Living conditions ;O

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Re: Living conditions ;O

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@Hmmna

It depends on your personality. If u are extrovert and can make friends easily it shudnt b a problem. There are loads of classes and I used my exercise class to meet people. I haven’t come across racism yet but everyone I meet says it’s regional so the big cities like London, brum, Manchester etc don’t have so much of the problem.

People are very tolerant.

Public transport is very good in London and generally it’s ok. If u live in suburbs u will probably need a car. Fares go up all the time.

Rain is not as frequent as I thot it would be. Summers are awesome. Winters are not so bleak. But coming from 45-50 degrees of Lahore, I thrive in the cold and never ever complain about the rain.

I hate the heat and a couple of years back I wanted to live in UK so badly but then I kept hearing that it rained all the time so I changed my mind. I hope its not frequent. I hate getting wet.

@Deeba1234

I don’t know Manchester well but it will be a LOT cheaper than living in London (prob as much as half but then again that applies to many many places outside London).. You don’t really need health insurance unless you’re a bit fussy and want to go to a hospital with nice carpets, your own ensuite bathroom etc (and it’s not common but sometimes an NHS hospital will actually move a patient to a private one if there aren’t enough beds or something.. A lot of private doctors also work for the NHS so you’re getting the same level of medical knowledge, just with the NHS you tend to wait around longer and the ‘cosmetic’ surroundings aren’t as nice)..

If you’re inside London it’s easy to get almost anywhere on the tube and generally speaking there isn’t much racism.. There are concentrated desi communities in the east (Ilford, Green St etc - mainly Muslim) and the west sides of the city (Slough - more Hindus, Sikhs and some Muslims) and comparatively fewer in the northern and southern parts.. The desi areas can seem a bit too chaotic or dirty to ‘outsiders’ tho, so you might not like that and bear in mind that altho it’s not so much of a problem in London in some other desi Muslim communities views can be more conservative.. London is like a melting pot of different cultures.. I have never come across so many interesting mixes of ppl

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London weather is a LOT warmer than the midlands and further north and altho it can rain quite a bit it can also get very warm (30C+ if only for a few weeks a year lol).. Most of the year here it’s not that cold or warm.. In London you’ll rarely be so cold in the daytime that you’ll need a scarf or even a heavy coat..

The main negative point of London is similar to that of most capital cities, crazy high property prices (to buy or rent.. you could literally buy a large detached home in a nice area outside London for the price of a little flat in an average or below average part of the city)..

I don’t live inside London btw, just on the outskirts..

I was just wondering about insurance because I have insurance here and it makes doctors/dentists visits a hell of a lot cheaper. Well I guess I can just wing it and hope that I don’t get sick!

I don’t mind dirtyness I just don’t want crazyness… like where I live near Tokyo nothing ever happens no vandalism or anything. So I would want to live somewhere that won’t make me stand out being that I’m Eurasian and the crime rate being relatively low..
Could you please define conservatives? and would they bother you if you met them? such as do they preach to you or give you death stares..?
Do you get stared a lot when you’re with your guy?
What is “warm”/“cold” by British standards? the coldest it gets where I live was I think -3°.

I guess we would live outside of london as well I just don’t know what its like to live in UK hence all the questions. I’ve moved around a lot but I was always with my parents. A bit scared because I’m not that social in terms of going out and I don’t really like receiving so much attention at once but I’m predicting I will have to indure it once I move to UK considering my SO has a lot of relatives there…

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