Dave
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Almost all the users on here who now live in the UK don’t live in London. I think @The Voice is closest and even he isn’t actually in London iirc.
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Almost all the users on here who now live in the UK don’t live in London. I think @The Voice is closest and even he isn’t actually in London iirc.
The Voice
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Sadly, I am now. Kingston was gobbled up by Greater London after previously having been in Surrey.
Dave
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I would suspect maybe in the new budget, so sometime in late March.
Perhaps I need to tell the wife to start actually looking for jobs now to see what sort of salary we can expect her to be on. She hasn’t worked in the UK for 8yrs and has gained a lot of experience since. Just no idea if it will be enough.
I’d easily earn more with a work visa - bottom end is £65k a year. But finding a sponsorship is insanely difficult.
killerbyte
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You can make money in London and NOT live in London.
I live in Buckinghamshire and go to my London office once a week. Means I earn London money but pay Bucks costs. Win Win for me.
Will move to Chesham if my GF ends up studying in London, just so I don't have to drive her 30min to the station each day.
Dave
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Worth trying, can’t hurt.
Couldn’t you get your application in just before the increase?
Messugga
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Yeah this works. I live in Manchester, my boss is on the south coast, his boss is in Nottingham and his boss is in Chicago. The UK people all work in the London office once or so a week.
Very par for the course these days.
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I don't think that earning threshold is unreasonable. I have no idea how anyone can expect to come here and establish themselves on less than 20k a year with no recourse to public funds for their family.
The carer thing is a bit **** though!
The carer thing is a bit **** though!
Messugga
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Yep. I saw over the weekend that rent has increased by something like 25% over the last year. You're going to be blowing a grand on a roof over your head, not to mention energy, transportation, food... I genuinely don't understand how people survive on £30k pa.
Gtx Gaming
Gtx Gaming
Unlimited Data Pay as you go SIM | Lyca Mobile £12.50 Bundle
Unlimited Data Pay as you go SIM bundle from Lyca Mobile. Get 35GB EU & India roaming, 100 intl. mins, unlimited UK calls and no contracts or credit checks.
Hi Guys, I can just buy that in SA before flying over? Should just work when i land? Going for the esim.
Had issues before in UK with sims etc, had reboot phone everday and 4G was pretty much edge in SA, hopefully better this time around
Mephisto_Helix
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All depends where you are
All depends where you are
heartbroken
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That is what I did initially, still use the number, but it was borked 3 weeks back when I tried buying another esim for a second phone. They did refund me after about a week of the sim not doing anything.Unlimited Data Pay as you go SIM | Lyca Mobile £12.50 Bundle
Unlimited Data Pay as you go SIM bundle from Lyca Mobile. Get 35GB EU & India roaming, 100 intl. mins, unlimited UK calls and no contracts or credit checks.www.lycamobile.co.uk
Hi Guys, I can just buy that in SA before flying over? Should just work when i land? Going for the esim.
Had issues before in UK with sims etc, had reboot phone everday and 4G was pretty much edge in SA, hopefully better this time around
Gtx Gaming
Gtx Gaming
If you have a while till you come, we got Giffgaff to post our SIMs to us in SAUnlimited Data Pay as you go SIM | Lyca Mobile £12.50 Bundle
Unlimited Data Pay as you go SIM bundle from Lyca Mobile. Get 35GB EU & India roaming, 100 intl. mins, unlimited UK calls and no contracts or credit checks.
Hi Guys, I can just buy that in SA before flying over? Should just work when i land? Going for the esim.
Had issues before in UK with sims etc, had reboot phone everday and 4G was pretty much edge in SA, hopefully better this time around
Once you know where you will be staying you will see which network is the best
Moved my voice line recently to Sky mobile (on O2) as they had a good black friday deal and they have eSIM and wifi calling, O2 is crap here but with wifi calling I dont notice.
For data I have a EE uncpped broadband sim from when I didnt have fibre , and EE are quite solid here in Birmingham.
Dave
Honorary Master
They had a massive data hack that took them down some weeks ago, took a while to recover so you were probably caught in the aftermath.
Ok.will take Dave's word for it
Could ship physical sim but prefer the esim ready to go.
Hopefully the info I was given was right, Gtx can be the man to confirm
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Dave
Honorary Master
As an fyi, Giffgaff now offer eSIM as well, though not as well priced as Lyca.
Gtx Gaming
Gtx Gaming
Awesome used them before but yeah had issue phone need to reboot each day, and 4g was pretty slow back then
Dave
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O2 still has the slowest network, and Giffgaff being a budget MVNO will get throttled first if the network gets congested.
For pure 5G speed (but limited coverage) would be Three.
For best all round 4G/5G speed and coverage it’s EE by a mile (best MVNO for features would be 1pMobile, if eSIM is important, LycaMobile)