Immigrating to the UK

killerbyte said:
"over here" being where?
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We are in a small town in east Nothamptonshire but they are Cumbrian and spent some time up there too. It’s a general “England as a whole is much nicer than they expected”, for instance their siblings have a much better experience getting medical assistance than what seems to be the case in news stories.
 
Paul Kemp said:
We are in a small town in east Nothamptonshire but they are Cumbrian and spent some time up there too. It’s a general “England as a whole is much nicer than they expected”, for instance their siblings have a much better experience getting medical assistance than what seems to be the case in news stories.
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The problem is people believe everything they read in the news. The job of the media is to sell stories and headlines.
 
killerbyte said:
I re-read what he wrote and it makes sense now.
The news makes out life in the UK to be hard, and yet I was just noting yesterday that food prices are coming down.
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The news would make it out that life in heaven is difficult - and maybe hell is a better place; if that headline sold more stories than the reality.
 
Priapus said:
The news would make it out that life in heaven is difficult - and maybe hell is a better place; if that headline sold more stories than the reality.
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If it bleeds it leads...
I would say the traffic where I live is better than I had in Pretoria East. Everything is closer and more convenient. Life here is so much easier than it is in SA.
And tomorrow I am going to go to Hyde Park and have a beer or two with my friends from SA as we celebrate their birthday (twins) and mine.
 
killerbyte said:
I re-read what he wrote and it makes sense now.
The news makes out life in the UK to be hard, and yet I was just noting yesterday that food prices are coming down.
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Working in the food manufacturing business and providing support to our commercial team, we have just gone through an exercise of passing back our savings to retailers retrospectively. We also do a lot to reduce costs including government backed programs for continuous improvement to our lines. All very interesting and comforting.
 
killerbyte said:
I sent off my drivers license to DVLA last week. So now I am just waiting the 3-4 weeks for my UK drivers license to arrive.
The way things just work here is awesome, but you get no feedback while the stuff is being processed so you just have to wait until it arrives.
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My drivers license just got delivered in the post.

This country and its efficiency keeps on impressing me.
 
killerbyte said:
My drivers license just got delivered in the post.

This country and its efficiency keeps on impressing me.
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Bank cards, driver license, passports - all by post and it arrives. Did my drivers the other day and got it within a week.
Reminds me I need to renew my car tax. My hassle, no fuss - everything is online.
 
killerbyte said:
If it bleeds it leads...
I would say the traffic where I live is better than I had in Pretoria East. Everything is closer and more convenient. Life here is so much easier than it is in SA.
And tomorrow I am going to go to Hyde Park and have a beer or two with my friends from SA as we celebrate their birthday (twins) and mine.
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I like Hyde Park; nice area. Was there last time we visited. Enjoy!
 
gregmcc said:
Bank cards, driver license, passports - all by post and it arrives. Did my drivers the other day and got it within a week.
Reminds me I need to renew my car tax. My hassle, no fuss - everything is online.
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I bought my car, climbed into the drivers seat, paid the tax on my phone online, and then drove to work.
****ING BEAUTIFUL!
 
killerbyte said:
I bought my car, climbed into the drivers seat, paid the tax on my phone online, and then drove to work.
****ING BEAUTIFUL!
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You should visit some of the UK forums; locals don't share our enthusiasm for their systems - to them its all falling apart and "proper ****, mate"
 
Priapus said:
You should visit some of the UK forums; locals don't share our enthusiasm for their systems - to them its all falling apart and "proper ****, mate"
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That's a local for you - always bitching about something.

Starting to hear moans already at work about the weather. I keep telling them I moved from sunny SA to UK as I love weather and get some strange looks :D
 
gregmcc said:
That's a local for you - always bitching about something.

Starting to hear moans already at work about the weather. I keep telling them I moved from sunny SA to UK as I love weather and get some strange looks :D
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I'm loving the weather. It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Lets see what winter has to offer though.
 
People seem to think that it rains all the time in the UK.
Truth is that it rains most days, but usually for not long enough.
I love the rain, I love the cold. I complain when its hot.
I keep telling all the Brits how good everything is here, but Brits do love to complain.
But even when there is strike action its well communicated ahead of time, and its limited in its impact.
 
2023 said:
I'm loving the weather. It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Lets see what winter has to offer though.
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It can be bad, depending on your state of mind.

A few years ago, (almost 8 now) I spent 6 months in the UK whilst my wife (then girlfriend) was wrapping up her life to move to SA - having very little sun during that time of the year and it always being wet on the ground / raining - was a bit miserable for me.

However, going back there now; the weather is the least of my concerns. We get to be around all our family and our son gets to be around them too and grow up around them - that matters more than literally anything else just about.

We'll take holidays to sunny countries when we're sick of UK weather SA included.
 
killerbyte said:
People seem to think that it rains all the time in the UK.
Truth is that it rains most days, but usually for not long enough.
I love the rain, I love the cold. I complain when its hot.
I keep telling all the Brits how good everything is here, but Brits do love to complain.
But even when there is strike action its well communicated ahead of time, and its limited in its impact.
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I was impressed by that when I was there in July. If you rocked up to the station and only then noticed it was not showing up due to a strike action; that's on you for not paying attention.

When we were there in July - I mentioned to the one local we were moving to the UK:

"Oh god, why do you want to do that? You sure? It's **** here"

"Well, we have up to 12hr power outages, for the last 18 months - and regular water cuts in SA. So.. yes, I am sure"

They stopped trying to tell me how bad UK is.
 
killerbyte said:
I re-read what he wrote and it makes sense now.
The news makes out life in the UK to be hard, and yet I was just noting yesterday that food prices are coming down.
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Priapus said:
The problem is people believe everything they read in the news. The job of the media is to sell stories and headlines.
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Priapus said:
The news would make it out that life in heaven is difficult - and maybe hell is a better place; if that headline sold more stories than the reality.
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The problem is the tabloids have long led on the "bad news sells papers" ethos and in recent years it seems even the TV news is doing similar.
 
Dave said:
The problem is the tabloids have long led on the "bad news sells papers" ethos and in recent years it seems even the TV news is doing similar.
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Yup. One has to wonder where you can read proper news, that isn't there just to sell headlines.
 
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