Happiness

Returned from Ibiza over a month ago and still have the blues. Such a wonderful place where no one really gives a **** about anything.

It's a marmite island though, you either absolutely love the place or despise it.
 
Suarez7 said:
Returned from Ibiza over a month ago and still have the blues. Such a wonderful place where no one really gives a **** about anything.

It's a marmite island though, you either absolutely love the place or despise it.
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It has been a year since I went, and I still miss it. :o
 
[FnG]magnolia;24782274 said:
I MISS YOU IBIZA said no adult, ever.
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Same could be said if you disappeared from this forum.

Why is it every Friday you insist on getting silly drunk and posting absolute ******** on here?
 
Yup. So I did. Heading back to Taiwan in November, been a very long and slow 6 months back in the UK, can't wait to be back there. Make about £18k/year teaching, working 20-25 hour weeks, but cost of living is of course a fraction of what it is here. And I get to live by a beach.

I never really saw myself living in the UK for my whole life, my parents spent 15 years travelling around the world before I happened, and moved off again as soon as I left home. Now the whole marriage/family/grown up thing is approaching, I see us back here in the next 8 years or so, as there's no way I'm having a kid go through the Taiwanese education system. Awesome country in so many ways, but when a straw poll I did of 10 random people showed that 6 couldn't find Africa on a world map, I had to question bringing up a child in a country with such an "it doesn't affect us, so why should we care?" sort of mindset.
 
OP, why dont you just do a working holiday for now. Spend an entire summer getting laid.

Go back to London once you're done and get back where you left off on the daily grind.
 
Post-holiday blues!

I was the same when I came back from Greece. Thought about just packing up my job and moving out there and working a bar job and seeing what happens. Why don't I? 1. I don't think I have the bottle yet, maybe when I'm a bit older! :P 2. I think there is definitely a sort of 'honeymoon period' when you get back from holiday and get back into your daily grind again.

There are quite a few job opportunities in the field I'm in (betting & online gaming/casinos) out in Gibraltar so I haven't ruled out a move out there. Hopefully one day I could maybe combine the two!
 
Gustov said:
Hey guys,

Long time since I've posted. I'll try make this as quick as possible. I've just returned from Ibiza for a lads holiday where I had the best 5 nights of my whole life. (quite literally)

I work in London, work in a field I love (film) get paid reasonably well for my age but work long hours, every day is intense and find myself often becoming pretty miserable.

I often ask myself, why live in England when you can pack-up and move elsewhere and essentially be undoubtably happier...

I realise I was on holiday whilst in Ibiza and not working but the location, the sunshine, the lackadaisical attitude and carefree lifestyle is so much more appealing to me.

Has anyone else ever been tempted to jump ship and re-locate to somewhere you think is more suitable for you as a person? I'm sure there are lots of people here who love the non-stop vibe of London but the dreadful weather and the constant gogogo most definitely aren't for me.

I'm not saying I'm not motivated or don't want to be successful but being in an office all day in London just doesn't quite cut it for me. I'd take being happy and earning 30/35k over earning 50k and being glum for the majority of the time.

Ever crossed your mind? :)
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I live in Glasgow, I have many times thought to myself to move out but the biggest factor obviously is money that stops me, but also I think any country/city can seem good at first till your start living there I suppose and realise its just the same apart from expenses and the weather of course.
 
I cant imagine working in the film industry be anything but go, go, go no matter where you do it.

I think you should count your blessings and not burn bridges before you got firm offers else where or start saving.

Do it while you are young and get it out of the system. Have you done the Australian New Zealand thing for a year that usually suppresses the urges.

Go to Australia or NZ Magnolia will put you up till you find your feet.
 
Glad to read I'm not the only one! We've already decided we're doing Ibiza again in 2014, a Villa this time...

Back to work on Monday and I'm not looking forward to it one bit :o
 
Philtor said:
That is madness. So a man earning a good salary like £50k could not have a decent house in London? Then again how do you define 'decent'?
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£50k is dog**** in London.

Say you get 3.5x your salary + have 15% mortgage, you can afford 200-225k.. which in London terms gets you a 1 bed flat in a council estate.

If you don't come from money, or have a job where you net over £75k, you are pretty screwed in this place.


But then I expect these prices to fall.. The prices are rising here quite rapidly due to government initiatives (as well as other factors), which ultimately means that once they stop and interest rates increase.. the whole game stops.
Lots of people are going to get very rich over the next few years through property, and the people buying to actual live in (Not invest) are in a whole load of trouble in 5 years.
It's a shame the general public are too stupid to understand this..
 
zegna said:
£50k is dog**** in London.

Say you get 3.5x your salary + have 15% mortgage, you can afford 200-225k.. which in London terms gets you a 1 bed flat in a council estate.

If you don't come from money, or have a job where you net over £75k, you are pretty screwed in this place.
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That bad eh. Dunno if it's quite THAT bad, but from experience I'd say if you want a good life in London, you'd need to be on about 30k or more. Just to be a bit normal.

I'm taking about renting here, by the way.
 
zegna said:
Say you get 3.5x your salary + have 15% mortgage, you can afford 200-225k.. which in London terms gets you a 1 bed flat in a council estate.
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£200-225k will get you much more than 1 bedroom flat on a council estate if you're willing to live in zone 3+ and/or south of the river.

But then I expect these prices to fall..
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Prices won't fall until supply of housing exceeds demand. That's very unlikely to happen in London in the next 25 years.
 
Tunney said:
£200-225k will get you much more than 1 bedroom flat on a council estate if you're willing to live in zone 3+ and/or south of the river.
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I wouldn't say much more, where I used to live in Sutton (aka the White Brixton before Brixton was gentrified) it'll get you a 1 or 2 bed flat. Nothing I'd describe as "decent".
 
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