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Hello chaps!
I've finally accepted a teaching post in Festival city...I am very excited!!
My boyfriend is in Dubai now being interviewed (he is in real estate), and its going very well....so everything is working out the way we'd hoped.
Im on Easter holidays and ebaying my life it seems in preparation for my move....just wondering is ebay used to buy and sell in Dubai?
Also some teachers have said they just took 3 or 4 packed suitcases instead of shipping boxes....All I have is one or 2 large items (pictures) and the rest will just be teaching materials and clothes.....the school pay for up to £300 worth of shipping/baggage allowance.
Any thoughtS?
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I've finally accepted a teaching post in Festival city...I am very excited!!
My boyfriend is in Dubai now being interviewed (he is in real estate), and its going very well....so everything is working out the way we'd hoped.
Im on Easter holidays and ebaying my life it seems in preparation for my move....just wondering is ebay used to buy and sell in Dubai?
Also some teachers have said they just took 3 or 4 packed suitcases instead of shipping boxes....All I have is one or 2 large items (pictures) and the rest will just be teaching materials and clothes.....the school pay for up to £300 worth of shipping/baggage allowance.
Any thoughtS?
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There's an eBay equivalent in Dubai called souq.com. Nothing stopping you keeping on using normal eBay of course.
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Hello chaps!
I've finally accepted a teaching post in Festival city...I am very excited!!
My boyfriend is in Dubai now being interviewed (he is in real estate), and its going very well....so everything is working out the way we'd hoped.
Im on Easter holidays and ebaying my life it seems in preparation for my move....just wondering is ebay used to buy and sell in Dubai?
Also some teachers have said they just took 3 or 4 packed suitcases instead of shipping boxes....All I have is one or 2 large items (pictures) and the rest will just be teaching materials and clothes.....the school pay for up to £300 worth of shipping/baggage allowance.
Any thoughtS?
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I've finally accepted a teaching post in Festival city...I am very excited!!
My boyfriend is in Dubai now being interviewed (he is in real estate), and its going very well....so everything is working out the way we'd hoped.
Im on Easter holidays and ebaying my life it seems in preparation for my move....just wondering is ebay used to buy and sell in Dubai?
Also some teachers have said they just took 3 or 4 packed suitcases instead of shipping boxes....All I have is one or 2 large items (pictures) and the rest will just be teaching materials and clothes.....the school pay for up to £300 worth of shipping/baggage allowance.
Any thoughtS?
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any idea what its like shipping stuff back to the UK? We're in the process of buying big plasma tv etc etc and mrs spugsy is p*ssed off that when we do eventually leave we'll get next to nothing for our stuff - do people ship stuff back home at all?
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Therefore they should pay for shipping of effects...
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oh, nae luck..i had it included into my contract as 'relocation allowance' I dont think it is too expensive for a container (or part) to ship your stuff back thou..
Or if you have a friend or collegue that you trust who is shipping stuff back at the same time and has some space?
Or if you have a friend or collegue that you trust who is shipping stuff back at the same time and has some space?
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oh, nae luck..i had it included into my contract as 'relocation allowance' I dont think it is too expensive for a container (or part) to ship your stuff back thou..
Or if you have a friend or collegue that you trust who is shipping stuff back at the same time and has some space?
Or if you have a friend or collegue that you trust who is shipping stuff back at the same time and has some space?
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We're lucky in that we came out here with a media company that not only paid for plane tickets for both Suzanne and myself, they paid Suzanne's visa costs too (again, lots of companies won't pay for family members any more) and gave us a modest relocation allowance (virtually unheard-of in media companies).
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These days, many companies don't pay any kind of relocation (in either direction) other than a one-way plane ticket into Dubai for the person they're employing. It's just the way it is here now. So in many respects, you're lucky to have got a paid ticket home when you finally decide to leave ![Smile](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
We're lucky in that we came out here with a media company that not only paid for plane tickets for both Suzanne and myself, they paid Suzanne's visa costs too (again, lots of companies won't pay for family members any more) and gave us a modest relocation allowance (virtually unheard-of in media companies).
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We're lucky in that we came out here with a media company that not only paid for plane tickets for both Suzanne and myself, they paid Suzanne's visa costs too (again, lots of companies won't pay for family members any more) and gave us a modest relocation allowance (virtually unheard-of in media companies).
If she hadn't got that hotel deal god knows what we would have done, 1 week in a hotel??
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These days, many companies don't pay any kind of relocation (in either direction) other than a one-way plane ticket into Dubai for the person they're employing. It's just the way it is here now. So in many respects, you're lucky to have got a paid ticket home when you finally decide to leave ![Smile](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
We're lucky in that we came out here with a media company that not only paid for plane tickets for both Suzanne and myself, they paid Suzanne's visa costs too (again, lots of companies won't pay for family members any more) and gave us a modest relocation allowance (virtually unheard-of in media companies).
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We're lucky in that we came out here with a media company that not only paid for plane tickets for both Suzanne and myself, they paid Suzanne's visa costs too (again, lots of companies won't pay for family members any more) and gave us a modest relocation allowance (virtually unheard-of in media companies).
I cant belive that a company would make me pay to sponsor my wife and kid...
bollox to that....time to go home..
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