In message , at 18:53:19 on Tue,
1 Feb 2005, Ian Jelf remarked:
Hmmph. Would that really happen? I can't see professionals emigrating
in their tens of thousands to avoid a bit of tax ...
I can't verify this (and would be interested to see if anyone can) but
didn't something of that sort actually *happen* in the early seventies?

There was a well publicised "brain drain", mainly to the USA.
--
Roland Perry