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A friend of mine straight up left Britain for Canada in his 20s after Brexit. He wanted to get out before it all came down. Now that's one less young worker in an aging country. It's hard to overstate how much damage that vote did to the UK.

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Same, expat here under 40 living in the US, left when the referendum came in as an exit vote.. grabbed my bag and hit the ocean road! Took my skills with me.

Same except I went to Berlin, and I delayed leaving until late 2018 as my mother got Alzheimer's and I wanted to help while that still meant something.

There's probably something insightful to say around the topic of constantly shitting on the most important people in your economy (young workers) in order to curry favor with the biggest drags on your economy because they are the ones with the spare time to vote (retirees), but I'm not economically smart enough to figure out what it is.

"73 percent of people aged between 18 and 24 voted to Remain in the European Union, compared with just 40 percent of people aged over 65" https://www.statista.com/statistics/520954/brexit-votes-by-a...

>It's hard to overstate how much damage that vote did to the UK.

And yet, people frequently succeed

When most ppl around you succeed more than you is it really a success?

"I moved (edit: willingly) to the UK because of brexit" is not a statement that's often heard either.

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