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cspm25

Hello everyone!
I am  Portuguese nurse and next month I'll be having an interview to work for a public hospital in England. The hospital is in Bath.
I never lived away from Portugal so I have a lot of questions...
Is life expensive near that city?
Thank you all!

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Danny Meier

Hello cspm25,

I don't know if you have received many answers to your post. Just in case here goes:
In general England is very expensive and I am sure it is one of the most expensive in Europe. The south of England is more expensive than the north for housing, however, I am not sure if it is for fuel e.g. gas, electricity etc but I believe living costs are higher. Having said that Bath is a lovely city and one of the prettiest - it has a lot of old architecture and in England it does not have a reputation for being one of the more dangerous cities. In fact it has a reputation for being one of the poshest and safest.

You can investigate the cost of renting an apartment or house  via the following websites:
rightmove.co.uk
findaproperty.com

A cheaper alternative is to go into a house share - not only is this quite often the cheapest way to live in England it will also be the best and quickest way to meet people. A good website to try is: gumtree.com/bath and from there you can search for house shares.

You won't have a postcode as yet so searching online for prices of utilities will be harder as different neighbourhoods often have differing costs. If you have the postcode of the hospital at which you may be working enter this and it should be good for the general area which you will probably be living in - the website to use is uswitch.com - there you can compare every aspect of fuel costs.

Again house shares are cheaper as more often than not the rent includes things like council tax (a monthly tax paid to the local council to pay for police, fire and waste management)as well as the electricity etc.

Hope this helps
Kindest regards,
Danny

cspm25

Hello!
Thank you so much for your post. I haven't got many answers...
Those are really nice websites! After the interviews with the hospital and If I am accepted to work there I'll be searching them all again to see if I found some good apartments near the hospital. Most of the flats have an old architecture from the outside and inside modern design which I love!
I am aware that it is not a cheap country to live, but as I am able to speak English it seems to me the perfect country :)
Also because nursing in England is most similar to nursing in my country.
Now I only need to be accepted and I will certainly go!
Thank you so much!
Best regards,
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Danny Meier

You are welcome, I hope the info helps, that you are successful and that you enjoy England :)

Danny

AmarMK

Hi!

Generally speaking, life is expensive in the UK but, Bath is less expensive than London!

All the best!

Best wishes.
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