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A new survey suggests more than half of people under thirty would consider leaving the UK for a new life overseas. We asked younger people in Birmingham how they feel about life here — and older residents whether they’d do the same if they were twenty-two again.

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00:00Yeah, as everyone, you know, I need a bit of sun and things like that.
00:07I have lived abroad before so I kind of know the taste of it and the feel of it and it's a very different lifestyle.
00:13You know, you actually want to get up and go to work and walk the streets and not be on guard and things like that.
00:20So, yeah, definitely.
00:21I'm not sure about that.
00:23I don't know if my family could go with me.
00:25Yeah, yeah, I think that would be my draw.
00:27Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I wouldn't move anywhere without my family being at least a bus ride away.
00:33Hundred percent. Yeah, I have a daughter. She's 32.
00:36And I keep saying if you've got an opportunity to go, then go because it's only going to get worse in the UK.
00:42It's not our country anymore.
00:44Yeah, I would. But it's for a number of reasons, not just, you know, for work and that.
00:49It's the climate. It's everything else.
00:51It's just the overall package of being abroad and it just seems more friendly and easier going in certain parts of the world.
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