{"id":340464,"date":"2025-12-29T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:24:10","slug":"why-are-young-people-leaving-britain-to-work-abroad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340464\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are young people leaving Britain to work abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-quarters of British nationals who emigrated in the year ending June 2025 were under the age of 35, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ONS, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it has recently changed how it estimates British migration, so it is difficult to compare to previous years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An ONS spokesperson said the data was not surprising because most migrants tended to be young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Little, financial planning partner at UK wealth manager Evelyn Partners, believes young people are choosing to work abroad due to the &#8220;increasingly negative economic narrative in the UK&#8221;, of high unemployment, rising debt and tax burdens, and fewer graduate vacancies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubai, in particular, has transformed into a global career hub, attracting thousands of British workers with tax-free salaries, low crime rates and booming job market, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Destinations like the UAE offer tax-free living, a &#8216;can-do&#8217; attitude, and a business-friendly environment that feels far more optimistic and rewarding,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Interestingly, instead of the traditional &#8216;Bank of Mum and Dad&#8217; helping with a first home deposit, families are now supporting children with the costs of emigration and settling abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-quarters of British nationals who emigrated in the year ending June 2025 were under the age of 35,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-340464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}