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I live in London and only moved here when I could guarantee I could afford it. I first came here as a student so I had my loans to pay for housing, and then I came back only once I had a job lined up. My landlord required proof of income before I could rent my flat; do you have somewhere to stay lined up? How will you pay for it? I really hope it works out for you but to be honest without anything definite set up and no qualifications it'll be tough to get by. You'll likely be on minimum wage jobs, and considering rent would be £600+ a month you'd struggle. If you have general questions about working in London I can try and help though. I live in East London and work in Westminster, so I'd say my commute is about 45 mins total which seems fairly standard. Travel with an Oyster card is quite cheap, I think my Zone 1-3 travel pass costs about £125 a month, which is OK considering you can use the tube/bus any other time. If you can, cycling is a great way to save money. Westminster is a nice place to work although like all of Zone 1 the cafes/pubs/etc are getting really expensive so if you want to save money I'd suggest bringing your own food for lunch and not drinking a ton each night with coworkers. Lady Gaza fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Yggdrassil posted:Im moving there with a friend, so we would share rent. We'll probably be staying at a hostel until we can get into a flat. I would like to save money by cycling, but that will depend on where i'll work. Nowadays, i have a 90 minute commute to my workplace -and im used to the lovely Buenos Aires transportation service. I also don't drink alcohol and never go out, so i have almost zero "going out" expenses. Is your friend already there with a flat? If not and you both went to an estate agent together without a current address or a job I highly doubt you'd get a flat. As Masonity suggested, try to get a room in a flatshare. Maybe it's because you haven't given us a lot of information, but it really doesn't seem like you have a concrete plan regarding your move. It reads to me like you're going to move to one of the most expensive cities in the world, without a job lined up or an address, and try and find an unskilled minimum wage job in a market where you'll be competing with thousands of other people. I don't want to be a downer, there might be something else you haven't told us that'll help you succeed, but it doesn't sound like a plan for success I'm afraid. Am I right that you want to go to drama school after saving up for a while? Wouldn't it make sense to save money where you currently live and then move here once you've been accepted for a place?
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Feb 22, 2015 14:32
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The above few posts were what I was trying to say, but I don't think I was blunt enough. To move here you need to either have loads of money or a job+house already lined up.
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Feb 23, 2015 14:48
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When you come here make sure you set aside enough money for a return ticket, it'd be horrible if it didn't work out and you were stuck here with no money.
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Feb 24, 2015 19:32
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Yggdrassil posted:In actually not concerned about fun. I dont drink alcohol, don't go out dancing, my normal social nights here ARE friend reunions at a house. I dont speak german and I'm going to London for the entertainment industry hub that it is. In the UK there's quite a strong drinking culture, a lot of socialising is done at pubs. I know a few people in the entertainment business and they go to a lot of parties and events with drinking in order to meet people. Not that you'll have to drink or anything but just be aware the culture is likely different to what you're used to.
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Feb 27, 2015 13:10
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oliwan posted:There is literally nothing that is better in London than in Berlin. Food, nightlife, housing, art scene, music scene, public transportion are all vastly superior in Berlin, and cost half as much. The only thing that London has going for it, is that there's more to do for rich people. Berlin is full of Germans though
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Feb 27, 2015 23:34
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l live in East London (Stratford to be specific) with my girlfriend and each pay £550 rent a month. It's not too bad round here. It's about mins on the tube to central London, but if you were to move somewhere like Leyton it'd take a little longer but be cheaper in terms of rent.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah living on the central line is pretty great. You're far out, so rents are cheaper, but it gets you into zone 1 in around 20-25 minutes (plus walking). Leyton and Leytonstone are perennial favourites (read: they used to be full of Aussies and South Africans back in the day). Leytonstone is also where Alfred Hitchcock was born and raised. I actually get the jubilee line (best line) in which is great, it's fast and since stratford is the terminus it's not too busy. It's getting expensive to rent round here though (we're buying a place in (South London) so somewhere a little further east should be cheaper. One nice thing about this area is the local butchers and Indian/Chinese shops that sell cheap vegetables and spices, not the mention the cheaper supermarkets like Morrisons that have the space to provide a wide range of food.
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Mar 3, 2015 08:53
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What's your specific plan? Find somewhere to live before you arrive, or go to a hostel first then look around for flatshares? Finding work will be easier if you have an address. Regarding location, you'll likely be looking for jobs in Zone 1; most places are easy enough to get to but bear in mind that since you don't know exactly where you'll be working your potential commute could vary quite a bit depending on which train/tube line your flat is near. I suppose if you find a job you won't have the urgency to get an acting gig. I think a lot of the more negative replies here are predicated on you not finding any work or a place to live and just wasting all your money.
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Mar 4, 2015 14:43
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Also £5000 a month is a very high income, so that advice won't really apply here.
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Mar 7, 2015 10:54
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Yggdrassil posted:Did i do that on the record? I've been speaking like that for the past years. I can speak with an Argentinian accent, thou i have to make a little bit of an effort (and it sounds horrible in my opinion). Just speak in your normal accent with everybody?
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Mar 9, 2015 18:17
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If you sign up to any job sites it's probably worth creating a specific gmail account to use on all of them. I created one for when I was unemployed on JSA, and was looking on the universal jobmatch and sites like cvlibrary, etc. I didn't trust the DWP not to sell off my details and knew those job sites would pester me for ages; I'm really glad I did it as years later when I occasionally check that account I'm still getting spam. I now use a similar system with LinkedIn, which stops recruiters getting my personal email.
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Apr 15, 2015 21:50
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Yggdrassil posted:Excellent idea. I'll do that right now. ¿How common are video interviews nowadays in the UK? I would say nonexistent for minimum wage jobs. The times I've experienced them was when I was looking for research positions in Australia, and in my current line of work when we were hiring for specific roles that required PhDs; in both situations there was a fairly low number of candidates per available job so video interviews were good for saving time. There will be a million people applying for each minimum wage job so company can just stick to face-to-face interviews.
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Apr 16, 2015 05:58
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There's a whole lot of costing and research done on this and generally it's a waste of resources to screen everyone. Even for specific conditions such as breast cancer there's debate whether there is too much screening, leading to false positives and unnecessary surgery on many women. If you looked for every feasible disease in everyone not only would it take up a ton of time and money, you would undoubtedly treat things that weren't in need of treatment. However you will get screened for conditions based on risk, eg prostate cancer for older men. In theory the GP acts as a filter to refer serious conditions into secondary care and other specialists. Lady Gaza fucked around with this message at 16:01 on May 19, 2015 |
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May 19, 2015 15:56
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I almost booked a holiday in Argentina but went for Chile instead. Heard the beef there is amazing too.
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Jun 11, 2015 14:30
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I went to Soho for the first time in ages the other day and it was full of annoying wankers, was really expensive and the bars were a bit naff.
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Jun 16, 2015 22:57
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Try out Citymapper app on your phone, it's much better than tfl
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Did your friend move with you?
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