This was like that MIFID2, been announced for like 3 years and not one cunt did a thing about it.
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This was like that MIFID2, been announced for like 3 years and not one cunt did a thing about it.
After the initial excitement of the job offer, I'm starting to have second thoughts about moving to London. :worried:
Don't blow all this goodwill you've built up, dickhead. If you don't like London you look elsewhere later on.
:D
That's what I was expecting.
Just feel like I need to put my thoughts down to help me sort it out in my mind though.
Would it be your first time moving that far? And if so is the concern that it's London or just moving in general?
Just go for it Steve for fuck's sake. Bite the bullet for once in your pathetic life.
He's just pulling out because they've asked for his email address and he doesn't want to embarrass himself.
Imagine graduating from Oxbridge only to go on to bottle every opportunity you encounter.
He doesn't want to leave GS in the lurch with bills and having to find a new housemate.
Not moving to London is always a very good idea.
Oh I agree...unless you reside in Ballymena.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I can’t think of a time that you’d ever have to live in London. Unless it’s a job where you need to be able to report in within 30 minutes of an emergency or something. In the likely event that Boyd isn’t joining the emergency services; just live somewhere nice and commute.
What Spikey said.
London is a shithole.
What's the concern?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
You can come hang out with me and Kiko and drink soy piccolos and eat avocados on toast every day.
Knowing his luck he'll probably get run over or sliced and diced by a Moslem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Ballymena’s lovely.
And we can invite him to the group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
If you do have any London questions, feel free to drop me a PM @Boydy.
My best mate and his wife (also a good friend) are having a kid soon so not sure how much I'd actually see them. Another mate currently has a spare room in his flat but when I asked him about moving in, he got a bit weird about it. He can be a bit weird at times anyway and first mate said he seems to like his privacy or whatever. I did tell him he could say no and I wouldn't be offended anyway. But I'll probably end up living with randomers. Another couple of friends are a couple and having a kid soon too so probably won't see them much. And then another good friend who's got a software development job recently too and will be working quite near me so I can probably see him pretty often.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Mate with the spare room always seems a bit miserable and lonely though and I kinda fear ending up like him.
The expense is a bit of a concern too. I'll be getting paid enough to have a decent standard of living but if I was to get a similar job in Belfast at the wage levels here, my standard of living wouldn't really be that different. And getting my own place/buying somewhere would actually be a possibility here in the near future.
Also commuting in and out of central London is gonna be a bitch.
And as an only child, I always worry a bit about if something happens one of my parents and how the other one would cope. One way round, they'd be okay, the other way round, not so much.
I think that's all of my worries.
In respect to your mates that are having kids - you could move in next door and barely see them.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20150613051909Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I don't know what that means.
Also, I had a dream the other night where I went to start the job and some guy who looked like Jurgen Klopp seemed to run the place and made everyone dance some sort of weird company dance. And part of the office was the old set of the Teletubbies.
Don't worry Boyd you can get MDMA just as easily in London.
Coke. You do coke in London.
Its probably because I’ve never lived anywhere busy, but I’d love to live in London.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
My mate did it for a bit cos his fiancé was on work placement and he managed to transfer branches of foot asylum he manages so it all worked great, and he seemed to go for drinks most nights of the week - but somehow didn’t enjoy it and was glad to come back and live in warrington. :cab:
To be fair there were at least two major terrier (edit: lol) attacks while he was there, but surely that’s all part of the excitement.
London is awful and getting worse. Baz would last about ten minutes there with that sincerity of his. You have to be a vile cunt to prosper.
Spend a month in suburban St. Helens. You’ll be dying to go back. And you’d like proper rugby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I live outside rather than in it, which is a key distinction. Here we have people who work with their hands, trees/grass, and public transport is shit. It's a happy medium.
I lived there between about 9 and 4 years ago, and it's probably twice as crowded/awful now as it was in that era.
Yeah, 'suburban St Helens', distinct from its the bustling central metropolis.
I live in it and it's fine. I mean what is living in it anyway? Working day eg being around Bank is busy but fine. Evening I'm near Finsbury Park and jihad hasn't happened yet - it's quiet most of the time but you're a stones throw from civilisation.
You don't stay lonely in London long.
That sounds the worst bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Well if you want to be you can.
Also south London is better than north, something most don't realise until it's too late.
I just like regular people and you and Raoul as examples doesn't paint a wonderful picture.
To clarify, outer South London is better than Outer North London. South - but close to - the river is a fucking slum. Especially South East.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Uh, ok - welcome to your 30s. Everyone who's settled down is married/pregnant/has kids. In terms of finding new people to hang out wit, like most people in London you'll start with house/workmates, meet people via friends-of-friends/tech meet ups etc. and build your social circle that way. I wouldn't live with someone you already know - the point is to meet new people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
If you want to earn some decent money, stick it out for a few years then move back to Norn Iron then that's totally feasible too, and you can always move further out of London and commute in if you want more space/greenery. Commuting really isn't that much of a bother. Most tech places are fairly flexible about working from home occasionally too.
Personally I think you're a lunatic if you consider passing on an opportunity to move somewhere awesome and get into an industry which offers great opportunities for developing skills and earning a significant wage. Get into some stuff like AI/ML/Data Science/FinTech and you can earn bonkers money.
I lived North before and have been around the South a lot. South is kinda shit for transport though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I'm not 30 yet! (It's still a couple of weeks away). And these folks aren't even 30 yet, they're like 26/27.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Is it not the same situation with people you know back home? It’s just what happens when you’re late 20’s.
Do they not tell them about the birds and the bees over there? First GS, now this.
Okay, I hate this job again. We're not trained to deal with when a claimant goes dark. Likewise if a lad your ringing is constantly stimming or being attacked by imaginary bees during the call.
Commuting :sick:
Tech meetups :sick:
That post could be put in a time capsule and shown in a century as where it all went wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
Oh, no doubt you should go there. I moaned earlier but it's better than Ballykissangel.
Yeah. Allowing Mexicans in polite society. :nono:
@Boydy you absolute lad. i'll come and have a pint with you ya lil scamp
oh you're bottling it, shoulda remembered to read the whole thread, no pint for you dickhead
North is king.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
The longer people continue to think that (public transport is overrated), the longer proper people can have the south to themselves. I'm going to south Croydon tomorrow and I can't wait.
East is where it's at. It's actually living in London, rather than just sorta near it.
Oh god, don't start me on the east. Come back north, all is forgiven.
I get to see Tarquin and Dave go to the Arsenal every week. It's proper.