London is a dynamic, fast-paced international city--which is likely the reason you are dreaming of living here. As many have learned from personal experience, moving to London can be both exciting and challenging. The more you know before you make the decision, the easier your transition and move will be. I am well into my third year in London after movning from the US for work in 2009 and still find myself learning new ways to navigate this city. Here you will find insight from many seasoned YSAs who have lived here, loved it and most of all survived it!
The purpose of this blog is to give you tools to help assess whether you are ready for the move to London and to provide resources for your transition when you decide the timing is right. Although we do not directly help people find accommodation, we provide tools to help you get started--along with occasional listings of available flat-shares with members.
You will find information that many people wish they had known PRIOR to moving all the way to London, which would have made their preparation and transition much easier and more thorough. Some even claim they wouldn't have taken the plunge had they known all that it would entail. I would guess that 95% of those people didn't do enough research and weren't adequately prepared. There's a saying that a good day in London is better than a great day anywhere else, but nothing is worse than a bad day in London! Let there be no misunderstandings, coming to London unprepared is a very big (and costly) mistake. It's important that you carefully consider all the aspects of what living in London entails from the financial, economic and temporal to the spiritual and emotional. But rest assured, if you're prepared, you have no reason to fear and are in for the experience of a lifetime.
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