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I wish I could live here. It’s so beautiful 🥲
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The dream of every software engineer: to live out in the woods alone, not to be bothered by “pull requests” or “dependency issues” at any point in time, ever.

@Gargron

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Looks very much like the area I grew up in, in Appalachia. Low cost of living and very beautiful, so it is definitely within the means of most remote workers. #justsayin :just_saying:
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Beautiful photo. You have a wonderful eye for noticing beauty and composing the shot.
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We recently stayed in the lakes area of Bavaria. That's beautiful too...
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I mean that. I want to move to the UK. Slowly working on a visa application. It’s so daunting.
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Plenty of us wouldn't mind leaving #brexshit island. But Putin and his 17.4m #brexshitters have made that vastly more difficult - we can no longer just get on a boat or a plane or a train.
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I think everyone I know living in the UK is looking at trying to do the inverse migration, to get away from the austerity and terrible politics

Places that are pretty can still be shit to live in (I used to live in the UK myself)

I'd suggest asking the locals about cost of living and how they feel about immigrants.. it might be an eye opener

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Crikey, I wouldn't want to move back. I escaped 3 years before Brexit, and just about everyone I know back there has spent the intervening years trying to find ways to get out.
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Our government is terrible, but will change.

Our countryside is, and remains, beautiful.

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come to Scotland, we’re nice if you are into outdoors
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Oh man, same here. The visa paperwork requirements are so daunting, I have a hard time getting started. You should have pretty good chances on the Global Talent visa, but it’s so much stuff to scrape together. Hope you can make it work!
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good luck 👍 and what part of the UK do you want to move to? Be warned, I'm in the UK and whilst yes it is a beautiful country in many ways it isn't all roses and green rolling hills. It has bad bits too.
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I can't imagine how terrible where you live must be if the UK is better. If you do move here and decide on somewhere rural make sure that you check the broadband situation out first.
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having moved to London 12 years ago, I can report that the visa situation is daunting, difficult and extremely stressful. But London is great! My big tip is: do whatever you have to to limit the time the Home Office has your documents. Periodically there are still reports of things like this from 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/vital-immigration-papers-lost-by-uk-home-office?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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the government is not the people, so good luck. You should also go look at Scotland and Wales. And then Ireland. So much stunning scenery, and so many good friendly people. Crap politicians, but that's universal.
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if this can help here is my experience in the UK:
I live in Sheffield, cheaper than London, close to the Peak District and plenty of outdoor beautiful spaces and parks.
I moved here in 2018, so before Brexit, but I had to apply for settlement status and I easily got it.
Problems? Yes there are and after Brexit even more and a post here wouldn't be enough.
Kids are doing well, my wife got a permanent job in a primary school and more, despite the tories I won't go back to Italy.
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I’ve been here over a decade from the US and it’s one of the best life choices I made. Come to Scotland though, cost of living is more realistic vs England and the NHS is better here
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even the travel visa is a nightmare. Especially for South Asian countries.
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Have you considered Ireland instead xD Probably a lot easier.
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as I'm sure many Brits are telling you, now isn't a great time to move here... Our healthcare system is collapsing, our government is asset stripping and distributing the proceeds amongst the already wealthy, inflation has made even basic items very expensive, the property market is still insane, people are stressed...

That said, there are still only a few other places I'd be happy to live - namely Scotland and Ireland. If you're set on it, best of luck and welcome in advance 🙂

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It's such a hostile proces, even with family ties. Good luck and hope you have an easy time of it
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With your skills you should get extra 'points' in the visa system. We'd love to have you here - and if you're in Cambridge you'll find sympatico people (no hills there though!)
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I didn’t expect most of the replies to this to be about how apparently terrible the UK is. 😅
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[don't look too closely at what's floating in our streams and rivers 🙁 ]
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Come to Bulgaria - we have beautiful nature, more sunny days and lower prices. 😀

https://www.flickr.com/gp/15404062@N06/g73263cw09

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I jumped the ship UK right before Brexit was finalised and Corona Hit. After 18 years, better luck for you.
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I wanted that years ago, but life got in the way. Back then, it would’ve been easy. Now, after Brexit, and me getting older and sicker, it is something to think about thoroughly. Afaik you need to be rich to afford our standard in healthcare in the UK, and life in general. I’ve lived in the US, UK and Germany. Even now, Germany still has the best social net. But my heart will always have that soft spot for the UK and then there’s planes…
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I'll put in a good word for Wales as a potential country to live in should you move to the UK 🙂
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Unless you have personal reasons I wouldnt. The UK is not in a good way and will take many many years to recover. You’ve got plenty beautiful nature in Germany too. How about the alpe region?
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Cumbria really is a beautiful place, I’m not surprised you’d want to move there.
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@dmitry recently went through this though he was coming from the US. It might be helpful to connect with him?
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yeah sorry about that part, Boris Johnson sort of messed it up for everyone. Hope you make it through though, and you're right on the views. We do have some truly breathtaking scenery here that too many people who visit never see because they obsess over London.
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really? Why the hell would you want to live here? Consider Ireland, same beautiful countryside, but still part of the EU and not run by a troupe of incapable clowns.
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ahhh, to be young and healthy and not care about a functioning healthcare system when you emigrate... I miss those days...
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Just moved from the UK myself, and I miss it so very much. Was just flipping between web cams along the coast.
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You've got free movement to Ireland, incl for a British spouse. It has a vibrant tech sector. Cheap & easy travel to from UK. Higher standard of living (ahead of UK on every metric of human wellbeing). Beautiful readily accessible and uncrowded countryside. You can recruit from entire EU. Oh, and more people take German in school leaving exam in Ireland than UK (w 1/14th of the population) - - it's a bit less insular (17% non native-born, and most people have lived abroad).
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As beautiful as it is here, from the perspective of running a social media organisation, you're better avoiding it because of the new Internet Act thing...
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had a good feeling I knew what the replies to this post would be like, and was not wrong…
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Apart from why you said you wanted to do this, I have to ask, what’s driving you? You don’t want to regret the move later.
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you wre right, there are a lot of pretty places here. I wish you good luck! 🙂
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the Lake District (and Scottish Highlands) are beautiful on a human scale. Sure, the Americas have incredible scenery, but it’s almost overwhelming. This feels like the size of beauty humans were designed to actually live in.
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For what it's worth, think again. The waters you are admiring will in all likelihood be contaminated. Wait for regime change, then not only will it be an easier proposition, but as the inevitable swing against all that the last 13 odd years have stood for kick in, an exiting and welcoming place to go.
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that is indeed beautiful.
I do find that every country is beautiful, once you take the time to really explore it.
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, plenty of places like this in Norway. Living in a rural area is also not very expensive with regards to housing either.
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agreed it's beautiful.. sometimes easy to ignore or take for granted here, or we just moan about the weather or trains, but then when you stand and take in a view like that you realise it's all worth it.
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I'd welcome you here, it has its flaws (or should I say people) but it could only be improved with people like you!

Also, despite our grumblings about the weather, in terms of geographical locations on the planet it's a lovely, temperate, stable area

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@RolloTreadway @passenger the uk is a hellscape that has a few nice things, but as a country it is broadly racist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic and has a two party system where both parties want to continue the same thing but in different colored ties. the high streets all look the same and nearly everybody born there with an iota of self awareness wants to leave but often can't due to Brexit, it is an island prison and would be better off sinking into the sea
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it is, isn’t it? I wish we did a better job of looking after it.

If you haven’t already, see what you think of Snowdonia (follow the signs for Eryri & Yr Wyddfa, you can’t miss it) 🏔️ 🐐

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as a tourist the U.K. does indeed have some incredibly stunning places. It appears within the replies you are looking to move here - I strongly recommend you review the broadband connection and other services such as heating (a lot of places are still in oil boilers or very old inefficient electric systems). Those gorgeous scenic areas are unlikely to have great broadband & mobile connections unless you’re in a popular well built up town - and even then it’s still 50:50.
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Ireland is by no means perfect, either, but I moved here from the UK in 2004 and I don't foresee myself ever going back.

@RolloTreadway @passenger

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Nature is wonderful and I hope we can save more of it.
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it is beautiful because you are not living there
have you considered that?
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You could live there. As long as you can afford the sky-high house prices and put up with millions of tourists clogging up the beautiul landscape for most of the year. You wouldn't have mind that many local people can't afford to live there and have to work seasonal jobs because tourism is the only industry.

I know whereof I speak. I lived in Keswick for 4 years. The Lake District is a poisoned picture perfect postcard.

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Gorgeous! I would love to be surrounded by nature every day. So good for the soul.
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Come to Glasgow. All the benefits of a university city with a couple of rivers and canals running right through it so you think you're in the country. I came from California and have absolutely no regrets.
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🖕
While I absolutely miss the beautiful landscape of the UK you really need to experience the place without the rose-tinted glasses of being on vacation. UK life and politics is quite, quite horrible. 🙁
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Eugen Rochko
@KevinsMusings @LabSpokane @whalecoiner My wife has lived here for over 15 years. I'm not approaching this from a point of complete ignorance.
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@LabSpokane @whalecoiner Fair play and no offence intended. You clearly know what you’re doing. For anyone who doesn’t it’s worth pointing out because the decline in attitudes within the UK (or least in England) in the last few years is astonishing. Good luck with the visa etc.

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