Cheers for info that's sounds quite encouraging. I reckon I could pull it off...
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Jacking it all in and moving to the Alps
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Phone call wise, with our SFR/orange internet and internet phone, calls to UK landlines are free and unlimited.
We need to get that sorted out. We're on Orange, but the wireless range on their router is so rubbish, we're having to use our own one, so we can't use the plug-in phone system.
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My situation has been a bit different from all of the above so far. I have been splitting my time between the UK, Austria and Colorado for the last few years. I am about to graduate with a Masters in Neuroscience in May, and then everything will change.
I went on holiday a good few years ago with Mountain Edge and after enquiring a little bit, I was offered a job as a Mountain bike guide based on
1. Fluent german
2. getting all the qualifications
3. being a good bike rider (race elite XC) and easy to employI worked 3 summer seasons from May til October with Mountain Edge, Living in Kitzbuhel, Austria for the summer and then coming back to England to do Uni. It worked really well, and I would suggest doing it part time is the only way you would afford to be a guide,as theres nothing to bring in money in the winter.
Last year I got offered a work placement in Colorado, which I jumped at. So I lived in Boulder Colorado for a year whilst working in a research lab. Now that I'm graduating in May, I will be going back to Colorado to take up a more permanent position as a researcher, thus allowing me to live in the mountains, get paid a real amount of money, and still ride my bike/snowboard every day. I would much prefer to go back to Kitzbuhel and be a bike guide for the rest of my life, but unfortunately its just not a viable trade without the associated holiday business attached to it.If you ever get the opportunity to move to the mountains, no matter what the circumstances, take it! Just have a plan if you want to make it long term.
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check out past posts from dizinaustria
and then wonder why she hasn't posted on here for yonks
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BB speed here (Morzine area) is 8meg - perfectly possible to work in the UK and live here.
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The building trade may be different, are you employed full time, or just move between short term contracts?
i was employed by the firm. i wasn't paid the same as the other guys as i didn't have a German qualification. they were earning 14€/hr, me 12.50€/hr. if i had wanted to earn more i'd have had to spend three years doing an Ausbildung. if after that i wanted to earn more than 14€/hr i'd have to spend 30-40K€ of my money and give up 2-3 years of work/life to complete my Meister.
any over time worked wasn't paid as such, but given as holiday when the firm didn't have any work on (you couldn't take the 30 hours overtime from last month and take a week off when it suited you).
i figured it wasn't the life for me.
where in Germany are you?
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