Is Life in London ACTUALLY good? 🧐 | Talking to Expats & Locals about Life in London

[Music] foreign [Music] hi everybody welcome back to our Channel my name is Nas and I'm Alva and in this video we're taking you to the Streets of London to speak to expats and locals about life in London nowadays you may know that we lived here between 2017 and 2019 but we've been living in the UK for a longer period of time however right now London is very different why because of the cost of living crisis it's incredibly difficult to find a house in London or to pay for your groceries or for your energy bills at the end of the month so living in London today is different than what it was a few years ago and even though there's all these negative things that people are saying online about living in London and moving to the UK there are a lot of amazing benefits so what we wanted to do today is go out into the streets and ask londoners ask expats who've left other countries to come to this country and to speak to locals about their experiences and their opinions about life in London and if you're interested in knowing why we're wearing orange Blazers stick around we will tell you at the end of the video hello everybody uh you're probably watching me right in the middle of London talking to random strangers about if it's worth living in this city in this country or not hey guys great London weather from one to ten seven seven Why seven uh because I think the temperature here is very good rate the London weather from 1 to 10. [Music] we're in the UK and it rains and it's overcast and it's never as hot as it should be six six why six you can go up and down it just depends on the day right now I can go from Sunny you can swing because I'm not too sure for me I come from northern Europe um it has never been as bad what people were telling me before I moved to London it's it's been it sucked every now and then but it's never been it's summer London in summer lovely what is your take on British food be honest please less bad than people say yeah yeah exactly what's your take on British food so British food isn't British food it's more Multicultural if you're if you're coming to Britain expect more Chinese Arab Cuisine you know different types of foods you're coming for a multicultural experience specifically in London I'm not sure if British has food apart from Tesco meal deals inside which is hey don't sleep don't sleep on the Tesco meal deals I promise you just doing so yeah I can't I can't you know cost of here we've had a long um week and you're feeling maybe a bit hangover are they like Sunday roast if you find look at sunderos it's really good other than the not really a fan but I love Linda McConnell's special sausages yeah the veggie food in London very good yeah I think like British British food like the standard fish and chips and stuff what I'm really gonna take too but tell us the truth is fish and chips overrated or underrated I think it's overrated person why is that very good I think it's just it's just fried fish with some chips at the end of the day it's nice on like some occasions like and I don't fully hate it but it's not really taking you anywhere right it's just it does not take you anywhere no no no no you're not really experiencing anything kind of interesting fair enough you have some nice gems but generally it's bad and surprisingly bad considering we own like so much of the world right how long have you lived in London um four and a half years and how do you find the experience I the thing I love the most is the diversity and the culture and you get to do like there's the options of what you do who you do with are plenty or like it feels like infinite yeah yeah yeah the cost of living crisis sucks and I say sucks on the video yes yeah um I feel like everything is getting really expensive and especially for someone who's um I'm not a student anymore but someone who does sort of a lower jobs and needs to sort of like hold on tie to make it in here it's a bit annoying but instead of balance I just want to hear like a year ago oh wow we're from Egypt nice and how are you finding it I find it really good really cool I like the city uh yeah I guess it's it's really good it's the best I guess I've been in Europe is there anything that you miss the most from your home oh yeah the coffee shops yeah the coffee yeah yeah yeah we have this kind of like yeah cozy chilling like coffee shops yeah so yeah that's what I miss the most all right if any business owners from Egypt opportunity London is really Multicultural and you can try like a lot of different stuff so absolutely absolutely we love the Avalon do you have any piece of advice for anyone moving to London or the UK in general uh yeah so London's fantastic London's got a great community of people and I think no matter who you are and and what you're interested in You'll Always Find a group of people to kind of to meet with and have similar interests with but it can be quite overwhelming particularly because the city's so big so I would say you know kind of go at it at your own pace um kind of respect your own boundaries and be patient with yourself and you'll be able to kind of find the thing that you might be looking for in in the City walk walk places okay like it's a really nice city to walk around and you get to learn more of the uh the surrounding areas walkies walk down the South Lane specifically it's also quite expensive to take the children everywhere around yes of them walking uh Parks museums there is there is lots of good free stuff what's your biggest piece of advice for anyone moving to London moving to London um I think be prepared for any types of weather if you're talking about whether that's in particular number one because you're never it's very you never know what the weather can be from day to day the other thing is um I think just enjoy London I think London has a lovely Place have a good time uh make sure you save up some money you might need a lot of money to travel around London it's quite an expensive place to be fair um but yeah no enjoy yourself have a good time look for cheap runs because it's super expensive yeah and be mindful of Transportation when you do yeah because it's it's if you live further it cost you more is that what you mean yeah yeah yeah I'm just and just avoid it in winter because like it's yeah avoid London oh yeah move in summer don't be afraid to ask for help when um like it's either your friends or your family or us sentences like who is afforded to contact in case I need a job advice money advice housing advice because there are a lot of people a lot of unions and associations to sort of hold on tide and you get to go into their communities and then you feel like secured and safe like find your groups you can check out free advice for moving to London on matilda.com so make sure to do that thank you so much for your time and have a lovely day in terms of you moving to London what is the thing that you struggled with the most because there are a lot of people from different countries in London so maybe everyone should be more uh comprehensive and open to accept different cultures that's very lovely advice oh thank you very much anything else you want to share with people moving to London pretty soon come and enjoy it feel the buzz to get involved it's a great place to live it's a great place to be there's always lots to do so yeah get involved come down awesome thank you very much have a great day so as you guys can see from the interviews is a lot of opinions were very similar everybody agrees that the cost of living crisis sucks and that there are many challenges when it comes to finding housing or how much it costs to live in London but there are also a lot of great things that people were saying about the city you will have noticed that a lot of people mention the fact that in London you can meet pretty much anyone at any time you can make friends there's a great atmosphere and so yeah there's definitely a lot of pros and cons to the city we love it personally and this is exactly one of the reasons why we created matuta.com I was I was telling you in the beginning of the video that I would share with you the reasons why we're wearing orange Blazers this is kind of our business attire in a way we created matuto because we believe that moving abroad should be one of the most exciting periods in someone's life and unfortunately nowadays it's just such a stressful experience yeah and this is exactly what we're trying to what we're trying to improve apart from some of the things that people mentioned in the interviews that are difficult when you first moved to London expects have it even more difficult because there are bureaucratic buyers to renting an apartment or opening a bank account as an expat because you have no legal history in the UK so they ask for a lot of things that can become quite a stress during your move and and that's another reason why we build matuta.com if you guys are thinking of moving to the UK soon um definitely recommend that you sign up to our website it is completely free you have information for free and then if you do need additional support you can purchase a paid package but it is much more affordable than other services out there that's going to be everything for today's video this was a bit of a different video to what we normally do so let us know in the comments if you liked it or not if you want us to hit the streets again and what kind of questions you want us to ask the audience absolutely and if you have any other questions about moving time specifically leave it in the comments we'll be more than happy to get back to you thank you guys so much for watching make sure to give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe because we will be posting more about live in London and tips and tricks to move to London and the UK thank you so much for watching I'll see you in the next video foreign

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Length: 10min 39sec (639 seconds)

Published: Mon May 08 2023