Immigrating to the UK

I've been here 8months and still surviving without a car...I can walk most places (gym, shops etc. ±15mins) or take the train to the city/town if I wanted to. But I need to get a car at some point so thought I'd ask what you all did when you got here? Buy el'cheapo cash?
 
prod said:
I've been here 8months and still surviving without a car...I can walk most places (gym, shops etc. ±15mins) or take the train to the city/town if I wanted to. But I need to get a car at some point so thought I'd ask what you all did when you got here? Buy el'cheapo cash?
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I picked up a real nugget.

Vauxhall Corsa D 1.3 CDTi 84,000 miles, 1 owner. Heated seats, heated steering wheel, auto lights, auto wipers, auto dipping rearview mirror. £3500
It had the standard known gearbox bearing issue which cost me £600 to get sorted, and I had to get the aircon valve replaced for another £200 with labour. But other than that its been reliable and a joy to drive.
You should find a good number of diesel vehicles at a good price since ULEZ. As long as you never plan to drive into Greater London then you are fine going for an older vehicle.
 
prod said:
I've been here 8months and still surviving without a car...I can walk most places (gym, shops etc. ±15mins) or take the train to the city/town if I wanted to. But I need to get a car at some point so thought I'd ask what you all did when you got here? Buy el'cheapo cash?
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Good car for the missus, el-cheapo for me.
My first one cost more in insurance, tax and MOT than the purchase price but was a great little run around.
 
xcaliber said:
Nothing, consultants are useless.
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You don't know what a consultant is in an NHS context then.

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surface said:
Eish, about 40% of my extended family in UK are NHS consultants. I will let them know you are not happy.
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At my current workplace they just paid consultants £33,000 to update our enterprise BI software...something I did as part of my job back in SA. It's literally just installing some patches and checking configs still work afterwards.

Think I'll switch to consultancy at some point
 
prod said:
At my current workplace they just paid consultants £33,000 to update our enterprise BI software...something I did as part of my job back in SA. It's literally installing some patches and checking configs still work afterwards.

Think I'll switch to consultancy at some point
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I am talking about NHS consultants, not IT consultants. Eish..It seems like Friday.
 
killerbyte said:
I picked up a real nugget.

Vauxhall Corsa D 1.3 CDTi 84,000 miles, 1 owner. Heated seats, heated steering wheel, auto lights, auto wipers, auto dipping rearview mirror. £3500
It had the standard known gearbox bearing issue which cost me £600 to get sorted, and I had to get the aircon valve replaced for another £200 with labour. But other than that its been reliable and a joy to drive.
You should find a good number of diesel vehicles at a good price since ULEZ. As long as you never plan to drive into Greater London then you are fine going for an older vehicle.
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I'll just get a Honda Jazz so I can fit in with the pensioners like @Dave & @Sinbad
 
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