Live in London for a Year

I originally wanted to go here for a job. There are no teaching jobs in the North East! My friend was asking me about it the other day, and I told him I was starting to change my mind and that I would be better off staying here. That I had it good here, so why move.

He said ‘For the job and the experience, it’s good to take risks’. That one sentence decided it for me! He’s soo right! If I’m honest with myself, the reason I was having second thought was because I was scared! I don’t want to ever be somebody that doesn’t do something because I am scared! So I decided that I am most definately going to go, no matter how scared I am!

I am sooo excited now though! I can’t wait to live it up in the big city! There are so many more opportunities! It’s my chance to find the new friends that I want, have my own class and make my life what I want it to be! Roll on November!!!

i’m from denmark and i really would love to go to london for a year and just work. there is just one promblem. where do you stay? does anyone know some cool places or .. ?

In retrospect, we should have turned around in Heathrow and taken the next flight back out of this forsaken shit-hole of a country. Instead it took me almost a year to admit defeat and high-tail it out of the world’s

London is a sort of demilitarized zone in the mindless tribal warfare that is life in Engerland; a place where everyone has decided that the only way to not kill each other is simply to pretend that no one else exists.

Foreigners can be excused for making the mistake that a national capital would be a better option than a smaller, lesser, city, but in England this is certainly not the case.

London likes to trade on its history, but since 95% of it was built since 1945, anything older than that will cost you a minimum of 10 quid to go inside of. In London, and the rest of England, old buildings of historical or cultural import are “Grade Listed”. A Grade 1 listed building is anything built before 1945, and the more prestigious Grade 2 listing means that it was built before 1945 and has a pub in it.

If London were the shiny exciting cultural capital than Londoners vociferously claim it is, they would not all fatten the bank accounts of RyanAir and EasyJet every time they get more than 24 hours off from work in a row jetting off to such stunning and exciting destinations as Krakow and Maribor. Perhaps these trips are to convince them once again, of the relative merits of their adopted city.

I have to come to terms with the fact that this will just not happen for me. I should’ve done this when I was in college… before I got into a serious relationship, before I met the man of my dreams (whose extremely happy living in Green Bay, WI)... Before marriage and children. But the fact is, I’m very excited that marriage and possibly children are right around the corner for me, at least in a couple of years or so. So it’s time to make room a new goal.

To all of you that would like to do this… DO IT NOW. Let’s face it, if you’re single, without kids, in college or early in your career, without a morgage and whatever else… Do it now.

my company is willing to send me to live there if i agree to stay at least 2 years. this would totally mess with my grad school plans so i think i’m gonna have to turn it down. sigh :(

my older brother studied in london for the year and he had such a great time. he meet so many new people and was so happy that he got to live on his own and create his own life. all of his friends are so jealous that he got to do that and so am i! i hope that one day ill be able to study there myself

It was an interesting experience but it got old after a while. Little things start to get on your nerves and you long for American accents, as horrid as some of them might be.

Spent nearly a year living and working in London in the late 80s as part of a working holiday. Enjoyed it immensely but was happy to return home to Oz after our travels.

London sucks big time, It’s ok for like a day, but for a year NO!