[OJFord]

> But now, leaving seems to be like constantly picking at a festering scab.

Does it? I feel similarly to your description of joining about it: maybe I can't join an EU line (more often I now join an EU + UK + ... line, so it's only a signing quirk) and my passport is a different colour, but otherwise it hasn't made a difference day-to-day.. at all? Maybe if I was an international lorry driver or something?

[greatpatton]

EU + UK line are going to disappear when the new EU passport check (ESS) and electronic travel authorization (euphemism introduced by the US to call a visa) will come into force. And now that EU citizen have to do the same for UK it will to just transform a quick Eurostar travel in a big headache.

[OJFord]

ESTA in the US or ETA in Canada doesn't require anything extra in my experience, it's just like a flag either on or not on your passport coming through passport control.

(I assume UK ETA is the same, but I haven't travelled in with anyone requiring one yet. My wife doesn't with a BRP which is also a euphemism for a visa if you like, and that is similarly straightforward.)

[johneth]

You've always needed to go through passport control on Eurostar.

[greatpatton]

Yes of course but without the passport scan + fingerprint + travel authorization.

[azalemeth]

I am an academic working on a multinational clinical trial. I assure you, it has made many aspects of my daily life much worse, from shipping things across borders, recruiting students or staff, to discussions about patient safety and the EMA/MHRA, as well as the desire of colleagues to collaborate internationally.

[another2another]

It's like the modern equivalent of:

"Apart from [big long list of stuff people never thought much about before] what has the EU ever done for us?!?"

The Treaty of Rome indeed.

[OJFord]

I was responding to the point that leaving affected the 'day to day life for most' more than joining with, I'm not saying it doesn't change anything, or doesn't change the day to day life for anyone - I even offered international truck drivers as an example, yours is another, but I don't think most people are in that position.