How to start new life abroad?
 

And if you don't have millions in the bank-how can you successfully start a life abroad, just maybe for instance canada?

Can one just hop on a plane at the end of the year, hope to find a job whilst sleeping at a friends?

Yes you can if you are happy to work at anything. You would need to have some savings to tide you over and be determined, and also be prepared for your friends to want their floor back sooner rather than later, so be prepared to rent a room in a shared house with people you don't know at some point, link below as some jobs require a work permit.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/ap...o-nopermit.asp

That's exactly what i did. :laugh:

A friend of mine is a child minder and she got work with an agency that employs people all around the world for work (probably more detailed than that, just my understanding), she started off by living and working in Lapland for a few months. Lived in France and various places in India. She is currently living and working in New Zealand. Neither her or her family are anywhere near well off.

If you want to do it and are willing and able there is absolutely no reason why you cant.

You can travel to Canada as a tourist but if you're thinking of living and working there you'll need a visa. It's not like living and working in the EU. They want professional skills and qualifications if you're thinking of staying.

Before I had kids and got married,I applied for a job in NY as a nanny,I was taken on and lived with a lovely family for a year,who I am still in touch with,I also made lots of friends and had the contacts to stay there if I wished,so that might be a foot in the door for you,I also have a brother who lives there,he went as a firefighter ,married an American girl and has family now and has remained there for a few years now,so it can be done.I hope myself to live there permanently one day.Good luck to you,I hope you achieve what you want.

Abroad eh, what would you wanna work there for

Very useful link. Thank you.

You got all your stuff and went to share a house in Italy?

Do you have the link by any chance?

I'm not surprised they're tough on who they allow into their country.You probably need a good reason to want to migrate there.

you can come live in my commune in Guam

That's sounds amazing. Not sure if I would be good as a nanny.I'd probably be fired on the first day. :hugesmile: But it's nice to know it can be done if you have an idea of what you want to do there.

cause i've had enough of uk :bawling:

:amazed:

I'm not aware of the details so no, sorry.

After a quick google search found this www.workaseason.com/home sounds something very similar to how she went about things.

Canada is particularly hard to get to for working/living unless you have particular skills. in a required jobs. You CANNOT just turn up and work.

Your best bet is to go over on a working holiday visa but even that is hard because they only release around 5,200 a year for UK citizens and they do that in three stages (usually 1500, 1500, 2200) around Feb - March each year. Once they have gone for the year they are gone until the following year.

I have to talk about this everyday (it's my job) so if you want exact information on things give me a shout.

Also if you are looking at doing the USA it is a lot harder as they have tightened a lot of their rules.

Thanks Ben. Canada is an option but not the only place I am looking at for now. Especially now that i'm reading you can't just pack up and turn up in canada, I have to think about other places.

Thanks Verbal.

The easiest options for working out of the UK are Australia and New Zealand on working holiday visas.

There is no limit on those per year, and you can work for up to 2 years in each country on one (there are terms to that though).

Thanks for the info and advise everyone, it's opening up my eyes a bit more. I live in a dream world most of the time, and having facts helps a lot.

I plan to do this sometime towards the end of the next year, at least a working visa as Ben suggested.

But New Zealand, and Australia, even though they are beautiful are they "ethnic friendly"? I had dreamed of going to Spain to stay once but I know a lot of their towns aren't ethnic friendly because they're are so proud of their culture they feel threatened by non spaniards.

Australia can be a little racist/sexist but it is not that bad (not really worse than the UK) and New Zealand is one of the friendliest countries I have been to.

I definitely would love to visit New Zealand one day but not sure if i'd want to stay there. I can only decide once I see it I suppose.

All I am sure about right now is that my love affair with London/uk is coming to an end.

I have a cousin who married a Canadian and took citizenship. Despite being English, she had to swear allegiance to the Queen. Seemed a little strange to me...

Hey, good luck though. If you want a new start I hope you find one.

Darn Canadians are serious!! Hope I find one too. Thanks, Livia.

I moved to Germany by applying to the British Council for work as an English teacher. They have schemes around the world - South America, Europe, Asia... obviously you'd need to be happy with going to a country where English isn't the first language, but your job is to teach English so you don't need to have any knowledge of the language of the country you are moving to, but it helps for every day life... you can do that for up to two years but you wouldn't necessarily get to stay in the same place I don't think. It pays really well, or at least it did when I lived in Germany, I was earning 803 euros a month for just 48 hours of work per month. Crazy money and so much free time, it was fantastic.

No, i left Italy for London in 1994. I haven't looked back since. :)

^^quick trade lives with me!!! :evilgrin: how are the Italian men? :amazed:

wow that is amazing. Any serious decision I make will be around January. Thanks everyone for replying really appreciate it. :spin: