Bugging Out Of The UK

[Mortblanc]

That seems an excellent idea.

The difference between an immigrant, a migrant and a refugee is timing and the amount of cash in your pocket. And just what might one think one roaming the countryside with a BOB would be? A refugee in ones own land?

And it might seem strange to the average "English only" speaking person, but a large number of people in this world speak more than one language. All those people working in the hotels, tourist traps and at the call centers speaking to you with a slight accent do not speak English when they go home.

Even your former colony of Canada is officially a bilingual (English/French) nation and my own country has Spanish as the primary language of nearly 20% of the population! All government documents are printed in both English and Spanish. Even us old farts living well into the interior and away from the southern border have learned enough Spanish to get by in an emergency.

Being a nation built by immigrants we are used to that. During WW2 almost every American unit had several German or Italian speakers whose parents had immigrated. After the war we were flooded with eastern European refugees fleeing the Russians. We now call their children and grandchildren "citizens".

There is a whole world out there past the end of your street.

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Then, perhaps my attitude is due to living in a large nation.

We are routinely relocated and displaced for thousand of miles during job promotions or transitions.

Ten years ago I made the discovery that there was nothing left for me in my old home, and I migrated the distance between London and Berlin to a new life. I just never left my resident nation.