Living in a village without a car - cycle?

parkrunner

When I was kid we lived in a village where the local bus service to the nearest town was once a week on a Thursday. It was never full..........

ncmscnc

zagubov wrote: »

You've got a lot of think about.
Are you from London and are your friends and social circle still based there? You might find you're visiting London all the time (your friends won't visit you out in the country, even if they say they will).

If you leave London and change your mind, you're not likely to find as good accommodation as your current extremely cheap flatshare.

I'd commute for the first few months and ask around at work about local accommodation, if you think the job has a long-term future for you.

Oh no. Thank you for the reality check. Life is going to be lonely out there for sure, especially so If I can't just take the car and drive towards a friends house for a cup of tea. I don't drive for a start and can't make friends quickly even If my life depends on it. :rotfl:

The base and social circle I have setup over the years is not much but it is something. I am in the early stages of my career after a career switch and I just happened to find a job over there.

Like you said, I might commute during my probation period and see if it works. It is a bit expensive but I kind of got adjusted to it in the last 9 days I worked there. All I have to do is wake up a bit early and sleep on the train if I must. I don't even have to change trains as we have direct services running to the area from South London.

zagubov wrote: »

You won't have the patience to keep that commute forever but you need more time to decide about relocating your home as well as your job. It'll all make more sense in a few months time.

This. I didn't get the chance to sit back and think about this situation like this. May be I am simply not mature enough. Compartmentalise and understand which stuff are changing in my life, by me taking this job offer.
Thanks. I have always just packed things and took off within London and never realised the infrastructure and links in London helped a lot. For what it's worth, let me say this quickly. publicly owned TFL is definitely a great equitable force of good.

ncmscnc

onwards&upwards wrote: »

Is there a reason you absolutely have to take this job?

I realise it might be rhetorical. I just got sucked into it for the name of the company and it's client base.

Might as well commute the long distance, use them on CV for reference and site the relocation as a reason to leave to the new employer.

onwards&upwards

ncmscnc wrote: »

I realise it might be rhetorical. I just got sucked into it for the name of the company and it's client base.

Might as well commute the long distance, use them on CV for reference and site the relocation as a reason to leave to the new employer.

Honestly, I think you’d be better just carrying on looking for a different job. The pay
sucks and you don’t want to move. I can’t see this helping your CV.

coffeehound

Surely there must be other similar opportunities in the 'Smoke? As z said, that houseshare rent is a steal. Baldock is just one big trading estate from what I recall

OldMusicGuy

If you can ride a bike, think about getting a small motorbike. Practical for short commutes.

However, like everyone else says I think you need to question this move. If you are in accounting and are getting poorly paid, there have to be very good reasons for taking this job. My son's mates who are either qualifying or newly-qualified in London are on pretty good money. It's not a poorly paid profession.......

ncmscnc

onwards&upwards wrote: »

The pay
sucks and you don’t want to move. I can’t see this helping your CV.

That's to the face! :rotfl: You are right. I had some rationalisation on this over choosing a locally operating company in London at that time.

If it's not for some corporate exposure, familiarising myself with how international companies operate their finance team, getting to know some large-scale accounting softwares, their database tools and then some best practice in the industry (such as working with accounts payable, accounts receivable, preparing management accounts and handling EU VAT), I might have dropped it in a heartbeat.

I am learning a lot and have learned a lot within a week. The trend seems only upwards from now on anyways.

The position is not really something to be proud of but the scope of my work and what I can learn is within my control. Not many companies allow or hand us the agency to decide that in the early stages.

ncmscnc

OldMusicGuy wrote: »

If you can ride a bike, think about getting a small motorbike. Practical for short commutes.

I have just booked a CBT course with a local provider! The things I do. lol.

zagubov

I've been trying to think of advice to let you try out the new job without burning your bridges.

I'm familiar with the area you're looking at and having moved there I found it took a long time to get to know people, compared with London.
Everything needed a car to get to, unlike in London where you could get away without a car for a long long time.

Unless you've a lot of experience of living somewhere where they roll up the pavements at night, I'd be having serious doubts about actually taking this job as well.

babyblade41

I live in a rural village in Oxfordshire.. bus service non existent , no shop, we do have a sports and social club but even that's difficult to get to in the winter with single track roads and no lighting ..I have never gone as I prefer to stay at home now

It is actually less hassle to get to London than into Oxford City and cheaper ..a taxi to a bus route , then bus to either Oxford rail station or bus station and straight into London