Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and today's video is all about advice and tips that
we have for you if you might be moving to London these tips obviously can also
apply whichever city you move to in the UK or abroad but because we live in
London, we're talking about our own experiences. Exactly. EXACTLY! Snap snap snap! and this video was quite highly requested we get this message sent to us
on Instagram you know I'm moving to London
any advice? you have anything...? and we do we do have tips so here you go
shall I kick it off? yeah. okay number one is location
mmm-hmm when you move to London there are options you can live in zone one which
is the centre zone two still the centre zone three a little bit outside of the
centre, zone four five six you get the picture obviously a house in zone one is
going to cost a lot more money than a house in Zone ... I think goes to zone
nine officially does it Wow but yeah obviously zone nine is gonna be
fairly cheap compared to zone one. currently I live in zone 2 and I don't have to pay
that much for travel but there was an option to say live in zone four pay a lot
less on rent but I'll be paying a lot more to travel
into London yeah it's tempting to move very far out and think that you're
saving a lot of money on rent yeah but obviously the further you move out the
more money you've got to pay travel wise so really it's a bit of a balancing act
you want to find a place that's good value but you also want to find a place
that doesn't involve paying so much money for rail cards for Oyster cards
yeah and on that note like do your research before you get here don't
arrive, get to Heathrow and be like right how do I get on the tube yeah make sure
you've got yourself an oyster card and stuff like that before you get here yeah and my
bit of advice for location is also about understanding the vibe of different
areas of London obviously that's quite hard to do if you
haven't already moved here but just do a bit of research because for example East
London has the stereotype which is kind of true of it being very trendy and very
hipster and arty and cool whereas for example southwest London is
very green and leafy lots of families and dogs that sort of thing so London
isn't the same wherever you go they do have different vibes whether you're
north south east or west so do a bit of research if you can check out the
neighbourhoods see if there's stuff going on see if you want to live near
party areas or if you want a more quiet life yeah definitely
you can't go wrong and if you're really stuck ask us in the comments we might be able
to recommend so the next tip is all about social life social life is so
important and a lot of people move to London to get a social life you know
it's so easy to sort of get into a routine in life when you go to work you
come home you eat your dinner you go to bed and what life is that you've got to
find the balance haven't you between work and social life so I think one of
our biggest tips would be to join some clubs whether it's networking with
people who have got like-minded interests yeah we love coming to events
here at the YouTube space because we love creating content and posting it online
and we've made so many friends through this community yeah whatever you're
interested in even if it's with learning a new skill so you could do self-defense
classes and meet other people there that are interested in that or you could do
pottery classes if you're interested in making things out of clay or whatever it
is you can learn a new skill at the same time as making new friends which i think
is quite a good way to do it yeah and if you don't want to do that alone you
could do what me and my housemates do which is like social Sunday or cultural
Sunday where we make sure that every Sunday we all leave the day free and we
go to a museum or we go and watch a film or just something just get out the house
and yeah just do fun stuff that's nice and especially you'll understand once
you've moved to London you suddenly don't do anything you're like I'm in
this amazing city and I don't do any of these touristy things yeah and you can
just get into the trap of just you know staying at home or just going out for
food or going to the same place every single weekend yeah it's so nice to be
like actually gonna do something cultural I'm gonna go to a museum or a
gallery or theatre exactly yeah this weekend we went to the Natural
History Museum next weekend there's an amazing exhibition going on at the
Barbican just get out the house it's usually
about 10 pounds a ticket I've got a student card so I'm actually 8 pounds
almost everywhere I've been making the most of my student card, it's amazing! and I just
think that is so important yeah even if you're just going to the pub with
friends talk to new people yeah I think this leads on to our next point actually
living who you live with yeah exactly so for example you might be Italian and you
might move to London and live with a group of other Italians excellent
amazing but how often are you gonna be speaking English if you're only hanging
out with your Italian friends yeah not that much get out go to the pub go and
socialise go to bars we've got so much going on in the city yes push yourself
out of your comfort zones that was my top tip I think
I think it's a question we get asked a lot is how do I make friends with
British people, I had a message the other day being like oh I've
heard that British people are really reserved and quiet like how can I talk
to them without coming across weird that's nothing to be afraid of don't
assume these stereotypes are correct until you've moved here because actually
you'll find that not all British people are quiet and reserved obviously we're
not quiet and reserved so that's not necessarily the case yeah and how do you
go up to someone you just do exactly that you've answered your own question
you just go up to them and say hi you know where are you from you sound like
you guys from London are you from here?chat, see what happens
definitely and just pick your housemates carefully as well make sure you're
getting the vibe between not being too comfortable so like Lia said if you're
Italian try not to live with all Italians find someone English or French
or Spanish that you can live with but at the same time you want to make sure that
you are comfortable where you are because you're not gonna want to have to
move after three or four months and one other tip say you're moving to London
and you've got a nine-to-five job and you're finding it really hard to make
time after work for extra extra I call it extracurricular but not just
social life things try and have a miracle morning
a miracle morning is everything you achieved before 8 a.m.
so try and wake up super early do some stuff do some exercise drink a litre of
water write a blog post do whatever you want to do and then be like oh cool now
I'm gonna have my breakfast and leave for my job I guess that's a tip to
everyone not just people moving to London, oh yeah that's just a life tip guys and that's
something I really want to do. I want to start having miracle mornings and i want to be
a morning person yeah I'd love to be a morning person
I'm just not I look at the clock and I'm no I just want to go back to bed
mm-hmm or I look at it and I'll just say no out
loud no not today not today those are the best tips that we can come
up with for you guys we will probably do another one of these videos because
obviously we can't condense how to move to London into just you know six points
but hopefully these are helpful if anyone's watching this for conversation
practise we hope you've enjoyed that yeah and we will catch you next time
guys thank you so much see you bye