[Travel] Emigrating advice

[swindonseagull]

The locals don’t like military types who think they are better than they are. Disrespectful people who call them Bennies.

In my 20 years on the Tristar transport aircraft I spent enough time knowing what the locals liked and disliked.

But thanks for your input.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Learn Latin American Spanish, just in case

 

[KZNSeagull]

Thanks - accommodation has been sorted by the Falkland Islands Government and we have been allocated a house. Wife has a "buddy" at her work when we arrive who will help us sort those (and bank account)

Excellent. Check how easy it is to transfer money out again when you come back and maybe speak to your bank here beforehand if you want to move money in and out of the country or if your accounts are going to be inactive for a while.

Oh and brave not crazy. Good for you. I hope it goes really well.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Excellent. Check how easy it is to transfer money out again when you come back and maybe speak to your bank here beforehand if you want to move money in and out of the country or if your accounts are going to be inactive for a while.

Oh and brave not crazy. Good for you. I hope it goes really well.

My advice is to use a Peer-2-Peer platform to move money….cheaper than the banks. I use Currency Fair but this is a good prompt to remind me to look into seeing if this is still the most competitive.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Learn Latin American Spanish, just in case

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

So in January I am emigrating to The Falkland Islands for 3 1/2 years. (largely to photograph penguins!)
For those people that have emigrated in the past are there any tips or things you wish you knew before you moved?

A crystal ball telling me Trump would be president. Apart from that make the most of it we only get so many trips around the sun.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

In my 20 years on the Tristar transport aircraft I spent enough time knowing what the locals liked and disliked.

But thanks for your input.

I can see [MENTION=14365]Thunder Bolt[/MENTION]’s point

 

[Bakero]

My advice is to use a Peer-2-Peer platform to move money….cheaper than the banks. I use Currency Fair but this is a good prompt to remind me to look into seeing if this is still the most competitive.

I've always used Transferwise.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Don't forget to pack your 'Las Malvinas son Argentinas' t-shirt.

 

[golddene]

So in January I am emigrating to The Falkland Islands for 3 1/2 years. (largely to photograph penguins!)
For those people that have emigrated in the past are there any tips or things you wish you knew before you moved?

Good luck, at least you know it's probably not permenant. My wife is Irish, she and I decided to sell up and settle in Ireland, we bought a new build 4 bedroom 3 reception room bungalow on a half acre of land, moved over in November 2015 expecting to stay forever but with the disaster (for me) Brexit vote and the constant news items from the moment we left on what a leave vote would mean for retirement and pensions and would they be honoured, health care costs due to no longer being in the EU etc etc, I almost had a breakdown, we managed to sell the property for a small profit though this was really a loss overall as the new build didn't come with a kitchen or utility room completed, just empty rooms and all the flooring to be bought and laid, fortunately I had managed to change up all my cash through a currency exchange company and did this at the top of the market €1.42 to £1.00 and when I changed back to sterling I bought for €1.20 on the Friday after the vote, this was a mistake as I panicked and the rate went down to €1.10 the following Monday but the money we made on the exchange meant we ended up breaking even but of course property prices had increased back in Brighton so had to purchase in Eastbourne as we were both not in the best of health and needed to keep back enough to live on until I retired and I could claim my company and state pensions, my wife unfortunately is one of the waspi women and her originally expected retirement age increased from 60 to 66 luckily my pensions are enough for us to live on until she receives her state pension in another 2 or 3 years time. My advice now is if you own a property rent it out until you are sure it's the right move for you. ( so wish this is what I had done) hope your move is a success. Best of luck.

 

[dsr-burnley]

St Helena is a lot warmer. Of course, there might not be so many penguins.

 

[Blue3]

A Spanish phrase book just in case

 

[swindonseagull]

I can see [MENTION=14365]Thunder Bolt[/MENTION]’s point

No problem

She has an opinion on everything.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

“ local cuisine as "very British in character with much use made of the homegrown vegetables, local lamb, mutton, beef, and fish". Common between meals are "home made cakes and biscuits with tea or coffee"”

That’s a shame. Just think, it would be tasty chimichurri, lovely empanadas, wonderful steaks and corned beef all washed down with gorgeous wines had they lost the war. Maybe would have even got to dance the tango with one of the locals after dinner.

 

[bhafc99]

Good luck, at least you know it's probably not permenant. My wife is Irish, she and I decided to sell up and settle in Ireland, we bought a new build 4 bedroom 3 reception room bungalow on a half acre of land, moved over in November 2015 expecting to stay forever but with the disaster (for me) Brexit vote and the constant news items from the moment we left on what a leave vote would mean for retirement and pensions and would they be honoured, health care costs due to no longer being in the EU etc etc, I almost had a breakdown, we managed to sell the property for a small profit though this was really a loss overall as the new build didn't come with a kitchen or utility room completed, just empty rooms and all the flooring to be bought and laid, fortunately I had managed to change up all my cash through a currency exchange company and did this at the top of the market €1.42 to £1.00 and when I changed back to sterling I bought for €1.20 on the Friday after the vote, this was a mistake as I panicked and the rate went down to €1.10 the following Monday but the money we made on the exchange meant we ended up breaking even but of course property prices had increased back in Brighton so had to purchase in Eastbourne as we were both not in the best of health and needed to keep back enough to live on until I retired and I could claim my company and state pensions, my wife unfortunately is one of the waspi women and her originally expected retirement age increased from 60 to 66 luckily my pensions are enough for us to live on until she receives her state pension in another 2 or 3 years time. My advice now is if you own a property rent it out until you are sure it's the right move for you. ( so wish this is what I had done) hope your move is a success. Best of luck.

Glad it all came out alright in the end for you.

And respect for that 300+ word sentence, sir, undoubtedly the longest one written about Ireland since the last chapter of Ulysses.

 

[Guinness Boy]

So in January I am emigrating to The Falkland Islands for 3 1/2 years. (largely to photograph penguins!)
For those people that have emigrated in the past are there any tips or things you wish you knew before you moved?

I thought you were being paid to photograph penguins but, on reading the rest of the thread, it seems your wife's going to be working there and you are essentially just going to be photographing penguins. If so, then well played - but beware of boredom.

I lived abroad for nearly five years in an old job. Five months in India without the Mrs that nearly ended in divorce, so after that she came with or no trip. A year in Sydney, which I loved but she hated because I could work and she couldn't. I would have stayed forever but she was climbing the walls after a few months of not knowing anyone except my workmates, [MENTION=159]Stumpy Tim[/MENTION] (who was there at the time) and doing site seeing.

So we packed up for Japan and it was so much better for her. She could work and instantly got a job teaching business English. Tokyo is fascinating and we had lots of people to look after us. Would have stayed but for the project I was on getting canned and the Japanese demanding we left.

So onto Taipei which I think the Mrs liked the best because, although she was only volunteering, she had a five day a week "job" in an ex-pat community centre and met all the ladies that lunch through that. A really cracking social circle, precisely because ex pats looked after each other there. Only left because she got pregnant with my son and wanted to have him here.

And, yes. I've just repeated my travel stories on here AGAIN. But the point is, if you'd asked us before we left, we'd have both said that we'd probably have stayed in Oz and never left. Actually, being just another white face but not having a social circle made Mrs GB incredibly lonely, whereas living somewhere absolutely mental but with lovely locals and a big ex pat community was brilliant.

I hope you like penguins because it's a long trip back.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

In my 20 years on the Tristar transport aircraft I spent enough time knowing what the locals liked and disliked.

But thanks for your input.

My Dad married one in 1966. A kinder more generous woman, I have never met.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I thought you were being paid to photograph penguins but, on reading the rest of the thread, it seems your wife's going to be working there and you are essentially just going to be photographing penguins. If so, then well played - but beware of boredom.

I lived abroad for nearly five years in an old job. Five months in India without the Mrs that nearly ended in divorce, so after that she came with or no trip. A year in Sydney, which I loved but she hated because I could work and she couldn't. I would have stayed forever but she was climbing the walls after a few months of not knowing anyone except my workmates, [MENTION=159]Stumpy Tim[/MENTION] (who was there at the time) and doing site seeing.

So we packed up for Japan and it was so much better for her. She could work and instantly got a job teaching business English. Tokyo is fascinating and we had lots of people to look after us. Would have stayed but for the project I was on getting canned and the Japanese demanding we left.

So onto Taipei which I think the Mrs liked the best because, although she was only volunteering, she had a five day a week "job" in an ex-pat community centre and met all the ladies that lunch through that. A really cracking social circle, precisely because ex pats looked after each other there. Only left because she got pregnant with my son and wanted to have him here.

And, yes. I've just repeated my travel stories on here AGAIN. But the point is, if you'd asked us before we left, we'd have both said that we'd probably have stayed in Oz and never left. Actually, being just another white face but not having a social circle made Mrs GB incredibly lonely, whereas living somewhere absolutely mental but with lovely locals and a big ex pat community was brilliant.

I hope you like penguins because it's a long trip back.

I did forget to add that penguins are, without doubt, the best animals on the planet. Please feel free to post your efforts on here

 

[Kneon Light]

Excellent. Check how easy it is to transfer money out again when you come back and maybe speak to your bank here beforehand if you want to move money in and out of the country or if your accounts are going to be inactive for a while.

Oh and brave not crazy. Good for you. I hope it goes really well.

Good advice. Thanks.

 

[Kneon Light]

My advice is to use a Peer-2-Peer platform to move money….cheaper than the banks. I use Currency Fair but this is a good prompt to remind me to look into seeing if this is still the most competitive.

Thanks