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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 13th 2007, 10:14 am
Replies: 31
Views: 2,946
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: English schools...are they all bad?

Our neigbours have just been teaching in a London school and she said (& they're Poms) that her 'job' was essentially to keep the kids from leaving school during the lesson (high school). If she...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 13th 2007, 10:00 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

Isfahan is nice and even Tehran is a good place - well interesting. Go via Emirates and you get in to the new airport which is infinitely better than the old one in the city centre. I went to Bandar...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 13th 2007, 9:49 am
Replies: 27
Views: 12,873
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: moving to seacroft, Leeds

Shaaz,

With respect I think you should reconsider your approach. There is no sense in the way you are conducting your house search - using the police!!! Using a web forum!!

No one here is...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 13th 2007, 3:25 am
Replies: 31
Views: 2,946
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: English schools...are they all bad?

Was this experience a one-off, or do you think English Ed really has slumped so badly?

I think we are all having fun finding examples of horrors or of heavens in the UK (lets include Scotland,...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 12th 2007, 9:25 am
Replies: 7
Views: 889
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Visa for Dubai

Ins,

Thankyou - my recommendation is that you never become a politician. You give a straight answer to a straight question!

...heartbroken??

Thanks

A
Forum: Middle East
Nov 11th 2007, 4:13 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 889
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Visa for Dubai

This is interesting. She says she can get a visa on arrival (like I do - as a Brit) because she has the designation of manager in her pp. I presume that she has entered DXB before but my opinion is...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 10th 2007, 10:42 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

Well, they did get regime change which is what they said they were after!
Forum: Middle East
Nov 10th 2007, 9:54 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

Fish.

Falklands!!
Forum: Middle East
Nov 10th 2007, 9:44 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

Exactly, they don't pose a threat to anyone - but they have stacks of gas, some oil and a very fertile agri area. That's the sense I think.
Forum: Middle East
Nov 10th 2007, 9:18 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

They reacted to their history under the Shah and his son by pulling the blanket over the head, inviting Khomeni back and saying bollocks to the rest of the world - they want nothing to do with the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 10th 2007, 9:07 am
Replies: 27
Views: 12,873
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: moving to seacroft, Leeds

North UK does not have lower deprivation than the south. In the south you can get a job tomorrow. In the north it takes three years.

I live in Iraq and it looks good on Google Earth too!
Forum: Middle East
Nov 10th 2007, 8:54 am
Replies: 62
Views: 2,999
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: War with Iran

Well, no - they did win actually. In fact there were very few battles in the conventional sense - it was an invasion - unopposed effectively. Thatcher would have done it before but could not advocate...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 8th 2007, 11:54 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 889
Posted By used_car_salesman

Visa for Dubai

An Armenian friend can get an on the spot vuisa in Dubai like Brits can and wants to go home for a while. She intends to enter Dubai and go to Armenia from Sharjah. Reverse on the way back.

Any...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 8th 2007, 3:43 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 895
Posted By used_car_salesman

Bridge collapse in Marina

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7085597.stm

BBC Newsflash
Forum: Middle East
Nov 8th 2007, 4:37 am
Replies: 40
Views: 1,730
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: picture on a cv

Cham, there is a convention to ask for photos in the Middle East but Its not that common. They do this so they can work you out because sometimes they don't know if you are male or female and some...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 4th 2007, 4:19 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,363
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Looking to move back

Al Qaida.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2007, 4:16 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,230
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: In a bit of a mess

Well, if you are going to get a job in a few weeks then why are you dramatising the issue so much? Just let immigration know where they are. The'll contact the IND who'll make the background checks...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 4th 2007, 4:25 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,230
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: In a bit of a mess

1. Don't lie to immigration.

2. Try and get another job.

3. Use savings to bolster your case.
Forum: USA
Nov 2nd 2007, 2:06 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 9,250
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Anyone gone back to UK and regretted it?

I went back from Central Africa where I'd been after some extended tours around and did not like UK. Nothing wrong with it but did not fit in after being away so long. I had malaria and an injury but...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 2nd 2007, 1:49 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 3,074
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Considering moving back to UK from US

I think it is a good idea to use unpaid leave - not thought of that one before - it gives an extra option. You could call the trip a holiday!
Forum: Far East and Asia
Nov 2nd 2007, 1:44 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 2,201
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Mamiana Trading - SCAM (do NOT buy from this company)

No I won't but then I would not do that anyway.
Forum: The Sand Pit
Sep 10th 2007, 5:02 am
Replies: 124
Views: 3,871
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Will we ever know?

[QUOTE=smscl;5292646]This is what scares me the most...I subscribed this forum just to get the opportunity to leave my thoughts and opinion about this case.
I'm portuguese (please read it until the...
Forum: USA
Sep 7th 2007, 12:36 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,600
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Interesting Conversation on the Plane

Good reply and well said - selling a retirement home in USA now will yield very little. Agree that there are underserving causes too. As you hint - my speculation is not an analysis or set of facts.
Forum: USA
Sep 7th 2007, 9:25 am
Replies: 38
Views: 3,600
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: Interesting Conversation on the Plane

That is nice that he is settling into a retirement and he has a family and having sold his house the money to afford to fly back to the USA to see his friends. I think that it is entirely wrong that...
Forum: Middle East
Sep 5th 2007, 12:14 pm
Replies: 1,239
Views: 80,938
Posted By used_car_salesman

Re: The property apocalypse draws closer...

Points - until we are paying 70 % of net income then there is still capacity to increase mortgage payments.

The 80's created the initial phenomenon (in Aberdeen) where homeowners literally threw...
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