Brexit will mark the end of Britain's role as a great power

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58. None, really

Germany would never want to leave. Its dedication to the EU reassures its neighbors that notions of another attempt at conquest are truly dead and buried. Plus, it removes any possibility of the other EU countries erecting customs barriers to the products of the most powerful exporter on the Continent.

Italy's economy is a basket case, so they need Germany's largesse to stay afloat.

The Brexit voters (not the organizers of the movement, who had, in my view, a different agenda) saw the problems as ones that the EU would never overcome internally, and therefore not worth trying to fix from within. They see the EU's leaden bureaucracy as too far gone to fix.

I have heard Dublin is charming, but I have never been there. I had the luxury of picking my city when I moved over here, and Düsseldorf's central location (for my work, anyway) was ideal--great train and air connections to places I often have to be. If we had to move at this point, I think my wife would go berserk.