Brexit. For or against?

Yeah, from what I've read a lot of things can't be answered at this time. They still have to iron out all of the details, and they could leave in things that make the transition easier. I'm hoping for your sake they keep some things that actually benefit you, although I doubt any free movement will be upheld, as that was one of the reasons for leaving. It sucks that you voted to stay and have to leave, and of course you'll probably get backlash from the younger generation who probably think you voted to leave, they're already ranting and blaming everyone in the 65+ crowd, even though 40 percent of you voted against it, which is still a decent amount of you that wanted to stay. I know Scotland in general is pretty upset, because they voted to stay and now they're stuck too. I am betting they wish they would have left the UK when they had a chance. Maybe there's still a chance that they won't leave, but it is sounding like that's unlikely.

@topffer Yeah, I honestly don't know. Had they become their own country they may have been able to join the EU on their own eventually, I honestly don't know, but I think they thought they were trying to save themselves a lot of pain by not becoming their own country, and now they may as well have gone through with it.

@sissy15 It is understandable why people in Scotland are frustrated : a powerful argument of Cameron to Scots in 2014 was : "Do not choose independence or you would leave the EU". It is difficult to tell what would happen if there was another referendum today. They have always been more pro-Europeans than English people, but I am not sure that they would leave the boat during a storm.

Well, I'm glad at least you are happy about it, most of the stuff I'm reading are from those who are angry. I've read stories from both sides about why they wanted to stay or leave, but the ones who voted to stay are the ones I'm hearing the most about, which is understandable as they're angry and want to rant, and I can't necessarily say I blame them. They had their reasons for wanting to stay just as those had their reasons for wanting to leave. I am pretty neutral on it since I'm not from the UK or apart of the EU. I mean it does affect the US, but it's not like anything any of you are going through.

Me too, I really hope if they do officially leave that they at least make the transition easier for their citizens. I doubt they'll really want to allow free movement to continue as that's part of the reason they wanted out of the EU.

@sissy15 The transition for UK will not be easy. UK has not a single trade agreement in place with any country at all. When it was in EU, all the trade agreements made by EU applied to UK. Now it has to negotiate with every country, and the terms may not be as good. Once a country decides to slap a tariff on either import or export, UK will suffer.

@scheng1 No, it won't be easy, but hopefully they make it as easy as it can be, which albeit won't be easy at all, but hopefully they'll get to keep some benefits the EU allowed them, which is possible from what I was reading depending on what their final agreement is, but a lot sounds unlikely. The UK did actually put more into the EU than they got out of it though, they paid the most into it behind I think it said Germany and France, which may have been one of the other reasons they wanted to leave.

I've read a lot of things, but I honestly couldn't say as I am not from there, and I'm just reading not experiencing it first hand. My opinion wouldn't mean much, not that I've really formed one, because again it's not my country. Albeit this will affect the US too, and it seems mostly in negative ways. I'm just kind of getting all of the information on it slowly, and while I understand the basics in it, it's still a fairly complicated situation, but I've read arguments from both sides, and both made sense to me, but again since I'm not from there, I wouldn't actually know how sound those arguments are.

@Cherganski I really haven't heard a good argument for the economical side, but I've heard their reasons why they wanted to leave, which really didn't have much to do with anything from an economical standpoint, just because they hated the free movement, and wanted to have more of a say over their own country, which I mean it sounds good in theory, but economically it doesn't sound like the best decision, but since I'm not from there I don't know a whole lot about that side of things. I know some, but not enough to have a real opinion over it. All I know is what I read.

@sissy15 oh yes this affects everyone. but basically whatever arguments you heard for a brexit were either non factual or based in hatred. Seriously not a single actual argument has been put trough. Not an economical one at least