My wife and i stayed with some family in the U.K last year and we just loved it. We are talking about moving from Canada and have already looked into all the visa requirements and its something we are very serious about doing.
I am currently a locomotive Engineer here in Canada and i am considering a potential career change into trucking but id rather stay in the railroading industry and i have a few questions.
1. Do British Freight railways ever hire non citizens? Ill be getting an ancestry visa and i am already a very experienced freight engineer who works on mountain grade ( well over 2%), i am just not sure if British railways require citizenship or not and if not is it a tough gig to get into? Here in Canada the only real requirement to work for the railroad is if your heart beats and you can pass a drug test.
2. For trucking can you get your class 3 license (or what ever your rig license is called) if you are a non citizen and do trucking companies hire non citizens?
3. bonus question, what is the real estate market like in cities that are not London? My cousin who i stayed with in west midlands bought a town home roughly the size of mine for about 400,000 pounds and compared to Vancouver or Toronto those house prices are extremely cheap.
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Once you get your visa, you’ll be a citizen so it’s irrelevant.
3: Depends entirely. Some random remote village might have the cheapest house at around £1m, some will be 200k. The average house price in England is 278k.
Obviously the west midlands are cheaper than toronto or vancouver lol.
To get a job driving freight trains in the UK, you need to have a family or friend on the inside- it’s incredibly nepotistic!