I've been a lurker for a while on the forums, but finally pulled the trigger with the whole brexit thing.
To move away from all the politics, so how will brexit affect you personally?
Our family has moved over the pond couple years ago... But we still have money in ISA'S and a property back in Cambridge... Value of both of those have seriously been hurt by exchange rate and possible upcoming reduction in house prices.
It is scary to think that the rate is predicted to hit 1.20 when couple years ago there was a time when I was pulling money from Halifax clarity at 1.70.
We are originally Lithuanian citizens who moved to UK in 2004 and naturalized in 2010, as a consequence we've been stripped of our LT citizenship's.
Even though that we will have US passports in next 2 years, its still pains me that the value of UK passport will go down substantially without EU. Although I find comfort in the fact that if by some chance EU becomes a super state nirvana I can always restore my Lithuanian citizenship by renouncing both UK and US citizenships in the future.
A benefit for us would be that our income is in $ and therefore trips to Europe to relatives are cheaper, my parents are flying back from europe tomorrow and the favorable exchange rate both against pound and euro saved few pennies as everything there was charged on US credit cards which use live rate.
As a sad side note, my parents ended up being verbally harassed over this weekend at a pub where they were having a meal, by being told to "go back home". I guess they did just that, happily.
To move away from all the politics, so how will brexit affect you personally?
Our family has moved over the pond couple years ago... But we still have money in ISA'S and a property back in Cambridge... Value of both of those have seriously been hurt by exchange rate and possible upcoming reduction in house prices.
It is scary to think that the rate is predicted to hit 1.20 when couple years ago there was a time when I was pulling money from Halifax clarity at 1.70.
We are originally Lithuanian citizens who moved to UK in 2004 and naturalized in 2010, as a consequence we've been stripped of our LT citizenship's.
Even though that we will have US passports in next 2 years, its still pains me that the value of UK passport will go down substantially without EU. Although I find comfort in the fact that if by some chance EU becomes a super state nirvana I can always restore my Lithuanian citizenship by renouncing both UK and US citizenships in the future.
A benefit for us would be that our income is in $ and therefore trips to Europe to relatives are cheaper, my parents are flying back from europe tomorrow and the favorable exchange rate both against pound and euro saved few pennies as everything there was charged on US credit cards which use live rate.
As a sad side note, my parents ended up being verbally harassed over this weekend at a pub where they were having a meal, by being told to "go back home". I guess they did just that, happily.