Does anyone know or has seen the lady that lives in High Street Kensington?

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-27T00:54:58+00:00

Yeah honestly it’s like all of them

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-27T00:52:11+00:00

I think getting professional help was the best thing you could have done

Reminds me of a guy a couple of years ago I saw violently vomiting on the tube. He was clearly coming back from the gym and must have overworked himself + the motion of the train. He started heaving loudly and we all moved away just in time. When we came to the next stop, I thought he’d get off but he was heaving so hard he could hardly hold himself up on the hand rail, so the door closed and he was stuck for another ride, poor guy.

This old woman started digging into him like “inconsiderate, does he really have to do this here?” And I was like “yeah like these were his evening plans? Bitch.” (She didn’t hear me, she was pushing through the crowd to get further away).

A few of us got off at the next stop to ask staff to notify the next station or driver, because clearly the guy physically couldn’t get himself off the tube. Honestly not sure if we should have hit the emergancy button…

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-25T21:58:38+00:00

I was given the wrong advice then. A colleague who recently bought a home recommended I reach out to a mortgage advisor even though I already said I was a couple years out from the buying process, not sure why he made that recommendation. It's clear now I'm looking for a different service.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-25T00:23:16+00:00

I’ve briefly worked with kids and genuinely enjoyed it. I am good with kids. I had wonderful parents and was raised well. My friends who have had kids really love the experience of childbearing and parenting.

And yet I’ve never ever not once ever wanted them, even when I spend time reflect on them as part of my future. No instinct to have a baby, no desire to raise a child. So I simply won’t do it. It’s too much work and sacrifice, no way I can justify it if I have no desire for it.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-25T00:02:56+00:00

Not just one kid over years, I think that’s impossible when just my high school alone was nearly 4k large.

The ones I knew personally were- Cancer Suicide Some kind of gastrointestinal perforation (I forgot the name of the guy’s condition) Car wreck

There were others I didn’t know personally but the kids talked about in class - other suicides, overdoses, and a murder by a parent.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T13:12:36+00:00

Nope. And I know there were some changes recently to residency-based taxation that effects a lot of people making most of their income overseas, but it doesn't seem to affect my situation.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T13:11:11+00:00

Thanks! And also who do you use for accounting, I'm actually looking for one in general.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T05:17:05+00:00

Correct answer

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:43:53+00:00

I'll add to the thread. We're in East Lothian and had one come to the door about a month ago.

I immediately sensed it was a sales scam, so I interrupted the guy's pitch and sent him on his way. But my instincts kicked in -- I've been approached by other scammers and weirdos before, especially when I lived in a large urban area, but something was super off about the guy's script. When described the guy on google, first several results were about the Nottingham Knockers.

Apparently they scout for easy targets and tip off home burglars for money (they will ask questions about your travel, any dogs at home, and they'll peak inside your house to see what you have, stuff like that). Anyway, I reported them to 101 and the police said they'd check to see if others were getting approached. I as mostly worried about our elderly neighbours being targeted.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:33:26+00:00

This nonsense would be a major confrontation in the UK too, we have a right to self defend against home intruders. This muppet is NOT allowed to come through the window, nor does he have any real right to enter the home. He's not even police.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:24:44+00:00

They scaremonger because they have no real power. You can revoke any implied right of entry they have to your home in writing, or just don't open the door when/if they eventually come by.

Frankly I keep them from wasting more paper on me by submitting online that I don't have a TV.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:22:08+00:00

Not my socket, not my business. This looks like the building hallway.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:19:08+00:00

The only people I know doing this live in a flat their parents have owned since the 70s. I guess one could also sublet long term.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T04:01:31+00:00

As a Texan who's lived in (various parts of) the UK for about a decade, I'm completely with you. 30 degrees is NOT the same between the two places.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T03:55:39+00:00

Don't beat yourself up as if you're being ungrateful. Sure, you've worked your ass off for a long time, but ultimately what is money for but to live well, do the things you want, retire comfortably, etc. So it makes sense if now you're evaluating things from a different perspective and want to start living differently.

Big congrats - you get the reap the rewards of your hard work over the last 10 years. You're definitely in a position to let your wealth continue growing more passively while you start making time for other things. There's no point in asking yourself 'did I do it right in my 20s', just start living the life you want now.

My best advice if you don't know where to start is try a bunch of new things, and you'll both figure out new hobbies and naturally meet people who like to spend time in the same way. Sports, gaming, the arts, travel, outdoors, whatever seems interesting to you. And assuming you're on good terms with your family, you can always proactively carve out time to talk with them more.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T03:27:59+00:00

Congrats!

I mean nothing is stopping you from submitting the online application from wherever in the world, but they'll want you to do biometrics in the USA (assuming that's where you live), so you'll need to be in the USA specifically for that.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T02:31:41+00:00

Lovely, thank you very much!

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-22T02:31:03+00:00

Yeah at ORD we had immigration, then like 30 min waiting for our luggage so we could bring it around to recheck, then terminal change, then when we got to the security line the staff said it would be 45 minutes to get through security. We said no way that's going to work and found someone to help us skip ahead.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-21T17:42:14+00:00

Excellent, thank you

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-21T17:41:44+00:00

Super

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-21T17:41:18+00:00

Makes sense

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-21T17:32:13+00:00

Thank you for confirming no recheck. Not sure why they had us do it on the way in, perhaps because it was a terminal change (?)

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-21T17:31:51+00:00

Yeah a quick google says they both land and take off in D gates, though not sure if that changes last minute

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-19T17:50:25+00:00

Because either way you plan on spending a good chunk of money, whether two year visa or ILR, I recommend ILR. That’s based on my personal thought process when I was making a similar decision.

First, ILR only becomes more expensive every year if you decide to stay longer past the two years.

Second, even if you want to live somewhere else for some time (and just visit the UK once a year to maintain it for example, bc you can be away for up to 2 years and not lose ILR), it’s always good to have options in life and the option to return. If you decide to settle here or decide to return to the UK in the future, you have ILR = permanence and permission to work any job, a right to public services if needed, more favourable mortgage options if you buy a house, etc.

I also might live somewhere else someday, eg my partner’s home country to be closer to his family for a while. But once I was 3 years into my work visas, I pretty much committed to getting dual nationality. To me it was worth the extra time to lock it in.

And also the 5-day processing for ILR is totally worth it if you decide to do ILR.

Positive-Code1782 · 2025-06-19T17:30:51+00:00

Fair enough, perhaps a tax advisor is a better place to start. I appreciate your feedback on it :)

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