Selassi’s story Immigration is a tough business, leaving everything you know to come to a strange country where you do not have a network leaves you quite vulnerable, and one of the things you need to know is how money works. Some of the misunderstandings I have come across are: A Russian not understanding that OD […]
Month: March 2016
But you’re rich now!
This whole blog is about the experience of immigration to the UK and what its like for you if you didn’t grow up here but of course, there is another side to the story, what happens when you go home? What assumptions do people make about you? Yacov writes here about going home to Africa […]
Interesting – a view from lebanon
My Lebanese neighbour tells me that when she first arrived here, she was really surprised how silent everyone was on the bus and on the train and that no one would give up their seat for her. The English, on the whole, only speak to people they know on the train and we are very irritated […]