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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think Britain ever got out of being poor, and that at least had something to do with Brexit happening. Sure, there's London with it's finance people doing things that make money without actually needing to do any work, and other big cities do OK, but the rest of us scrape by. Former mining towns, former manufacturing towns... None of these places came back to life. They're not anything now. Just former something towns. And by and large, they voted for Brexit to happen. It wasn't a particularly sensible decision, but there you are. More of a protest vote that got out of hand.

That said, I think Portugal is still poorer by a long way. I lost count of the number of times I clicked Brazil while playing Geoguessr and it turned out it was Porto or something. It's an East Europe country that happens to be in the west.

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