tips on moving to london 🩵 #aussieinlondon

I'm here from Australia to London just over two years ago now, and here are my best three tips for moving/deciding to move. I've never actually spoken about this, so I thought, "Why the fuck not?" That's simple, I think you need to consider, I do actually want to live in a big city. No matter how much you travel while you're in London, you're still going to spend the majority of your time in London, and at the end of the day it's just a massive city, which can be great for some people, but can also be shipped for others. I love it, I thrive in this environment, the hustle and bustle, the chaos, it's so fun for me personally. But in Australia, nature's really shoved in, you know, having fun in the Gold Coast, so very beachy place. You're doing beach walks every day out at the rock pools, swimming shit, it's very nature-girl. London, not too much, there's nature here, there's beautiful parks, but it's just different. But you really have to travel outside of London to really feel like you're alone in nature. You know that feeling? You're not going to get that bang in the middle of London. There's parts around London that you can go to to get that feeling, but it's just not as readily accessible as it is back home. And also you're probably not going to have a car here because it's fucking London, so it is just a bit harder to get to. So yeah, I think just the main thing is to consider, do you actually want to live in a big city? Because I think a lot of people just move here because they've seen other people move to London, but the end of the day it is just a really big city, and it will allow the two wappers to beat you out. I think I've been chewed, but I haven't been to that actress yet, I love it personally. Secondly, save up as much as you fucking can, like nothing can prepare you for how expensive London is. But Australia's gotten really bad, like inflation, I just went home for the past two years, and honey, nothing compares to the prices of stuff here, like it's so expensive. Like the tube, if you're going in and out of the city for work every day, it's literally £8.50 every single day, that's the cap of the tube. So that's like £16,000 every day, public transport, it's cheaper to run a fucking car and it's straight there. And then groceries, I mean, Aldi and like little and stuff are cheaper, but they're generally further away. Like for me, Aldi is like a 10 minute walk away, whereas Tesco Express is a 3 minute walk away, so which one am I going to pick? More for the knot, it's Tesco Express, and the price is there, I just fucking whack his bonkers. It really does cost you a lot of money, but then also when you initially move here, finding a flat is fucking extra impossible. Depending on time of year that you move, if it's called a month, it might be easy to find a flat, if it's one of the months, good fucking lack. But no matter what time the move, it's going to be tough to find a flat. So you need to have like as much money to back yourself while you're looking for a flat, because you might not want to start working until you find a flat, and like know where you're going to be living. For me, for example, I was hospitality, I wasn't going to get a job when I didn't know where I was living. So you sort of need enough money behind you to support yourself in that meantime, I definitely didn't come here with enough money. And Regret's rent here is really expensive. It's been like 30% more rent than my friends in like Melbourne. But they have like a two-story townhouse with like a fucking high ceiling chandeliers and a fireplace in every room, with like exposed brick, like it's beautiful. Meanwhile, I pay more living in a castle estate with no living room. So standard living does definitely plummet. But I have a good where I am, I'm happy to live humbly compared to like Australia, for example, because it means that I get to live in Central London, I live in zone one. So it's like, I didn't move to London until I've been out to get to London, so if you wanted to live in Central London and have the same standard living that you have back home, you have to pay a fucking arm and a fucking leg to do so. Yeah, safe, safe, safe. Maybe move home for a bit. If you don't live at home, maybe move that home for a bit to save as much as you can. But I wish I had done that. I didn't, I was like living out of home and then moved straight here. I wish I just went home, saved up. So I came here with as much money as humanly possible, because this shit isn't the joke. Thirdly, travel as much as you can. London is one of the most well-connected cities in the world. Like travel over here is ridiculously cheap. Like we were to do Morocco for 29 pounds of return in November. While it was like caught in this rule here, we were living it up in Morocco for 29 pounds. Obviously, don't run a budget though, like we don't go crazy. But it's definitely doable. We've gone on a trip like on average, like once a month, our entire time living here, which is crazy. But it's just come so normal and I haven't been able to travel for the last like two months because I planned my visa extension and why you wait for that, you cannot travel. So I've been like going step crazy. But I just put good last minute trip to go to London. It's a roti next Monday. So that's very exciting. But yes, intentionally chose to work in hospitality so that I have the flexibility of travel as much as humanly possible. But even if you are working in 9 to 5, you can still do like long weekend trips and shit. Like you really don't need like a whole week in places to enjoy them. You'd be surprised how much you can cram into a short amount of time. The way we've been able to do it at such a insane rate is by making sacrifices elsewhere. Like I don't go out for dinner. I think I've been out for dinner like three times. It isn't apart. Like dinner dinner. It's just where your priorities are. Like for me, I'd much rather not go out for fancy dinners once a week than go on a trip once a month. I'm happy with that trade off. Or you might make a lot more money than me and then you're able to do both, which is great. But yeah, sometimes the best thing to do in London is to leave London. I met a guy like a month ago, and she moved here in June, and she's already wanting to move home. I later find out that it's because she hasn't left London. She's just been in London since June. I thought I'd hate it too, babe. I think getting away a lot just makes it overall time in London a lot better because you appreciate London more as well because while you're away, there are some like novelties that you miss about London. You're like, oh, I miss that being a pub in every corner. I sound like an alcoholic. Well, like God, a meal deal would hit really good right about now. You might forget what a double-tucker bus looks like. You know, there are things that you just miss, and then you come back, you're like, oh, London. I find when you're here for too long, then you're like, hmm, London. Or at least in my case, anyways. So, yes, travel as much as you can, I think. This is the topic I can think of after off my head, but yeah, I've lived here for just over two years now, so I know a thing or two about getting by here. So, yeah, if you have any questions, ask away, and I can answer them, probably. Hope haven't scared you off. I really do love London. London's great. But those are just some things I think you should consider before deciding to move here. Bye!