So I’ve naturally heard from this sub and general research that Bermuda is crazy expensive, I’ve been given a job offer paying 200k. I have a spouse and 2 kids. Do you think this is enough to live comfortably or would we struggle?
Irish barrister here of about 8 years call with a broad commercial/chancery practice in Ireland. I’m contemplating a move to London for both personal and professional reasons, although the law in both jurisdictions is substantially similar, and I am called to the bar of E&W (although do not yet have a practicing cert), I think I’d be better off covering all bases and doing a pupillage (be that a full or abridged one).
My interest (and main legal knowledge) is really in commercial practice, although I do some chancery in Ireland also.
I’m a bit surprised at the reaction I’m getting from some of the chambers, in that I’ve been told where to go by them (in fairness in far politer terms than that). Reading between the lines in the case of some chambers, and some have been more outright in saying it: it seems to be because I got a 2.1 in my undergrad which was almost 10 years ago now. Competition is fierce for first class law degrees in Ireland, and generally only the top 1 or 2 in the class achieve them (I placed in the top 10 in my cohort).
I was a bit surprised, as I thought my experience in practice would stand to me and would mitigate any jitters they might have about the 22 year old me’s ability to regurgitate old law cases onto a piece of paper, but anyway such is life!
I’m trying to come up with solutions to this, and the only thing I’ve got is trying to do an English 1 year LLB conversion course and try to get a first in that, alternatively an LLM would be an option although anecdotally they seem to care more about undergrad results.
Any advice would be sincerely appreciated!
Hi everyone, I got offered a job in Bermuda and am really excited for the move! Would appreciate if you could sanity check my projected day to day expenses in Bermuda. We’re a family of 4 (2 adults, 1 toddler and a baby):
Rent: 6500
Electricity: 400
WiFi: 150
Water: 0
Phone: 200
Health insurance: 899
Petrol for car: 50
Preschool for 1: 1300
Groceries: 2000
Takeaway/restaurants/etc: 300
Also in terms of moving, we’re planning on shipping a lot of our stuff over (mostly just kitchen appliances, TVs, etc). I know anything older than 6 months is duty exempt, will the customs officers insist in receipts even for visibly old stuff?
Finally, we’re planning on moving over in Dec of this year/January next year, so any suggestions on how to source accommodation would be really appreciated!