My career in UK has been ruined and Ive gone from £2k a month to £200 a month. Any Aussies want to help out a fellow Fiance member? I would need sponsoring for a work visa.
i know things aren't too great in the uk right now, my old old company just laid off two of it's sites in the usa. but i can't talk... i've moved to ukraine and it must be worse here! lol /pete
hi boredfukka... i was looking for a major change in my life i guess and then olya kind of happened! spent 2 months here in the summer and loved it and still love it. right now, between living in the uk or here i would much rather be here, even with all the economic turmoil going on, which is *way* too exagerated (sp?) by the way. probably a really bad time to move to one of the smaller places in ukraine, but here in kyiv life is just going on as usual. (unless you were one of the unlucky few who had no hot water the other week!) olya doesn't want to leave ukraine, at not least right now, and i was pretty keen on leaving the uk, so moving here was a no brainer! though still pretty scary and i really need to learn more russian than just how to ask for some cigarettes at a shop!
another of my friends (a fellow IT contractor) lost his job in the uk and the company i used to work for (xyratex) is going to lay off 50 jobs (i think) in the new year... working from here i can charge far far less money than i would need to if i was in the uk and still live really well! :-)
Pete,
To buy cigarettes you show them your empty packet (for the brand) and hold your fingers up to the number of packets you want, or you indicate a carton with your hands.
Pete, that's great that you have managed to survive there. I guess you do IT work through the internet back home here in the UK and stuff. I met a girl a few years ago from Slovakia and she was keen on me staying with her and her two boys, but I did not know what I would do there. I should maybe have stayed I sometimes think as she was well horny ( I couldnt get much sleep lol) but I just didn't know what to do. Most of her town seemed to be unemployed when we went to the employment centre once lol.
There were so many nice, single mothers there too. I often wonder why I kept coming back to the UK. Well it's the £££ you know.
But don't you ever think about the money you could be making in the UK? So, it's not true that all ukrainians want a visa then lol, if she is happy to stay in Kyiv. Pretty scary you say? I bet you are one of the few expats there. Well done mate.
Peter
I did , I will respond to you. Interesting questions. Feel free to email me or PM. You friend are never an intrusion.
If you like to read, Check out the book, "The Creature from Jekyll Island." It will give you great insight into the great Ponzi scheme called American Monetary Policy.
lol martin! well, at least i *can* actually ask for cigarettes now!
re: "But don't you ever think about the money you could be making in the UK? So, it's not true that all ukrainians want a visa then lol, if she is happy to stay in Kyiv. Pretty scary you say? I bet you are one of the few expats there. Well done mate."
with the state of things back in the uk, i don't think i could even make 40ukp an hour any more. living here i can charge as little as 10ukp which also means i'm more likely to get the contract.
she actively *wants* to stay in kyiv. as for expats... i've just found out tonight that there are quite a few expats from hampshire where i was from in the uk living in the same area of kyiv as me! found a cool website called expatua.com
and btw - i saw that there was another protest in kyiv yesterday about the economic state.
also, peter, any more info from your mother-in-law?
Its been interesting monitoring your post regarding your sight of what’s going on there.
The hot water issue (which actually involved nearly half the city) was a Yulia v the Mayor grandstanding. She supposedly did it to make him look bad etc etc - just bloody children !!!!
The middle business is in a really bad situation. The banking is also in dire straights. With the UAH having lost so much value, there is a huge amount of foreign debt that has just become twice as expensive to pay interest on and also twice the amount of principle to repay.
Manufacturing is/or already ground to a halt, especially the steel industry which is a huge portion of Ukraine’s primary industry. East Ukraine will be hit the hardest.
As I said b4, the Mother In-law has a job supplying produce for a small chain of restaurants, they have all closed for the winter. Hopefully will reopen March/April.
I think you will see a growing number of protests against the standing government in coming weeks. The protest in main street yesterday, with the cars, was mostly middle class business showing their disapproval of the handling of the UAH currency issue, and the continual circus created by Yulia T and Victor Y (cant be bothered looking up the spelling of these tow Pudla’s)
By the way, have you learnt all the bad Russian words yet – I seem to be able to pick them up very easy, wish I could extend my Russian vocabulary in a more desirable direction.
Maxirat,
Well 'Tesco', a UK supermarket that does perhaps the best forex deal, is at this time offering EUR1.022700 to the GBP.
I am personally hoping that it gets worse, I earn my money in Euros and if it worsens much more then I shall be buying up a hell of a lot of GBP's at a very cheap price :)
So does it means it is better to work in Europe now that the Euro is the same as the pound? Sell up and move to a big mansion house in France, and eat crackers and cheese for lunch.