Moving to Florida
Sep 18th 2008, 11:33 am
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Moving to Florida
Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong forum as it is my first time around here so please be gentle with me and try not to baffle me too much with all the abbreviations!!
Er....Right where to start.
Just come back from my Honeymoon in Orlando, and what can i say?? I loved the place! The weather was good (apart from TS Fay) the people were great, food was cheap (and you got a hell of alot of it!!), dont get me started on the price comparison of petrol!!!!!
So a bit about me, im a driver by profession, drive a UK class 2 truck or HGV C to be 100% accurate. Any Rigid wagon upto 32T MGW, what would the Florida equivelent be?
Thats about it for me skill wise (yeah i know its not alot, but like many at school i didnt pay much attention and boy do i regret it now!)
So im looking at getting a job via walt disney world international programme and im pretty much willing to do anything if they offer me the chance to move out to Florida, im also not afraid of doing hard work either, my last job i was working approx 70hours per week. If accepted on the walt disney programme would i be able to work anywhere else? Say a in a bar or restaurant on a night or would it be soley limited to walt disney?
Here in the UK I have a house and mortgage and also a few debts, as most people do, depending on how things went and if i got accepted i would be looking to rent my UK house out for a while then maybe sell it and pay the debts off (nothing too bad just creidt cards etc)
Where would be the best place to rent a home? Im guessing Orlando would have inflated prices cos of tourists?Any links to any estate agents?
Um......Think thats it really
Thanks for reading it and thanks in advance for any replies given.
Montoya
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong forum as it is my first time around here so please be gentle with me and try not to baffle me too much with all the abbreviations!!
Er....Right where to start.
Just come back from my Honeymoon in Orlando, and what can i say?? I loved the place! The weather was good (apart from TS Fay) the people were great, food was cheap (and you got a hell of alot of it!!), dont get me started on the price comparison of petrol!!!!!
So a bit about me, im a driver by profession, drive a UK class 2 truck or HGV C to be 100% accurate. Any Rigid wagon upto 32T MGW, what would the Florida equivelent be?
Thats about it for me skill wise (yeah i know its not alot, but like many at school i didnt pay much attention and boy do i regret it now!)
So im looking at getting a job via walt disney world international programme and im pretty much willing to do anything if they offer me the chance to move out to Florida, im also not afraid of doing hard work either, my last job i was working approx 70hours per week. If accepted on the walt disney programme would i be able to work anywhere else? Say a in a bar or restaurant on a night or would it be soley limited to walt disney?
Here in the UK I have a house and mortgage and also a few debts, as most people do, depending on how things went and if i got accepted i would be looking to rent my UK house out for a while then maybe sell it and pay the debts off (nothing too bad just creidt cards etc)
Where would be the best place to rent a home? Im guessing Orlando would have inflated prices cos of tourists?Any links to any estate agents?
Um......Think thats it really
Thanks for reading it and thanks in advance for any replies given.
Montoya
Sep 18th 2008, 11:36 am
#2
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Re: Moving to Florida
The honeymoon is over.
Sep 18th 2008, 11:40 am
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Posts: 68,280
Re: Moving to Florida
No real nice way of putting this:
We get this question every week after somebody has a
vacation in Florida and to be quite frank your chances are zero ..
here is a list of visa that could be used ..its unlikely you could
get any of them ..
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA
Its hard enough for people with advanced degrees to get here
Somewhere like Canada or Aus is more likely
And believe me a vacation is nothing like living in Florida
We get this question every week after somebody has a
vacation in Florida and to be quite frank your chances are zero ..
here is a list of visa that could be used ..its unlikely you could
get any of them ..
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA
Its hard enough for people with advanced degrees to get here
Somewhere like Canada or Aus is more likely
And believe me a vacation is nothing like living in Florida
Sep 18th 2008, 12:50 pm
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Location: Tampa Bay area.
Posts: 1,429
Re: Moving to Florida
No real nice way of putting this:
We get this question every week after somebody has a
vacation in Florida and to be quite frank your chances are zero ..
here is a list of visa that could be used ..its unlikely you could
get any of them ..
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA
Its hard enough for people with advanced degrees to get here
Somewhere like Canada or Aus is more likely
And believe me a vacation is nothing like living in Florida
We get this question every week after somebody has a
vacation in Florida and to be quite frank your chances are zero ..
here is a list of visa that could be used ..its unlikely you could
get any of them ..
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA
Its hard enough for people with advanced degrees to get here
Somewhere like Canada or Aus is more likely
And believe me a vacation is nothing like living in Florida
It wouldn't do him any harm at all for the guy to check it out through the programme like he wanted to do, would it.
As Disney openly offer it as a programme to foreign workers for a year, it's got to be a possibility for people to do it.
I didn't dee him say anywhere in his posting that he wanted to live here permanently.
A vacation isn't a true picture of actually living anywhere.
Sep 18th 2008, 1:00 pm
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Posts: 68,280
Re: Moving to Florida
It wouldn't do him any harm at all for the guy to check it out through the programme like he wanted to do, would it.
As Disney openly offer it as a programme to foreign workers for a year, it's got to be a possibility for people to do it.
I didn't dee him say anywhere in his posting that he wanted to live here permanently.
A vacation isn't a true picture of actually living anywhere.
As Disney openly offer it as a programme to foreign workers for a year, it's got to be a possibility for people to do it.
I didn't dee him say anywhere in his posting that he wanted to live here permanently.
A vacation isn't a true picture of actually living anywhere.
Most hourly positions are based on a 40-hour work week, but tipped positions are generally fewer hours. Pay is Disney standard minimum, which is currently around $6.67/hr. for hourly positions, and $3.38/hr for tipped positions (as of early 2007).
Sep 18th 2008, 1:07 pm
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Re: Moving to Florida
Yere right ..course he can ...
Most hourly positions are based on a 40-hour work week, but tipped positions are generally fewer hours. Pay is Disney standard minimum, which is currently around $6.67/hr. for hourly positions, and $3.38/hr for tipped positions (as of early 2007).
Most hourly positions are based on a 40-hour work week, but tipped positions are generally fewer hours. Pay is Disney standard minimum, which is currently around $6.67/hr. for hourly positions, and $3.38/hr for tipped positions (as of early 2007).
Sep 18th 2008, 1:21 pm
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Re: Moving to Florida
I would like to live in Florida for good, but not without a so called dry run first and had a proper feel for what it was like.
If i did get accepted onto the said programme and got offered it for the following year and so forth, then yes i would love to live full time.
Guess we will have to wait and see i suppose!
Sep 18th 2008, 1:27 pm
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Posts: 68,280
Re: Moving to Florida
$266 a week does not go far
They have a forum
http://www.wdwip.com/smf/index.php
Last edited by Ray; Sep 18th 2008 at 1:31 pm.
Sep 18th 2008, 1:32 pm
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Posts: 1,429
Re: Moving to Florida
Yere right ..course he can ...
Most hourly positions are based on a 40-hour work week, but tipped positions are generally fewer hours. Pay is Disney standard minimum, which is currently around $6.67/hr. for hourly positions, and $3.38/hr for tipped positions (as of early 2007).
Most hourly positions are based on a 40-hour work week, but tipped positions are generally fewer hours. Pay is Disney standard minimum, which is currently around $6.67/hr. for hourly positions, and $3.38/hr for tipped positions (as of early 2007).
