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Looking for a house

Moving abroad is not easy, once you have got the job, you now need to find a place a live.

The internet is the best place to look.

If you are looking for a room to rent -
www.accommodationforstudents.com/

If you are looking for a house to rent -
www.primelocation.com/
www.rightmove.co.uk/
www.Gumtree.com
www.findaproperty.com/

I hope these sites can help

Looking for a house - Estate agents

If are looking for a house and you urgently need the house, a quick method is to look on google for local estate agents or letting agents.

Once you find these agents, have a look on their website and book a time to meet with them and to show you around the house you would like to see. Ok will need to fly over before you move to do this.

Some time agents abroad, charge you the fee for the house and not the house owner. This could be a few hundred or thousand.

Moving from 1 european country to another


When you are living and working in europe, you have access to health car and government support if you need it.

But each european country has a different system, but if for example you have been working in the UK, would earn credits for support and health care, in europe you can transfer those credit to a different euro country when you move there.

So you keep those benefit you earned.
For example -
- health care
- finance help
- pension
etc

You will need to speak to your local government to find out more detail, it worked for me when I moved from the UK to Germany.

Learning about the culture

Moving abroad is a exciting time, experience a new culture can open your eyes to wonderful new experiences.

I have recently moved to germany, I might be having a difficult time learning the language but I am still embracing the local culture in Munich. I would recommend diving in and experience what the local culture has to offer.

Speak to your new colleagues and find out what is happening on the weekend and holiday times.

Also remember to find out the do and dont in the culture, for example is germany sunday is for relaxing, not cutting the grass. You dont want to affend anyone.

If worth buying a guide book to read about the culture.

Have fun discovering new cultures around the world

Learning a language

Learning a language is important when you move to a new country, and I have found a useful software that can help.

I recommend everyone trying it. It cheap to buy. And easy to learn from.

http://www.byki.com

Speaking to friends and family at home

Moving abroad is a fun and difficult time for everyone, but its important to keep contact with your friends and family back home.

Here are few website you might help
www.skype.com - Online calls plus text chat, worldwide

http://webmessenger.msn.com/ - online version of msn messenger

www.dwotinternationalcalls.co.uk - great for family and friends to call you from the UK, very very cheap call prices.

Moving animal abroad

Moving animal abroad can be a difficult time, but pets are part of the family. I recently moved abroad with our family cat from the UK to Germany by car.

There were a few things I needed to do
1) visit the vet for advice
2) Pet passport
3) what ever needed for the passport - injections

The pet passport was not difficult to get, but it did cost me money. The car needed a few trips to the vet for those injections for rabies etc.

Preparing the cat to travel
The nightmare was to start when travelling, a month before we travelled I started to place our cat in his box and locking him in, so he would get used to being in there. The drive to Germany was going to take 16 hours. So cat need to be used to his box, so we placed to cat in the box up to hour on a few occasion, and during that time we would give him so food treats.

We started to find over a few time in the box, the cat would start to enter the box by himself and would sleep in there.

Advice from the Vet
When getting the cats passport, the vet recommended the day of the travel, to spray the cat box with a special hormone to relax the cat on the long journey.
We now call this the miracle spray. The cat had no problems for the 16 hours. I was so surprised.
The special spray can be found at your local vets clinic.

All I can say with out the vet advice, the trip for cat and for us would have been a night, please visit your local vet for there advice.

Making new friends abroad

Making friends is never easy when you have just moved to a new country. But I have been using a website that can help everyone.

www.meetup.com

It a simple website that allows its visitors to join groups of like minded people with similar interests.

Each group normally organisers a meetup in your local area, where you can attend.

I have been using this website around the world and I have always found the people organising and attending the groups very friends.

Their are group for every interested, from sports, children and new in town meetups.

Visit and start making new friends.

Finding a job abroad

Finding a job abroad can be time consuming and sometimes difficult.  If you are interested to move abroad. What ever your experience and qualification there will be work, you just need to find it.

In todays job market, the internet is the place to look, there are a number of websites that businesses are posting there employment opportunity.

www.monster.com is the biggest of them all. Monster has employment opportunity worldwide.

It may take you time. But keep looking and sending out your CV.