[hn_throwaway_99]

It's at least somewhat ironic, though, that the first person profiled in the article is from Norway, as Norway has always rejected EU membership. If you're upset about Britain leaving the EU, "taking your talents back to Norway" makes it sound like EU membership isn't exactly top of your concerns.

[Certhas]

Norway is in the single market though. Not the same as being in the EU but clearly here conflated (and the most significant difference to what the UK wants).

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> as Norway has always rejected EU membership

But Norway is in the European Economic Area, meaning the (all or nothing) agreement for "the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital within the European Single Market".

if keeping those freedoms are your concern, then you have every right to prefer Norway over England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

[hn_throwaway_99]

But negotiations haven't even started between UK and EU over the terms of the exit and what the relationship will look like in 2 years. Seems this article is trying to take a few anecdotes that have a tenuous relationship at best to Brexit being the real root cause of these people leaving.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

The EU have been consistently clear that those freedoms are "all or nothing" - you don't e.g. get free trade without free movement, end of.

I would be delighted if England gets the "all" deal like Norway, but that's unlikely since to the Leavers that's a "why bother" Brexit In Name Only.

[bengale]

Both sides have said we won't be in the single market.