British families.

sazaccount

Riley_G said:

My boyfriend has made me get a National Insurance Number? I've not been given details of how to pay for the insurance. I guess I'll get that soon enough.

Is council tax where I had to fill a form in online and we got a letter from the council with both mine and my boyfriends name on it? As we already did that.

I spoke with EE on the phone earlier, he asked where I was from I told him I asked where he was from he said he was a gordie? They said I need to go in to a branch but I might not get a phone and a sim card. He advised me to get one added to my boyfriends account wait 6 months and move it to my own account? Its confusing.

I did drivers ed in high school, living in NYC I found I never needed to drive. Will look at changing it over. Never driven stick!

I need to register for a doctor. is a GP the same thing?

Your National insurance number is kind of like you social security number, this is what you give to employers, the banks etc. You will pay National insurance (NI) when you earn and will count towards your state pension. 

You will need you UK passport to register for the doctor, yes a GP is a primary care doctor in the US.

You don't need to drive on your provisional it is just a good form of ID to have, my brother refuses to learn to drive but didn't want to take his passport out with him when going out so it was a good compromise. 

Savvy_Sue

What I don't quite understand is why your boyfriend isn't giving you a reverse cultural induction to the one he must have had when he came to the USA.

missbishi

I expect you already know that over here, a fanny is NOT your butt and if someone says they 'need a fag', it means they wish to smoke a cigarette. Football is what you will know as MLS and if someone says they are 'randy', they are not telling you what their name is!

Aranyani

Savvy_Sue said:

What I don't quite understand is why your boyfriend isn't giving you a reverse cultural induction to the one he must have had when he came to the USA.

Me either, the OP seems very naive, I hope they have someone in the country they know other than their boyfriend who 'made' her get an NI number.

Riley_G

Savvy_Sue said:

What I don't quite understand is why your boyfriend isn't giving you a reverse cultural induction to the one he must have had when he came to the USA.

He tried. Oh he tried. I prefer learning my own way. 

I don't know anyone else in the UK. I've never been to the UK. Boyfriend has told me to do some things. 

JamoLew

When in a situation where you don't know the etiquette - just ask (most of us are pretty friendly and are happy to chat and help)
Check this guy out - you might find some of his content helpfull:
https://www.youtube.com/evan/videos
He's an American who has taken British citizenship and does quite a few "comparison" videos

Savvy_Sue

Riley_G said:

Savvy_Sue said:

What I don't quite understand is why your boyfriend isn't giving you a reverse cultural induction to the one he must have had when he came to the USA.

He tried. Oh he tried. I prefer learning my own way. 

I don't know anyone else in the UK. I've never been to the UK. Boyfriend has told me to do some things. 

PLEASE make some friends yourself. I know it's not the the best of times, but whatever YOUR interests are make time for them and try to connect with like-minded people. 

bouicca21

The most important thing for an American in the UK to learn is how to make tea.  Hint - it does not involve a tea bag and horror of horrors a jug of hottish water.

elsien

bouicca21 said:

The most important thing for an American in the UK to learn is how to make tea.  Hint - it does not involve a tea bag and horror of horrors a jug of hottish water.

Completely agree about the hottish water but tea bags certainly take precedence over leaves for the majority of British tea drinkers nowadays, myself included. You only have to look at the supermarket shelves to see that. 

gettingtheresometime

eamon said:

https://www.internations.org/go/moving-to-the-uk

The above was top of the google list.

That's not very hospitable.
OP I can't really help with the questions but there will be things that make you wonder if you've landed on planet zogg ...but go along with the flow!
Where in the UK will you be living?