Living and working in the UK....?

[Welly]

You know - I wrote £35k as a suggested half-decent wage in my first reply but then withdrew it but I think you're about right really Capt'n.

[johnfoss]

I work at Heathrow as an artic driver, last years wages were £41,000, renting a flat up here starts around £750 + per month for somewhere reasonable. I've been lucky and found a bed-sit for £220/month.

My home is in Cornwall, 250miles away, it's a 4 bedroom, 250yr old cottage, with nearly an acre of land, paid £125,000 two years ago, you would need that for a deposit around here!!!

When I drive thru Croydon, it's all doors locked.........

[STALLED]

Ok...

Thanks guys for being honest about it all. I only know one "pommy" mate of mine who reckoned that the UK was a "hole" and that he had no intention of going back! It was a serious idea of mine but I think in reality the money I'll be earning won't be sufficient at this part of my qualification to keep me going at a decent level! It would be awesome for the experience though and I'd love to come and visit the UK - I suppose its a different matter for living there

Sydney is getting really expensive to live in ATM - The real estate is now out of the reach of many with the the average house price in a decent suburb being well over $1m AUD - of course you can get stuff for cheap but at the same time, those are areas you don't really wanna live! Petrol is $1.60 a litre (80p) as the exchange rate is high and the cost of going out etc just gets higher and higher by the week - Other Australian cities - it isn't as bad!

Sounds like I might stay in Sydney then. After all I really would miss this view when I drive to uni every day:

[Eric]

I'd love to live in Aussie land just for the women and weather
I'd also consider living in the States, although Americans have a habit of annoying me and I'd probably end up in the wrong side of town and get shot ;)
Wish it was a cheap to live in the UK as the states though, that would make up a little bit for the weather.

UK isn't a bad place to live (as long as you stay away from Council estates.)
It's a fairly safe place to live (avoid council estates again) with some nice sights, great night life, lots of history and culture and generally stable economy.
NHS is a plus (Not that I use it... Bupa all the way for me )
And the Brits are great because they aren't interested in you as long as you don't interfere with them, no one will talk to you unless they have to and that's just the way I like it (one thing that made me uncomfortable about America.)

But the damn English weather.....
Still without the weather Brits would have nothing to talk about


Oh the damn English weather...
I really do think it's the worst in the world.
It's not the hottest, coldest or wettest but it's the fact that you have no idea what it's going to do and it can be sunny, rain, snow and everything in between all in the space of a couple of hours.
It's nigh on impossible to plan anything outdoors with the weather, no matter what season it is.

Anyway, enough weather moaning

[Welly]

I don't think Americans are annoying eric ....whoooo hooooo yeah yeah

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[Eric]

I don't think Americans are annoying eric ....whoooo hooooo yeah yeah

whooo hoooo

yeah

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woooooooo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RW2BdMv33cE

Yup.

And it's the random strangers that come up to you and say "Hi, how you doing?" and then won't leave you alone when they hear a British accent.
Mind you that's not a bad thing when you are talking to girls over there, if I hadn't have been working so hard there I could have done many a naughty thing with ease

[steve_earwig]

The first time I was in California everyone was asking me "where ya from?". Even at a bluddy urinal! I do know some nice Yanks and apparently they weren't singling me out as looking particularly English or anything, they ask each other the same question, in an "isn't our country amazingly big?!" kind of way.

Notes for Enquiring Americans:
I am from a small place that almost certainly you've never been to, it's called Planet Earth.
I am English, I am not European. England is as much a part of Europe as the USA is part of Mexico.
London is a big city, it is not a small village with three cows and a duck called Gerald, so the chances that I know your friend are extremely remote.
I do not like the Queen, or any other German for that matter.
Nobody wears bowler hats any more, if anybody did they'd be laughed at or even beaten up.
Now please put your manky dick away and p!ss off.

They have no idea about tea ("can I get you some more water for your tea?" "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!") They have very little idea about coffee either.

America is an amazing country, it's a shame about the people. Canada's much better, same amazing scenery but the Canadians are much more down-to-earth, even if some of them do speak French. The best thing about them is they don't like Americans either.

[Welly]

three cows and a duck called Gerald

We had some distant American relatives visit 2 years ago and there attitude towards travelling/site seeing was funny....they were staying in London and thought it would be good to 'nip' to Scotland and Cornwall and the Lakes etc etc thinking this place was the size of a small town

[teamster1975]

It's not quite as bad as we're making out STALLED, I like living in England, I love the countryside.
You can rent cheaply but stay out of town centres!
We all have a moan about politics and the state of things here but you could do a hell of a lot worse

Steve, I see you have a deep love for the yanks!

[Captain Jack]

We had some distant American relatives visit 2 years ago and there attitude towards travelling/site seeing was funny....they were staying in London and thought it would be good to 'nip' to Scotland and Cornwall and the Lakes etc etc thinking this place was the size of a small town

Yes, but our country is the size one of their smaller states. So, a 6 hour trip somewhere is nothing to them really.

[Welly]

You're right I suppose - anywhere more than an hour away for me is 'too far' in this country If we had nice wide (not too busy) interstate highways we might feel more like driving for hours on end - as it goes you get cuaght up in all sorts when travelling here

[teamster1975]

as it goes you get cuaght up in all sorts when travelling here

Oh but not on a motorbike though!

[Eric]

Oh and the other trouble with Yanks.
Patriotic, over zealous, over excitable gun nuts scare me... a lot.

I had some pretty scary stories to bring back with me when I came home from the states.

[DaiRees]

I am English, I am not European. England is as much a part of Europe as the USA is part of Mexico.

Imagine how we feel then, most Septic Tanks think Wales is a quaint village in England, right next to Eddenboro and the blarney stone.

[ianst28]

The first time I was in California everyone was asking me "where ya from?". Even at a bluddy urinal! I do know some nice Yanks and apparently they weren't singling me out as looking particularly English or anything, they ask each other the same question, in an "isn't our country amazingly big?!" kind of way.

Notes for Enquiring Americans:
I am from a small place that almost certainly you've never been to, it's called Planet Earth.
I am English, I am not European. England is as much a part of Europe as the USA is part of Mexico.
London is a big city, it is not a small village with three cows and a duck called Gerald, so the chances that I know your friend are extremely remote.
I do not like the Queen, or any other German for that matter.
Nobody wears bowler hats any more, if anybody did they'd be laughed at or even beaten up.
Now please put your manky dick away and p!ss off.

They have no idea about tea ("can I get you some more water for your tea?" "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!") They have very little idea about coffee either.

America is an amazing country, it's a shame about the people. Canada's much better, same amazing scenery but the Canadians are much more down-to-earth, even if some of them do speak French. The best thing about them is they don't like Americans either.

lmfao my wife is american she's gonna hunt you down steve and make you eat all your food with cheese on it btw can some one tell her it's a bloody MOBILE phone not a cell phone i've tried but she's having none of it