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My fine british comrades!!
hawkbox
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This fellow member of the commonwealth is looking into moving over there and working if possible in IT. I have discovered I can get a UK ancestry Visa for 5 years without a lot of trouble so I am starting that process now, but I have no idea how to look for IT related work in the London area. Do you guys have a monster.com type thing over there? Or does anyone know any decent firms hiring?
I'm looking to get some adventure in so why not let this fine Canuck come over and steal your women and health care.
Oh wait.... we're socialized too.
I'm looking to get some adventure in so why not let this fine Canuck come over and steal your women and health care.
Oh wait.... we're socialized too. hawkbox on
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I'm assuming that's official since it's the first result in Google for "craigslist uk."
Though with Hays I actually went and dealt with them in person.
You could always try the jobcentreplus site as well as the ones mentioned above.
This was never my experience as an antipodean visitor. I guess it's possible, but especially in London, I never found it an issue at all. In fact, numerous people said that they liked hiring Kiwis (and Aussies - Lord only knows why...). I dont know how the Canadian accent plays though.
Yeah, I've not found it a problem being an English speaking foreigner working in London, especially one from the Commonwealth. British people seem to have warm feelings towards places like Canada, NZ or Australia, they know people who've moved there, or have family there, but they almost never are familiar enough with your country to have formed negative opinions that will hurt you. Plus, London is very friendly to foreigners and as a result seems to be incredibly multicultural - at least compared to the rest of Europe's big capitals.
With your visa you are also golden - it should, if the normal kind of ancestry visa, give you an unrestricted right to work here, so you would present no recruitment problem to employers as they won't need to do anything but get a copy of your visa/right to work. You are legally in the same position as an EU/UK citizen for the period of your visa, wrt to working anyway.
Sign up with all the listed agencies or jobsites before and start making connections before you leave, just to test the market. Hell, even apply for jobs if you feel up to it. At least then you'll know if it is going to be easy to get work here.
Basically a job listings aggregator. Saves you a lot of time. I think you can set it up for email alerts as well.
Have a search for IT specific job listings sites as well. (searching for IT jibs on indeed mght actually lead you yo IT listings sites).
Also gumtree (London.gumtree.co.uk or something) although be aware that there's a lot of gravel but you can find the occasional gem.
Once over there I may need to buy some of you... blokes? a beer.
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Please don't try to use slang like that. If you use it organically, it's less grating, but if you come over and start being all "Oi oi, pip pip. Bob's you're uncle, lets head down the apples and pears and have us a few swift halves", then you may be shanked.
And what the hell did you say to me? I made the uncomfortable statement to make fun of my lack of knowledge.
And Yep Decius you'll have to come visit. We'll get motorbikes and kill ourselves trying to drive on the wrong side of the road.
I could, of course, be hilariously wrong.
Like a screen door on a battleship!!
"You alright?" means: "Hello". They aren't actually asking if anything is wrong. I spent my first week thinking, holy shit, whats wrong with me that people this pale are asking me whether I'm ok?
Oh, and also - someone telling you "I'm just going to pop outside for a fag" does not indicate a brave declaration regarding lifestyle choice. They are in fact about to partake of a cigarette.
I do this to Americans all the time. It's hilarious. I usually do it as "y'aight?" so I confuse them with the pronunciation too.
The You Alright is going to screw me right up, though we tend to use "How's it going?" as a generic hello as well as no one really wants to hear a sob story about your car getting impounded or something.
How do you Britishers feel about faux mockney then?
We'd wonder which expensive public school you went to.
I don't like it one little bit, but I know people who do it. I think they are doing it ironically, but I'm not sure.
I don't think I have ever been to a place where people live in the UK that is further than half a mile from an Indian restaurant or takeaway.
With the possible exception of a couple of fairly remote islands.
Its not so much that you wont be able to find good food... It's just harder. And sometimes what they pass off as food (for the price they charge) is criminal. Generally, if you eat out at moderately priced restaurants, you may find the meals disappointing, and especially if you're in London - not so moderately priced.
But if you make your own food or don't mind shopping around a little more - you'll be fine.
For sheer truth.
I only point this out because a lot of people coming over, especially from the US, seem to plan their food budget on the basis of advice from people who live here, but have the assumption that the budgets they are advised allow for eating out most of the time, whereas the people doing the advising were most likely working on the assumption that they would be cooking their own food.
Eating out isn't so bad either I think - whatever it was like back in the day when the UK developed its terrible reputation for food, those days have passed in London anyway. It doesn't have to be super expensive either, for example I have at least half a dozen places within 5 minutes walk of my house where I can eat out for 10-12 pounds or less and get an ok meal. Then you can buy lunch usually a fair bit cheaper (I can get a freshly made sandwich and very good espresso for under 4 pounds near my work)
Drinking in central London is pretty expensive though - a round for say 4 people can cost 15 pounds, whereas it can be a bit cheaper, say 10-12 out of central London
In Europe (not the touristy bits), and other places like NZ/Aus - the quality is higher, especially in the mid-range price bracket. The quality is there in the UK, but it's usually one of those places where you're dropping 100 quid for the evening.
You don't get the cafe scene. An example would be that we have always enjoyed a nice breakfast in the weekends, especially if we're out the night before. In the UK, we had a local place - chips, beans, eggs, bacon and an instant coffee for about 9 pounds. In NZ, we pay a little less, but you'd be getting eggs benedict with smoked salmon and a cappucino. But more importantly, that's not unusual - you dont get many greasy spoons.
Places like Pret, M&S, Pizza Express etc have kind of lowered the bar a little. It's a little like all those pubs that offer a "Thai Curry" option nowadays... Not flash. Not OMG terrible, but not flash.
I also miss being able to afford things.
LA that expensive eh? I would have thought everyday stuff like food or clothes would be cheaper in LA than Wellington
I am lucky enough to be heading back home for a few weeks, next month, so I'll be in Wellington for a bit. I am really looking forward to wandering around Kelburn and the inner city, going from cafe to cafe in what I hope is going to be a nice late summer.
And is flash good? Cause here it means dropping my pants.
A quid is a pound (£). So 10 quid = ten pounds. Tenner is also used.
What context is flash being used in?
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As in, the food wasn't any thing fancy or anything special. Average.