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    ivy.lally reacted to Frances144 in Please, provide urgent information! Employment offer of complete unknown for oversees newcomer ;)   
    Ok, I’ve had time to think about this....,
     
    If you want the hustle and bustle of somewhere like London. It ain’t that.
     
    If you want a place where folk are friendly, polite, with old-fashioned values and a slower pace of life, then Shetland, even Lerwick is that.
     
    Folk are open and honest. Friends are easily made in the most unlikely of places, hobbies are to be found and I think you should take a deep breath, sign up and come. At worst you can save enough to leave if you hate it.
     
    Shetland is like Marmite - you love it or hate it. For me, it is very special. I suddenly felt I was at last “home”. I came up from London.
     
    If you are desperate for more information, message me and I will honestly answer your questions.
     
    I think, on retrospect, you should go for it and come up. Who knows, You may fall in love with this place.
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    ivy.lally reacted to Windwalker in Please, provide urgent information! Employment offer of complete unknown for oversees newcomer ;)   
    Again a question for the employer, but if your are outgoing enough as you seem to be you will soon make friends with other workmates and there are plenty of pubs, sports and leisure facilities etc giving you the opportunity to meet local folk, most of who are easy to get on with. 
    As for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much, no matter what happens sooner or later, I cant see Boris throwing out all the foreign workers overnight as he would bring the country to a stop.
     
    If your happy the agency is legit, go for it, what’s the worst that could happen. Just make sure you have enough funds to get you home again in case you can’t settle. Good luck with whatever you choose.
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    ivy.lally reacted to mikeyboy in Please, provide urgent information! Employment offer of complete unknown for oversees newcomer ;)   
    Could be the Brae hotel, they have houses for the employees.
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    ivy.lally reacted to Nigel Bridgman-Elliot in Please, provide urgent information! Employment offer of complete unknown for oversees newcomer ;)   
    I guess it might come down to whether the hotel in question is near to the centre of civilisation (aka Lerwick.) or at the edge of the world..
     
    Edge of the world, I've been here 3+ years, and haven't made a friend yet !
     
    I can quite imagine some places to offer accommodation, at least until they are so busy that its suddenly profitable to rent out said places to paying customers, so for how long, is a bit of an unknown.
     
    Usually as you get nearer to Lerwick, accommodation becomes more scarce.

     
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