About richard9567

Status:

Expatriate  

Gender:

Male

Currently Lives:

Herning, Denmark

Citizen Of:

Australia

Dual Citizen Of:

United Kingdom

Some Forum Posts:

Lithuania: Buying a home at the Baltic coast:

HI Ed, Palanga and Klaipeda are beautiful. I live in Klaipeda and have done for four years. IN answer to your question, real estate transactions are done in a vastly different way to what you and I are used to. Most people sell their homes privately rather than go through agents and agents charge both the seller and buyer a commission. The documentation is all done through a mutual notary rather than each party having a solicitor and all documentation is in lithuanian. I would suggest getting it translated, notarised and apostilled for your own piece of mind. In regards to agencies themselves,....the most common one would be Ober Haus as most of their agents speak English. However, I would strongly suggest looking at the following sites. 1)www.skelbiu.lt 2)www.aruodas.lt FYI the word Butas means apartment and the word Namas means house. Nuoma means rent and pardavimui means for sale. If you have any questions, p.m me and i'll try to help.

Lithuania: Work in Lith.:

Not sure who this rikmo bloke is......in some ways he's right but in a lot he's dead wrong. Work is not easy to come by here but if you want to start your own thing, then it's pretty easy. Medical wise,.....it's common to give a small gift to the hospital staff but it's like a small box of chocolates or something, nothing out of the ordinary. I suspect that this rikmo character has had a bad experience and let it get the better of him. My suggestion, do your homework. I spent a year researching this country before I moved here and for me, it's the best decision I've ever made.

Lithuania: So how many UK here?:

hi mate, there are plenty of brits here. check out the british chamber of commerce in Vilnius to see if they can open a few doors for you.

Lithuania: Moving lithuania as an Architect:

Hi Razi, Moving to Lithuania....Could be problematic for several reasons. If I can speak in general terms, many lithuanians are quite xenophobic and intolerant of foreigners, espeically if you are culturally or religiously different. Following on from that, salaries here are low, ( third cheapest labour in the EU)welfare is poor and your opportunity of getting a job here would be minimal. I have a couple of friends here who are colored and not a week goes by when either they or their children are in some situation or other. Really would stronly recommend not moving here Razi, I would think Germany or France might be better. Certainly a better lifestyle and job opportunties.

Lithuania: Moving to Lithuania, please advice!!:

HI Jamie, Like you, I'm an expat australian living here. I've lived in klaipeda for almost two years and it's a fantastic place. However, there are plenty of things to be aware of. 1) unfortunately, racism is very strong here and as you're from the phillipines and therefore are asian in apprearance, you'll be automatically marked, the fact that you're catholic and have a lot of cultural similarities is good, but many people from the smaller villiages wont even give you the chance to speak before labelling you. It takes a lot of time to build up trust here but, once you have, you have an automatically exyended family :-) 2) at some point you'll need a pazyma or authorisation to stay,....the govt here don't understand that they're here to serve you, they believe it's the other way around. One way to get over this, is when you manage to make an appointment, take a small gift with you to say thankyou for them seeing you at short notice ;-) 3)be aware of the drivers here......for some reason ( and even lithuanians say this ) as soon as you put a lithuanian behind the wheel of a car, he seems to think that he's schumacher and forgets that other people are using the road as well. 4)know that coming from the UK you will be seen as having more money than normal here.......if you go out to a club or something, ( until you're known) expect to pay tourist prices and/or, for mistakes to be made on your bill. 5) lastlly, when you get here, take some lithuanian lessons, the differnece it makes when you speak their language is profound. Good luck and if you want anymore advice, I can be contacted on englishunlimited.lt@gmail.com Cheers Richard

Lithuania: english teacher:

HI, I'm a recently qualified english teacher and am also currently undertaking extra teaching units the in both business english and grammar specialisation. I've lived in Denmark for the past 4 years but a combination of the financial crisis and the danish reticence of hiring someone that doesn't have a danish qualification has meant that I'm going to have to move. It's been suggested by my lithuanian friends that with my teaching qualification and my background in HR I should not find to find a job teaching english. In doing my research, I'm thinking more of moving to Klaipeda rather than Vilnius. So my questions are two fold. Firstly, are there any expats on here who are currently living in Klaipeda? and secondly,...are there courses where I can embed myself to learn the language?

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