The BBC recently stated in their cyclic review soon after the Scottish referendum they want to strengthen the presence of the BBC in Scotland and increase programming promoting the national UK government interests. So we'll have to see how long the Scots want independence for.
Moving countries isn't easy, and getting settled in a new location takes time.
The 5 year rule is part of the existing freedom of movement regulation. It provides additional protection against getting kicked out in case of sickness or unemployment.
Exercising the right to live and work anywhere in the EU before Brexit takes effect may well mean that you can keep those rights after Brexit and acquire permanent residence rights later on.
Anything else would mean that hundereds of thousands of people would have to be deported, which would go against every promise made in the referendum campaign.
From there you might have to wait N-years for citizenship, but freedom of movement hasn't been curtailed at the moment, even if it might be in the future.
The only potential spanner in the works is the question of what happens to foreigners in the UK, and the reciprocal agreement that has yet to be agreed. But it seems extraordinarily unlikely a UK-citizen who gained residency in German would be told to leave in two years time.
I'm not happy about the Brexit vote, but in all honesty even with the "Leave" result I don't think I'd have left the country.
(As it happens I left the year before, for unrelated reasons, but I'm a little glad I left.)
We're also weighing our options but haven't made a decision yet on whether and where we're going to go.
Australia has gone down the same path, both parties are in agreement on this stripping back of privacy, metadata collection and (what feels like to me) moving to a totalitarian regime. I don't think this can be fixed.
I don't blame you and I feel the same way.
How sure are you about that? I was surprised by the number of people who have been holding some unpleasant opinions secret forever, and then felt safe to express them for a short while following the Brexit vote. It seems to have become unacceptable again, but it turned out more people than I realised were holding these views.
I regularly see people mouthing off on forums about how they're going to leave their respective countries because they're not happy they didn't get their way in one vote or another. But do I see people ever say that they have left their countries? Pretty much never.
We're too busy whining about domestic politics in the new one and talking about how we're going to leave it :).