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For balance my wife and I moved to France just before the withdrawal agreement came to an end, and I very quickly settled and decided that I never want to come back to the UK. I still haven't changed my mind, especially after returning to the UK pack up the rest of our belongings for the removers. If Brexit made me want to leave the UK, Covid took away everything that would have made me stay.
OK French life is bureaucratic and people who run businesses don't seem to like opening them much, and I am still waiting for my French driving licence, and it's pissed down constantly in 'the second-sunniest place in France' this year, but it's largely a much kinder and more socialist society, I'm settled, working again and the future we had planned for ourselves is once again possible.
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Very happy to hear it's going well! :)
I should note, if one or both of us could magically speak German, or Dutch, or Spanish (the list goes on) well enough to be confident we could thrive (with one small and one very small child in tow) we'd most likely have stayed EU-side for sure.
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OK French life is bureaucratic and people who run businesses don't seem to like opening them much, and I am still waiting for my French driving licence, and it's pissed down constantly in 'the second-sunniest place in France' this year, but it's largely a much kinder and more socialist society, I'm settled, working again and the future we had planned for ourselves is once again possible.
How did you find the language barrier? It's something we really want to do but my French is rusty at best. I'm happy to work hard at getting good but reading A Year In Provence has left me with a fear of the grammatical awkwardnesses.
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For what it's worth, my wife (Polish) and I (British) moved back from Poland since Brexit, with all the visa hassle and expense that entailed (long story, mainly due me being naive and not understanding things with a smattering of British exceptionalism as much as I don't like to admit).
As much as I loathe the current government, moving back was right for us - mainly around job security for me, future earning potential for my wife ('unskilled'/has no formal quals), and for our kids (notably avoiding the Polish school curriculum given all the recent changes).
Plus women's/abortion rights - really wanted our second that was on the way at the time to be born here, and she was in May :)