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CoolCab posted:Our place in the world is shrinking: our economic comparisons grow worse, long-term political influence depends on economic strength – and that is running out. The country expects both full employment and an end to inflation. We cannot have both unless people restrain their demands. If the TUC guidelines [on pay] are not observed, we shall end up with wage controls once more and even a breakdown of democracy. Sometimes when I go to bed at night, I think that if I were a young man I would emigrate. But when I wake up in the morning, I ask myself whether there is any place else I would prefer to go. if you can't think of anywhere you would rather be than the UK I gently suggest you suffer from an extreme deficit of imagination
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bitmap posted:if you can't think of anywhere you would rather be than the UK I gently suggest you suffer from an extreme deficit of imagination oh, i can't imagine that is the first time he was accused of that. 1974, so what three years before the winter of discontent and less than five before thatcher. the warning signs have all been bright and garish / far too great in number to ignore
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bitmap posted:if you can't think of anywhere you would rather be than the UK I gently suggest you suffer from an extreme deficit of imagination Places which are a) affordable b) speak English as a first language & c) are willing to accept immigrants with no money or real qualifications are pretty hard to come by. Yeah, I'd be alright living in most of northern Europe on a personal level but I'm not sure they are really desperate for me & my inability to speak the language. Sure, Scandinavians & the Dutch are basically all better at speaking English than we are but pretty sure they expect people living & working there to have some grasp of the language.
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forkboy84 posted:Places which are a) affordable b) speak English as a first language & c) are willing to accept immigrants with no money or real qualifications are pretty hard to come by. Yeah, I'd be alright living in most of northern Europe on a personal level but I'm not sure they are really desperate for me & my inability to speak the language. Sure, Scandinavians & the Dutch are basically all better at speaking English than we are but pretty sure they expect people living & working there to have some grasp of the language. to anyone constrained by a very real and understandable economic or familial reality which makes moving extraordinarily difficult or impossible: that sucks, I hate that, im sorry. But as someone who moved here from the other side of the world...I dont know, man. I'm sure you know your deal better than some dickhead on a forum but I feel like you've got a lot of sick choices here as a western european.
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Have you heard of this human ability to learn foreign languages op?
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Commonwealth-to-Commonwealth is really easy with some of those visa programs, some even do job placement. Though the most generous are for Youth, which I think is under 30?
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Frosted Flake posted:Commonwealth-to-Commonwealth is really easy with some of those visa programs, some even do job placement. Though the most generous are for Youth, which I think is under 30? yeah I think 31 was the cutoff for the one I considered
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i wish there was something i could do to integrate myself into a new environment... but alas...
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anybody with uk citizenship can go live and work in ireland with zero paperwork or visa or anything. yes I know I was just complaining about how pricey it is but: my complaint was that dublin is roughly as expensive as london. it's much much better because: the gov is poo poo but it's not hurtling towards fash as fast as it can and also it's much less likely to have blackouts this winter in particular: https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1562019059570556929 everybody has been friendly, nobody has keyed my car for being english. being white helps there ofc. if you own your car it requires a bit of paperwork within 30 days, if you lease then you need permission from your lease company but no paperwork if they say yes. pets were the most paperwork I experienced, and even that was mostly just rabies shots. gonadic io has issued a correction as of 17:28 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Commonwealth-to-Commonwealth is really easy with some of those visa programs, some even do job placement. Though the most generous are for Youth, which I think is under 30? well that would have been good to know
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I hear it’s not so easy to rent a place in Dublin these days so maybe try to plan around that if you head that way
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ya do NOT look to move to dublin if you can help it - would you go move to london ityool 2022? jobs not withstanding ofc idk about job hunting here
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if i wanted to move somewhere cheap in ireland, i'd probably pick somewhere in belfast and just wait a few years 
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Move to northern Canada like the Remittence Men of yore and get the Northern Living Allowance.
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Frosted Flake posted:Move to northern Canada like the Remittence Men of yore and get the Northern Living Allowance. it’s the land of maple syrup and cheap housing
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Dubs is a bit of a state. Cork and Galway are great places. I live in Kilkenny and I love it so much I don't think I'll ever leave.
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mawarannahr posted:I hear it’s not so easy to rent a place in Dublin these days so maybe try to plan around that if you head that way i wouldn’t be surprised if it was more for a can’t find a place to rent at a reasonable price rather can’t rent at all
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I don't know about Dublin but it's starting to become common to require tax returns, paystubs, references, credit checks, etc to even apply to rent a place alongside the corporations buying up all the available housing in many cities. It's truly starting to become impossible for certain groups to get housing at any price.
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Pryor on Fire posted:I don't know about Dublin but it's starting to become common to require tax returns, paystubs, references, credit checks, etc to even apply to rent a place alongside the corporations buying up all the available housing in many cities. It's truly starting to become impossible for certain groups to get housing at any price. This is the same in the UK. 6 months back in England I had to even give them access to my payment history through the bank, there's some kind of scheme for it that the banks are signed up to. To make sure I don't have excessive outgoings/low balance/missed payments. They also called my manager at work aside from just paystubs and credit checks. e: This thing: https://www.canopy.rent/rentpassport. Lookit this guy being stoked to hand over all his financial data: 
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CoolCab posted:if i wanted to move somewhere cheap in ireland, i'd probably pick somewhere in belfast and just wait a few years I posted, maybe not in this thread, that Belfast was cheaper and easier to rent in than Dublin, but my experience was from a few years back. I saw something more recent that said at any time there's about 250 properties available to rent in Belfast and about 1000 AirBnBs.
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Frosted Flake posted:Move to northern Canada like the Remittence Men of yore and get the Northern Living Allowance. I literally did this and literally send remittances back sometimes. Started planning to do it the day after the brexit referendum was announced as I thought it was obvious that it was going to be a cataclysmic shitshow which apparently was the one really perceptive thought I've had in my life. Ended up leaving the day they formally announced intent to quit, funny how that worked out. It's been v. good so far, get paid about 3x what I would be in the UK to do the same job at the moment, some things are more expensive but nowhere near enough to make up the difference. I got extremely lucky on the immigration side of things though, it is difficult (though obviously not impossible: hello) to stick around permanently as some random idiot off the street with barely any money or skills or qualifications. maybe going to buy a house this year or next, northeastern BC is still fairly cheap on account of being an iceball for five months of the year, considered to be ugly (  I think it's nice) & full of insane chuds. Turns out everywhere's full of insane chuds nowadays though so what can you do (other than keep your neighbours half a mile away). At least the ones here leave people alone. Might change jobs instead, not sure. Shift work means I get to turn two weeks of holiday a year into a month+ before public holidays, don't have to pay £1000 a year to run a lightbulb, haven't been out of work for more than a week other than a brief roni shutdown, haven't had to think about an employment agency or the DWP or some curtain twitching psycho mad about parking spaces or or or or. YMMV may vary (and, imo, your life would be no better in most material ways vs just staying put) if you went to a city rather than the boonies as I did, but going to the boonies highly recommended if you're an unsentimental sort of person and can deal with being out the end of the loving earth. If you're thinking about doing it and want to get the modern equivalent of one of those imperialist GO WEST, YOUNG MAN posters typed at you my PMs are open, I guess.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Eat mouldy food, enjoy hunger pangs, have fun in the blackouts..... Hunger riots returning to the imperial core...?
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the TUC Twitter account tweeted out something along the lines of “the TUC are proud to announce the signing of X striker something something” it popped up as a notification on my phone so didn’t really think to save it and pressed it only for the tweet to be deleted
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Frosted Flake posted:Move to northern Canada like the Remittence Men of yore and get the Northern Living Allowance. i grew up in iqaluit actually, funny enough. i think i'd like to move above the tree line ideally. i miss it terribly, sometimes.
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Looke posted:the TUC Twitter account tweeted out something along the lines of “the TUC are proud to announce the signing of X striker something something” The TUC is All Elite
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Private Speech posted:This is the same in the UK. There's a mirror service to this, CreditLadder, where regular rent repayments over time can increase your credit rating. But good luck getting your landlord to do the 5 minutes of work needed to sign up to it.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:There's a mirror service to this, CreditLadder, where regular rent repayments over time can increase your credit rating. But good luck getting your landlord to do the 5 minutes of work needed to sign up to it. Canopy has that feature too. It's still utter crap that you have to give over all your financial transactions just to rent somewhere.
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Looke posted:i think ive said here or elsewhere that my mrs who is an ED nurse turned up for work last week to have 16 amber lamps queuing to get in. The ED was on divert, and their divert hospital was also on divert I didn't know they had entire departments for erectile dysfunction, that must be a hard job.
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It's only a hard job if you do it right.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I didn't know they had entire departments for erectile dysfunction, that must be a hard job. it can drive you round the bend
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ahem: you seem knowledgeable. can you explain what a jersey is for me?
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Microplastics posted:It's only a hard job if you do it right.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I posted, maybe not in this thread, that Belfast was cheaper and easier to rent in than Dublin, but my experience was from a few years back. I saw something more recent that said at any time there's about 250 properties available to rent in Belfast and about 1000 AirBnBs. There was a thread on the northern ireland reddit just today about lines to even view a place, and people being asked for non refundable deposits (which...thats not a deposit) to even have a viewing. thats very different from the Belfast of just a few years ago when i came from abroad, rented a three bedroom house with a yard and gate without references for 400 pounds a month. edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/northernir...m_medium=mweb3x Nuclear War has issued a correction as of 22:47 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Pretty rad dad pad posted:I literally did this and literally send remittances back sometimes. Started planning to do it the day after the brexit referendum was announced as I thought it was obvious that it was going to be a cataclysmic shitshow which apparently was the one really perceptive thought I've had in my life. Ended up leaving the day they formally announced intent to quit, funny how that worked out. It's been v. good so far, get paid about 3x what I would be in the UK to do the same job at the moment, some things are more expensive but nowhere near enough to make up the difference. I got extremely lucky on the immigration side of things though, it is difficult (though obviously not impossible: hello) to stick around permanently as some random idiot off the street with barely any money or skills or qualifications. Doxxed OP  e: though fr that’s not bad. I know Canadians still fall over themselves for Brits. My psych and Rehab O were both Brits with (what to a Canadian seemed like) educated British accents and I feel like that’s how they both made Major. Similarly there was a Scottish Corporal everyone thought knew way more about soldiering for whatever reason. Dominion inferiority complex may be real. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 01:48 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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redleader posted:you seem knowledgeable. can you explain what a jersey is for me? Ha. Depends. In the UK a 'jersey' is pretty much synonymous with sweater or jumper quote:Think of ‘jersey’ as being like an ancient ‘brand-name’ for ‘sweater’, originating from an island off France, where they were made, that eventually became synonymous with ‘sweater, pullover, and jumper’ which are other words for similar garments. but in the US they seem to be related to sports tops. Though I guess that's also a bit true in the UK too where you have football club jerseys. But I would think of those as subsets of normal jerseys. Things my mother used to say when I was a freezing cold nipper in a house with inch thick frost on the insides of the windows: "Put a woolie on" "Put a jumper on" "Put a jersey on" She never said 'put a sweater on' though.
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Anyone ITT got any recommendations on unions to join? I'm in financial services so a bit clueless as to whether the smaller (probably more melty) sector-specific unions like Aegis is the right move, or just to go for one of the bigger amalgamated unions like GMB or Unite? Any experience of being a member of a union that's not recognised by your employer, it's not easy to find good information about how that relationship works apart from in the situations where the poo poo is hitting the fan...
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Microplastics posted:It's only a hard job if you do it right. Oh poo poo that was a typo I meant to write "hand".
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