Hello everybody!
Stumbled upon this site since I have been looking for insights regarding living in UK, specifically London. I hope people here would be able to help me.
My wife will be transferred to their London office in a few months with a Tier 2 Visa, and since we have a baby who just turned one, it is important to us that we all stay together as he grows up. That means I will be giving up a rather nice job here in the Phils ( I am an Internet Channel Head for one of the biggest companies here) to move to London. That would also mean that for the first time in years, I will be jobless.
Apologies for my long list of questions, but I'd really like to know if we are making the right decision:
1. How hard would it be for me to get a decent job in London? I have a successful track record working for several top companies here, doing customer service, marketing, business development, project and channel management, and web and mobile systems development.
2. If in case it would be hard for me to find employment, I have a business here that develops tech solutions specifically internet and mobile systems: website development, apple and android applications development, SMS systems, online campaigns and the like. Would it be hard for me to establish this business there?
3. How do we compute for taxes? I've visited several sites explaining this but I just cant understand how to do the computation. We just have one child.
4. Is pre school free?
5. What are the other government subsidies?
6. Assuming I am jobless for quite some time, how much should my wife be making for our family? Her company will pay for housing and utilities.
I hope some of you didn't fall asleep halfway through the list. Hehe. I'm really excited to go there but I just need to know what challenges I will have to face.
