Arriving in London May 19th

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Arriving in London May 19th

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Anyone local want to catch a drink?

Meet up, hang out, show an English born , American raised guy the ropes of the city?

Post how I can contact you if you are interested.

Thanks all!
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I'm a good few hundred miles north of your new home but there's one thing I'd recommend to anyone coming to the UK for the first time: get your ass up to the Scottish Highlands. If you're into outdoors stuff there are thousands of square miles of wild land to go and explore, bothies to stay in, and some beautiful landscapes to stop and stare at. If it's not raining.

PS: take it one step at a time if it's your first time mountaineering.

Elgol beach, Skye:

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That is beautiful! For sure headed to Scotland, but after my wife gets over. She has to get her visa approved...

And I want to be established before uprooting the kids and moving them 5000 miles.
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I thought you were vacationing at first :P

Well, good luck getting settled. You got a job yet?

I'm thinking of visiting europe in a few years (when im 18-20), maybe someone could show me around then :P
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No havent gotten one, but my clients have grown by leaps and bounds

But might be getting one, I have tried but they all want me to be there first.
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How long are you planning to be away from your family?

Anyways, I heard that scotland was a great place from my english teacher (who's scottish, so it might of been a biased oppinion :P ). I wish I could go to England, Spain, or France. (I know English and Spanish fluently, and enough french to not feel helplessly loss)

I am however going to germany for some student exchange program, the only problem is I only know like 3 words in german, Hallow realpolitik (history class :P ), and Mien.

Good luck getting a job and stuff like that.
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Ixplodestuff8 wrote:How long are you planning to be away from your family?
I will be there without them until September, which is not going to be great,but is necessary.
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Make sure you're coming to the PHP Meetup in London - I couldn't make it last time but am aiming for the May meeting. I believe the meetings are first Thursday every month.

Oh, welcome to the UK - head down to Brighton if you're fed up with bad transport, stress and London in general and go and explore Sussex a bit. Beautiful part of England, actually.
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I'm from London, how old are you and what do yoou do for fun? what part of London are you going to be staying? I'm from East London, the only thing is, I'm away from mid may to July in the states.
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Watch a live Aresenal football (soccer) match, with a mug of Carlsberg and a kit-kat in hand. I'm underage to drink but I've tried that, it's fun lol.

jk........the last time I been to England was about 6 years ago. Too bad I didn't know Mac or PatrickG then. lol, I was like 8 years old then. Wonder what Mac would do if a 8 year old came asking about PHP :lol:..

I had a freind move to Lodon last September. So far she likes it - only one complaint that it rains (drizzles) much more than it should. Other than that, help out someone on PHPDN and have them repay your kindness by showing you around ;).

Good luck =)

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187skillz wrote:I'm from London, how old are you and what do yoou do for fun? what part of London are you going to be staying? I'm from East London, the only thing is, I'm away from mid may to July in the states.
28, married, not sure which part I will be moving to, but will be staying in a hostel for awhile.

Hopefully we can chat when I get there.
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patrikG wrote:Make sure you're coming to the PHP Meetup in London - I couldn't make it last time but am aiming for the May meeting. I believe the meetings are first Thursday every month.

Oh, welcome to the UK - head down to Brighton if you're fed up with bad transport, stress and London in general and go and explore Sussex a bit. Beautiful part of England, actually.
I think I will be missing it in May(not coming till May 19th) but will be there for June's conferance.
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