Hampshire

flump · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:56

Dr_Evil said:
Chichester?

Really nice place Chi, work will be a bit hard to find in the immediate area though. I would suggest Brighton or Pompey/Southampton for the best chance of an IT job. If you could swing it though, get a job at the Rolls Royce factory which is about 1 mile out of town and built underground...

If you can stomach the commute, work up in London. I commuted from Worthing, which is about the same distance to Canary Wharf for a couple of years - you get used to it! Only problem is it's about £360 per month and you are up at 6am and home at 7pm having done 9-5....

As for schools I am not sure, although the private ones are pretty good!

scratch · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:56

Dr_Evil said:
My missus wants to move down to the Chichester area. I don't mind to live there, but i'm worried about being able to find a suitable job. I'm in IT (software engineer, .NET sql etc.) and was wondering what Portsmouth offers with regards to that, and how easy it is to find a house and all that and what the schools are like (secondary schools)....

I've never been able to find much work IT work in Portsmouth. Most of the decent stuff seems to be in Southampton. You could try getting something at IBM HQ on the outskirts of Portsmouth. Adecco are the agency who deal with contract staff for IBM (by contract I mean you get employed by Adecco and contracted out to IBM). I spent 4 years there before being made redundant and was good fun.

Andy

Fireskull · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:58

Yea or IBM in hursley, did work Experience there lol nice place and well hidden in the trees

divine` · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:00

seek said:
too many eastern europeans down here in southampton.

corrected

Dr_Evil · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:01

Apart from IBM and Rolls Royce, are there a lot of offices and/or larger companies in that area that may have IT vacancies ?

how are the public schools, primary and secondary?

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:06

Dr_Evil said:
Apart from IBM and Rolls Royce, are there a lot of offices and/or larger companies in that area that may have IT vacancies ?

how are the public schools, primary and secondary?

Yah, Hi, I went to public school here, [snort, snort] yah, they're very, very good. [snort]

D4VE · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:06

Hampshire is huge, Im just inside in Farnborough.

The towns and cities vary from nice to not nice so its really hard to answer your question without knowing more about where you will work.

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:08

D4VE said:
Hampshire is huge, Im just inside in Farnborough.

The towns and cities vary from nice to not nice so its really hard to answer your question without knowing more about where you will work.

Wichester is VERY nice but I'm afraid you have to qualify to buy a hise here.

Sp00n · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:08

fanger said:
Wichester is VERY nice but I'm afraid you have to qualify to buy a hise here.

LOL, winchester is a waste.

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:11

Sp00n said:
LOL, winchester is a waste.

Something happen to you in Winchester?

Something bad?

something dark and sinister?

Van Hellseek · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:13

i imagine winchester is the kind of place that is nice for 'settling down', but isn't especially interesting for the young uns though.

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:15

seek said:
i imagine winchester is the kind of place that is nice for 'settling down', but isn't especially interesting for the young uns though.

The young uns don't know where to get it.

By the way Happy Birthday

Sp00n · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:17

fanger said:
Something happen to you in Winchester?

Something bad?

something dark and sinister?

Yea, i used to work there and had to deal with a variety of its inhabitants, they are all moody, self centered toffs tbh, much like romsey people.

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:21

Sp00n said:
Yea, i used to work there and had to deal with a variety of its inhabitants, they are all moody, self centered toffs tbh, much like romsey people.

Yeah, guess that's me in a nut shell. Just hadn't realised. Thanks [goes off to get noose]

WillyNelson · 11 Jan 2007 at 13:27

Hampshire's quite a big place and has everything from tiny rural villages to big cities so it would be hard to put a general feel on the whole county.

I grew up in Winchester and worked/ran a couple of pubs there. It is really nice but it is also an expensive place to buy property. It can be a little dull but you can get all the entertainment you need in Southamptom/Basingstoke which are both less than half an hopur away.

fanger said:
I am from Hampshire and I speak to you now from Winchester.

Fireskull said:
hehe yea, the old windows here in the office in winchester wont stop banging lol kinda annoying now

What are you guys doing there at the mo, where are you working?

fanger · 11 Jan 2007 at 14:03

Nelson said:
What are you guys doing there at the mo, where are you working?

I am wasting time on oc uk in my studio pretending I'm working.
Looking out the window I think my fence will be down by nightfall (wind)

Fireskull · 11 Jan 2007 at 14:28

Sp00n said:
Yea, i used to work there and had to deal with a variety of its inhabitants, they are all moody, self centered toffs tbh, much like romsey people.

That made me LOL because its soo damn true, i hate having to talk to anyone from winchester lol so glad nobody who i work with is actually originally from winchester and got that snobbyness "oh look at us we have a cathedral, we were once going to be the capital of britan were so cool" ********

Fireskull · 11 Jan 2007 at 14:29

Nelson said:
Hampshire's quite a big place and has everything from tiny rural villages to big cities so it would be hard to put a general feel on the whole county.

I grew up in Winchester and worked/ran a couple of pubs there. It is really nice but it is also an expensive place to buy property. It can be a little dull but you can get all the entertainment you need in Southamptom/Basingstoke which are both less than half an hopur away.

What are you guys doing there at the mo, where are you working?

I work for an architecture company, doing IT for them though of cource

our office is on a street off the highstreet, near curries

Sp00n · 11 Jan 2007 at 14:46

Fireskull said:
That made me LOL because its soo damn true, i hate having to talk to anyone from winchester lol so glad nobody who i work with is actually originally from winchester and got that snobbyness "oh look at us we have a cathedral, we were once going to be the capital of britan were so cool" ********

(h5) Somebody who CLEARLY knows the score.

Fireskull · 11 Jan 2007 at 15:10

Sp00n said:
(h5) Somebody who CLEARLY knows the score.

Hehe, dont know that much about romsey people, but i finished school in romsey lol, only ever went to chippy and paper shop there, not much else, tbh not much there unless like someone said about winchester only a settling down place, and mainly the prices of houses lol, thought the GF comes from romsey aswell lol and u can tell from her parents

but shes all good lol