Well, Both Great Britain and France are talking about getting IMF bailout, otherwise economic catastrophe.
Germany is close too.
There are early signs of mass migration of brits to ..... Russia of all places.
A new report coauthored by Emil Kamalov, PhD researcher at the EUI, finds that many Russians who left after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine are not planning to r
www.eui.eu
How informative, "Many russians ....."
In reality, absolute majority who left, left because of the threat of mobilization. Considering that, there is no longer mobilization, many have returned, some stayed, because they found jobs abroad. In particular programmers, it is hard to remote from Russia because western companies banned working from Russia. So they kinda have to stay abroad.
And IT people are absolute majority among emigrants, and only small minority of them went to Western Europe, most went to border countries - Georgia, Serbia, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan too (it was a mistake)
Lots of bloggers are stuck because they are under investigation for receiving money from foreign governments for their "critique" of Russian government.
As for brits and westerners in general moving to Russia (mostly to Moscow). They all say, that Moscow is clean, safe and cheaper than Europe. Also, there is no tiresome "progressive" BS. A lot of foreigners teach english and other languages in Moscow, people like to pay native speakers more for some reason. Economy wise it's no brainer.
GB economy is in extremely poor state. France is slightly better but both are applying for help from IMF. Third world countries usually get money from IMF.