Moving out of London

On that note, this is on the back of one of the fishing huts in the old town.
To be fair though, there is a lot of eye-rolling about this sort of thing within the Town.

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Fucking hell

Much less rampantly gammony round here. Perhaps because people recognise that the seasonal workers and a lot of care staff are not from the U.K. and loads of people will be fucked if the country goes full brextard.

I'm not bothered by people wanting out of the EU if they have arguments that stand up to enquiry - or at least aren't entirely false/racist; that's certainly the case around here. And having been quite shocked at the vitriol aimed at the travelling community, I'm starting to understand why (intimidation, sometimes violence, always a fuck-ton of rubbish abandoned). I'll be doing the open gardens before long at this rate.

The wife and I have thrown ourselves into village life. I'm heavily involved with the local residents' group; she's on the PTA. We are not unhappy by any means. But after two-and-a-bit years here, I'm disappointed that we so often find ourselves feeling a bit out of place and wonder if that will ever go away.

What font is that ?

Gammôn

To be fair to them, the fishermen have a massive perceved self-interest in Brexit. Most people I meet in Old Town are quite the opposite and I suspect we can dispose of Amber Rudd's wafer thin majority at the next election. The surrounding villages (which I have lived in since 87) are predictably to the right of Rees Mogg..

That would be nice wouldn’t it, although it’ll be a shame not to see the creative anti-amber er.. public art everywhere.
I have met non-brexity fishermen but they’re not so vocal.

If we left the EU to whom are the Brexity fishermen intending on selling their fish?

That Ramsden bloke.

The gruel served in post-Brexit workhouses will be fish-based.

Nah, once all those Austrian fleets stop fishing in our waters those Spanish/Italian forrins will have to buy fish from us. Landed in the UK, sat for three days at the new border in unrefrigerated lorries because we have no gas for the refrigerators to run.

Its prefermented. It's a delicacy waiting to happen.

A reversey percy; No but over the last 6 months I've thought more and more about the things I miss in the UK and moving back.

My wife and I moved out to Toronto at the end of 2013. She had dual citizenship and sponsored me as a PR. We're both from Newcastle/Northumberland but had been living for just over two years in London. Whilst there were things I liked about London, it was hard, expensive and too busy to carry on living there. After a 10 day trip to Toronto we made our minds up and moved here.

Whilst we have had a great time and seen our quality of life increase (in terms of lower cost of living, higher wages, less stress), the rising costs of property mean that we probably won't be able to afford a home in the city. Couple that with a brutally long winter and more than a passing sense of the grass being greener, I can't get the thought of moving back to somewhere in the north where life is a little more simple and I could actually afford to buy a house and have a family. Whether we'll go through with it is another matter.

Made the move a few years back, as did my now OH and we look back rarely, now in Somerset, we definitely miss the diversity and the ease of social life, but that is it. We would not be able to afford anything in London / surrounding, we would not have the ease of life and we would worry more about bringing up our little human. Commuting here is quite country lanes, or across the quantocks, I can see sub 5 cars over 15 miles. I could not go back to city death cycling.

Get ye to Vancouver FFS

Property is even more expensive there!!

Yeah but no savage winter

One extremely tempting upside!

Downside being Vancouver is smug and dull, despite the nice location or perhaps because if it.

Amber Rudd was /is quite a prominent remainer. Hastings is a mixed town. Local Hastings born-n-bred small- business owner I met, married to a Polish woman, was rightly upset by some of the lazy blame-it on-the europeans rubbish, voiced by some of East Sussex less outward looking folk from their Laze-E-Boys and scratchers. And he is cefintiely not alone. The admittedly screwy CFP won't apply anyway so the fishermen should get a better deal, one would hope.

No point catching it if you can’t process it (foreign labour) or sell it (we may face significant obstacles getting into the EU market for fish).

I’m not totally sure what happens to the fish caught here but I doubt it’s on the scale you’re thinking - these are tiny boats (under 10m) and by all accounts the catches and quotas are tiny too. It looks as if most fish are traded locally and I would be surprised if any leave the south east tbh.
The local guys are shafted by quotas but it’s nothing to do with the EU.

After close to 20 years in London we have been planning a move away for the last couple of years, our daughter has just finished school and we want to carry on our wanderlust. We had thought a B&B type affair in Cornwall the Lakes or a Ski resort in Spain, but right now I’m looking at places in Costa Rica!
I really don’t know what will happen, but I’m pretty apprehensive about leaving London.

Have you stayed in Cornwall? Out of season it can be pretty isolated as it’s so tourist dependant, it’s also got lots of areas that are simply unpleasant!

Plans are afoot in the CanonAxe household to get out of London within the next 2 years. We are determined to move to the seaside and have been looking at Whitstable, Hove, Worthing. I work from home and maybe have to go into town twice a month if that so the places we are looking at are a few hours drive/train journey into town. My wife is also a contractor and has actually been put forward for a job in Worthing which would be great if she got it. My love affair with London has definitely dwellend over the last few years. Looking for a slower pace of life, also means we can get a dog.