Maybe it's your spiritual practice, but you move to a place of thinking about others faster than me, and I think that's good, in a moral/ethical sense. Yes, it can be overdone, or done out of neurotic self-abnegation, but I don't think that's your case. So I'm sticking with "better".

My housemate is British, and I think she was as gobsmacked by Brexit as many of us are by the Trump victory. There's no real direct effect on her, as long as she continue to live outside of Europe. And she's very clear that she doesn't want to move back there - with no effect of Brexit on that.

For me on the other hand, it was more in the category of "foreign incident demonstrating my lack of deep understanding of the country involved." And there have been a lot of those in Britain over the past decades.

My emotions are catching up on the compassion side. I thought about my own prospects first, and then those of my immediate family. I'm only now reaching beyond that, as more than an intellectual exercise, and mostly still in response to information about specific individual situations. Your family is more in the target zone than mine, and less able to escape. I hope that any resulting problems turn out to be minor.