Join up to the ex pat affiliate market community, whichever country, if you've left your country behind and are relying solely on affiliate market income, whether as affiliate, merchant, employee, owner, then sign up to this community and we'll see how lives compare, what the benefits are, encourage population movement and maybe have a get together of our own.
As my thought of the day regularly states "Immigration is great once you've emigrated" So sign up, join in and speak your mind and share your experiences and who knows, maybe we can get together on a project that will not only invigorate ourselves but the world's population also with a little added revenue stream or three. I'm sure there's some great partnerships to be made and experiences to be shared.
Tikka Massala isn't actually indian, it was invented in britain - from what I've heard, you can't actually get that dish in India no matter how hard you try, it just doesn't exist (could be an urban myth, mind you).
Liverpool fans, soaked from heavy rain (must have felt just like home really) discovered that you can buy ridiculously cheap beer from the street kiosks at any time, as we have no drink curfew in Greece. Drunken, they continue sitting in the rain, singing and drinking, and ended up pissing in every corner in Athens, making it smell like, well, London.
Strangely enough, with all the cheap booze and the 24/7 drinking, Greek people DON'T PISS IN THE STREETS!
Well, somehow, I'm not surprised about the liverpudlians ...
I honestly do not think that Europan people have the ability to binge drink... It's all about tasting and enjoying a drink, it's all about taking time to eat and drink, go to a nice restaurant by the sea, enjoy a nice fish dish, stuffed wine leaves, and drink a nice chilled bottle of wino and finish up with baklavas and other pastries...
Ah just for this reason I could visit Greece again... the sun, the food, the atmosphere and the fact that you can look at the world go by...
Nah having been here in Romania two months, they don't need drink, they all just get stoned. Thankfully I'm just happy with my beer, the club I have been to a couple of times, gives me two bottles each time now without asking.
I love Pie n Mash with a bit of liqour, chilli vinegar is a nice touch as well. I haven't tasted Romanian food properly yet, I keep saying we should go out for a meal but keep clubbing instead, will have to sort that when I do some more sales.
28th March, I just haven't got around to it yet. La mama is their fancy one I've been told, next lot of money and I'll have to give it a go. Well I've had a kebab meal and a few hotel meals but nothing fancy.
I'm Emma and I am pretty new to the UK, moved here from Brisbane Australia about 18 months ago. I am also new to affiliate marketing, started working for Webgains March this year, (previously employed in PPC advertising).
I love living in London and although the weather doesn't really come close to that of Brisvegas, its a very different and exciting place to live, with loads more work opportunities, and travel of course!
So do you enjoy living in Brisbane? I grew up there, so it would be interesting to hear what someone who has moved there thinks of the city. Which part do you live in?
Good to see you here, how's the domains going? Aint we lucky, well you're luckier than me but you've earned it. Even though I have better weather than you right now, life sucks eh? haha
I think I need to get a laptop like yourself and then I can truly work on my travels, lugging this PC over here at £100 excess baggage wasn't the best idea I ever had but it saved a bit of money. I hope we can all come up with something from being here, either that or just share how things are going and get some satisfaction that way, but knowing affiliates and domainers, money will come out of this somewhere along the line.
well, about all the British people moving to France, that's not an issue for me. I'm here to restaure the balance! The good thing about living in Sheffield is that there is not a big French community (like in London) because to be honest, I think it would really drive me crazy if I heard French speaking around me, I like to think that I'm the only French in Sheffield.
About the beauty products, I was more thinking of proper French brands, made in France. but when I compare like to like products here, I'm a bit disapointed... I'll survive though!
Fruits and Veg, even if they come from Spain, tomatoes should not be allowed to be sold orange and rock solid. but then again, I think I'll survive.
I have to say that you are correct when you say that Alpharooms is a friendly bunch, we're all funny and all like a joke! And if you need help, Dan will be there for you!
So, who's life in Bucharest? are you still loving it? do you think you'll ever move back to the UK? are there any downsides to life in Bucharest?
Hello my name is Anne and I was born in France from French parents...
I moved to the UK (Sheffield) in 2004 to be with my now husband-to-be-in-3-months and absolutely love it here. it's my home now! I adapted very easily to the English way of life and would never move back to Paris.
No heat wave in England, cheaper drinks in pubs,nice sausage sarnies, good fashion and I actually get to live in a HOUSE with a GARDEN!!!!! . The only bad point is that in my girly opinion, beauty products are not as good as French ones and that fruits and veg do not taste that good....but it's not that important after all, is it?
I have to agree with Hero, it's good to get away from ones family!
I've been in Affiliate marketing since late 2003 when I was working for Carat interactive in Paris.
I just have to say that: 'really there is no place like home (sheffield)'
I just wrote something, tried ctrl alting your profile and lost everything, these new sites can be a pain. Ah well here I go again. About our veg, it comes from Spain... and the beauty products, Italy, we're all in europe now, I don't think the British make much anymore so blame them. Ha.
It's also funny you saying about not going back to France, half of kent and London are moving to France for an house and a few acres of land, it's certainly looking like more and more are getting fed up of their own countries and whilst the English language helps, Britain's internet age is enabling us to leave England behind to the immigrants.
As for cheaper drinks, yes that's the North for you but you should try Bucharest, Ursus £1.30 a bottle and getting lagging on £15, I hadn't done that since pre Labour and 1995. Happy days. I see you work for Alpha Rooms, is that home based then? That's not a bad deal, unless they're up North, just checked... yes Sheffield, Owl or Blade? I'm Millwall.
When I go on my travels, based here still hopefully, I'm hoping I can do sales for travel again, I do have an holiday site but I never listen, niche would have been better but the domain is perfect for general but I haven't touched the site for a while, hence no sales. I like Alpha Rooms, a friendly bunch, at least after all the conversations I finally did a few sales...
Hi
I'm another one of the recent influx of South Africans to England.
I think I got it backwards as, after reading Lee's comment below, I left the cloudless skies and endless sunshine in favour of the GBP. (hmmm I wonder if "working from home" still applies if home is 11,000km away?)
Anyway, I've been in affiliate marketing since April 2006 so still pretty new but loving it. And loving London even more...especially as I live in little South Africa (SW london) which, barring the weather, is just like home.
I was South London, New Cross and Bermondsey to be precise, yes people going in search of more money, it's weird aint it. I have left the UK for the time being for various reasons, not that I didn't have money but just that i felt something wasn't quite right when handing money over for certain goods and services, it just didn't add up, I work, they rob me, to catch a train, to watch football, to socialise, I didn't need it anymore.
But like you say, we all find new lives and adventures for a reason and sometimes no reason at all and I think companies should encourage more to work from home, it would get people off the roads and enjoying a family life but there's that trust issue I suppose, maybe one day you'll be able to return on the same money still working for the same company, stanger things have happened, if indeed the wedge you reap doesn't already enable you a fuller more enjoyable lifestyle anyway.
So far it would seem it's an adventure for all of us, I would how many fail though, Haro and yourself seem sorted though, permanent job, I got to keep the money coming in haha but the affiliate market is a dream, I knew I'd get there in the end, trouble is that was 2004, back on the road to success again now hopefully.
hey!
I'm Hero and yes, my name IS actually Hero. I'm a girl, btw.
I'm originally from Athens, Greece, moved in the UK in Jan 2002 and have been working in online & affiliate marketing since then.
I've been living in London since May 05, prior to that I was in the Midlands (absolutely awful!)
Moving here was easy, I was desperate to get away from my typical greek family!
Could do with a better weather and the sea though.
frustrating, I was expecting alerts when a new comment would be posted to come back here...
I'm also trying to reply to specific comments and it doesn't seem to be working for me?
anyway
moving back to Athens.. don't know to be honest. I can't imagine myself living here forever, but every time I go back home I feel more and more like a stranger, a tourist rather than a local. I think I've gotten used to the organised way of life here over the past 5.5 years (I'm *slightly* compulsive with things and don't like the chaos, which is what greece is all about). Obviously, with my job, I could be working from abroad, but still... not living with my parents at 30, I would kill meself!
My idea of bliss would be to work here in the mornings and be able to beam myself to Athens for the night and go out. The city that never sleeps, trully, unlike even London where you simply cannot go out at 2 in the morning.
Yes, Webgains is a multicultural environment :-) One Greek, 3 south africans, 4 australians, an Israeli, British need not apply hahahahahaha
Can't go out at 2am? Why? You need to look harder, but saying that I went clubbing at 2am in Bucharest on Saturday, Swedish DJ, stayed until 8am at Kristal Glam Club, then we convoyed with the DJ - doubtless unknown to him to the after party at Silver club but I found myself needing breakfast at 10am then gave up at midday and sat at the bar next door with a beer waiting for a girl I was with to come out - she's just a mate.
So I enjoy going out at all hours, I'm surprised London doesn't have similar, it's been a good few years since I've done any of that in London though but there was always somewhere to go to. Perhaps you just need the right crowd and an half decent guide, London doesn't sleep. But leave London and you'd be right, total shut down, it's changing though.
Lee Burridge is in Bucharest this weekend, I've known for a few weeks, most of Bucharest found out at the weekend, he did a blinding set at Mamaia when we went down for Labour weekend, best night out beating Audiofly and Steve lawler so looking forward to this coming Saturday, I'm going to be on it for 15 hours.
For an affiliate though, unless your mates all do similar it can be a nightmare in the UK, here, well I hope they let me stay, the people I know here are night people, any time people like me so I can get a text at 1am or a yahoo message and it's "we're going out..." blinding. I should have left years ago.
I see what you mean though, I'm sure there were places in the uk where you could go out, most definately London but I'm just off out to the Kristal Glam Club as it's closing before moving to the beach for the summer trade, Lee Burridge on tonight, did a blinding set at the beach last Labour day so looking forward to this and hopefully an after party until midday as well as well, I may get to bed about 2pm.
Kalimera Hero,
I understand exactly what you mean. I do feel like a foreigner when I go back to France. I can't be bothered to speak 'proper' French, so I tend to put English words in my sentences with a strong French accent, or translate litteraly a sentence that doesn't mean anything anymore in French. It's quite funny, you should see my mom's face! she wants to kill me everytime I go back...
I also got used to life here and don't understand why French people are
Kalimera Hero,
I understand exactly what you mean. I do feel like a foreigner when I go back to France. I can't be bothered to speak 'proper' French, so I tend to put English words in my sentences with a strong French accent, or translate litteraly a sentence that doesn't mean anything anymore in French. It's quite funny, you should see my mom's face! she wants to kill me everytime I go back...
I also got used to life here and don't understand why French people are so complicated sometimes (actually I tend to find them weird now)... oh and why is everything closed on Sundays? I tell you, you do struggle to find cigarettes on Sundays in France, even in Paris.
I don't think I'd move anywhere else now, you do get proper seasons in the UK, it's nice and green, people are nice and I'm a happy bunny!
Good to see you here Hero, I have lived in Birmingham for the last few years as well, it isn't London that's for sure but neither is Bucharest but for some reason it seems beautiful here. Immigration overkill in the midlands. I got 90F weather and the Black sea now but a harsh winter to look forward too, if they let me stay but I reckon I might even enjoy that, snow more than two days, better than the UK.
I do this thing where I stand still, close my eyes look up at the sky and then look down and see where I am, I've been doing it a few years now, and I think back to wasting my days catching glimpses of sun in the Garden in Birmingham but when I opened my eyes two weekends ago I was on a white beach looking out to the horizon and thought, now this is pucker.
The trouble with moving so quick, three days, was my idea of doubling my income month on month stopped in March, I'd succeeded since start of the year, oh well, hopefully I'll get back on track soon, I never really did much work or either that spent ages doing a lot, here I need to find a balance.
I'm sure something rewarding can come out of this channel. I will be doing a site when I start travelling but at the moment I'm still being silly with my money so there may be opportunities once things settle.
Alright, if you're passing through, I moved to Bucharest at the end of March 2007 after giving myself three days notice to do so. I'm having fun but it's still feels like a holiday - what a shame, especially with the weather a cloudless 90F on a daily basis.
Let us all know where you moved to, from where, when, why and what you're up to, what's next, how you're coping etc. I have a feeling this community will be a hit, it's a bit out there, like all of us. So please join in.
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Hero? I know you cannot beat Greek food, but what about English food?
what about it? I love Tikka Masala, that's the best dish they ever invented
(I should tell you the stories all my friends are telling me about the drunken liverpudlians in athens the other night... dreadful)
(tell us the story about the drunken liverpudlians in Athens!)
Liverpool fans, soaked from heavy rain (must have felt just like home really) discovered that you can buy ridiculously cheap beer from the street kiosks at any time, as we have no drink curfew in Greece. Drunken, they continue sitting in the rain, singing and drinking, and ended up pissing in every corner in Athens, making it smell like, well, London.
Strangely enough, with all the cheap booze and the 24/7 drinking, Greek people DON'T PISS IN THE STREETS!
I honestly do not think that Europan people have the ability to binge drink... It's all about tasting and enjoying a drink, it's all about taking time to eat and drink, go to a nice restaurant by the sea, enjoy a nice fish dish, stuffed wine leaves, and drink a nice chilled bottle of wino and finish up with baklavas and other pastries...
Ah just for this reason I could visit Greece again... the sun, the food, the atmosphere and the fact that you can look at the world go by...
Yes, that's a luxury the tourists have, the Greeks are too stuffed financially to be able to do that, amazing as it may sound
I'm Emma and I am pretty new to the UK, moved here from Brisbane Australia about 18 months ago. I am also new to affiliate marketing, started working for Webgains March this year, (previously employed in PPC advertising).
I love living in London and although the weather doesn't really come close to that of Brisvegas, its a very different and exciting place to live, with loads more work opportunities, and travel of course!
So do you enjoy living in Brisbane? I grew up there, so it would be interesting to hear what someone who has moved there thinks of the city. Which part do you live in?
Emma
Good to see you here, how's the domains going? Aint we lucky, well you're luckier than me but you've earned it. Even though I have better weather than you right now, life sucks eh? haha
I think I need to get a laptop like yourself and then I can truly work on my travels, lugging this PC over here at £100 excess baggage wasn't the best idea I ever had but it saved a bit of money. I hope we can all come up with something from being here, either that or just share how things are going and get some satisfaction that way, but knowing affiliates and domainers, money will come out of this somewhere along the line.
well, about all the British people moving to France, that's not an issue for me. I'm here to restaure the balance! The good thing about living in Sheffield is that there is not a big French community (like in London) because to be honest, I think it would really drive me crazy if I heard French speaking around me, I like to think that I'm the only French in Sheffield.
About the beauty products, I was more thinking of proper French brands, made in France. but when I compare like to like products here, I'm a bit disapointed... I'll survive though!
Fruits and Veg, even if they come from Spain, tomatoes should not be allowed to be sold orange and rock solid. but then again, I think I'll survive.
I have to say that you are correct when you say that Alpharooms is a friendly bunch, we're all funny and all like a joke! And if you need help, Dan will be there for you!
So, who's life in Bucharest? are you still loving it? do you think you'll ever move back to the UK? are there any downsides to life in Bucharest?
I moved to the UK (Sheffield) in 2004 to be with my now husband-to-be-in-3-months and absolutely love it here. it's my home now! I adapted very easily to the English way of life and would never move back to Paris.
No heat wave in England, cheaper drinks in pubs,nice sausage sarnies, good fashion and I actually get to live in a HOUSE with a GARDEN!!!!! . The only bad point is that in my girly opinion, beauty products are not as good as French ones and that fruits and veg do not taste that good....but it's not that important after all, is it?
I have to agree with Hero, it's good to get away from ones family!
I've been in Affiliate marketing since late 2003 when I was working for Carat interactive in Paris.
I just have to say that: 'really there is no place like home (sheffield)'
I just wrote something, tried ctrl alting your profile and lost everything, these new sites can be a pain. Ah well here I go again. About our veg, it comes from Spain... and the beauty products, Italy, we're all in europe now, I don't think the British make much anymore so blame them. Ha.
It's also funny you saying about not going back to France, half of kent and London are moving to France for an house and a few acres of land, it's certainly looking like more and more are getting fed up of their own countries and whilst the English language helps, Britain's internet age is enabling us to leave England behind to the immigrants.
As for cheaper drinks, yes that's the North for you but you should try Bucharest, Ursus £1.30 a bottle and getting lagging on £15, I hadn't done that since pre Labour and 1995. Happy days. I see you work for Alpha Rooms, is that home based then? That's not a bad deal, unless they're up North, just checked... yes Sheffield, Owl or Blade? I'm Millwall.
When I go on my travels, based here still hopefully, I'm hoping I can do sales for travel again, I do have an holiday site but I never listen, niche would have been better but the domain is perfect for general but I haven't touched the site for a while, hence no sales. I like Alpha Rooms, a friendly bunch, at least after all the conversations I finally did a few sales...
I'm another one of the recent influx of South Africans to England.
I think I got it backwards as, after reading Lee's comment below, I left the cloudless skies and endless sunshine in favour of the GBP. (hmmm I wonder if "working from home" still applies if home is 11,000km away?)
Anyway, I've been in affiliate marketing since April 2006 so still pretty new but loving it. And loving London even more...especially as I live in little South Africa (SW london) which, barring the weather, is just like home.
But like you say, we all find new lives and adventures for a reason and sometimes no reason at all and I think companies should encourage more to work from home, it would get people off the roads and enjoying a family life but there's that trust issue I suppose, maybe one day you'll be able to return on the same money still working for the same company, stanger things have happened, if indeed the wedge you reap doesn't already enable you a fuller more enjoyable lifestyle anyway.
So far it would seem it's an adventure for all of us, I would how many fail though, Haro and yourself seem sorted though, permanent job, I got to keep the money coming in haha but the affiliate market is a dream, I knew I'd get there in the end, trouble is that was 2004, back on the road to success again now hopefully.
I'm Hero and yes, my name IS actually Hero. I'm a girl, btw.
I'm originally from Athens, Greece, moved in the UK in Jan 2002 and have been working in online & affiliate marketing since then.
I've been living in London since May 05, prior to that I was in the Midlands (absolutely awful!)
Moving here was easy, I was desperate to get away from my typical greek family!
Could do with a better weather and the sea though.
Would you ever move back to Greece?
I'm also trying to reply to specific comments and it doesn't seem to be working for me?
anyway
moving back to Athens.. don't know to be honest. I can't imagine myself living here forever, but every time I go back home I feel more and more like a stranger, a tourist rather than a local. I think I've gotten used to the organised way of life here over the past 5.5 years (I'm *slightly* compulsive with things and don't like the chaos, which is what greece is all about). Obviously, with my job, I could be working from abroad, but still... not living with my parents at 30, I would kill meself!
My idea of bliss would be to work here in the mornings and be able to beam myself to Athens for the night and go out. The city that never sleeps, trully, unlike even London where you simply cannot go out at 2 in the morning.
Yes, Webgains is a multicultural environment :-) One Greek, 3 south africans, 4 australians, an Israeli, British need not apply hahahahahaha
So I enjoy going out at all hours, I'm surprised London doesn't have similar, it's been a good few years since I've done any of that in London though but there was always somewhere to go to. Perhaps you just need the right crowd and an half decent guide, London doesn't sleep. But leave London and you'd be right, total shut down, it's changing though.
Lee Burridge is in Bucharest this weekend, I've known for a few weeks, most of Bucharest found out at the weekend, he did a blinding set at Mamaia when we went down for Labour weekend, best night out beating Audiofly and Steve lawler so looking forward to this coming Saturday, I'm going to be on it for 15 hours.
For an affiliate though, unless your mates all do similar it can be a nightmare in the UK, here, well I hope they let me stay, the people I know here are night people, any time people like me so I can get a text at 1am or a yahoo message and it's "we're going out..." blinding. I should have left years ago.
'ave it.
I understand exactly what you mean. I do feel like a foreigner when I go back to France. I can't be bothered to speak 'proper' French, so I tend to put English words in my sentences with a strong French accent, or translate litteraly a sentence that doesn't mean anything anymore in French. It's quite funny, you should see my mom's face! she wants to kill me everytime I go back...
I also got used to life here and don't understand why French people are
I understand exactly what you mean. I do feel like a foreigner when I go back to France. I can't be bothered to speak 'proper' French, so I tend to put English words in my sentences with a strong French accent, or translate litteraly a sentence that doesn't mean anything anymore in French. It's quite funny, you should see my mom's face! she wants to kill me everytime I go back...
I also got used to life here and don't understand why French people are so complicated sometimes (actually I tend to find them weird now)... oh and why is everything closed on Sundays? I tell you, you do struggle to find cigarettes on Sundays in France, even in Paris.
I don't think I'd move anywhere else now, you do get proper seasons in the UK, it's nice and green, people are nice and I'm a happy bunny!
ahhhhh I like it here!
I do this thing where I stand still, close my eyes look up at the sky and then look down and see where I am, I've been doing it a few years now, and I think back to wasting my days catching glimpses of sun in the Garden in Birmingham but when I opened my eyes two weekends ago I was on a white beach looking out to the horizon and thought, now this is pucker.
The trouble with moving so quick, three days, was my idea of doubling my income month on month stopped in March, I'd succeeded since start of the year, oh well, hopefully I'll get back on track soon, I never really did much work or either that spent ages doing a lot, here I need to find a balance.
I'm sure something rewarding can come out of this channel. I will be doing a site when I start travelling but at the moment I'm still being silly with my money so there may be opportunities once things settle.
Let us all know where you moved to, from where, when, why and what you're up to, what's next, how you're coping etc. I have a feeling this community will be a hit, it's a bit out there, like all of us. So please join in.