Really? Why are UK students paying massive fees to study here then?
Same reasons why most people live and work near where they grew up, for example to stay reasonably close to friends and family.
Really? Why are UK students paying massive fees to study here then?
Er, very often students pick a University a long way from home. Southerners go up North and vice versa
It ain't mythical buddy, it's real.Conversely, freedom of movement also has an impact on the lives of people who find house prices in their local area have become inflated due to demand versus supply, with demand having been fuelled by rising population.
Life is about choices and trade-offs. Not being able to afford a house or having to move away from family will likely be higher on the priority list than a mythical ability to work in another country which most people will never take up.
So by your reckoning, those 1.2m have left so have freed up housing so as to deflate local house prices.According to data from the United Nations, in 2015 1.2 million people born in the UK lived in other EU countries. Spain is host to the largest group, 308.000.
You mean a government cancelled a referendum result - and there weren't riots in the streets??Eh? Switzerland gained free movement in 2002 when they signed a bilateral deal with the EU and have not lost free movement since. There was a scare after the 2014 referendum when 50.3% voted to put quotas on immigration, but when the impracticality of implementing that became apparent, the Swiss government effectively cancelled the proposals.
See my post 2 above!What % of Brits move abroad to work? Must be extremely low so not high on the ordinary person's priority list.
There's no barrier to studying abroad - doesn't really matter where you're from or where you want to study (as long as you can afford it)
What % of Brits move abroad to work? Must be extremely low so not high on the ordinary person's priority list.
Are their courses taught in English?That's kind of the point? Otherwise you will have to pay full international student rates. Some countries have free universities for EU citizens.
Are their courses taught in English?
Why?Are their courses taught in English?
Yes I am in favour of thisAre you not in favour of people "getting on their bike" to find work and better themselves.
Freedom is important, right?
And you so rightly point out, money is a barrier to studying abroad.
Apparently studying in the EU is free - I was unaware of this. So there's no less of a barrier to university in the EU for Brits than there is in their own country with overpriced tuition.
Interesting! Will have to do some googling on that when I have timeMany universities teach in English to attract foreign students, notably in the Netherlands.
Why?
The British are well known for their knowledge of other languages.
Nobody forces you to live where house prices are high. You are free to move too.
The housing shortage such as it is is largely down to population movements within the UK, homeowners choosing not to downsize when their children move out, and an ongoing failure to build new houses at the required rate.I don’t need or want to move, I have the house I want, fully paid off. Ironically I may well have on paper benefited as its value has climbed heavily in the last decade. However I have friends and family on good incomes who simply can’t afford property which would have been readily available to them a generation ago, that bugs me far more than the prospect of a few retirees not being able to retire to Spain.
The housing shortage such as it is is largely down to population movements within the UK, homeowners choosing not to downsize when their children move out, and an ongoing failure to build new houses at the required rate.
In addition there is a problem with Labour, and more significantly the Tories, propping up housing prices at well beyond their natural level through lax monetary policy and sketchy help-to-buy schemes
Immigration is barely even a rounding error.
I don’t need or want to move, I have the house I want, fully paid off. Ironically I may well have on paper benefited as its value has climbed heavily in the last decade. However I have friends and family on good incomes who simply can’t afford property which would have been readily available to them a generation ago, that bugs me far more than the prospect of a few retirees not being able to retire to Spain.
No immigration isn't the issue, it's the vast amount of people moving out of London that is the issue
The immigration isn't that heavily oriented towards the London area, and in fact non-European immigration is probably a larger factor there. You've also got to factor in a higher level of emigration from London and the southeast. In all cases it's not that significant compared to migration to London from other parts of the UK. London is fast becoming a completely unsustainable magnet for all the people and money in the country, but at no point is European migration an important factor in thatSeveral million people is simply not a rounding error, especially as much of this is heavily oriented towards the London area.
Why is that? My Street has progressively filled with ex Londoners over the last few years, and by their own admission the reasoning is “so we can get more space for the money” and “London has turned into an overcrowded s***hole and we wanted out”.
The housing shortage such as it is is largely down to population movements within the UK, homeowners choosing not to downsize when their children move out, and an ongoing failure to build new houses at the required rate.
In addition there is a problem with Labour, and more significantly the Tories, propping up housing prices at well beyond their natural level through lax monetary policy and sketchy help-to-buy schemes
Immigration is barely even a rounding error.
It's possible one will happen if the next leader tries to push the Tories towards no deal or otherwise rightwards and their more moderate MPs join Change UK or just vote down their own government. However with the Brexit party riding high in the polls and Change UK likely to be wiped out, the result could actually be a Parliament with a majority for no deal, especially if the election is all about Brexit. In the view of anyone that doesn't have an axe to grind, that would be an absolute disaster.General election is required but it will be difficult for Labour to get one without May in power.