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djparanormal
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Posted : Nov 27, 2004 09:35
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by the way i am intrested in comin to manchester too for about a year, can somebody please educate me on manchester, ie cost of living, a good neighborhood around the centre..
my budget being approx 50 pounds per week, please suggest accordingly,
also has anyone here heard abt Manchester midi school.
www.midischool.com
thats where i intend to go, when i come to manchester, wanna do module 1 and 2 course at the school, please advaice me
pm , or post here.
thanks in advance
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Yellow Warrior
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Posted : Nov 27, 2004 14:12
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I don't know man. £50 per week will be very tight. You'll find it hard to even find a place for that much.
I mean you could but then you will need another £50-£75 week for living expenses.
So, i would say you'll need atleast £100 per week for your accomodation plus living expenses(food, going out etc etc etc)
I hope i helped.
Sorry don't know about the midi school.
Good Luck man! 
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Epsylon
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Posted : Nov 28, 2004 23:39
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pm me and i will arrange for you to meet the right party freaks in manchester to help you out with accomodation and all that.
You' ll definitely need more monies to live on. UK is xpensive.
If you're a EU citizen you could claim benefits for unemployed ppl. They will pay your rent and give you around £50 a week to live on, but you will have to actively keep looking for a job to keep them happy. It did save my ass the first couple of years when i moved to UK back in '96.
Where there's a will, there's always a way ;)
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heather feather
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 13:52
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Agree with the above - accomodation wise, you will at the cheapest be looking at spending about £50 a week - that's living in a shared house, probably in a student area (Rusholme/fallowfield). I'd say its quite easy, theres ads all over the place advertising for shared properties. The there's living expenses on top of that, like Bharath said, I think you'd need about £100 a week in total.
Manchester is a very friendly city, and there is a small community of psytrancers. Theres a monthly psy night (called sunrise), so I'm sure you'll find it a nice place to live 
Theres a lot of manchester types that hang out on www.psy-forum.co.uk - it might be worth putting a post on there to get more of an idea as to what its like to live there.
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John
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 14:48
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On 2004-11-28 23:39, Epsylon wrote:
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If you're a EU citizen you could claim benefits for unemployed ppl. They will pay your rent and give you around £50 a week to live on, but you will have to actively keep looking for a job to keep them happy. It did save my ass the first couple of years when i moved to UK back in '96.
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They've tightened up the rules a bit since then - so if you do find yourself looking for work with no money - try and get some advice before claiming anything.
Citizens Advice Bureau's provide free independent advice on lots of different issues like benefits, housing, immigration etc
http://www.nacab.org.uk
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djparanormal
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 15:37
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thanks guys,
any more info would be appriciated, by the way i am from india, and i will be a student in manchester, so can i work part time or full time (6-8 hrs a day)
also would it be easy to find a job...
and please also tell me how the psy scene is in uk specially in or around manchester, indoors, outdoor??
if any one of ull have heard abt manchester midi school please comment..
by the way thanks tom, for putting my query as a new topic.
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heather feather
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 17:11
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I'd say it's fairly easy to find work, depending on how much you want to be working you can pick up jobs in bars/shops quite easily (there's loands and loads of bars in manc!). If you want more hours then theres plenty of work in call centres and stuff.
In manchester, there is only really one psy night, as mentioned above, and thats sunrise (first friday of the month at the music box). There are quite a few squat parties, and these seem to be getting more prevalent this year - if you want info on these then theres a new mailing list being set up, let me know your email address and I will add you on there.
In the summer obviously theres more outdoor parties, not in manc but in the surrounding areas (lake district/ wales). A lot of these get posted on psy-forum. And if you are willing to travel a little theres a few nights on in Leeds (Crystal Yamantaka, Cabbage, Gecko), Bradford (Kulu), Liverpool (Alien Resonance). If you are willing to travel a little more its only a few hours on the train down to London for the bigger nights.
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John
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 18:14
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In the summer obviously theres more outdoor parties, not in manc but in the surrounding areas (lake district/ wales). A lot of these get posted on psy-forum. |
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The manchester police are notoriously strict when it comes to free parties - which is why we seem to get lots of refugee Manc sound systems over this side of the pennines (Sheffield/Derbyshire area) !!
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heather feather
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Posted : Nov 29, 2004 19:00
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In the summer obviously theres more outdoor parties, not in manc but in the surrounding areas (lake district/ wales). A lot of these get posted on psy-forum. |
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The manchester police are notoriously strict when it comes to free parties - which is why we seem to get lots of refugee Manc sound systems over this side of the pennines (Sheffield/Derbyshire area) !!
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Historically yes, but like I said recently the free party people seem to have been putting on more and more successful nights. Previously it was guaranteed that a free party in manc would get busted by the police within the hour, but the last few months there has been numerous successful quality free parties, these have ranged from large scale multi-rig squat parties to smaller outdoor gatherings within the manchester countryside. Hopefully it'll stay this way and the police wont come down with an iron fist like they have done in previous years. |
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djparanormal
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Posted : Nov 30, 2004 07:01
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thanks for all the info...
i guess the scene in manchester for parties aint that great.. dont wannna get my ass busted, lol...
hope the scene improves by the time i get there...
by the way nobody has told me whether they have heard abt Manchester midi school.
www.midischool.com
also which areas are best for accomodation, me being a student, around the city centre...
pm or post it..
appriciate it
thanx
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Dazzler
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Posted : Dec 1, 2004 16:11
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On 2004-11-28 23:39, Epsylon wrote:
@ djparanormal
pm me and i will arrange for you to meet the right party freaks in manchester to help you out with accomodation and all that.
You' ll definitely need more monies to live on. UK is xpensive.
If you're a EU citizen you could claim benefits for unemployed ppl. They will pay your rent and give you around £50 a week to live on, but you will have to actively keep looking for a job to keep them happy. It did save my ass the first couple of years when i moved to UK back in '96.
Where there's a will, there's always a way 
best,
C. K.
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Why on earth are you encouraging someone to come into the country and claim benefits, just so they can afford to go on an audio engineering course? Surely the benefits which increase our tax bills every year should go to people who actually deserve them, like refugees and victims of persecution, rather than some bloke who wants to learn come here to learn how to make trance tunes. |
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Yellow Warrior
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Posted : Dec 1, 2004 18:47
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On 2004-12-01 16:11, Dazzler wrote:
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On 2004-11-28 23:39, Epsylon wrote:
@ djparanormal
pm me and i will arrange for you to meet the right party freaks in manchester to help you out with accomodation and all that.
You' ll definitely need more monies to live on. UK is xpensive.
If you're a EU citizen you could claim benefits for unemployed ppl. They will pay your rent and give you around £50 a week to live on, but you will have to actively keep looking for a job to keep them happy. It did save my ass the first couple of years when i moved to UK back in '96.
Where there's a will, there's always a way
best,
C. K.
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Why on earth are you encouraging someone to come into the country and claim benefits, just so they can afford to go on an audio engineering course? Surely the benefits which increase our tax bills every year should go to people who actually deserve them, like refugees and victims of persecution, rather than some bloke who wants to learn come here to learn how to make trance tunes.
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Quite true but don't worry Dazzler i don't think overseas students are eligible for benefits in this country anyway!! He'll have to dig into his own pockets to pay for the course. 
and Sorry DJ Paranormal never heard of the school.
OK can i suggest something? have you thought about coming down to London? There are quite a lot of schools here where you could learn sound, If you plan to work part time its a lot easier to get work in london(maybe its easy in Manchester as well but i can't say anything coz i've never worked there), pretty decent pay at most places, its such a big city man and there's shit loads you can do here, and the Parties ROCK BABY!!!!!!!
Ok its a bit more expensive but there are lots of ways you could bring your costs down.
e.g accomodation - you could share a house with three people in a two bed place or even more if you want. If you're willing there's always a way out.
Its a great city man look into it.
I'll send you some links to a few schools here. Not now, am busy at work but will do it sometime tomorrow or when i go home this evening.
Peace.
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djparanormal
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Posted : Dec 6, 2004 10:08
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once again thanks guys for all the info..
but let me know abt london too..
i e, accomodation rent, sharing maybe, i guess that would be cheaper right,
my budget being 50-60 pounds per week for accomodation rent..
also how much would one spend in london, on food, drinks, travelling, ie general cost of living per week, so i could get my budget approx..
let me know.. pm me
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Epsylon
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Posted : Dec 7, 2004 08:41
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On 2004-11-28 23:39, Epsylon wrote:
@ djparanormal
pm me and i will arrange for you to meet the right party freaks in manchester to help you out with accomodation and all that.
You' ll definitely need more monies to live on. UK is xpensive. They will pay your rent and give you around £50 a week to live on, but you will have to actively keep looking for a job to keep them happy. It did save my ass the first couple of years when i moved to UK back in '96.
Where there's a will, there's always a way ;)
best,
C. K.
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Why on earth are you encouraging someone to come into the country and claim benefits, just so they can afford to go on an audio engineering course? Surely the benefits which increase our tax bills every year should go to people who actually deserve them, like refugees and victims of persecution, rather than some bloke who wants to learn come here to learn how to make trance tunes.
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Have you read my post properly ?
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That's a right m8 , not a blag !
You probably haven't heard about the European Union now , have you ?
If you wanna stop peeps coming to UK to study, then why don't you go and get organised with the skinheads @ National Front ;(
Since you're so 'tax-aware' , shouldn't you try to stop your Tony of spending your ever increasing tax-bills on killing innocent children in countries that you should visit only as tourists !!!???
Thank you very much.
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djparanormal
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Posted : Dec 7, 2004 09:26
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i dont understand why all this arguement over benefits, i aint an EU national resident, so dazzler u dont need to pay any higher taxes..
and dazzler why would u stop people from comin to uk to study, whts up with u bro?
i ll be paying my own expenses, and studying, so plz think before u speak..
and thank you to all who have wanted to help me out..
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