Does anyone live in England? I plan on moving to London once I get my passport (according to the website - about 6-8 weeks.) What's the job market like in London? I'd like to get a job as soon as possible.
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Does anyone live in England? I plan on moving to London once I get my passport (according to the website - about 6-8 weeks.) What's the job market like in London? I'd like to get a job as soon as possible.
The cost of living in London is huge. I have heard rumours of immigarants who sleep in the pay toilets for 20p a night. Even living in the east end slums is quite pricey and you will need a good job to support yourself.
Of course, there is far more to England than just London.
And if the site says 6-8 weeks, you can expect it by....
Oh, i'd say December.....
Of 2009.
Assholes.
Is it that easy to just move to another country, get a home and a job?
Why would you want to move to London? Where do you live Upstate New York? Wyoming?Quote:
Originally Posted by xbrinkx
It is when your country is in the EU. So long as you satisfy the immigration rules of any particular country, and you have a valid EU passport, in theory you can move wherever you like, whenever you like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
edit: ah. xbrinkx is probably American - disregard :p
Hm yeah, moving is maybe the simplest thing of it, but being integrated with the community is harder. Language and education is essential to get a good job, and I don't want to live in the cheapest possible apartment. When I'm done with my education next year, I will get a job and hopefully a loan to an apartment, which will cost at least 1 million Swedish kronor. And I'm a Swede in Sweden.
It won't be too hard for an American to intergrate in England, especially in a city as cosmopolitan as London. Americans here will find their English is corrected often with the biggest crime against English calling football, soccer.
I've never quite figured out why we in America call Football.."Football".
70% of the time you are using your hands to hold the ball. 10% you use your feet with the ball. The last 20% of the time is used used for generally sitting around or waiting for commercial breaks/timeouts/breaks for the heck of it to end.
History lesson: American Football and Football Football were originally the same game way back when. Then two schools of thought divided over the issue of how far you could run with the ball in your hands. The game was called football not because you used your feet but...wait for it...
Because it wasn't played on horseback, like most of the gentlemanly sports of the time.
Eventually, in the US, college slang branded the Football Football with "Soccer" - short for "Association Football" and the hands-on running game became known as Football, as in the NFL.
The rest of the world just stuck with the original name. Rugby is in there somewhere.
Truth.
I'd argue that Rugby is a far rougher sport than (NFL) football.
Doing it without pads...ouch.
From what I know of sporting history (without bothering to check anything):
Rugby teams are often referred to as <insert name> rugby football club.
Back when the toffs at public schools were inventing the two games (in the 1800's) they started out the same. In the end football banned the use of the hands while in rugby it continued. I can only imagine American football is an offshoot of rugby - only with padding.
Thats how I see it...rugby with pads....and commercial breaks.
I just moved to florida from london a few weeks ago, its very interesting.
Wait till spring break.
Then you'll thank various gods that you chose Florida as the place to live.