July 20, 200917 yr Hi :nice: I've known I was moving to England for school for quite a while now, but now that I'm leaving in about three weeks (:freak:), I've begun to think about things like "where can I buy towels?" and mundane things like that. A while ago, Mich suggested that I start a thread in the Lounge to ask my random little questions for Brit Coldplayers to answer if they can, and I thought that was a brilliant idea :D. I bet I'll be asking questions in here all year when I think of them and can't figure things out for myself. It's nicer to ask people that actually live there than to just do sometimes-fruitless Google searches. For the first month, I'm going to be living in London, and then I'm moving up to Norwich for university, and I pretty much have to buy everything I'm going to need besides the clothes I'm bringing with me. Being American, whenever I need pretty much anything, I just go over to Target and they almost always have it, but I don't think huge stores that sell EVERYTHING at good prices exist over there in the same way they do over here. So. My first mundane questions: 1. Is there a UK chain of stores that sells linens at student-friendly prices? I need sheets, towels, pillows, blankets, bedspreads, everything. In America, I would just go to Target and get cheap ones, or go to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. 2. Same question for basic, cheap kitchen essentials. I have to do all my own cooking, which scares the crap out of me, but I hear that's a pretty standard thing in British universities? I might have some stuff shipped to me from my parents, but I assume I'll have to supplement some things. For those questions, I'll take anything that anyone knows of that happens to be in Norwich, or just big chain sorts of stores that probably have a location near Norwich. And my third question: 3. I love IKEA, and they have good prices. However, I'm not so good with town names in the UK, and it's not always easy to determine exactly how far places are from each other on the internet. These are the IKEA locations in the UK, and I'm wondering if anyone knows if any of these places are reasonably close to Norwich (obviously I know where London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Southampton, and Edinburgh are :P): Belfast Cardiff Croydon (London) Edmonton (London) Glasgow Leeds Milton Keynes (Bletchley) Southampton Wednesbury (Birmingham) Bristol Coventry Edinburgh Gateshead (Newcastle) Lakeside (London) Manchester (Ashton-Under-Lyne) Nottingham Warrington Wembley (London) Thanks for putting up with me :P. I'll be back with more, probably in the few days before I'm leaving and once I get there and have no idea what I'm doing.
July 20, 200917 yr good luck chelsea :blush: I can't help with any of that lol... just don't drive on the right side of the road
July 20, 200917 yr Author Thanks :nice:. And I'm pretty sure it's illegal for me to drive over there anyway! I could have driven in Holland when I lived there for up to three months, and I moved the car down the block once and almost killed three cyclists in the process :lol:.
July 20, 200917 yr good luck chelsea, i guess you are doing a students exchange for the whole year, right? :nice: i can't help you with your current questions, sorry.
July 20, 200917 yr Author Year abroad for the whole year, yes, but since I've never been happy with my home university and I think several of the things I don't like about it will change at my British university, if I decide I really like it there, I think I'm going to try to transfer there for my last year :P. That's counting my chickens before they hatch, though.
July 20, 200917 yr well I was in England for a bit and I guess you could try "tesco" (hope it helped a little) :D:D:D:D Good luck. England is lovely!! :D:D:D
July 20, 200917 yr Author Oops, I thought of more questions :P. OK, this is more for curiosity's sake than necessity, since I obviously could find comparable products from other brands, but I was wondering if these things exist in England: I'm espeicailly curious about the Special K...I have some dietary restrictions, for lack of a better term, and I basically live on Special K bars :P. I also have heard microwave popcorn isn't as commonplace in Europe...? Is this true?
July 20, 200917 yr I also have heard microwave popcorn isn't as commonplace in Europe...? Is this true? You're shitting me...
July 20, 200917 yr I also have heard microwave popcorn isn't as commonplace in Europe...? Is this true? No.
July 21, 200917 yr Author ^^Ooh, good to hear :dance:. I don't know where I've heard that, but I don't think they had it in France when I was there, either, so I got worried :P.
July 21, 200917 yr That's a relief... Why, are you moving to Europe? ^^Ooh, good to hear :dance:. I don't know where I've heard that, but I don't think they had it in France when I was there, either, so I got worried :P. :nice: I wish you good luck!
July 21, 200917 yr I'm relatively certain that there is no Ikea anywhere near Norwich. I have two good friends who're from nearby. It's supposedly quite a nice place, though. You'll find that our big supermarkets (Tesco, ASDA etc) are just like your Walmarts. If not with a bit less available. But you'll be fine. England's an easy place to live, just keep an eye on your money. You don't wanna be stuck with nothing.
July 21, 200917 yr I'm relatively certain that there is no Ikea anywhere near Norwich. I have two good friends who're from nearby. It's supposedly quite a nice place, though. You'll find that our big supermarkets (Tesco, ASDA etc) are just like your Walmarts. If not with a bit less available. But you'll be fine. England's an easy place to live, just keep an eye on your money. You don't wanna be stuck with nothing. Lol who're.
July 21, 200917 yr Author Thanks, Jack! :dance: I know I'll be able to find everything I need and more, I guess it's just weird to not know anywhere off the top of my head to buy the most basic things in :P. Question, though: Aren't Tesco/ASDA etc just supermarkets, or do they sell things like towels and other home goods as well? I've never been really clear on that, whether they're more just for food or actually like a scaled-back Target or whatever.
July 21, 200917 yr Nick, lol, you're just begging for more government to contend with? And plus you'd have to worry about the chavs. Go to New Zealand like all the cool kids.
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