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>500 goes to London (maybe) |
>500
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meh, ill have a beer for ya greg 
where would i go bout looking for work in London (online obviously)?
it wont be so much of a 'typical holiday', so wont be shopping heaps and other things you would normally do on a holiday........
.....so, was wondering, how much would it cost (some one in my situation) to live per week in london roughly. guess would do some sight seeing, not heaps though, go out on weekends at night, guess i can say ill be living there in a fashion! oooo, clubs expensive to get into there?
(food and accomadtion covered already so exclude those expenses, and obviously no bills  )
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Berry
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Check your Visa policy for working also. It might limit the hours you do...
And you mentioned MacDonald - they are always recruiting. If its only for a few months, that might fit the bill....
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>500
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yeah just remembered the whole Visa, thanks tmag 
would only be for a days a week i guess, dont know if i could handle maccas again, i know i wouldnt really have a choice of where i work, but yeah, id go crazy!
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Berry
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On 2008-02-18 10:32:33, >500 wrote:
yeah just remembered the whole Visa, thanks tmag
would only be for a days a week i guess, dont know if i could handle maccas again, i know i wouldnt really have a choice of where i work, but yeah, id go crazy!
I work in Recruitment and i can tell you the industry is tough at present....
And the McD's isnt a longterm job is it....can you swallow it for a few weeks.
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MWEB
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best of luck with that >500, though one has to say that London is THE most expensive place to stay/visit in the entire UK, and it is the least English of any of the cities.
Hopefully during your time here you may venture further north where the welcome is more friendly 
Manchester/Liverpool/Glasgow/Edinburgh/Bristol much nicer
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LesleyAnn
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great opportunity for a youngster! yeah, weather is likely to be crappy but who cares about that when there's so much to see and do?
http://www.google.com/search?[....]ondon+agency&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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>500
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yeah im looking forward to it!
@tmag
well i dont really wanna work there. i really couldnt stand it!
@mweb
what do you mean its the least english? you mean london is the most cultured? i like cultured....... will see if i can head up north!
@lesley
as i said, im looking forward to it. i like to travel, if only i could do it more often! as i said, i go to the snow few times a year, and it does get cold here in melb in winter, prob not as cold as there, but il handle it. ill bring my snowboard clothing  nah, some jeans and trackies ill be fine!
edit: thanks for the link
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gregface
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visit Glasgow before Edinburgh if you plan on doing both.
Visit Edinburgh before Glasgow if you don't plan on doing both. |
MWEB
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London has all the touristy bits, tower of london etc, but the actual population and atmosphere is multi cultural, places such as Manchester, liverpool, Edinburgh have a complete identity of their own.
And Beers about 5 quid a pint in London, 30 quid if you go in some "clubs"
Plus my hotel room was robbed last time i went their, so i have a jaundiced view i admit
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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£5 a pint? I rarely pay more than £3 for draught lager in central London pubs. btw, you don't get pints very much in Oz, its schooners and midi's (or pots)!
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MWEB
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Thought you still used imperial measures down under Masseur
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masseur
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its a bit of a mixture, but its alot more is metric than UK
you can get 570ml pints in modern or touristic places but generally the hotel bars or taverns) (which would be the equivalent of english pubs) serve midi's (285ml - so about half a pint) and schooners (425ml - about 3/4 pint)
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Miss UK
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On 2008-02-18 02:15:05, >500 wrote:
how old did you think i was
well, i think im mature enough (even if i am only 19, though i get what you mean, some 19 yr olds wouldnt be able to do it) to travel. Went to NZ with brother and few friends, coped fine, i know this is more on my own a little, but ill be fine....
masseur is moving soon though i think? i know he is coming to aus early march, but im sure he will help if he can (always so helpful), and i think he will be back in london within the 2 months (think the aus trip is only couple weeks)
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about 25 or so
you defo have the guts,
I wouldn't of gone away from home at that age on my own
Just be careful Londons pretty dangerous too remember that
is that so @ Masseur 
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fatreg
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ermmm >500.. being an aus, a job in a bar should be dead easy to come by! but as tbag said, your visa may limit you to 15 hours a week or so... if at all.. some tourist visas don't allow work at all...
oh, and you don't want to go up North.. as they say "It's grim up North" the South is where it's at!
it'd be like home from home for you.. there's a huge Oz contingency down here...
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masseur
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in fact no tourist visa allows work, you need a working-holiday visa for that., but thats easy enough to get for under 30's
you don't really wanna hang out with Aussies when you're trying a new country... send time with the locals!
Having said that, I do hang out at the Walkabout in Covent Garden when the Wallabies are playing as its a great atmostphere and sing-a-long too!
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