Poll of the Day > Visa approved!

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm flying out next week wooo

Scotland here I come :D

will you try haggis

VampireCoyote posted...

will you try haggis

I already did while I was there! was great. Had Mango chutney, pickled onions, and things with it

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/0/AAe6yIAADmv-.jpg

grimhilde00 posted...

I already did while I was there! was great. Had Mango chutney, pickled onions, and things with it

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/0/AAe6yIAADmv-.jpg

Is that a meal over there, or just a small appetizer/sample?

lihlih posted...

Is that a meal over there, or just a small appetizer/sample?

I had it as an appetizer cause I was traveling solo and trying to eat a bunch of new things, would have shared it. It was listed as an appetizer.

But haggis, neeps (turnips), and tatties (potatoes) is a classic meal

Nice

here is a poem from Scotland's Robert Burns, who is celebrated on Burns Night (25th of January, the poet's birthday), called an Address to Haggis

http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/toahaggis.htm

got an inverness weekend trip scheduled too :D gonna be fun, see me some loch ness monster

lol I just emailed like 15 different flats to view next week and they all came back with automatic emails saying viewings are full

THIS GONNA BE FUN

at least I have an Airbnb for a month to look

also holy fuck moving abroad is expensive

- cat: can either spend $4k for flights, trains, chunnel from Paris pet service and have to handle all the vet certificates and travel 25+ hours, or a little less than $6k to use a pet relocation service that makes my life easier

- visa was a few thousand but my company paid for this thankfully

- I'm probably going to have to pay 6 months of rent up front since my credit score from the states doesn't come with me / is reset

- shipping a one bedroom by sea with a crate is like $4k+, but thankfully my mom has a 75% discount with FedEx so that's by air and I only have boxes (no furniture) so that will be under $2k for me

- expensive short term lodging until I find my own place

- I had booked a cheap flight for $700 but my passport is coming a day later so now all the flights are around $3k (or $2k for multiple stops, nothing nonstop from where I am anyway), luckily I can use miles I have instead. oh and bringing a bunch of suitcases with me will be a few hundred too while I wait on the boxes

- all the furniture etc I'll have to rebuy

should get American Express..... never leave home without it

Grim.

so visa office emailed me on Friday saying my passport with the visa vignette should be delivered Monday (it's overnight but workdays only but being picked up Friday).

I booked a flight for Tuesday, red eye, so got all time tomorrow

UPS only just updated their actual delivery date to Tuesday before noon

fingers crossed that works out >_>

Congrats!
Edit: If it works out.

grimhilde00 posted...

also holy fuck moving abroad is expensive

- cat: can either spend $4k for flights, trains, chunnel from Paris pet service and have to handle all the vet certificates and travel 25+ hours, or a little less than $6k to use a pet relocation service that makes my life easier

- visa was a few thousand but my company paid for this thankfully

- I'm probably going to have to pay 6 months of rent up front since my credit score from the states doesn't come with me / is reset

- shipping a one bedroom by sea with a crate is like $4k+, but thankfully my mom has a 75% discount with FedEx so that's by air and I only have boxes (no furniture) so that will be under $2k for me

- expensive short term lodging until I find my own place

- I had booked a cheap flight for $700 but my passport is coming a day later so now all the flights are around $3k (or $2k for multiple stops, nothing nonstop from where I am anyway), luckily I can use miles I have instead. oh and bringing a bunch of suitcases with me will be a few hundred too while I wait on the boxes

- all the furniture etc I'll have to rebuy

Yep. It cost almost $1000 for 2 cats and that was just a short distance compared to yours. Costa Rica to Arizona.

Congrats! Excited for you!

GOT IT

flying out tonight woooo

I'm going to have to pick up my more permanent visa ID in London (not just the stamp on my passport), wonder if I can do that with the 4 hour transfer I have in London....I mean worse case can get a train

sounds very exciting

update: I'm in Scotland, started working, need to make a trip to London for visa reasons which is annoying before I can open a bank account but getting that done this week (and that's blocking getting a cheap af phone plan -- 31/month for family unlimited with the best provider, would do single but I don't see that option and I want the best coverage)

flat hunting reminds me of San Francisco with demand

but loving it here so far :)

there's a nice old lady neighbor I chat with nextdoor to my Airbnb