2006-08-31 04:04:45 · 23 answers · asked by Jamaican Princess 2 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
There seem to be no official statistics for emigration from the UK, probably because it is virtually impossible to count. You can count the number of Brits that go abroad, but how do you know whether or not they are coming back?!
There is also the question of what you actually mean by 'emigration' - many Brits go abroad for a limited period for work - they may or may not extend that initial period; and what about the thousands of retired people that spend the winter in Spain and the summer in Britain?
Anyway, I found this:
A recent poll on emigration conducted for the BBC shows the number of Britons considering emigrating in the near future has doubled since the last poll in 2003.
In both polls over half responded that they have considered emigrating. However, in the latest poll 13% responded that they were hoping to go in the near future, up from 7% in 2003 and a quarter of young people said that they were hoping to live abroad.
The most popular emigration destinations were Australia, Spain, Canada, New Zealand and the US.
Reasons given for emigrating included:
better quality of life
better weather
UK is too expensive
12% said they did not like what the UK had become and 10% said they already had friends or family overseas.
According to official figures, record numbers of people have been emigrating with 350,000 having left in 2004 - up a third on ten years.
2006-09-03 22:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by nige_but_dim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The States
2006-09-03 21:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by ebemdpa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spain no doubt with Oz second,<<<
2006-08-31 04:30:19
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Spain,France and Australia
2006-08-31 04:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by daisychain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
on account that 2008, wasn't it Bush's rallying cry that the "financial equipment grew to become into actually sound" and issues will turn around after his first stimulus invoice, which gave human beings barely adequate money interior considered one of those a tax rebate to pay enormous Oil for our summers rather worth of using?
2016-10-01 03:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say spain,and i bet the spanish get really fed up with the english opening up fish and chips places over there!
2006-08-31 04:18:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Australia first, then New Zealand I guess. I prefer New Zealand having visited both countries, not so many creepy crawlies.
2006-08-31 05:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say Spain, Italy or France
2006-08-31 04:12:07 · answer #8 · answered by Helen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Australia, New Zealand and Canada I think.
2006-08-31 04:15:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder what would be said if they sent us back to Blighty saying that we are a burden on the state and taking all the local jobs... or is that just what we do to migrants?
2006-08-31 04:17:02 · answer #10 · answered by keefer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋