OFF: good places to live?

Kevin Perry kevin.perry at VIRGIN.NET
Sat Mar 17 07:59:18 EST 2001


I've been working in dotcom companies for the past 18-24 months in the UK
and have found an incredibly large number of Australians, New Zealanders,
Canadians and South Africans working in them.  Very few Americans though.

The bars in London are all staffed by antipodeans (AU, NZ and SA) - a lot
seem to come over on student visas, extend them as long as possible, and
don't actually do any studying...

If anyone does know how to go about finding work in the US (preferably still
in the Internet arena), then please let me know 'cause I'm thinking of
jumping ship from the UK as soon as I can.

---
Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
http://www.mountaingrill.co.uk/

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous;
and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its
duties."

----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: good places to live?


> At 18.00 +0000 16.3.2001, Jon Jarrett wrote:
> >On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Arin Komins wrote:
> >>  UK folks,  anyone happen to know if it is possible for a nonEuro
member
> >>  to get a job over there?  All the *.gov.uk sites I looked at
> >>  made it seem highly unlikely......
> >
> >it's certainly possible, because list-member Carl Anderson
> >is doing it in Cambridge (which is nice enough, but has no useful music
> >scene and only limited music shops though books and scenery we have in
> >spades); but he made the careful step of getting the job before he moved
> >so that they (eventually) sorted out his work permit. If you trust to the
> >efficiency of the Home Office alone... well, just don't, really.
>
> The only thing that's as difficult as being an American trying to get
> permission to work in Europe is being a European trying to get
> permission to work in the US ;)  You've an easier time getting
> established in Britain as a Balkan refugee sneaking in to claim
> political asylum than as an educated, skilled, productive citizen of
> a non-EU first world nation. Likewise, getting established in the US
> is best accomplished by swimming the Rio Grande, taking a raft from
> Cuba, or whatever. At least you'll get sympathetic media coverage.
>
> IMO, the people responsible for this stuff should be taken out and
> shot (if they're already dead, they should be dug up and shot).
>
> That said, obviously it can be done, or I wouldn't be here.  One
> technique is to get into a multinational outfit and finagle your way
> towards an overseas posting. Another is to know people in an overseas
> company/institution and have them pulling for you with their bosses.
>
> Cambridge is indeed bereft of a music scene or any good record shops,
> but it could be worse.  I expect I'll be here a while -- at least to
> ride out the current/coming economic mess.  Though in the longer
> term, I might move elsewhere in Britain or Europe, and I might even
> go back to the US, I suppose. Can't rule it out.  Anyone in
> Scandinavia need a native-English-speaking technical writer? :)
> Scotland might be nice, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> mailto:cea at carlaz.com
> http://www.carlaz.com/



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