Are you not worried about where you are currently - I mean NZ isn't an EU member - must be horrible being outside the EU right?
He's in a country with an economy that isn't tied into a neighbour they've just stuck two fingers up at, and which already has trading relationships built up with countries with treaties and deals struck over decades.
We've just thrown out the deals we've got with our nearest trading partners and are looking at potentially having to remake them from scratch, from a position of telling them "we don't like you" (and some of our elected representatives have taken great delight in that).
Short term pain long term gain.
I don't mind eating beans for a bit if theres steak every night in the future.
Some of you are so short sighted. You need to get a spine.
Can you not understand for the better of future generations you sometimes have to risk and fight a little.
And for those currently "eating beans"?
There are a lot of people who are already struggling and anything that makes the basics of life less affordable are going to be hit very hard.
Remain voters have spines, but we also seem to be a fair bit more aware of the realistic situation that could well last for 5-10+ years.
If the pound loses value amongst the other things that could happen:
Food prices go up (we import a lot of food, and food production/distribution is very energy intensive).
Fuel prices go up (we don't have much in the way of native industry to supply our needs).
Energy prices go up.
Those three alone will hit the poorest in the country the hardest, you can do without the latest tech toy, but when the cost of your food and transport to work go up it's more difficult.
The cost of virtually every consumer device goes up - we don't make that many in the UK because it's far cheaper to make them in countries where the daily wage might be a third or less of ours - even things as basic as DVD's and BD's are likely to go up as an example, both because of a weaker pound and because we don't have many fabrication plants inside the UK so would potentially be paying duty on them (we don't for example have a single BD replication facility).
Even things we do make in the UK may require payments to foreign companies for the rights to reproduce entertainment products, or for patent and design fees.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things, but a leave result has left us without any realistic idea of what is going to happen, except that we're going to be starting almost from scratch with negotiating deals with our biggest and nearest trading partners.
At the moment about the only really solid information we have is that the Leave campaign are now busy denying they meant what they were saying.
Probably even odds on which occurs first. Interesting times.
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. Right, guys? Right? 
I'm well aware of what he said maybe you missed the bit about short term issues? I think everyone has acknowledged that the process of leaving is potentially a bit chaotic but once out... meh. Again that poster is in a country that isn't in the EU - as far as the long term is concerned, why would someone not living in an EU country think that not being part of the EU is a big issue?