Considerations for moving overseas

[James_Blues]

Applied for a job the other day in the UK and it's got me thinking about what things I'd need to consider if I had to move. Bearing in mind that this would be my first job out of uni and that I haven't lived out of home what things would I need to think about?

Things I've already thought about have been getting a SIM card, health insurance, bank account, International drivers license, and some of the more obvious things such as an apartment etc. Is there anything else I haven't thought of?

What are other people's experience's of moving overseas for work?

 

[Chief]

Sinking.

Piss.


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[Chief]

When I was in the U.K. there was a weird issue with renting.

You couldn't rent a flat without a bank account. But you couldn't get a bank account without an address.


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[wadistance]

Applied for a job the other day in the UK and it's got me thinking about what things I'd need to consider if I had to move. Bearing in mind that this would be my first job out of uni and that I haven't lived out of home what things would I need to think about?

Things I've already thought about have been getting a SIM card, health insurance, bank account, International drivers license, and some of the more obvious things such as an apartment etc. Is there anything else I haven't thought of?

What are other people's experience's of moving overseas for work?

tinder account?

 

[James_Blues]

tinder account?

check

 

[tigertigertiger]

Go on youtube and check out every pommy accent so you're prepared not to scrunch your face up when you hear how awful some of them sound

 

[wadistance]

Go on youtube and check out every pommy accent so you're prepared not to scrunch your face up when you hear how awful some of them sound

just watch one episode of
- made in chelsea
- the only way is essex
- geordie shore
- ex on the beach
- skint

 

[FootyJunkie]

When I was in the U.K. there was a weird issue with renting.

You couldn't rent a flat without a bank account. But you couldn't get a bank account without an address.


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use the address of your temporary accommodation for your bank account, can always change it later

 

[FootyJunkie]

Applied for a job the other day in the UK and it's got me thinking about what things I'd need to consider if I had to move. Bearing in mind that this would be my first job out of uni and that I haven't lived out of home what things would I need to think about?

may i ask what job you going for?

when doing the whole uk stint, i found it easier to have a few years experience at home before heading over...

but yeah... National Insurance is probably the first thing you should organize... can take a few weeks before you get the card in the mail

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Cannot for the life of me understand why so many Australian's pack up and move to dreary, damp, cold, expensive London. What am I missing? I've been there twice and don't get it.

 

[James_Blues]

may i ask what job you going for?

when doing the whole uk stint, i found it easier to have a few years experience at home before heading over...

but yeah... National Insurance is probably the first thing you should organize... can take a few weeks before you get the card in the mail

It's as a trainee farm grain buyer.


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[James_Blues]

Cannot for the life of me understand why so many Australian's pack up and move to dreary, damp, cold, expensive London. What am I missing? I've been there twice and don't get it.

I wouldn't be living in London, in a small town just outside of Cambridge


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[Drakescoffeecake]

I wouldn't be living in London, in a small town just outside of Cambridge


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Same same, but different.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

Cannot for the life of me understand why so many Australian's pack up and move to dreary, damp, cold, expensive London. What am I missing? I've been there twice and don't get it.

They speak English, so it means most people can find work. It is in Europe so it is a great base to travel Europe from. Pretty easy to work out really

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

They speak English, so it means most people can find work. It is in Europe so it is a great base to travel Europe from. Pretty easy to work out really

They speak English in most other European countries as well. I have a friend working over there at the moment in the housing industry, struggles to make ends meet on a weekly basis yet was getting paid 75-80k per year back in Australia. Someone else I know is working in Berlin, earning less and living a much better lifestyle. So no, I really don't get it.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

They speak English in most other European countries as well. I have a friend working over there at the moment in the housing industry, struggles to make ends meet on a weekly basis yet was getting paid 75-80k per year back in Australia. Someone else I know is working in Berlin, earning less and living a much better lifestyle. So no, I really don't get it.

Please... not speaking the local language would eliminate so many jobs and limit opportunties severly, therefore living in the UK makes sense for a lot of people

 

[FootyJunkie]

Please... not speaking the local language would eliminate so many jobs and limit opportunties severly, therefore living in the UK makes sense for a lot of people

Ireland would be another option for English speakers

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Please... not speaking the local language would eliminate so many jobs and limit opportunties severly, therefore living in the UK makes sense for a lot of people

Learn the language then? You know another English speaking country? Australia. I'd sooner move to Canada than the expensive shithole that is the UK.

 

[Chief]

Cannot for the life of me understand why so many Australian's pack up and move to dreary, damp, cold, expensive London. What am I missing? I've been there twice and don't get it.

We were in Paris, London and Scotland last year, US south west 5 years ago. I mentioned to the kids that it might be fun to live O/S for a year. They were definite that London was where they wanted to go.


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[Drakescoffeecake]

We were in Paris, London and Scotland last year, US south west 5 years ago. I mentioned to the kids that it might be fun to live O/S for a year. They were definite that London was where they wanted to go.


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Well geez I'd probably pick London as well. Glasgow is just as dreary as London and Paris is nothing to write home about, everyone's rude. Take them to Berlin, Munich, Lisbon, Barcelona, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen, Budapest and see if they'd still pick London.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

Learn the language then? You know another English speaking country? Australia. I'd sooner move to Canada than the expensive shithole that is the UK.

Are you deliberately trying to be thick?

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Are you deliberately trying to be thick?

Why? Because I have a different opinion to you? You wouldn't be a good lawyer.

 

[Chief]

Well geez I'd probably pick London as well. Glasgow is just as dreary as London and Paris is nothing to write home about, everyone's rude. Take them to Berlin, Munich, Lisbon, Barcelona, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Oslo, Copenhagen, Budapest and see if they'd still pick London.

Where they don't speak a word of the local language?


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[Drakescoffeecake]

Where they don't speak a word of the local language?


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Learn the language. If you want to move somewhere badly enough you'll do it.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

Why? Because I have a different opinion to you? You wouldn't be a good lawyer.

You said you didn't understand the attraction of London - I told you why people move there and now you want people to learn new languages just to live somewhere