transient population

as cliched as it sounds - London is the city of change. With the working visa available to Canadians, Kiwis and Aussies and the more open work policies of the EU, you get a lot of people coming in - and a lot of people leaving. Recently, one of my friends was unable to extend her holiday visa and is picking up to go home at Christmas (she is going kicking and screaming) and several others are in the same boat. It's a fine line of enjoying as much of Europe as you can while still making enough to live and secure work sponsorship or the more elusive highly skilled visa.

It makes me happy to have my passport and that I can come and go as I please. I do get sad when other Canadians leave though - it really is hard to find perma friends. But as one leaves, I'm introduced to about eight new Canadians in the city. We seem to be a tight bunch.

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