{"id":121586,"date":"2023-11-20T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=121586"},"modified":"2023-11-20T06:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:19:04","slug":"im-planning-to-leave-albania-and-get-a-small-boat-to-uk-as-soon-as-im-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/world-news\/im-planning-to-leave-albania-and-get-a-small-boat-to-uk-as-soon-as-im-16\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m planning to leave Albania and get a small boat to UK as soon as I’m 16’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teachers in the small village of Gostil, in northern Albania, have a problem; their classes are shrinking. Concrete communist-era buildings which were once home to a single school now accommodate several downsized institutions.<\/p>\n

The reason is simple: the young people are all going to Britain. Boys make plans to leave the mountains south of the Kosovan border before their voices have broken or they have fluff under their nose to shave.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly the small kids think [about] living here, the older ones want to leave,\u201d a 13-year-old from Gostil told the Daily Express. \u201cI will go to England when I am 16. My relatives told me when you are under 18 it is better because the state will help you because you are not a grown-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teenager has a dozen relatives living and working in Britain, a number which is by no means the largest. His classmate and best friend has 16.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see why the boys are tempted to make the trip, the spoils of those who\u2019ve made it are everywhere in Gostil.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy uncle built a house and he also bought an Audi Q7 [worth \u00a367,000],\u201d said the boy\u2019s best friend, flashing the latest iPhone a relative from Britain gave him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to have these kinds of things, beautiful things, and I don’t have any possibility if I stay.”<\/p>\n

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This is the material evidence which supports the many displays of wealth from UK migrants on TikTok and Instagram. The boys\u2019 news feeds are filled daily with videos of Albanians who\u2019ve gone to Britain driving expensive cars or “flexing” designer tracksuits and watches.<\/p>\n

The boys are already aware that passage to the UK will involve the potentially fatal journey across the Channel on a small boat.<\/p>\n

They worried about teenage relatives who\u2019d made the trip, but remain undeterred by the dangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told us \u2018we can’t stay here anymore and must go there\u2019 before they went,\u201d the boy added.<\/p>\n

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