moving to the big smoke?

[Itchy]

I'm having difficulty finding a job in Manchester , I'm heavily qualified and experienced but I have a <0.3% hit rate , which incidentally was much worse than when I just graduated which was about 5% at the time.

London seems to have an absolute ton of jobs, move to London good idea bad idea? , staying put in this job is NOT an option. There is NO progression partners all hate my guts , and anything I say is used against me.

I'm thinking deal with the devil here sell my soul in London for a bit then leave working elsewhere, probably sell the CBR to toby or something and keep the NTV in London,

Any thoughts?

Consideirng I have no ties here anyway and the Northern group seem to have fallen apart anyway?.

Thanks.
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[Robby]

Do it.
Just don't bring a northern accent with you, or you shall be shunned.

[gmanxiii]

dont do it londons evil...
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[J0Al1]

London, cool working for big company - great social life.
London - expensive need a job that pays well to make it worth while or a job that you very much love or both in a perfect world
London - gives you black snot
London - stressed and busy and no one smiles at you.

Would not choose it myself.

[Bendy]

Nothing to lose by giving it a shot.

[Barry_M2]

[st3v3]

northern group aint fallen out, and London had congestion charges etc..(actually mancs does too now so...) not in a position to give advice, but all the best.
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[nick606]

London has rage infected monkeys ready to bite people and funny accents

[J0Al1]

[hellkat]

I live in London and I still smile*


*just not at Romanian beggars
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[trevoriv]

*is hurt*

but who's going to bring the massive out of date road map to ride outs then?!
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[pwntifex]

London is full of southerners and septics.
Don't do it.
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

You don't have to work inside London, e.g. for me there's a lot of IT based employment around the M25 periphery. I moved down here for the work, I found it easier to get a job than in the North West but rent cost is quite eye-watering compared to the North.

[Louise]

Id work in London but I sure wouldnt live there
For instance, OH is a copper in Brighton - There thinking of doing a shift chance, which would just be absolute mayhem.
Is thinking of going to the Met on a tansfer - Would mean an extra 1.5 hours travel per shift but extra 8k per year

[hellkat]

Boo. You lot of naysayers!

London is great.


I admit ... I have this love/hate thing with it.
But I wouldnt have lived here over 20 years if it was always rubbish.

You get a great sense of being in a very historical city, and you can also either go mad from/totally engulf yourself in ... the craziness of a modern city lifestyle if you choose to live life to the fullest.

And there are still places of beauty and (relative) solitude or peacefulness that you can get away from things if the whole mad-city-buzz gets too much.

Or you can fuck off back to Manchester, cos we'll all be telling you that you should, when we get fed up of listening to you moan about London in your whiny provincial accent
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

I smiled at the woman serving me in Pret a Manger this afternoon, and she said to me "What's happened?"

... as if it was unusual for people to smile, or as if something was wrong

I shoulda said "Oh, nothing, love, I'm just a total basket case - I must be if I choose to live/work in London"


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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[gmanxiii]

Manchester = capital of the north
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[veeeffarr]

[gmanxiii]

[JonB]

If you don't fancy London, have you looked at Birmingham? Quite a few opportunities there as well.
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[sickpup]

Love the way people try to slap London down when they've spent virtually no time here.

London's easy to live in, easy to get a job in and if the worst comes to the worst you can always become a courier or leave.

I've lived and worked here all my life and know the parts others never see, seen the highs and seen the lows. Not everyone can handle the sheer scale of the place and the way you can get a pint at 3am most nights, it truly is a city that never sleeps if you know where to look.

Rents in central start from about £75 a week in central for a flat/house share and go up from there to however much you want to pay.

I think you need to have a word with Paivi as you work in the same fields.

[JonB]

London really appeals to me, my auntie and cousin both live there and I love it there, though saying that I only have experience of Brixton, Harlesden and Camden, so that might not be completely reflective of London life, I remember loving the hussle and bussle, but the heat during the summer is quite unbearable, especially on the tube, but when I think of London, I think of it as completely different part of Britain, nothing about London sums up the United Kingdom as a whole, it is the only city that is truly metropolitan within the UK, I think that is what makes it special.

I know it is a fantastic place to visit, but not sure what it would be like to live and work there.
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[pwntifex]

London has a population of 8.9 million in an area of 609 square miles.
That's a density of 12 331/sq mi.

And think how many of them are southerners


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the warped one: This is a follow up from the thread 'my willy hurts'

[iooi]

Try heading East to Leeds the finanical capital of the North as we keep hearing.....

At least we have proper beer, not that watered down stuff...
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