That is where I differ from you, I never looked at my own personal circumstances, I always looked as the the EU as a whole. It does bother me that billions of EU money ( taxpayers money) has been wasted in the south of the EU. It does bother me that low paid workers in those countries and indeed our own are worse off than before we joined the EU. It also bothers me that people in the place that they were born can't get a job and companies are employing people from other countries before the people who live in those areas and depend on agricultural work, or whatever local work there is.
I have never sat in a cosy corner and thought well I'm ok, so therefore the EU is ok.
So your solution to reforming the EU is to leave it?