moving from Boston to London area

   Hi Every one.. I am just finishing my first vacation to England. Awesome! Basically needed to come over and make sure it was a place I could live and enjoy.

   My girlfriend is from/lives here and it seems to be way easier for me to make the move. Thankfully I have really enjoyed my time and feel its a great place to start a family.

    Going to be moving to Teddington because she already has a place. The area is beautiful and reminds me of certain places in Boston. The biggest difference is the cleanliness and friendly people!  Well I'm coming back over to London for all of October to spend some time really getting to know the place before I move for good in January.

     Starting classes at RACC starting in Jan. as getting a student visa is the easiest way for me to be in the country legally and work. I do construction and am amazed at how different things are done here.

    Looking forward to meeting some new people and getting great new info. Ive already learned the basics of credit from this site so I am a big fan!!

Hiya and welcome to the forum from another from Mass 
Are you from Boston itself? I grew up about 20 miles SW of Boston in a then small town of Medfield was living in Medway when i moved here to Scotland in 1999.
Was just back visiting family in June. Lots of family still in Mass in the Franklin/Bellingham area and the Cape too.
Again welcome to the forum its a pretty freindly place most of the time
Kay

Welcome!  If there are any NE regional foods you can't live without bring em with you as they can be very expensive here.  I try not to think about how much I'm paying for Fluff.

Lived in Providence, worked in Norwood for a lot of years.

Double check how much you're allowed to work on a student visa. I don't know anything at all about student visas,  I just know they're getting really heavy about the rules these days.

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to UKY

Good luck on your new adventure and journey ;-)

20 hours a week during term time.  I think, not sure about out of term.

I'm not sure you can count on it 100% though.  It is something they could take away.  When I came as a student I wasn't allowed to work.

I actually grew up in Everett and Melrose, just north of Boston. Currently I live in Peabody.
 I looked in to the visa thing and I am allowed to work only 10 hours a week if my course is 6 months or longer. Its not much but its something. Ive already met guys that offered me cash under the table so we will see how that goes. I met a woman today at the airport that works with kids and she said there is a high demand for young men in that field.Not what I want to do but money is money. Any tips in that area would be great

Just bear in mind that they're getting really, really heavy about the rules these days. You want to be squeaky clean or you can get yourself permabanned.

Good luck!

I was told its some thing like a 10,000 pound fine but that's from a lady at the airport so who knows. I really am trying to do things the right way because of years of hating the illegal immigrants that did it and i don't really want to be the biggest hypocrite ever

It can be things you don't even think of. For years, I flew over to see my then-boyfriend. When asked by Immigration, I just said I was over on vacation.

Technically, it turns out, that was a lie and could've gotten me banned. I never realized until years later (it WAS vacation, darn it). While I was over for Christmas one year, I finished a job for my US employer and emailed it to them. Turns out, totally illegal.

So, it's harder to be legal than it looks, even with the best will in the world.

I met a woman today at the airport that works with kids and she said there is a high demand for young men in that field.Not what I want to do but money is money. Any tips in that area would be great

She's right - the early years field desperately needs male workers.  So many kids are lacking strong role models at that age (under 5) and I've seen them respond brilliantly to male volunteers at our setting.

Hiya
  Another person born and raised in Massachusetts, with a few pit stops along the way before settling now into Scotland. So welcome to UKY!

Ive already met guys that offered me cash under the table so we will see how that goes.

Cash under the table, I would say you definitley don't want to do that on a visa that limits how much you can work, after all you are supposed to be studying on a student visa.  Anyways, not a visa expert, so I welcome you to UKY! 

Welcome Bobby! Another Bostonian here about to make the 2nd move to the UK! There are a lot of hidden snags with the immigration thing. I had ILR once upon a time but lost it when I came back to care for aging parents. Nobody had told me that you lose it after 2 years away -- so ignorance is no excuse. But just keep reading here and asking questions and it should be a big help. Good luck.

She's right - the early years field desperately needs male workers.  So many kids are lacking strong role models at that age (under 5) and I've seen them respond brilliantly to male volunteers at our setting.

i was told i would need some thing like a nation equivalency cert. would you happen to know about that and where to look to get involved?

i was told i would need some thing like a nation equivalency cert. would you happen to know about that and where to look to get involved?

I'm not familiar with that...unless it was NVQ? National Vocational Qualification? or a PGCE? Post Graduate Certificate in Education?

What will you be studying in January?

http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/early-years/childcare-careers