Are all the smart people emigrating out of the UK?

Question

I have a few friends who are smarter than the average bear and every one of them has emigrated! Is this a growing trend or are they not that smart?

Answer 1

well all the smart people have most probably realised that in a good few years the English government is going to run out of money to support the people who have worked their bums off all their lives and who deserve a decent pension and retirement home so why not emigrate where your money is your own, you don't have to sell your house to get served sloppy food in a retirement home that could be shut at any minute and theirs plenty of sunshine. or are all the smart ones the ones that are living off our hard earned money, WHILST working on the side or fiddling the government in some way know they will get a pension or some sort of benefit at the end of their days.Imagine if all the people employed in the u.k emigrated Mr Blair and the rest of the government would be skint then!!!!!! He'd have to ask his mate Mr Bush for a sub, we would be up the creek without a paddle then!! (sorry to rant just a touchy subject!!!!!)

Answer 2

See, smart people would have better jobs and therefore be taxed more. Did you know if you earn anything over £40,000 a year than you actually go home with less money than somebody who earns say, £35,000 because of taxing.
I knew someone who sold a plot of land for over £6 million and the government wanted almost half of it because they said she didn't earn it herself, so, like any intelligent person, she emigrated and is now on the government 'wanted list'.
I'm emigrating too as soon as I can because our government doesn't seem to like the upper class. I have worked out I will get more if I were an unemployed single mother of two than if I worked 9 to 5. It's a strange world out there!

Answer 3

Well Why should any one emigrate out of UK. Either they are so smart that they are offered fabulous sums as salary.Or they are not that good to get an employment in UK and had to move out of UK.There can be normal average people too who migrate since they find better ooportunities elsewhere, where the living conditions are tougher and not many are willing to take up that type of jobs.
All possibilities exist.

Answer 4

It about personal choice not if you are smart or stupid. If by emigrating to another country it gives you a better standard of live then that could be perceived as smart if you do it and your standard of life is less than which you moved away that could be perceived as stupid however its all down to what you believe is right the end of the day.

Answer 5

Well, the people who are coming into the UK aren't smart, just cheap labour, so perhaps your friends are getting fed up with not being able to get a job or whatever because of the immigrants coming in and would rather go to a country that employs people for their skills instead of because they're cheap.

Answer 6

Good question ----- i wish i could answer properly but it is one i have been wondering too...

My sister is a nurse and has just agreed to take a secondment to Australia for 2 years - I doubt she will live in the UK again... she reckons it will make her life better but i am not so sure. The novelty will wear off... but she will have commitments out there and then her life will BE there so...

...guess we just have to wait and see.

(Whatz wrong with a HOLIDAY???)

Answer 7

You and your few friends do not qualify as a statistical trend when looking at the population of the UK. Frankly, there's not enough of you to matter.

Answer 8

No the really smart people are employing the immigrants at minimum wage!

Answer 9

the realise that things will not change or get better in the uk
hence they have the guts to start new all over
they are prepared to take the gamble
it should make you think too.

Answer 10

well this is because most immigrated families came to thiscountry to makea better life so when they comet hey urge there kids to study YEP I had the samevquestion you ask b4