Originally Posted by Godeskian

That could be an interesting challenge to overcome then, as I might have a potential to earn that kind of money, but I'd rather plan for the lower end outcome than a higher end one.



My only relatives that I care about left in the UK are my parents. My siblings have all fled the UK before me to Canada, the US and the south of France respectively, and my parents reaction to me mentioning emigrating to NZ was, and I quote, 'about bloody time you got out of here'



Why am I driven to leave the UK? Not an easy question to answer without giving offense, but here goes.

The culture, the weather, the disintigration of the social contract, the defeatist attitude, the politics, the structure of the political system, the casual middle class racism, the classism, the veneration of mediocrity as fed through tabloids, the marginalisation of intellectual endeavour, the architecture, the l

There's plenty of other reasons, and yes I'm aware that many of these reasons are also issues I'll have in NZ, but not all of them I hope. And in my way of thinking, any time I can reduce the number of things giving me grief, I'm winning.