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Anyone from the UK want to marry me?

I've just been checking out my visa possibilities - I have 90 points, out of a necessary 95.
Which means I am 5 points off getting a highly skilled migrant visa for England next year. 5 points!

This does not seem fair.

Looking into it, the only ways I can increase my points are:
a) get a PhD
b) get experience working in the UK (without getting a visa beforehand...)
c) convince my boss to pay me more money

Personally, I think it'll be a lot easier if I just circumvent the whole process by marrying someone with a British passport, and get my visa the old-fashioned way...
So: I'm young, I'm attractive, and I know how to cook. Any takers?
 

Date: 2008-09-11 09:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] deird1
Hmm... Where to begin...

Well, for one thing, when your government heritage lists something, it isn't usually to preserve the magnificent building designs of the 1960s.
You have grass that is actually green, rather than a sort of mottled brown colour.
The Mousetrap is still open in London, as is the pantomime.
From a professional standpoint, there's the London Underground. It is the dream of all rail engineers to see the London Underground.
Castles.
Harrods.
Awesome accents.
Villages. Actual villages!
The ability to go to Europe for the weekend.
The sheer oddity of kitchens containing washing machines.
Squirrels.

Plus, while Melbourne looks wonderfully inviting during the summer, it's also HOT. 40 degree days aren't all that uncommon, and the humidity goes through the roof. I tend to spend most of summer inside my house with the curtains closed and the air conditioner on at full blast, unable to set foot outside without being burned to a crisp, and unable to do anything inside that requires sound, because of the air con.
And winters, while cold, never go through cold and out the other side - which I've experienced once, in Germany, and enjoyed thoroughly.
Believe it or not, the weather is part of the appeal...

Mostly, I just have far too many things I want to see and do in Britain, and will never have enough money to afford a long enough holiday. So instead, I plan to engineer and tourist simultaneously.

Date: 2008-09-25 10:35 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shapinglight
Well, when you put it like that, I can see the appeal much better.

Did not know you were a railway engineer. Very interesting. And I quite understand the fascination with the Underground. I have a sort of love/fear relationship with it, as it can be scary but is also completely amazing. I'm particularly interested in the abandoned stations, of which there are many on the older lines.

Don't people have washing machines in their kitchens in Australia, then?

Date: 2008-09-25 11:25 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
I am indeed a rail engineer.


As far as washing machines go...
Aussies look on in wonder at overseas television. Americans have washing machines in their basements (they have BASEMENTS), and Brits have them in the kitchen. Both of these are just weird and incomprehensible.

In Australia, pretty much all of us have a laundry somewhere in the house - function being purely as a place to store brooms, buckets, flyspray, bits of string, AND THE WASHING MACHINE.

My laundry is tiny, and apart from the washing machine and a big cupboard, it is purely there to house my cat's litter box.

Date: 2008-09-25 12:05 pm (UTC)
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You would find laundry rooms in newer, or bigger, British houses, but the older/smaller ones tend not to have them, hence all the appliances being in the kitchen.

We would probably think of a house with a separate laundry as being rather posh.

Date: 2008-09-25 10:57 pm (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Whereas we'd think of a flat (a flat - you'd NEVER get a house like that) without a laundry as being rather insanely small.

Date: 2008-09-26 05:07 pm (UTC)
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