UK recession encourages men to emigrate
13/10/2008 by Liam Clifford
A new study by Combined Insurance has found that 50 per cent more males than females are considering escaping the nation's economic woes and emigrating.
The insurance company's survey of nearly 2,000
UK residents found that one in eight
people are considering upping sticks. It also showed that 8% are
withdrawing money from banks and building societies, and a third of people are
shopping around for better savings and mortgage rates.
People living in
the south of the country are most likely to sell their houses and move abroad. 9%, compared with 7% nationally, would sell their houses, and 15%, compared
with 13% nationally, would leave the country.
Most people who emigrate
from the UK head for
Australia - it's the chosen
destination for 50,000 out of the 70,000 people who emigrate from
Britain every year. Of the remaining
20,000, many thousands choose to live in New
Zealand.
However, people are still
entering the UK in greater numbers than those
emigrating from it. The biggest contributors to the immigrant population in the
UK are Indian, Pakistani, African and
Chinese ethnic populations.
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