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>> So I will vote IN - if expats are allowed to vote.
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>> [Given that I still have residences and pay some taxes in the UK, I guess
>> I will be able to]
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FM2R, summed up my sentiments entirely.
Taking a short term and personal view the GBP exchange rate plummeting has made me change my plans, I think this is only a flavour of the turmoil which might follow Brexit. A selfish view perhaps but it might take 10s of years for a new 'fair valuation' of UK-inc in the world - assuming of course that UK isn't just England and a resentful Wales by then. How much of GB's 'value' is as a bridge between the New World and Europe ? I can't see this being preserved intact in the event of Brexit and the value to the US (or China) will be near zero, in fact other countries (inward investors) must be looking at contingency plans already, companies certainly are.
I absolutely agree that the ability to live and work wherever you wish is desirable and admit it is also my preference to live and work internationally, I have no intention of settling anywhere until I have to yet I see myself as a net contributor to the economy in which I live. But so many people who have the opportunity (in every nation) don't even move from their town of birth let alone their country of birth or indeed travel outside a touristic comfort zone. Will it be their perspective which prevails ?
Separately, seeing the retired expats forced to return from their holiday villas might offer some schadenfreude. But that is not a positive sentiment.
I guess I'm alright jack, I pay UK taxes despite living overseas, I don't resent this as I have not renounced my past, I just realised the world is a lot bigger and the UK's place in it depends on being outward looking. Brexit seems (to me) to be very inward looking and unhealthy.
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