1st Contact Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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1st Contact guys. This is an organization that you have to check out. Now you can do it before you leave Australia or once you’ve landed in London. Try www.1stcontact.com.uk. It if every sort of service that you’d need or want to make your move to London so much easier.

1st Contact is the only company in its market to offer a full range of services and these are all available to our clients on our website www.1stcontact.com.uk. We offer a wide range of services including kick start packages to open bank accounts, tax refunds which we will pay your tax refund into your overseas bank account. So if you’re going home, you don’t have to worry about chasing up the money. We’ll do that for you. We can also assist you with visa with regards to immigration and migration so if you’ve been here for 2 years on your holiday visa and you want to stay on a little bit longer, we can help you extend that visa or upgrade it. We also offer money transfers if you need to send some money back home to pay off any bills. We also offer CV assistance where we will format your CV to the UK format, keep it on line for you, update it and send it out on your behalf. We also offer job assistance so before you actually arrive in the UK, you can contact us through our website and we will look at getting your CV sent out to recruitment agencies on your behalf.

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Finding a Flat Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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Okay. So you’re sick of living on your mate’s floor and there’s some tension going on in the house. It’s really time for you guys to move on and there is a lot of ways you can do this. So let’s go and explore the options and just give you a bit of an idea of what you’re looking at, how much you’re going to spend and the trap you should definitely look out for.

So there’s a few ways you guys can look for accommodations. There’s Lute, a newspaper that comes out everyday, there’s TNT or there’s Gum Tree, www.gumtree.com. Now this is the most popular way that everyone in London looks for a house. So come into the internet café, log on, and check out Gum Tree. Now Gum Tree does a load of other things other than accommodations. You can buy stuff, sell stuff, chat to people and look for jobs as well but as I said, main reason is accommodation. Alright, now before you click onto Gum Tree, check TNT or Lute. There are a few things you need to look out for when you’re reading an ad and to decide. Now the number one thing obviously is going to be rent. How much of your hard earned pounds are you going to give away? Now the average for zone 2 is probably about 80, 90, 100 pounds per week. That’s pretty good. Now you can decide to live in zone one or zone two. You’re going to pay a hell of a lot more money in rent but theoretically less in transport. Otherwise you can live in 3, 4 or 5 and pay so much more less in rent but more in transport. It’s up to you. Saturday nights not so fun if you’re in Soho and you want to get all the way back home to zone 3, zone 4.  Yeah high. 70 dollar cab ride.

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Globetrotter Inns Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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Okay so you don’t have mates in London and you think you’ve got nowhere to dock, don’t worry there are loads of London hostels that’ll take you. It is better to be organized and pre-book before you actually leave but if you don’t, don’t worry, a lot of them take you with wide open arms. One of them is Globetrotter Inns. These guys are fantastic. Now they are located in zone 2 just east Hammersmith at Stamford Brook and it’s perfect if you’re coming on the Piccadilly line from Heathrow. Now before I show you this fantastic hostel, let me just explain a little better where it is. Now you’re coming on the Piccadilly line from Heathrow no doubt. Get off at Hammersmith, jump over to the district line and head westbound to Stamford Brook, that’s where they’ve got it located.

Let’s go check out how great the hostel is, how much it costs and just what’s involved in Globetrotter Inn.

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Help and Advice Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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The first few months is going to be quite difficult being away from your family and friends back home and you’re going to think the world is against you and hates you. I don’t think anyone will hate you. That would be harsh.

What did you find hard about moving to London? The cost.

A friend of mine once described London actually as the most expensive third world city in the entire world. I think that is about as accurate as you can get.

Do you get black snot when you’re going on the tube?

What about food? Food. Food. Food. Any restaurants?

Be prepared to get fat. Heathrow injection girls. It’s inevitable.

What do you love about it? The energy.

It’s like a vortex of everything around the world all brought into one area.

It is easy to travel everywhere; I mean you can’t beat it really.

London has an amazing variety of musical scenes, bar scenes, clubbing scenes, perverted scenes.

The Soho is called Covered Gardens. Lots of good places. Every pub. I mean lots of good spots.

A beat is only a hop, skip, and jump away if you’re into that kind of beat. Big names play every single week so. It’s not like when you get in Australia and you get to go to Field Day and see them once.

You need to have a good chunk of money, I think, behind you before you actually come over.

If you are a graduate from Uni and you come over here expecting to start your career with a kick ass job getting amazing London experience, don’t expect that.

Study CV, get your CV done, and get your CV out on the job websites before you actually get here.

If you want to get an awesome start to career, do it at home. Get a couple of years of experience in your field under your belt and then come over and then you can earn buck loads.

You will wait longer for things. The systems here are not always necessarily set up to adjust to the people who are here. The health system can be a nightmare.

Because you actually have to be enrolled in your area that you live and sometimes, when I moved here, every doctor that I lived around was a complete fool and I’m not allowed to enroll out of my area so I didn’t have a doctor for three years.

When I got here I wasn’t even sure that I needed to get an IN number.

London Suburbs Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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Now if you’ve decided to move to the UK, the first thing you’re going to have to check off your London to do list is get yourself a dream home but it’s all pretty useless if you don’t know whereabouts in London you want to live. Hence the massive tube map behind me. Now as I’ve explained in transport, London is divided into zones. Central bay one. Outskirts bay 6. It is also divided into north, south, east and west. So what I’ve done is gone through a few suburbs in each area just to explain why you might want to live there, how to get there and what’s so great about them. Now I’ve taken you to central London, Notting Hill, Shepherds Bush and we’ve come down here to southwest London, Fulham, Hammersmith and Earls Court, taken you up to north London to West Hampstead and all the way down here to Clapham Common where heaps of Australians live. Now if I don’t go through the suburbs on the video, please check out our website www.moving2london.com for all of the other suburbs listed and why they’re so great.

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National Insurance Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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National Insurance. Now you’re going to become very familiar with this term when you move over to the UK. What it is is a percentage of your wage that is taken out by the government to put away in the equivalent of the superannuation fund. Because we don’t get old here and we’re not British citizens, we’re actually entitled to getting this national insurance back. This is known as an NI rebate. You get this back at the end of every tax year and you can use agencies such as First Contact to do that. What happens is it gets rolled over from over here to your superannuation fund back in Australia so when you are old, you’ll have lots of pounds.

The way to pay the right National Insurance is by being allocated a National Insurance number otherwise known as NI number. Now it’s like our tax file number and it puts you in the right bracket to pay the right National Insurance contribution. Now I know it sounds a little difficult but wait until you try and get the number.

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Packing Tips Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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Packing to move to London is an adventure in itself. Yet they have 4 seasons in one day so what the hell do you pack. Okay. Bit of a hot tip here, you don’t have to pack everything that’s in your wardrobe. They do have shops and you can buy stuff that you’ve forgotten. Now what I’m going to do is try to give you some handy hints of what you should take but the rest is up to you, whatever you feel comfortable with, just don’t pack the kitchen sink.

Now you probably want to take 2 bags, a big suitcase to fit all your clunky stuff in and a backpack because if you’re traveling around Europe, a backpack is going to be the way to go not the wheeled luggage. So if you’ve never been away, there are some substandard things that you definitely need to pack. Let’s start with passport and visa. Two big checks that you cannot forget otherwise there’s no point in getting on the plane. So you’ve got your passport. Pack that in your hand luggage. Definitely need your tickets if they’re not A tickets because you also won’t be getting on the plane if you don’t have those. Photocopy everything and leave a copy with your mom or your dad or your grandparents or your best friend just in case something happens to your documentation and you need to get to an embassy and they need to have a copy to be safe.

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STA Travel Video Transcript

Written by Belle | 17 January 2010
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Now if you’ve decided to move to the UK, the first thing you’re going to have to do to take off your London to do list is get yourself an airplane ticket. Now STA are the guys to go to. They are absolutely fantastic. I used them when I went. They are really friendly. Super cheap and they know what they’re doing because they’ve been there, done that. Now I’m at the bondite store in Westfield and I’m going to go speak with the branch manager Brad and just see how STA can get you guys to the UK.

I’m Brad. There you go, he’s Brad. So tell me, first of all let’s look at flights, how can STA help people going to London with flight. Pretty much we can get you there where you want to go and pretty much at a competitive rate. If you’re under 26 and you’re student which most our travelers are when they first come in, we can get you there on quite a good discounted rate. What about if I’ve never been traveling and I’ve got to get to London and I don’t know what to do with my visa? Can you help me out with everything? We are a one stop shop so you can come in get your visas, also get flights, accommodations, we can organize pretty much everything there.  Bank accounts? Bank accounts, insurance numbers, travelers insurance, you name it. Wow that’s pretty much all you need. So you work with Visa First and so through that affiliation you can kind of create a really nice package. Absolutely we can organize, we can send you to them, they can organize, put you in the right direction, find you a job, all that kind of stuff. We do have a London pub so we can also find you a job over there which is one of the other programs. We can do everything for you if you don’t know what you’re doing.

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