Things You Don't Expect When Moving to London | Living in London Series 

London sounds like an introverted city I like that.

I have literally lived in London my whole life, born and bred, but I’m still watching this just because

If I was loaded and didn’t need to work I’d move to London in a heartbeat. I’m a huge history buff. Every time I’m in London, being surrounded by all that history just makes me feel alive.

I’m from Japan, this made me realize how many similarities there are in London. We are very quiet on trains and we air dry our clothes, the weather is not as gloomy but we also have a lot of rain. Etc

No wonder people kept looking at us in the Tube when wife would yell out “Two more stops honey “

I just got back from London. What a wonderful trip we had! We stayed in Central London for 2 weeks...very, very convenient to get to all the places. You are so right about London being multicultural... you actually rarely come across someone born and bred in London! What a wonderful city...can keep going back. Want ed to thank you for all your videos...great guide.

I want to move to London (from the States), but i'm so confused on how to go about doing so

I’m applying to grad schools in London! These videos are very helpful, thanks!

Hoping to move in a couple years after I graduate college 😁

Really appreciated this video Jess! You covered a lot topics so brilliantly. Moving to London is complex, to say the least, and you highlighted some of the most frustrating things clearly. Thanks for all your help! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧

it’s still four years until hopefully move out, and i have no idea what i want to do but i’m really considering moving to London and these videos are really helpful

Thank you so much Jess for doing this series!! My hubby had a job interview while we were on our trip to London in Jan and it’s looking promising to move this summer. All this will help a ton!!

you are not kidding about how quiet people are on the tube. I am from Boston and my wife is from Queens NY. We spent a week in London last month and had great time . it was awkward on our first time on the tube.

I wanna get out of the US. So much stuff is happening right now and it's just too much for me, and I'm only a teenager. I've been looking at different places in the UK to live and London does seem truly amazing

Living in London, it took all day to dry my sheets in that washer/dryer combo!

my last vocation I was there it was most beatiful place I ever had in my life the underground tube is fast and confortable and easy for find out all place in London

Planning to move to London to work as a paramedic in the near future

Been dying to move since I lived there for a summer in 2014. So far it’s so been a treacherous journey of learning about visas and working and jobs and how Id be able to 1. Have enough money to fund the move and visa itself. 2. How id be able to get a job that would make me enough money to be able to afford to live there comfortably. 3. I have NO one to talk to about it or chat with all the little details and logistics and the millions of questions that arise here and there. I don’t have family or a SO who lives there to help with visas or citizenship either which seems to be the only option for those few that I know who have made the move. The ever changing laws on immigration and visas also complicate things and the overwhelming amount of money id have to save (while still affording to be able to live here in Atlanta, GA USA) don’t help the process much either. I know that all sounds so negative but the process is just so daunting and intricate. I’ve been dying to move back to the city calling to my heart since I left it!

Catching the subway in NYC is the same, you never look people in the eye, thanks for the video btw

Yes. This month ! My heart is beating pretty fast ❤️

who the hell on the NY subway just strikes up a convo with a stranger?? not that different...

Like all big International cities London has it's downside and well as it's amazing places. Be aware that if you are moving there and want a good lifestyle enjoying the unrivaled facilities you will need plenty of money, it's not a cheap city. There is so much to London beyond the obvious tourist hot spots you can spend literally years and years getting to know and enjoy the best it has to offer and that's one of it's greatest attractions.

I just recently studied in London and fell in love with the city. I hope to move there in a couple of years but as an America how were you able to legally move? Did you go for work or did you apply for citizenship?

This video is wonderful! I'm a writer working on a story in which an American moves to London, and this was so helpful! Thank you!

Watching this makes me feel relieved to live in London rather than New York!!

This series is so helpful!! I just recently decided that I want to immigrate to London from South Africa.. obviously it’s going to be a process over a couple of years, but this is really putting it into perspective for me! Thanks ! 🌸🌸🌸

Perhaps you will cover this in a future video but I am curious to learn how a non UK/EU resident can legally work in London. Great video!

Living in London can get a bit lonely if you don't have a family or partner here because no one talks to you and asks you how your day is, no one cares about you. You go to a coffee shop the only thing the barista will say to you is "That's £2.50". You see your friends once or twice a week and that's maybe the only "social" interaction you get outside work.

I've been living in NYC since 2012, coming from Sao Paulo , believe me people don't talk or interactin New York either lol. People dont look in the eye, most of the times, that blank face or looking down their phones!! Its all a point of view. So maybe try the subway in Sao Paulo . Good luck

OK so i live in cape town but really want to move to London I love everything about it, but this video helped a lot thank you !xx

Living in London is my dream... just don't know how to start

Funny, I just happened to be in London when you filmed this. My son was jealous I saw snow. Though it wasn’t much!

Seriously, thank you for this kinda of content. I'm considering moving to London, but i had no idea how to start.

Thanks Jess, your tips are really helpful to me as an international student here in London.Keep going.Doing a great job👍

I might be moving to London in September since I was accepted at University. I am from Germany, thus a EU citizen. Although I am REALLY excited I am also quite scared of all the challenges and new things that I have to face in 2019. So thank you for your videos, so far they really helped me a lot!

Hope to move to London in the near future. Love the place. I am looking for more information on rents.

London is where I want to retire to in about 5 Years. I went 3 years ago and fell in love with the city. I felt like I was home

Thinking about it seriously. Live in Missouri, USA

Growing up my family and I visited The UK very often and loved it! This video was pretty helpful because my husband and I have been highly considering moving our family some ware around London.

Ppl talk on the tube sometimes, when i went to london i had a great conversation about traveling with a local on the tube

I really like your videos.You speak very clearly and simply.Even I am not a native English speaker,it’s not quite hard to understand.Thank your a lot!

I would love to live in London

Don't forget though, the night tube is very much like the night bus, you're all already drunk so anything goes!

Yes I want to move to London. I never been outside the U.S before. I’m also planning a trip to London in the beginning of next year. I want to have some job interviews lined up during my trip, if that’s possible.

I am moving there, but I want to wait til my son is older. Like high school age. My plan is to land an hr job with a company that has a location here, and there in London. Then, I could transfer in 6 years on the 2 to 5 year visa.

Thank you so much for the information! I just got a job offer in London and you are helping me a lot to prepare for moving! :)

Really want to live there, but the rent prices scares me. I am from the Midwest where we have lots of space and rent is cheap. It would be a huge adjustment for me, on top of the already different culture to adjust to. Probably a much easier adjustment for someone who is from New York lol.

I’m moving to London in January for five months and your videos seriously have been helping me so much!

I'm planning on moving to London in a year from Canada. I'm working on getting my Ancestry Visa at the moment and then plan on getting a job as a Teacher. Your video was super helpful and I look forward to watching more of your videos!

From my many visits to London I can definitely agree with these especially the talking on the tube lol it seems like it is forbidden.... I would love to live in London or move there one day! Expensive but perfect city for me...

wow! Just what I needed, keep the series going jess 👍🏻 , it’s really helpful and it’s hard to find this kind of content even in RU-vid.

hii!! jess i liked your videos and also this videos are very helpful ..

Very much enjoying the tips and advice. I do travel to London on occasion, yet still find things on here that are helpful. Am looking to be based in London whilst doing courier work or other security work in or around the city. Looking to live in the area around Kensington High Street Station. Keep up the great work Jess!!! Cheers!!!

No native Londoners? Sounds like Silicon Valley. I was born and raised in the valley before it became known as Silicon Valley. Everyone I know was born outside of Silicon Valley. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone from Michigan.

I am moving to London...relativly soon-ish... And the one thing I can never figure out when going to other countries is how to find a doctor to go to when you're not a citizen, even if you live there. (I'm norwegian. Pretty sure I can move anywhere in europe without a visum or anything.) In norway everyone has to registrer for your own doctor, and you can't really use anyone but that one doctor...unless you change who that is. (And it's usually pretty cheap with anything health care related and a max limit per year. But I've heard england has free health care, so I guess that won't be a problem.) But how does London work there? And what's the emergency numbers? Also... How are the standards for safety on things in London? (I'm from a country in which one tiny breach of an immencly strict health code gets resturants shut down, and if you go to a plastic surgeon it is always 100% safe, because higher education is mandatory, and, again, any form of misshaps or misstreatments gets people fired and usually also the whole damned place shut down. Which makes every other country seem scary, because these misshaps actually HAPPENS there. At ALL.)

Yes we are planning to move in May. Your videos are very helpful. Thank you

i love this channel ! im only 19 so I won't be moving anytime soon but one day i hope to be living in London ! your channel has given me some things to look forward too. thank you !

thank you for telling us things that would help us if we "Move or Visit" London. it's important to know these things so we don't stick out like a sore thumb.

it's truth anyone in underground tube don't talk with each other it was weird for me lives in south america but understood perfect

I’m so glad you made this! I do plan on moving to London

Haha that's true, the tube is such a quiet place, it's unbelievable. I miss London a much, hopefully one day I'll move there! Right now I have moved to Japan, I hope London come next!

Thanks for your video yes I am planning to move to London !

I'm currently in the process of moving to London, have to get my papers for my passport and get a transcript for my job transfer prepared. Hopefully everything goes through by new year

i've been looking for a place to move to (from the states) because i absolutely hate the way things are being ran in the US. this video was so informative, thank you so much! my choices are now narrowed down to England and Australia. Thank you for posting

I love your videos.. They are helpful in learning about London.

On my mind a lot lately to London or Thailand

Hello I’m from india and planning to move to London.. I’m a doctor so would like to know if there are jobs available for junior doctors and how is london as a place to live overall

i'm applying for a 2 year rotation in the London office of the firm i work at in the US! fingers crossed

Im moving there in april and this video is just in time... you and your videos r love 😘😘

I need to move to London I feel like I would lose a lot of weight. Plus I love diversity!!!

I am planning to move to London next year and I find your videos very helpful!!!

I've been waiting for this just in case I have to move there another few decades or so when I retire..lol.. As a person that lives in the country I really hate going out to dinner. It's just way too much work..lol..

My dream is to live as a concept artist in London for some reason, or maybe Brighton. I have a thing for Britain

London sounds great

I'll be there but not now. I have some problems to solve. Thanks for invitations

I have 2 more years of college then I’ll become doctor of medicine. I hope I’ll get the job in London since that’s my dream since I was a child. 🙂

Oh, when I went there one year during Christmas, I was expecting a Dickens Christmas to visiting the South side where another guy yelled to another guy across the street. "Merry Christmas Motherf*****r". I first thought, gee this is like being at home(States)

Im going to live in London in 10 years but can't be to prepared

I’m a junior in high school in Texas and I’ve had a dream of going to college in London since 7th grade. I feel like my soul was made to exist in London and so I can’t wait to live there but there are many things that stress me about how to move correctly and adjusting and everything, but your videos really help me and I hope u see this❤️

anywhere in or around London would be a lot better than where I am right now. London is paradise!

So I am currently in a long distance relationship and my gf live in London so I’m playing on to leave the US to go live there with her but first I need to graduate high school but we will see what the future holds😂

Oh my god you are a Jake Peralta fan!!! The way you said loaded, I got you there!!!!

I am coming to London in the next month and I am kind of afraid because others are saying its a very racial place because of the color of my skin, they say it's to expensive to live, I won't be able to get a work or do classes,nothing good I hearing about it . But honestly i have been looking at your videos and another RU-vidr videos and it seems to me to be a wonderful place. Could you give me your feedback on it

Science talk time!!! The reason why the summers and winters are mild is because you have the Gulf Stream current keeping you cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

😂😂😂 The point made about the tube is actually true now that I think about it. Lool usually I just listen to music for the whole journey but yh, ppl hardly have convos and if you do have a convo, everyone else on the tube just looks at you like they are really listening 😂

Hi Jess! Thanks for all the tips! I used alot of them when I came to visit in March, but i do have a question, i really want to attend grad school in London, do some of them have living quarters for grads? Like dorms for undergrads. Thanks!

I would love to move there. Company i work with they have in London

London is not for everyone. I was born and raised in the UK and lived in London several years before i moved to the US. You cannot just move from the US to the UK unless you are sponsored by an employer or you get married to a UK citizen. Flats are very expensive close to central London which is why hundreds of thousands commute by train every day to work. You don’t need a car, as the busses and subway (tube) can take you anywhere in the city. We don’t have any natural disasters (except flooding) like many other countries and even then its not usually in London.

Diversity is a good thing! Thanks for the breakdown

London is way way to expensive and the restaurants are tpp expensive. I hated the “no dryers” in flats. It was too cold there for me because their heating sucks. Give me usa any day- rent and food is way cheaper in usa. Ive been in london when it was way too hot. Yeh london is very diverse. Nhs is amazing. He tube is amazing. Your episodes are good.

Hi! I really like your videos. Can you make a video about Manchester?cost of living, groceries, bills, weather etc. I really need to know because I’m going to move there soon.

I loved London's heaters! The pipe things work so well. Is it London thing or whole UK's?

Hah , the tube will always give me memory. When I first got on the tube a guy got on sat down by the window. All was quiet, then YEEEECCHHHHHHH, the guy threw up all on the window and its edge, boy did it stink. Of course everyone in the car moved away. Hahahaha, the guy even put his hand over his eyes to show some dignity(I guess).

hi! I'm from toronto Canada and I have an opportunity for an intercompany move to our London office. These are super helpful and I'm considering the move heavily. Thanks so much! i have so many questions lol

I’m trying to move to London this year. No job, no flat... I’m trying to arrange everything I can from here but renting a place without visiting it sounds like a wildcard. Due to the pandemic and Brexit, I’m sure it will be hard but idk, must try 🤷🏼 I’m from Barcelona btw

Me and my friend are thinking about moving there after school, I’m super extroverted though so idk how that would be.

I'm planning to move in Londin for job purpose, which is in central based area. But I'm looking for much comfortable livings but quiet cheaper.

I want to move to london as a Web Developer

Huh? London has 12% Black and Minority Ethnicities and most of those ppl are born and raised in London. But anyway cool video fun to see an outside perspective.

Yess I'm thinking about it