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I just moved to the UK and I could definitely use some advice...
So, I just moved here to the UK about a week. My company is planning to keep me here for a year, then I will head back home to Los Angeles.
I'm just wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how to get by around here. Even though the company is helping to pay for many of my expenses, it is still SO damn expensive around here. Can anyone recommend any good ways to spend a little less in the UK? I was hoping to get a car, but I dont think that would make sense considering I havent seen any reasonably priced cars and gas is so fucking expensive! Eating food here can also be fairly expensive...so I've been going to the grocery store and stocking up on all the basic essentials to keep in my fridge. Basically, I didnt realize what I was getting myself into financially...and now I'm getting a little nervous. So, any advice you guys can offer me would be really great. Thanks! |
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I'd rather be on my boat.
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Get out of there....
Now. .
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where in the UK? london?
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I think they kind of screwed you there, LOL. Did you leave your fiancé at home, too?
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She is ugly, bad luck.
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Where are you living // where are you working - london is expensive to live in but if you are having to commute to somewhere cheaper that costs money&time too
Can get cheap food from a big supermarket chain like tesco/asda/morrisons - if you are going to a small local grocers prices are inflated Car www.autotrader.co.uk http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/ don't forget the cost of insurance http://www.gocompare.com/car-insurance/ http://www.comparethemarket.com/car-insurance/ and the tax disc which on some cars is ridiculously expensive petrols not cheap either
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Go to the DHSS and tell them that you are not British, tell them that you feel descriminated against and they will sort you out with a 4 bedroom house and give you loads of cash every week. Its best not to tell then that you are a yank though, put on a east european or a middle-eastern accent.
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welcome to the land of $10 for a gallon of petrol
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Yeah right. I've had personal experience of how warped the UK welfare is. I was refused help from the local council after i lost everything in a house fire - The same week the local rag reported that 90 houses in my area were being put aside for an expected influx of Afgan refugees. Thats fair isn't it?
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Rented house, the onus was on the landlord who, it turned out had fucked us over. Of cause, all those people who got the 90 houses were fully paid up?
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Maybe if your government hadn't been blowing the shit out of their houses they wouldn't be looking for new ones. Fact is this, nearly all the "asylum seekers" into the UK are from Afghanistan and Iraq. Is the penny starting to drop now? |
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just get used to it. Living in the UK is more expensive and that's that
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This doesn't help you, but I am pretty sure the UK has the worst food in all of the EU. What makes it even worse, is the awful food is expensive. Leave if you can asap |
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You didnt even say where you are, so how can anyone help you? I'm in Glasgow and yes its expensive compared to USA and smaller Euro countries, but nowhere near as expensive as say London.
If you are in London and not making $100k a year, you are in trouble. Life is going to be pretty tough for you. After taxes and rent you will be left with enough money to eat, get to work and maybe buy a few pints of beer per week. |
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"...hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way..."
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I'm a born and bred Londoner who now lives in Los Angeles, and my advice is: get the fuck out of there as soon as you can.
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Flee to Thailand...
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Living well in the UK is expensive, especially if you live in London. The company who sent you there should be paying your rent.
Unless you really need a car don't buy one. Rent one for the times you do need one. Most big cities have excellent public transport that's far cheaper and faster than a car. Food is expensive but the quality of it is fine. My Mother, 80+ and diabetic, moved from LA back to London and the diet here helped her blood sugar levels. US processed food is often packed with sugar. As for the comment of needing $100k to live in London, there are many places in the US I would hate to live in for less. |
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You may think i'm lazy and dumb but thats nothing compaired to my opinion of you.
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I don't have any real advice but I'm jealous because you can finally shop at decent grocery stores now. Enjoy Marks & Spencer
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#1 would be to ask your employer for a pay raise.
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As another poster suggested, if you want to live cheaply, then Thailand rocks. Lived there for 2 years, love the place.
The UK will be getting more and more expensive very soon with the new budgetary measures of the new government. Australia is a reasonable place to live. |
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A good way to make money in London is to chase foxes in the middle of the town.
With the fur you can make a lot of money (note that i have the same phenomena here, but here foxes have all parasites, so it's dangerous) |
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advice - in one word for my friend.......NETTO'S
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No way does the UK have the worse food in the EU, You must have been watching films from the 70's or something. I've lived all over Europe, and you can get so much more variety in the UK than anywhere else. You just need to know where and how. Worse food in EU my pick would be Netherlands. But then again with the ethnic diversity of the country you can still find good stuff. |
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What part, I spent a few years there and did so on a budget. Even then it's expensive.
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Despite it's reputation Netto is not cheap.
Aldi is where it's at my friend. Home Bargains too if you want brand name stuff, not sure if you have that down south though. Oh and the whole immigrant thing... It's fiction mate. I used to work for the DSS and there isn't any protocol to prioritise immigrants over citizens, it's pure bullshit fed to you buy the papers and the BNP, but most people lap it the fuck up. If you come here off a boat illegal then you have no right to housing benefit, dole etc. In fact you'll get deported unless you're from a country we don't deport to (for good reasons) like Somalia. Then you're stuck in a void where you can't actually work legally and you can't sign on either. So your choices are selling the big issue or working illegally. More recently, since I left, my brother has told me that there are another set of hoops to jump through, they've got to learn English now to be able to claim anything. If they fail then it's back on the black.
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Seems to only be from Milton Keynes upwards.
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uk is expensive, deal with that.
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![]() ![]() If you live in London you can get some of the best cuisine in the world around Neal Street, but you will pay for it ! What people should understand is that pay rates in the UK are way higher than the USA, this makes it easier to deal with higher prices. Gas has always been extortionate due to the governments huge tax on Petrol
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London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins... LONDON.
Anything to declare? Yeah. Don't go to London.
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I love the "UK has crap food" thing yanks do.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Personally, I lived in the UK for 4 years, and although there is some of the best food available in the world in London, it will cost you an arm and both legs, your house, etc.... The reasonably priced food is crap. I just have one word for the UK GREY Grey Food Grey Cities Grey Weather Grey-skinned People (with grey teeth) Grey lives lived in Grey little attached houses Grey dingy restaurants with Grey service Grey stony beaches I love my UK friends but there is no way I would ever live there again. sorry. .
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At the time i worked for the NHS which means i was near broke, I certainally didnt have enough for the deposit and advance rent.
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England is a great place for Indian food, but if like me you don't like Indian food, you are SOL. And as another poster wrote, reasonably priced food in the UK is shitty. It's much easier in NYC or NOLA or SF or LA (places I'm familiar with) to find excellent food at excellent prices. One more piece of advice: if someone invites you to their house for dinner, DO NOT GO. I'll repeat that for emphasis: IF SOMEONE IN THE UK INVITES YOU TO THEIR HOUSE FOR DINNER, DO NOT GO!!! You have been warned. |
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At least we can still use our beaches.
Sorry about messing yours up BTW.
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