Share your story if you're an immigrant/expat living in the UK

Until people know my name they don't know I'm foreign. Living here this long I have no discernible accent so I haven't had any negative experiences with people that have problems with EU immigrants. I've just bought a house here and I'm staying regardless of Brexit or not as I've got a significant other and a job I enjoy.

Look, I sort of get it. Going into town and hearing every other person speaking some sort of Eastern European language must be startling to people who are already concerned about their jobs. I'm probably generalising, but the average Brexit voter trended lower income, these are the people seeing this rapid increase in immigration and think their jobs are at risk by all these new people coming in and vying for the same jobs, the same housing etc.

Now obviously if you look at the data you can see that immigration as a whole is a net positive for the economy but there will be large groups of people who don't feel that this is how it plays it in their personal experiences.

No idea what to do about it, apart from the obvious "improve our education system".

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