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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

left the UK 13yrs ago and never regretted it

skills shortage list is how I got in, and being under 40 (at the time) gave me points in their system.

anyway just going to drop this here if YouTube is allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLlDIzi8SU

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

Congrats on having a backbone. Hope you enjoy the vast experiences in your new life!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Take me with you

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

NZ? You a billionaire?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

just remember to keep voting, don't let what happened to Venezuela happen to you guys

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Trumpeter is currently researching what independent nation to rename yo NUSA...NewUSA.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 hours ago

Sorry for everything you had to leave behind. Good luck in your new life

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 120 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Congratulations! Made it to the UK from the US yesterday myself. Let's hope our new lives will be great!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

Welcome! Weather's a bit shite at the moment and monsoon season (February to May) is just around the corner, but it'll brighten up for 2 weeks in June and for the last 2 weeks of August.

Drop me a DM if you're heading up Manchester way and I'd happily give you a tour and you're more than welcome to come over to my family's place for a Sunday Roast.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

You'd better have a tv license or your going to jail

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

Hopefully OP can live with trading "needing a TV license for a TV no one uses anymore" and "actual healthcare" for a "failing democracy turned Christian nationalist oligarchy"!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Only if you have a TV. Theoretically, you need one to stream the BBC/ITV and such on a computer/phone, but the onus is not on you to prove that you didn’t. You’ll get letters asking to confirm that you don’t need a licence, and then threats of an inspection to make sure you don’t have a TV that’s on and being used to watch TV, though I’m not sure if they follow through with the latter. (In the analogue days, they had detector vans that either could detect TV tuners tuned to channels or were a bluff to get people to pay up, though they seem to have given up on that.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

The detector vans were real, and they weren't a bluff, but the tech they used wasn't some high tech signal detector. The secret is that they just pointed a parabolic microphone (possibly a laser microphone at a later time) at your window and listened for the audio. The operator would flip through TV channels in his van and try to match the audio from your house to the audio from a currently broadcasting TV station. That was sufficient to determine if someone was watching broadcast tv or not.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Oi sunny boy u got a loisense for that loisense?!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

Welcome to the uk did you pick up your complementary kettle on the way in? Sorry the rail network is such a mess but what can you do. Glad to have you bud o7

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Doing the same in a couple of months! Whangherei

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

beers on me mate!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome! North or South island?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

Not the Tron?, god forbid.

If it then I guess welcome new neighbour...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 45 minutes ago

Beautiful! Congrats on your escape :-)

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