Thinking of England: A confession
Nov 3rd 2011, 7:00 pm
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I think you say it all in your last sentence ref the travel. We have really been giving the UK a good look before making a decision and have found some nice to live places. Dorset, North Wales, Durham, Scotland all extremely relaxing and ideal places to settle....until you want to travel and then you have to migrate out into the real UK and wait your turn, Somehow you have to negotiate the mass areas around Manchester, Birmingham and of course London where travel literally becomes a total nightmare. Listen to the National travel problems on the radio and they become longer and longer by the day. Britain is not a dump so it would be nice to get people to stop treating it so.
Nov 3rd 2011, 7:13 pm
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Nov 3rd 2011, 7:21 pm
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Re: Thinking of England: A confession
Must be the emptiest area in England but good for fresh veg..
Nov 3rd 2011, 7:32 pm
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Still get the best fish and chips in the UK here! No inflated London prices for a tiny piece of fish. Great if u like fishing, but hubby prefered the water being so clear in NZ. We love being rural and yes great for fresh veg and no crowds like kent, where i originate from!
Nov 3rd 2011, 9:55 pm
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Re: Thinking of England: A confession
Like anything - depends what you want. For me, having Silverstone / Donnington / Cadwell within easy striking distance for WSB / MotoGP / BSB / Trackdays is incomparable to anywhere in the world. Also, the thing I miss most about motorcycling in UK is the proliferation of massive roundabouts with beautiful tarmac. Whilst living in Essex they built a huge number of them near Chelmsford for a new trunkroad - Sunday mornings were just a blast - where I learned to get my knee down. And now I am missing that bike - VFR400 with Maxton shock and Maxton re-worked forks. Sublime handling.
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Nov 3rd 2011, 11:11 pm
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Because the equivalent wage graphs look much worse almost everywhere else (including the UK, where the figures went negative at one stage)?
Nov 25th 2011, 4:36 am
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Another little step closer to Heathrow 
. This week's lesson has been not to trust employment agencies one little bit, they will string candidates along something shocking given the chance. 
I should have known that from my days in the UK when they used to plague us at work with calls "do you have any upcoming vacancies?" "would you be able to put me through to a colleague who might be hiring?" etc etc.
Maybe I'll pass a few weeks in Vietnam or India on the way back to SW7
. This week's lesson has been not to trust employment agencies one little bit, they will string candidates along something shocking given the chance. I should have known that from my days in the UK when they used to plague us at work with calls "do you have any upcoming vacancies?" "would you be able to put me through to a colleague who might be hiring?" etc etc.
Maybe I'll pass a few weeks in Vietnam or India on the way back to SW7
Nov 25th 2011, 5:38 am
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A significant chunk of NZ's popn is in 3 big cities, and overwhelming in one of them.
Nov 25th 2011, 6:48 am
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Good question. I think a combination of impatience, poor timing, staying in the last job too long, having more generalist skills & experience rather than something employers here can fit into a neat box, them being unwillling to see transferable skills (or me being unable to get them across) and/or operating "closed shops"
Not defeated quite yet, and have only been looking actively in Aus for a couple of weeks, but Christmas is coming as they say
Perhaps "unrequited love" is how I will end up look at my attempted homecoming. At least I know the Old Girl will have me back
Not defeated quite yet, and have only been looking actively in Aus for a couple of weeks, but Christmas is coming as they say
Perhaps "unrequited love" is how I will end up look at my attempted homecoming. At least I know the Old Girl will have me back
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Nov 25th 2011, 7:30 am
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Good question. I think a combination of impatience, poor timing, staying in the last job too long, having more generalist skills & experience rather than something employers here can fit into a neat box, them being unwillling to see transferable skills (or me being unable to get them across) and/or operating "closed shops"
Australia is a world apart from NZ in the way it appreciates the skills you can bring. We are treated with respect and dignity here, something which was sorely lacking in NZ and was one of the main reasons for leaving.
You had better wise up NZ - you need people from the UK far more than they need you.
You had better wise up NZ - you need people from the UK far more than they need you.
Nov 25th 2011, 7:34 am
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What's your line of work DC? Thanks
Nov 25th 2011, 7:48 am
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I was insurance manager for a large UK organisation until September. So it's a slightly unusual background to come from. Many of my counterparts (whom I came to know well) were in their respective roles for decades
It does feel slightly more promising here in Aus - I get the impression that agents and employers will at least consider me here - but it was a hopeless 2 months in NZ (although the first of those I was mostly there for the rugby).
My impatience is partly because at the back of my mind I know that I can probably slot back into a job with my UK employer fairly quickly
It does feel slightly more promising here in Aus - I get the impression that agents and employers will at least consider me here - but it was a hopeless 2 months in NZ (although the first of those I was mostly there for the rugby).
My impatience is partly because at the back of my mind I know that I can probably slot back into a job with my UK employer fairly quickly
Nov 27th 2011, 8:20 am
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I'm going through something similiar. Job market is a bit flat here in NZ. It was miserable and cold in the U.K. but the pubs were good.