long as we ‘look’ like we’re alright, that’s all that matters, whether it’s real or not. ‘Me first’ mentality. A lot of my friends are crippled with debt keeping up this ideal. Job security is so low, most jobs only want to hire under 21s, and it’s impossible to rent on your own unless you’re in a secure relationship. I moved back home with my mum because it was better to pool our resources in this economy – I honestly can’t see myself having good enough reason to rent alone again. I made an effort to date this year and everybody I met just talked about their own lives and never asked a question back. Self-centeredness is just baked into modern British society now, I see it so much every day and I’ve totally lost my faith in people in the street. Community is gone, replaced with self-scan, online shopping and bulldozed community centres. It’s weakened us and we’ve let it, so we lost any cohesion to recognise what is happening to us and push back. I noticed how bad antisocial behaviour is now, the area I live in used to be a nice area we we knew who the neighbours were, they’re all old and dying, and now I have new, young neighbours and I don’t even know their names. There used to be kids playing football outside in the streets now they’re completely deserted. I’ve spent periods of time living in Asia, East Africa and South America and found a rich, breathing culture, identity and sense of unity. The UK has lost that. I recently decided to leave my chef career, retrain in teaching English as a foreign language and make plans leave and start over somewhere better.

I’m almost ten years ahead of you, I got out in 2015; before that, I was working three jobs from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. to attempt to meet the requirements to get my Chinese wife to live with me in the UK. After six months, I had to give up or end up dead. I moved to China and wish I had done it sooner. China restored my human rights, mainly the right to family life. I have a child, a home, a car, and my own company. I can eat out twice a day, it feels like the 1980s, and I’m never happier. Young people should get out of the UK. The United Kingdom is lost; every party that’s been in power for the previous 30 years have been traitors.

The UK is awful, my mom recently got dementia and aocial care has forcefully taken her in. They will now be raiding her bank account as well as take her house to pay for the social care.

Thats all the UK government is interested in, getting all your money as fast as possible.

It’s hard having discussions with most adults about the state of the UK, because they haven’t yet worked out the politicians are bought and paid for, and the decline is a managed one as part of a far bigger agenda.

But yeah saying it’s the same everywhere is a dumb argument. Let no one hold you back from moving for a better quality of life.