one of those people — sabine voigt — has lived in the uk for 19 years, and has a british partner.nd i've resigned from myjob and i'm working my notice at the moment. me being german meant that there was no guarantees to, for either of myself or my partner living in germany or being able to go to germany after brexit, hence we've decided to move now before brexit, so we can secure our rights and interests. after the referendum, it felt like the genie was unleashed. the atmosphere in the country changed and i was made to feel very unwelcomed, and that is not individual people, individual people have been my friends, work colleagues, they have been absolutely wonderful and i will miss them very very dearly, but the whole country has changed and it does not feel home any more. we were used as pawns in, in a chess game of politics, and it was just about point scoring, and i had so many people say to me, we don't mean you, we absolutely don't mean you, but that, who do they mean? the polish plumber, the spanish nurse? who do they mean? they do mean me. we'll be catching up other members