Kowalewski: Hello, its my firts post in this forum so I´ll tell you a little bit about me ;-) I´m a 19 year old polish born kraut who plans to move to england. The location I expect to move is the industrial triangle: London-Bristol-Brimingham. The first thing I´ll di is to move to a Job center. I like the english language and look forward to learn it. My question No.1 is: Whats the best way to integrate there? I´m going to try to work and live here as normal as possible. At the moment I only read UK news that tell that polish are lazy and racists. I know how rumors are and I´m afraid that the peoples will only see this medial stereotype. What you think about it or what you can tell me? pozdrawiam
What is your main reason for wanting to come here ? You're very young, so it's a really big step to be taking.
If you're coming here thinking work is easy to find and it's cheap to live, then you might need to do some more research. It's not a cheap place to live and it's hard work to make a living if you want to live a decent life that doesn't involve living with loads of others to keep the costs down.
You say you only read the UK news, then you will know that the economy is taking a downturn, so jobs are becoming harder to hold onto and harder to find. Personally speaking, I wouldn't want to be the one with a foreign accent claiming benefits right now, so you need to avoid state help if you can avoid it.
You need a job and a place to live BEFORE you come here.
If you come here without a job, then you need enough money to live on for at least two months (around £1500) to give you time to find something. I really wouldn't even think of coming here without a job lined up.
I would suggest you come for a holiday first, check out the jobs and the living situation and see if you can see yourself living here.
As others have said, avoid big cities and READ UP LOADS on where you think would be good to live. Integrate by mixing with lots of different types of people and don't make your area a "Little Poland".
Also be prepared not to like it here. Have a "Plan B" and don't be afraid to go home if you don't see things working out. You can always try again when you're older.
Hope this helps, good luck !
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