U.K. Approaching the edge

The UK is literally the worst European nation to have been born in. The amount of history, culture and potential that has been thrown away in less than 100 years is absolutely amazing. By the mid-century the UK will be a brown, third world nation. If you have a brain leave as soon as you can.

We are nothing but a nation composed of pound stores, ugly brown streets, and the stench of traffic. Please also don't forget the fat, ugly, disgusting population, who shy away from any responsibility and any threat to their comfort (the comfort of which almost entirely consists of 'footy' and shit television). Just simply picture a fat, middle-aged woman with bulging red cheeks, thin pale lips, and deeply set crows feet - a common sight in any dilapidated high street.

If any non-Brit thinks I am being too dramatic just go onto street view on Google Maps through any British town - repulsive

I don't know if it's the worst, but the UK is so fucking far behind. I'm currently researching Smart Cities and the UK ranks poorly on an international level. Salaries are SHIT. Housing is SHIT. Education is OVERPRICED. Public transport needs to be BETTER. Traffic is SHIT. Governance is SHIT. Self-sufficiency is SHIT. Jobs are SHIT. Everywhere outside of the South are feeling the crippling effects of distinct lack of investment that'd been held in the ballooning South for decades.

Northern Powerhouse my fucking ARSE. There was so much potential and the Tory dicks have wasted it.

Imagine the majority decision of a whole country was to cuck itself that's how low IQ bongs are hahaha

>inferior race
>natural selection at work

>uk builds one home per year
> daddy said its Gona keep on going up

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Indeed - footy, shit television, ultimate drones whose life revolves around going to Wetherspoons on a Friday and the footy on a Saturday, followed by another week of drudgery.

We do have some redpilled people but they are vastly outnumbered by NPCs for anything to ever change.

The only hope is for comfort to be pulled from under them - maybe Brexit will be executed so badly that it might perk people up to the shit life they actually have here.

Just check how we rank for tech innovation for example - it is shit. Can you even name a single fucking thing you own designed or produced here?

Fuck brahs is there a single country that is going to be fucked soon? Australian brahs, UK brahs, burgers, Canadians, everyone coming on this board saying their country is fucked.

Apocalypse soon?

The grass is always greener. People like things that they haven't experienced. There are plenty of Americans wishing they could live in EU/UK while I'd kill to get a greencard.

Buy as many gold britannias as you can afford, preferably in 1/10 or 1/4 oz.

Fpbp. If you're not going to fight your best.investment is plane ticket out of the United Kaliphate.

You're missing the point man. We are teetering on the edge of a global financial crisis the likes of which has never been seen in human history. Every market is in a bubble. Every market is interconnected. Once some trigger hits somewhere, everyone gets fucked at once, worse than the great depression. There will be nowhere to fucking hide

Well there is a certainly a downward trend in terms of the pound - I mean you may not like to hear this but in terms of long term trends against the dollar the first level of support is actually 0.92 - 0.92!!!!

In part that's as investor confidence retreats towards the US as a sovereign debt crisis starts to chew around the emerging markets and draw in too.

What's hilarious is we may be about to jump out of the EU (which is actually a good thing regardless of what these uninformed twits say about it) whilst voting in a very left-wing socialist Labour party.

Not a great combo when you're initially striking out. We're basically a few very poor countries attached to the centre of a multi-trillion global tax avoidance, money laundering network and financial extraction industry - with the associated legal, accounting and insurance adjuncts around it.

The worst of it is you probably won't even seen real estate collapse until there isn't mortgage credit available - and after that it will stagnate under increasing property taxes to make up the difference from failing sovereign debt.

Pensions? Shit. Aren't you happy the government passed legislation all but compelling you to invest in them? I can't tell you much I've had to fight to stop any of my employers signing me up for these fucking scams.

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*blocks your path*

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There is literally no hope. The UK is finished and will literally never improve. By the time people realize our problems are further than Tory vs Labour then it will already be too late.
I live in the North, and even though it's often anti-immigrant, anti-gay, here they still vote for queer, Labour, Londonite politicians.

The amount of effort it takes just to make any small change with a stubborn Briton is far too great for any reasonable outcome to our mess.

Oh, I didn't realize you're talking about it in a financial sense. Yea, I agree. I wouldn't say it'll be worse, but it'll definitely be bad.
What's interesting is this time we are going to have the internet. People will discuss things with one another, and if everything goes according to plan, perhaps bitcoin/crypto adoption will skyrocket in those times. That's probably why USA and EU are doing their best to censor the fuck out of internet. For instance, if Article 13 goes through in EU everything you upload will be moderated.

I opted out of my pension as soon as I was auto-enrolled. Co-workers stared blankly - "Why did u do dat? U wont have any money wen u old" Truly Niezsche's last men

When you say "finance" do you mean in the City? If so what's the general sensibility at the moment?

The EU is not going to be able to control anything. The idea that you can censor and control the internet is laughable.

We have the technology now to be able to hide all money away from the government. They are running on fumes now, and it's just a matter of time till this fiat shit bomb collapses

Kek

To be fair i only bought cryptos to see corrupt european politicans sweating their ass off bexause "muh goy money" starts disappearing

Just let it already crash...we are overdue..

Even if we remained in the EU, the UK is fucked. It's so fucking London-centric that everything else is falling apart at the seams. Literally, FUCK DAVID CAMERON.

>The idea that you can censor and control the internet is laughable.
Tell that to the Chinese.

Not the city directly but work with many there and our shitty Shoreditch version of Silicon Valley.

I dont think many people actually anticipate a global financial crisis, and because no one can easily anticipate what Brexit will bring due to our dogshit politicians failing at life then we are in for a shit hits the fan moment in my opinion.

There is ALOT of easy money sloshing around from QE and low interest rates. You should see the absolute fucking state of some of my clients that get VC funding all trying to be the next Zucc. Its a joke honestly.

The government definitely has the power to censor internet for the masses. Sure people can use VPNs, but they can even track anyone who is using a VPN and outlaw it. This is exactly why we need decentalization, but we won't get it until it's necessary, because normies don't understand why it's necessary.

>tfw just bought my house

im 35, white, british and everything this user said is true.. like every word

*laughs in 3rd world bubbleless crash proof economy*

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>VC funding

Well that's probably the only fair use of the support financial institutions have received.

I worked in that Shoreditchy area for a while, there is an enormous amount of hand-waving however I'm sad to say it may still be one of the few (if at all) vaguely productive things happening - in a city full of leveraged buyouts to encumber productive companies cashflows with more debt for share buybacks, massive amounts of intermediating all manner of extractive lending, and legions of paper pushers, litigators, accountants rolling the whole process forward.

Nobody has an incentive to do anything other than double down on the rot behind the fascade - the whole edifice is essentially rot at this point.

I'm surprised they don't see the political unrest, associated balkanisation and shifting of the geopolitical fulcrums of the world and the attendant flagging of emerging markets as a threat. People have become so used to the idea that national debts will never be paid back they're ignorant to the notion a sovereign debt crisis might have some fairly obvious initial cues.

I'm sure people will look back on this era and wonder how people could have allowed it to become so kafkaesque, the overwhelming majority of people see it all imploding as almost a preferable relief compared to a perpetuation of the status quo - and the people who should spot how dangerous that is are the most insulated from that sensibility.

That said the British have been bred for docility and putting up with shit - a desirable characteristic in one's livestock.

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>Northern Powerhouse
North of Watford has been shit since the end of the cotton trade. Literally nothing has happened up there except the Beatles - and they fucked off just as soon as they could

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>repulsive

I... hate... this place...

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gold, silver, guns.

I'm an expat Brit living in Korea for 10 years. I tell non Brits that the UK is a shithole and only thr super upper classes have any kind of decent life in the UK and they don't believe me. They think Downton Abbey and Nottinghill are accurate portrays of the British. lol.

I fucking hate the face of England is often rich SWJ brat actors who all lived lives of privilege. Check the Bio of 90% of top Brit actors, they all were born in Westminster which is a city within London where the super rich Jew money lives.

Anyway. What does OP think will trigger this econmic collapse in the UK? I kind of thought it would of happened already but nope. External debt? whats the timeline and what should we look for. In many ways the UK has already collapsed and the plebs dont understand that their homes that are worth a million dollars are actually working classes hovels from the Industrial revolution. Stupid fucks are too drunk to work out they are being screwed daily and feed pure PC bullshit to make them love the nigger who wants them dead.

At least you don't live here.

This shit is about to explode and I've staked everything on it happening.

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Explain yourself

If I had to guess.
>Chinese buying land and property pricing natives out of the market
>SJWs gone wild
>Constant immigrants and refugees shitting up the place
If I'm not mistaken it took the worst parts of America, Australia and the UK and bundled them into one

At least Canada has the land for people to wander away from the cities and own massive amounts of land and build homes on. I had a buddy dhow me his family home and it land and it looked like 5 football pitches in size and he said it was only about 150k. In the UK u are lucky if you can buy a garage for 150k

Canada allayed the 2008 recession by going borderless and having retail take on debt to stabilize GDP. It's a nation that's living paycheque to paycheque without assets to pawn or a gun to hold debtors at bay.

I was more referring as to how he's positioned himself to profit from the chaos

Where in the baltic states? Sounds comfy af

By minimizing my physical possessions and putting my net worth all in assets I can move across borders without hassle.

Explain please. Because it sounds like bullshit, to me it seems like we have at least 10-25 more years.

Yeah bucko, look at history. There have been turbulent times basically always, you just weren't living in them. Even if you're right like the other user said you could wait decades for it to actually happen. Your plan sucks

>>one house per year
kek

britain is fucked just like the rest of western democracy is fucked; wage inequality.

accumulation of wealth is in overdrive at the top end and the city of london benefits greatly with offshoring etc.

thay said uk specifically fucked itself through mandatory degrees, making everyone a property speculator and being greedy in the global market.

>The ONLY way to make it in the UK is if you have capital since our entire economy is centred around finance.
most people anywhere outside the UK dont understand just how true this is.
this is no country for poor men. it's said that brits are class obsessed, but that's not strictly true anymore. old class dividers have been replaced by wealth divisions.
we're becoming like an apartheid island, split between those with excessive disposable income, and those without. it's going to get really weird a couple of years down the line.

Go life in Spain. There are more and more British and the cost of living is cheap in several regions

look at the private school system. classism in uk remains fundemental, and is getting more polarised

So true. I've been around some of these rich kids for various reasons. They are like a different breed of human. Most actors and famous people we see in the UK are from this class. They simply don't know how the poor live in the UK. They actually think the racism anti muslim and immigration thing is a meme. They think Brexiters are just racist. They are barely British cause their life involves global education and work and travel.

England is fucked

>look at the private school system. classism in uk remains fundemental, and is getting more polarised
disagree. access to top schooling is via your parent's cheque book, and no longer via your parents genes. look at the roll call of many top public schools now; they're all chinks and rich foreigners, which the schools are allowed to charge extra tuition fees for, something they cant do with normal british kids.

True lots of rich are foreigners in the UK. London is literally a property dump for Arabs.

You mean London property is a money dump for arabs

Excellent contribution. It's a bleak future, but can you imagine what would happen if someone was able to remove only London from existence (legally and with due process in minecraft) ?

It’s all so unrelentingly horrible I left already. Living in Asia now. Public transport is amazing cost of living low, modern infrastructure fast cheap mobile internet. Cheap healthcare, a dearth of nignogs and Muslims. England is circling the plughole

Can easily get around that with a vpn. Also, chinese culture is very obedient towards power. Would be harder to enforce in Europe

Just look into modern money theory. It's basically the idea that countries can just print money whenever and it doesn't matter

That’s not a new idea you pube

I know but it's the ideological foundation of this whole system

Canada will be a rising world superpower when the effects of climate change start fully kicking in. You guys have all the fresh water, a climate that will be getting more and more favourable for agriculture, tons of land, and an extremely small (relative to the US, say) population. The real struggle in the decades to come will be defending your borders.

FREE SCOTLAND.

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yea, i would argue that most with big check books have been on top of the class system for a long time.

agree that private school is getting very expensive, almost ridiculously so in the last 15years.

however its clear that private school remains a huge advantage for most who attend, tho there are many state schools that produce the same level of education just not the same contacts/ open the same doors.

britain should get brexit over and done with and establish free movment amongst the commonwealth.

I started reading your post, got angry and was about to formulate a response until I realised that you are, in fact, 100% correct.

Although there are some very smart and decent people in this country, the vast majority of people are absolute dregs.

Anyone know if it's worth me storing my britpoordollars in USD for the time being? Or am I doing it wrong?

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you all need to get out the towns and cities and into the country.
all the shitskins, housing shortages, and the stupidly inflated cost of living in a city doesn't exist for 80% of this island.
london, birmingham, manchester might as well be a different country now. like paris.

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Move to Singapore you poor Britishers, oh how the twists of history are ironic.

Lol pathetic. The countryside is full of pensioners and there’s NOTHING TO DO. No jobs just a bunch of chavs.

The only way to salvage life is to move AWAY

like you go outside or work
as long as you've got internet most you cunts wouldn't even notice the difference

mate would be easy to move to the western isles and live a great life if you like being out and about. loads of work and basically free houses but no one wants to live there...great surfing and hunting, fishing etc etc but everyone want to live in a city for some bizzar reason.

Cope
Cope

The disadvantage is you actually have to live in the Baltic states

9 cents is horrendously expensive. In China, Vietnam its 2-1 cents. Have fun mining with that. Clueless faggot haha

I've recently moved out of the UK to Thailand and whilst there are a lot of things I miss about England (I lived on the South Coast all my life) the lifestyle here is so much easier, the weather better, the cost of living far cheaper.

If you're young and live in the UK, but don't enjoy drink/drug/club/music festival culture, and if you're older and don't enjoy mainstream television culture, I'm wondering what the UK actually has going for it culturally, that you can't get anywhere else?

I miss some of the countryside and heritage, and english summer days when it's like 25C and sunny all day. But for 6 months of the year england is basically a grey skied cold shithole.

Financially the cost of living in england is too high for young people and making wealth without spending it all is hard unless you're willing to live a low quality life for many years saving.

England is fine if you already have money and enjoy a degenerate lifestyle.

I can say that I've met far more new interesting people in Thailand (expats etc) in the few months I've been living here than I had met in England in the last 5 years.

Yes, do not hoard GBP during Brexit, obviously. Just put it crypto.

I've just realized that all of what I've just said actually accounts for why the British travelled and conquered vast amounts of the world over the last few centuries: the people just wanted to get off that shithole island!

Agree with most of the stuff posted.

Majority of U.K. people are leveraged to fuck and living way beyond their means paycheque to paycheque.

Literally zero savings, and only have a few quid in pensions after it became compulsory recently.

Self entitled bunch of cunts are going to get hit hard by brexit, I wish I’d left a few year ago

No reasonable american wants to live in uk. Only ignorant girls who have that euro fantasy

confirmed. most americans visiting the UK are hipster girls.

Yup, only real appeal is NHS. Mainland Yurop might be bretty good but no thanks to a cramped rainy island filled with repressed conformists. Also if you're an outdoors person nothing in the Old World compares to the majesty of the Americas. We are spoiled for public land here.

at all jobs i have worked at people have made it clear they are only working there for the pension they will get later in life. Why do people find investing so hard to understand? When you mention that you can just have an investment ISA theyre like nah thats too complicated/too much of a hassle.
Like why would you want to stay poor and work til youre 60 something

At this point the UK needs concentration camps to purge all non whites and people over 50.
Just fucking gas them all and the country will be fixed.

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>mfw this thread
>mfw in Scotland

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Treacherous scotch cunt arrives just in time.
Daily reminder the Scottish massacred their own people for the king of England.
No one but dumb yanks thinks that the scotch are worth a wank.
Braveheart is the work of a delusional Aussie and Wallace was a sheep thief.

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i have family in scotland and go there often. Edinburgh is a great city and you cant beat scotland for hunting and fishing. other then that i have little interest beyond the case study in decline.

I genuinely hate living in the UK. Living anywhere other than central London is like being part of a decaying civilization 20 years behind the rest of the world.

The vast majority of people are living in a parallel reality dominated either by footy and alcohol or selfish indulgences typically associated with the nepotistic Oxbridge nu-yuppies. The rich and the poor live vastly different lifestyles but both are completely blind to the bigger picture as the country slowly collapses around them.

I don't like to say it but I really feel like I'm living in the NPC memeworld. 99% of brits are as shallow as a puddle and completely incapable of considering anything outside of the immediate sphere of their personal lives or thinking beyond the state sponsored indoctrination designed to keep the cattle in their pens.

The population has received neither what it wants nor needs for about half a century. Brexit being an excellent example of this. What will it take to make the people open their eyes for fucking once?

What can a single person even do to make this country a better place to live? I'd love to try and do my bit, but the rot is just so advanced I don't think it's even possible to slow the decline let alone reverse it.

if glasgow was walled off and glassed scotland might work.

Have you been to Vilnius, Riga or Tallinn? They are comfy, fast internet, cheap property and expenses, good airport connections and crypto friendly.

UK is only good is you want a comfortable mediocre average life with little risk. You get your dole if you end up unemployed, you get a crappy wage which keeps you in your place.

The ONLY way of making it is to have large amounts of starting capital since returns on capital vastly outpace income from labour. You CANNOT make it here being a wagie.

>Swap one cold grey poverty shithole for another cold grey poverty shithole.

You’re doing it wrong. Dump your Eastern European skank and go to Asia.

Min wage bong here (just over) I have just under £1k in savings that i’m considering keeping in US dollars, or would crypto be a better option

Buy chain link

26y/o Germanfag here

Moving to London next month to work there for 1-3 years before moving back.
Salary is around £55k.
Where to invest to have my salary £ get the least struck by recession?

make a revolut account and hold some dollars maybe, or just invest in foreign stocks although it will always be denominated in £

moving to tokyo reminded me what civilization felt like