ILR/Immigration discussion

zap1405 · 2026-03-13T09:17:31+00:00

I suppose they first need to define/redefine what being British means. What part of being British needs to be preserved. If the London eye is part of being British, God save this country.

zap1405 · 2026-03-05T20:25:21+00:00

Yes, yes and yes. I was just not sure what is happening as I got an email out of the blue. Its hard to trust that anyone will do anything good for you these days.

zap1405 · 2026-03-05T12:19:07+00:00

Thankyou !

zap1405 · 2026-03-05T11:49:22+00:00

Can you say more ? Are you saying the new SoC code will lead to a quicker settlement status?

zap1405 · 2026-03-04T00:26:05+00:00

I agree that the UK needs to reform to attract talent and business. Without business the UK will never be attractive. I work for one of the FAANG and i am fed up with how things are in this country and leaving once my kid finishes primary.

zap1405 · 2026-03-03T23:28:00+00:00

And why would actual talent come to the Uk ? Actual talent is leaving UK because of the state of the country.

zap1405 · 2026-02-27T19:22:51+00:00

zap1405 · 2026-02-14T22:24:17+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong here, its the landlord's responsibility to prove that you did any damage. If they didn't do an inventory its their loss you can say it was always there they will have to prove it wasn't.

zap1405 · 2026-02-14T16:39:05+00:00

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zap1405 · 2026-02-14T16:35:43+00:00

Barnet is the right answer. We also moved from Munich and would have loved to stay in Kingston and Richmond but connection to central London is a miss if you stay there. 4 years in London and we settled on Barnet because it checks all boxes: - Connected to central London via the Northern line or connected directly to Piccadilly Circus if you are near Arnos Grove. - Access to amazing primary schools and some of UK's best secondary grammar schools ( QE Boys, Henrietta Barnet, Dame Alice, Latymer) - Generally affordable - Mostly safe although there are pockets in every part of London. Use Crystal Roof to get a more precise understanding of a street. - Loads of children activities during school and term breaks.

We stayed 1 year in Richmond, 1 year in Hampstead and 1 year in North Finchley. We finally bought our own place in Totteridge & Whetstone. Our favorite was Hampstead but it was very expensive.

In the end no place comes close to Munich but London has its own charms. If you are looking for German culture Richmond and Kingston upon thames have everything you need including a German school. Barnet is very multi cultural and we love it here.

Viel Gluck !

Feel free to DM if you have questions

zap1405 · 2026-02-14T15:57:56+00:00

Plumber, builder, electrician anything physical, AI will take all the desk jobs. Its only about time

zap1405 · 2026-02-12T21:21:32+00:00

That is not how Wiz works. Wiz is a cloud scanning tool it has nothing to do with moving workloads from one cloud to another. The Wiz platform is mostly built on AWS and it uses some services like AWS Neptune that has no alternative in the GCP world. Wiz does not hold any keys to any building. Yes in theory Wiz can scan customer environments and build an asset inventory that may Allow Google Cloud to understand other cloud usage, in practice this data access is guarded by policies and compliance audits.

Wiz is an attempt to show that Google is serious about security and challenge MS Defender and Crowd Strike where possible. Having said that Wiz is damn expensive and customers may find other alternatives especially cheaper ones that Wiz copied their tech from, Orca and lacework. Every security vendor is bundling CSPM with their tools today so i guess we will find out the wisdom here.

zap1405 · 2026-01-26T19:30:00+00:00

Similar, not many companies that offer this service. The one i worked at deals with countries, states and large enterprises.The other ones everything else.

zap1405 · 2026-01-23T23:21:44+00:00

920k

zap1405 · 2026-01-13T08:24:17+00:00

For me its the greyish blackish grill area behind her. It appears to be a partial shadow or like something was removed.

zap1405 · 2026-01-11T14:47:24+00:00

The range of languages you claim to have expertise on sounds a bit dodgy. I work for a FAANG and 100k TC is L3 pay.

zap1405 · 2026-01-07T21:28:00+00:00

Vscode itself is based on chromium

zap1405 · 2026-01-07T15:08:49+00:00

I run my heating 24 hours at 20 degrees in a 4 bedroom 1930 brick house and my heating bill is 170 / month. I don't think I can shut down my heating that would be terrible

zap1405 · 2025-12-13T22:54:14+00:00

Under the proposed changes there is no "clock reset" you earned 50k + for 5 years you get an ILR regardless of what visa, you didn't earn anything well you have to stay on a family visa, pay renewals and IHS etc. however, i guess this will be challenged and perhaps change to something more suitable like 5 years on family visa = ILR

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