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Moving to London: Help me use the tube

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Id echo this for new people into town. South you get a lot more for your money really and even if southern does go tits up you still have the overground. Our lass wants to move there but Im too attached to the Stow to want to move that far away from it.
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I was born and lived in Croydon for many years and it has a top class public transport system. Fast frequent services taking 15 minutes from East Croydon by rail to Victoria or London Bridge. About the same from Blackfriars or Farringdon.
Check out the all night train services..! Check out for night time bus routes.
Property prices are rising rapidly but check out for bargains..!!
Why just stick to the tube map..??
 
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Abpj17 said:
I'm still astonished there is a 9-5, 4 days a week grad job...

North Thameslink is better than south if you want true 24/7 e.g. West Hampstead, Kentish Town, etc.
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But those two areas are ultra expensive : too many media types and politicians.
 
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MikeWh said:
Ha ha ha!

That map only has zones 1-2 on it so it doesn't include most of the tube by distance!
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You were being overly picky.
I was showing you were not the only one that could do that.
You said you can't get a tube map without the Overground on it, which is demonstrably not true.
 
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Deerfold said:
You were being overly picky.
I was showing you were not the only one that could do that.
You said you can't get a tube map without the Overground on it, which is demonstrably not true.
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But that zone 1 & 2 tube map does have overground on it. Can you show me a TfL map with just traditional tube lines on it?
 
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Busaholic said:
And, from 2018. direct trains from Ilford to central London every five minutes on Crossrail - you might even be able to get a seat at Ilford!
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Only if you bring your own. Virtually no chance of a seat at Ilford in the peak except on the trains that start from platform 5, but they cease in May.
 
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Deerfold said:
You were being overly picky.
I was showing you were not the only one that could do that.
You said you can't get a tube map without the Overground on it, which is demonstrably not true.
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Now I'm going to be really pedantic, as only a really old man with a London Transport background and fetish can, and ask - can you get an Underground map without the Tube on it? (And I never even worked on the Met!)

P.S. You'd have failed your entrance exam into LT Underground if you couldn't answer at interview which underground lines were tube lines!
 
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Abpj17 said:
I'm still astonished there is a 9-5, 4 days a week grad job...

North Thameslink is better than south if you want true 24/7 e.g. West Hampstead, Kentish Town, etc.
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Get paid for 5 days, one day working from home to study for professional qualifications
 
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OP should be fine with the mechanics of using the tube, i took my Mum to London for her 80th, got her an Oyster card and within half an hour she was tapping in and out like she was born there!

My in-laws live in Beckton, seems a decent place to live and not that far to the city on the DLR/tube.
 
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urpert said:
Personally I wonder if a) we're being wound up or b) it's a "9-5" job.
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Most office jobs are theoretically 9-5, even though in practice most will expect you to be at your desk well before, and stay late at least sometimes.......... certainly at graduate level and above in the City.

As a young man/woman with (I'm presuming) no ties the OP should be able to cope though it may come as a shock.
 
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telstarbox said:
A rule of thumb often cited is to spend no more than a third of take home pay on rent - and obviously less than that if you want to save up money.
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Lets assume a starting salary of £30k (median in the city is £48k), no pension, but student loans. That's a takehome pay of £1,860 a month, leaving rent at £620 a month.

Bump that wage up to £50k, but include a say 7% pension contribution, and you'll get £2,778.63 a month, or £926 to spend on rent.

Based on Rup's map of 1 bed flats, you're pretty screwed. Maybe look at a bedsit over a shop in south ruislip? Should only about about 60 minutes door to door.
 
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I have had interviews like that. Sounded great on the first interview, not so good when they let slip that the weekly contract rate would be the same for 5 days or 7 and that 7 was expected.

Apart from factory work in a student vacation the only time that I have had a job where 5pm meant what it said on the box was decades ago when I was temping on an hourly rate. Normally you just put the hours in to get the work done, if you are really lucky you might get overtime but don't count on it.
 
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Or perhaps he is just a bit naive and believes what he has been told at the interview.
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Having spoken to several people in the company and elswhere in the industry it's almost always 9-5. They have plenty offices in sleepy commuter towns around the country so they aren't exactly gonna expect people in the same departments to work longer hours purely because it's the central London office.

Of course you get some busy times but I have a skill that's in quite high demand and it seems to be a very fair industry. I'm going to be a life insurance actuary and I don't wanna mention my employer but let's just say it rhymes with arriva and the new landsdowne road is named after them ;)

For some reason this thread has descended into a witchhunt of people trying to scare a little 23 year old from Glasgow
 
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Denzo said:
Having spoken to several people in the company and elswhere in the industry it's almost always 9-5. They have plenty offices in sleepy commuter towns around the country so they aren't exactly gonna expect people in the same departments to work longer hours purely because it's the central London office.

Of course you get some busy times but I have a skill that's in quite high demand and it seems to be a very fair industry. I'm going to be a life insurance actuary and I don't wanna mention my employer but let's just say it rhymes with arriva and the new landsdowne road is named after them ;)

For some reason this thread has descended into a witchhunt of people trying to scare a little 23 year old from Glasgow
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Go for it and ignore the negative comments. I was born and grew up in London so I never had that fateful decision to make: in my case, it was making the fateful decision at the age of 40 to move from the Great Wen to a small town hundreds of miles away. You're young, time is hopefully on your side and you've had some good tips on here as to some good places to habitathunt!
 
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Not a case of trying to scare, more a case of helping to prepare.

I work in the Banking industry and to be honest the hours stopped being 9-5 a long time ago. But it isn't anything to be scared of. The long hours lead to bigger reward, and I would not have been able to buy my house otherwise.

Anyway, you seem a sociable kind of guy so I reckon you will have an excellent time in London. The bars around where you will be working are amazing. And the new architecture around there is so exciting. I can't wait to see the Scalpel when it is finished.

Anyway, enjoy your adventure and I hope you get the bug and actually enjoy using the London Underground.
 
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Denzo:2489782 said:
Having spoken to several people in the company and elswhere in the industry it's almost always 9-5. They have plenty offices in sleepy commuter towns around the country so they aren't exactly gonna expect people in the same departments to work longer hours purely because it's the central London office.
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It's not uncommon for London hours to be longer than provincial hours in the same firm (in practice if not on paper) but usually the London employees are paid substantially more.
 
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