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Have you ever been to the Bronx in New York City ?

We are in a 5 bedroom flat.
2x Australians
2x Brazillians
2x Columbians
2x Iranians (landlords)
1x Czech

Certainly not hotel standards though! lol

Fulham where i live and kensington but not west kensington

Whats wrong with West Ken?
Ive lived here for 2 months now and havent had a problem.

I had to get out off at Whitechapel yesterday due to the District line fucking up, and nearly died when I got up to street level. It was like I wasnt even London anymore. Similar deal when I got stuck ...

Waste of money IMO. You can do it all yourself.

Go to Travelex, who act as an agent for HSBC, and they can set the bank account up for you before you leave.

Walk into any Virgin, Orange etc shop ...

Yeah ended up going the Umbrella Company route.
Spoke to 2 accountants who said its waste of time/money setting up a limited company if Im only going to do a once off 3 month contract.

If I decide ...

@TAPorSNAP you are on 3 month contract with 1 month notice. Now, what would be the implications (legal/financial/social) of you 'breaking' that contract. Lets say you call up your manager within 2 wee ...

For 3-4 months? How much You'll be paid?

My daily rate is between £300 - £400.

Arent their places out there like 1st Contact, who offer off-the-shelf companies and take all the hard work out o ...

Im on a 3 month contract.

I have to give 1 months to terminate. Same goes for the client though. Smile

Just landed my first IT contract in London and need to set up my limited company.
Will only be working for 3-4 months at this stage. Is it even worth the effort ?

Which providers are good to go wi ...

One lady called Joanna

LOL this is the rude bitch that served us.
We were also scolded for attempting to sitting on a stoll, when we were supposed to only sit on the lounge.

Interlets office is ...

Just had fist hand experience with some of these sharks.

Interlet was one of them. Office just up the road from Earls Court. Went in and saw the girl, eastern euro type, she couldnt have been more ...

Im in West Kensington. Been here for two weeks and find the area quite nice. Decent connections into the city as well.

Riding the H&C line from Hammersmith to Liverpool St for a job interview t ...

As the others have said ... use Travelex to set the account up with HSBC. You do need $4000AUD to open the account. Just went through all this and its a piece of cake.

Another thing you may want t ...

For IT contract recruitment, Ive been using;

CWjobs
Jobserve
Jobsite
PlanetRecruit

http://www.contractoruk.com/index.html

I think work-related backstabbing happens everywhere, regardless of nationality.

Minute all your meetings, and make people accountable, the facts when they are on paper, are hard to argue with.

Im in Australia at the moment, and hit London April 1st.
Im pretty highly qualifed and have been sending my CV around for the last 2 weeks with minimal feedback (heard back from 2 recruiters).

Fro ...

We are in the same boat.
We bought a house when we moved out from our parents, and have never rented. Sad

Have you considered prostitution ?

What's the chances of a straight answer guys ... they want to see originals or not ???

... want to sight original copies of documents like University degrees etc ?

Will be coming to the UK to work shortly, and want to know whether to bring all my original resume documents, or just br ...

Isnt the east end dodgey ?
Full of asians, indians and thugs ?

Thread hijack !!!111

I have heard good things about Freelance-Global.
I have a friend here in Aus who contracts through them ... he is a IT Test Analyst.

They have an office in London too.
http://www.freelance-global ...

I'd read these posts carefully and ignore those added by Bite consulting employees...

http://forums.gumtree.com/topic5114.html

ROFL
Love the trolls with 1 post all claiming that Bite is legit.