Bugger Brexit

The Brexit referendum was a bit of a blow to our family. Firstly, both my husband and I believe the EU is genuinely the best option for the UK. Secondly, my husband is half German (but legally German with no British citizenship etc) with a German passport so the result felt like a personal snub particular as his own English mother voted for the leave option, justifying it with an insistence that it is the "other type" of immigrants that she wants gone (all the while maintaining that she isn't racist). As you can imagine, things have been tense at his family gatherings...

John has mentioned that maybe we might think about moving but I've largely ignored him until it was the government in their wisdom that decided to go back on their promise that things would be unchanged for existing EU residents in the UK and instead insisted they would have to pay and apply for settled status we started to rethink. As it becomes more and more likely that we will crash out without an agreement, and the inevitable crash of the pound, things feel more urgent so this weekend John and I are are off to Cologne on a scouting trip.

I thought it'd be useful to document our thought processes as we go along while we decide if this move is right for us and the boys.

Please note: this is not intended to be a forum to debate the rights and wrongs of Brexit, please don't let things devolve into a slanging match!